The Pimp My Ride Effect

Tim Reynolds
2 min readJan 5, 2022
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If you are familiar with the early 2000s MTV show Pimp My Ride, then you know that one of the schticks was that the person whose car was getting “pimped” would tell Xzibit the host and the show’s producers some of their interests and these would be incorporated into the customization of the car.

This is where we get the meme “Yo Dog I heard you like blank so we put a blank in your blank so you can blank while you blank.”

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