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This term has been around a lot longer than reddit
applied to Unix desktop customization it was popularized on reddit
but yeah that's the whole point, before that it was an obviously racist term
I thought i remembered a long time ago (early 2000s) that it was actually about using rice based ethanol in your sportscar to boost performance somehow.
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna18615542
https://ftloscience.com/producing-biofuel-from-rice-husk/
at that same time & earlier it was predominantly used to refer to either car enthusiasts themselves or their asian-manufactured, cheap and easy to customize cars. as has been endlessly pointed out in this thread.