So apparently, the story was that (dumb?) driver seriously thought the cassette deck was an iPhone charger. Mike Smith Buick GMC posted photos on Facebook of the jammed iPhone…
“So a young driver stops in with an older car complaining the iPhone dock in his vehicle isn’t working and its scratching his phone.”
But the dealership apparently made up a fake story to go along with their post, instead of clarifying it was a joke they found somewhere else. The post received almost 400,000 views and was reposted on some meme sites, but didn’t go viral until it was repurposed by the dealership.
But is the story itself actually true? Yes. Well, kind of, Thomas said:
“My friend Kyle owns an older SUV and slid his iPhone 5 into the cassette deck one day and asked seriously, ‘Is that what that’s for?’ And it gave us all a good laugh. We posted it to Instagram with the caption, ‘So, that’s what that’s for!’ as a joke to him, but it only got a few likes.”
Thomas said he decided to post the story to Imgur to be funny, changing the details a bit to make the story better:
I changed the caption to my brother to protect [my friend from] embarrassment and came up with the generational gap of technology where younger people might assume that it’s made for an iPhone dock.
The dealership is mum on the whole thing but Thomas said they told him they found the picture and were just “having fun.”
“Honestly it’s been fascinating to watch how it’s spread around Facebook. The caption has always been a variation from my original on the Reddit post, which I found fascinating.”
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