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Dearest Mr. Keith and Blog of Doomers,
I regret to inform each and every one of you that @crankyvince on twitter is DEAD! This is a sad, sad day for me. I assume it is for all of y'all as well. Life has no meaning. DEPRESSION WOOD. FUCK YOU.
May @Crankyvince live on in our hears forever. RIP.
PS. At least we still have Puppet H.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WHY must the good die young!?
Did we ever find out who was behind them? Looks like there is a new WWE Creative account but I don't think it's the same guy.
ReplyDeleteLegal question: Isn't it allowable to use copyrighted intellectual property if the content is clear and intentional parody? Hence the porn line with titles like "Star Trek XXX - A Parody," "Batman XXX - A Parody." Cranky Vince would seem to fall into that that category - i.e. nobody reading the tweets would mistake it for an official account.
ReplyDeleteIt would seem even more allowable if the author/creator isn't profiting from the work, which I'm assuming @crankyvince was not. My uninformed, gut reaction is that WWE doesn't actually have any legal right to shut down these accounts.
We have VKM posting here. ALL IS NOT LOST. FUCK YOU.
ReplyDeleteThe weird gray area is that the guy doesn't have a "legal right" to a Twitter account either. I mean, I assume the "reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason" bar sign applies here too no?
ReplyDeleteDon't worry we have the lame imitation that posts here from time to time to tide us over.
ReplyDeleteBecause nothing says creative and hilarious like doing something someone else does better.
ALL IS NOT LOST. IT'S TRUE, IT'S NOT BULLSHIT, ALL IS NOT LOST. IT IS NAAAHT.
ReplyDeleteOh hai Mark.
Why fank you! You know, if eeeevery won lofved each other, dan da worl wuld be a bettah place.
ReplyDeleteHe even had in the description for the account "Mild Parody".
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/#!/CrrankyVince
ReplyDeleteMan, fuck you WWE. That was the funniest account I followed on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteI wish Cranky Vince well in his future endeavors.
ReplyDeleteHow do we know crankyvince here isn't the same guy?
ReplyDeleteUgh, got my hopes up. That's not the same guy.
ReplyDeleteFUCK YOU
ReplyDeleteYou are my hero.
ReplyDeleteFor a "global entertainment company" that "tells stories" and is on the "cutting edge" of social media the WWE has a shitty sense of humor
ReplyDeleteThe twitter account was clever.
ReplyDeleteDON'T TOUCH ME, MOTHER FUHHCKER.
ReplyDeleteHaha. Hey some people have to be Bush to the original's Nirvana apparently.
ReplyDeleteTwitter and Facebook don't tolerate people creating fake identity accounts/impersonating people. And when it comes to famous people, they will often go out of their way to get full documentation to make sure the person is the person they say they are (hence why a lot of twitter accounts have "confirmed" checkmark on them on them to let you know that they are legit).
ReplyDeleteSOMETIMES you can get away with having a fake twitter/facebook account for a real person or a fictional person but it requires flying under the radar and the slim hope that the person or company who's character you are impersonating not giving a shit to raise a fuss and getting the account pulled. I'm guessing with the two WWE accounts, the WWE actually didn't know they existed or no one was willing to tell Vince until a couple of days ago, at which point he had them crushed.
Clearly this is just a ploy to fool his family into thinking he's really dead, only he'll have to pull the plug when the @CrankyBenoit situation happens.
ReplyDelete#StonedMurph
YOU'RE TEARING ME APART, LISA!
ReplyDeleteUR LA-EYE-ING, I NAVAH HIT U
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