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This should make the old posts look better and appease the Kinja TOS as well as the top brass at FCA. I understand they didn’t care for poor old Kinja Sergio.
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Was there actually complaints about Kinjas Sergio...
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Yeah, apparently the head of PR at FCA called Patrick, which made me lol. I’m glad to have wasted someone’s time at FCA. I hope to God that real Sergio read it.
It’s technically a TOS violation to impersonate someone, so I had to ensure to clarify that it was a parody account.
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Did a lot of the posts get deleted?
That sucks. Maybe FCA should learn how to take a joke?
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You played that quite well.
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No, no deletions, no concerns. Jalopnik’s staff was excellent, but they had to have me change it.
No worries at all on my end.
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When I changed the account’s name to “deleted” to abandon it, the old comments looked kinda shitty.
So I figured this was the best compromise.
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NO WAY. That’s incredible.
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If you ever make it to Nashville I will buy you a beer or glass of whiskey for your success.
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Also, how did Patrick or whoever tell you that there was a problem?
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Patrick commented on one of the older comments that I did asking me to email him so we could chat.
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Lol... they never get back to me every time I’ve emailed them so maybe I should pretend to be Akiro Toyoda.
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Really? I think I’ve emailed tips in 2 or 3 times. I had a response once and one time Torch did a story and hat tipped me!
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No such luck for me I guess.
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Kinjio?
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“Yeah, apparently the head of PR at FCA called Patrick, which made me lol”
Damn. Mopar guys always have an issue. (I’m a Mopar guy. Save the torches!)
That was some of the best Jalopnik commenting I’ve seen in years. That would have gotten a star in the old days.
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I told you FCA called.
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Yeah. Lol, I really hope Sergio read everything
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Oh Mergio! Mergio! Where fore art thou, Mergio?
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Rip. Fun while it lasted.
Butthurt fca is butthurt.
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Man, I remember when Jalopnik wasn’t afraid of pissing off automakers. Jalopnik has really gone downhill under PG, in so many ways.
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No, not at all. Believe me, it wasn’t that as much as the kinja tos.
What has Patrick done to earn your it? I think Jalopnik is great
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Besides gutting the talent, neutering the sub blogs, pulling the rug out from under Sean Macdonald, and hiring writers that can’t put together a sentence, much less know what they’re talking about half the time?
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Awwww. :(
It was awesome while it lasted
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HOLY SHIT, Sergio was you?? That’s awesome. Super disappointing that original Sergio won’t be around anymore. Stupid FCA. That was genius.
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That’s such a great story: you literally had a major auto company get all up in Jalopnik’s business because of your comedy. That’s a life goal right there.
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Did this ever appear on Oppo? I’m not mad if it did, but if FCA is calling Patrick about an Oppo post, and I didn’t know, I’m a worse mod than I thought :(
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I posted a few times using the Sergio account on Oppo. Just commented.
Is that a violation? If so, I apologise.
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Oh I’m not upset, just had a worrying moment that somewhere in my spam folder was a cease-and-desist email from an overzealous PR person.
The good news is that Oppo remains safe from the prying eyes of Mopar executives.
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See, I missed most of this, and now I want to go read what was so funny.
Awesome that you pissed off FCA.
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Bruh. I may have little faith in our country’s ability to set any new legal precedent on the First Amendment right now, but there is solid, set precedent regarding parody: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
Campari! For your first time!
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Ohhhhh TOS. Crap. Yeah, our hands are tied. I loved it so much, though! Maybe you could just be Fake Sergio Marchionne a la the only good Twitter parody Fake Charlie Whiting.
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NEVER APOLOGIZE.
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I’m glad you guys enjoyed! Everyone at Jalopnik always makes me laugh so I’m glad to return the favor!
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I’m Canadian, it’s all I know!!
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I’ll miss you, real Sergio. Hopefully the fake one makes me laugh just as hard. <3
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Sergio was indeed me!