Audi Needs To Make This Fake Sochi Olympic Ring Fail Ad A Reality

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Things have been a little, um, rough around the edges at the Winter Olympics in Sochi thus far. After one of the five Olympic rings failed to light at the opening ceremony, one clever prankster found a great way to tie it in with Audi's logo.

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This picture quickly shot to the top of Reddit this morning, and you have to admit that it's kind of brilliant. "When four rings is all you need." Ha!

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Given Audi's history of good-humored advertisement trolling, you might expect that this came straight from the folks at Ingolstadt themselves. Not so, according to Mashable:

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Instead, it's a clever bit of real-time marketing by a fan on Audi's behalf, which an Audi representative says is the most likely scenario. "This is not an official ad [...] it is most likely from an Audi fan," the rep said.

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It's also pretty clearly just text over this photo. Well, even if Audi says they didn't come up with it, I bet they wish they had.

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