Monster x theSLRgirl universe
- Elena
- Oct 13
- 4 min read
Monster doesn't give a fuck.
Monster is free from societal expectations.
Monster doesn't follow the norms or the trends.
Monster is pure and knows its worth.
I am Monster.
I needed this car more than it needed me.
There's so much noise in the car content nowadays, I hate it. I don't use IG as much as I used to in 2023. Every time I open it, there's someone destroying their car for likes. And I look at the SLR and I say to it "Don't worry, you're safe.". Daily driven exotics, Supercarron ... I don't know who's who anymore, you all got the same cars, the same Koenigseggs, the same Bugattis, the same Lambos; in the same garages... I get confused, I'm sorry. But filling a hypercar with sticky bananas for likes is not fun. Taking these cars out for only 3km just to film your content is not passion. I don't like you. I get that your accounts exist so that you can entertain the normies and the pseudo-intellectuals, who generate income to finance it all, but for some of us ... this is real. I don't want to be associated with all of that, I don't want to be like you.
Can you do a drive without sticking a gopro, a camera or filming it with your phone? I doubt it. But that is the true form of the passion you think you represent. The driving. Just you and the car. Can you do that? If the answer is no, then you're not a car person, you're just an influencer.
What's up with all of the promotional content? I thought you had hypercars? Oh, they're financed, gotcha. Who maintains all of these cars? Seriously? I'm genuinely curious. If you need to make a sticky bananas videos just to finance the cars, who pays for the Pagani's maintenance? Cuz it's one thing to buy it, a totally different story to maintain it. I know that for a fact. Now I'm asking questions that will generate boring content for your audience, if answered. Better stick to the sticky bananas I guess.
I've scrolled past the American car influencers with financing and the next thing that makes me close IG are the car reviewers. Gosh, I just block them all. SupercarBlondie wannabes everywhere. Just because someone gave you the keys for 30 mins to film your shitty content that states Wikipedia facts, doesn't mean you get to speak about the car. I'm all ears if you own it, tho. Even if it's a 4k car, I'm sat and listening. Who gives them the keys, tho? I wouldn't. What?! You gonna review a car that has done a London to Oslo trip better than Mr. Clarkson? Get the fuck out! Like, NOW! You're all delusional, if you think that people who actually buy these cars watch your dead-ass boring wikipedia car reviews. You're blocked. Bye!
I'm still not out of the trenches yet - the preppy guys with Porsches who cosplay old money attack next. You were more fun when you drove a bimmer, trust me. I would take a bimmer over a Porsche any day. In fact, my closest friends are bimmer people that never felt the need to buy a Porsche. Great people, much love. We have a friendly banter every now and then, but we have so much respect for each other. I love bimmer people! I feel like the evolution from a BMW to a Porsche causes brain damage. Maybe because they've spent so much money on an utterly boring car makes them that way. "A cute mountain trip in my Porsche" accompanied by a whole photoshoot with a pro camera. He probably also participates in cute car clubs where they circlejerk each other and take the cars to more cute little trips. In my defence, I've participated once in an event organised by a cute car club, so I know what I'm talking about. These guys confuse adrenaline with driving. It was horrible. Typical show-off drivers who think that danger and good driver belong in the same sentence. So, yeah, such cute little car clubs frighten me. Kinda funny we never see these people on the track. They need an audience to practice the driving and the track also requires skills and precision instead of adrenaline chasing. But that's something very few people are actually ready to hear.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
My usual route from the city centre to where I live is roughly 40km. Guess what, last Friday, I drove additional 50km, just to spend more time driving Monster. I didn't post about it. I didn't film it. It was just me, Monster, my favourite music and that sonorous V8. It was glorious. I live for that. And you know what, after having such a memorable drive, I say to myself "If I die tomorrow, I'll die as a happy person, because I got to live through today.". That's real passion, you're not alone, if you're feeling it, too.
So, I'm fed up with the noise. I'm better than the noise, my cars deserve better than being in a trendy video for clicks. And car content everywhere comes down to that. I refuse to spend my time collecting likes, when I can just drive. This whole space is so uninspiring that I decided to go against it and despite of it. Monster and I stand for automotive fun and freedom. We're proud, bold, unapologetic, pure and we just don't give a fuck. Join us:
