Origin

The Yellow Evo / GT2000 meme originated in 2018 from YouTuber BK4. BK4 uploaded a video titled "G T 2 0 0 0" on July 28th, 2018. The video has been viewed 60,910 times as of October 3rd, 2019.

The video features an Asian man preparing to watch the intro video to the game Gran Turismo 2000, and being frightened when the video's music, Mirage by Daiki Kasho, is very loud. Mirage plays in the game's intro video and during gameplay of Gran Turismo 2000. The Mitsubishi Evolution V was the only driveable car in the game. The song Mirage is highly known with the car due to them being one of a kind in the game, and the song usually starts playing when the car appears in videos.

Spread

The meme spread as YouTuber BK4 gained more subscribers. He currently has 56.7K as of October 3rd, 2019. BK4 continued to make videos around the Yellow Evo V / GT2000 meme, such as "GT2000 Theme Song EARRAPED" and Г Т 2 0 0 0.

Other YouTube videos about the meme popped up in 2019, mostly containing the song Mirage and depicting the car being very fast or intimidating. Other YouTubers, such as MrJohn Reviews started making many videos about the Yellow Evo V, further spreading the meme.

As Gran Turismo memes gained more popularity, the subreddit /r/turismoshitposting was created on September 10, 2019. As of October 3rd, 2019, the subreddit has 1.0K subscribers.

Gran Turismo 2000

The meme comes from the 1999 game Gran Turismo 2000, which is highly detailed in the Gran Turismo entry.