These two friends had a great laugh hanging an unauthorised photograph of themselves in a Pearland, TX, McDonald's restaurant.
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Hanging on the wall of a local McDonald’s in Pearland, Texas, the poster — as legitimate as it looks — was not provided by the billion-dollar fast food chain, but by 21-year-old Fil-Am Jevh Maravilla who decided to pull off a genius prank of creating his own poster and hanging it up on the eatery’s wall.
“I noticed there was a blank wall at McDonald’s so I decided to make this fake poster of me and my friend,” wrote Maravilla in a viral tweet that has been retweeted over 250,000 times and liked over one million times as of Friday, September 7.
“It’s now been 51 days since I hung it up,” revealed Maravilla in his Monday, September 3 tweet.
The University of Houston student said that the need for diversity and representation of Asians in the media was the main inspiration for his stunt.
“If you haven’t noticed, there isn’t a lot of Asians represented in media,” Maravilla said in a YouTube video titled, “How to Become McDonalds Poster Models.”
“And hopefully one day I could see someone like me on the big screen,” he added, alongside another Photoshopped picture of himself on the movie poster of the latest blockbuster hit “Crazy Rich Asians.”
The idea came in mid-July when Maravilla and his also Fil-Am friend Christian Toledo were eating snack wraps at a McDonalds in Pearland, Texas. Upon noticing the lack of Asians in the restaurant’s posters, the two thought it would be a great opportunity to add some new wall art.
In his YouTube video, Maravilla explained the process of taking the photo in front of their local neighborhood event center, editing the photo and having it printed at Office Depot, coincidentally finding a McDonald’s polo shirt at a thrift store for $7, pairing the shirt with a tie and badge with a title of “Regional Interior Coordinator,” and finally hanging the photo up.
The video has garnered over 900,000 views on YouTube as of Friday, September 7.
To BuzzFeed, Maravilla said, “I feel so thankful. I didn’t know how much of a difference I can make in people’s eyes. Even one tweet can change the world.”
This genesis of this "prank" is the complaint that there aren't a lot of Asians represented in the media. Newsflash to Jevh Maravilla...Asians are not the majority in the USA. Caucasians and Negroes far out number Asiatics by a huge margin. Specifically in Pearland, TX the demographics are as follows:
The racial makeup of the city as of the 2010 Census was 62.0% White, 16.4% African American, 0.5% Native American, 12.4% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 6.0% from "some other race", and 2.7% "two or more races". The Hispanic or Latino population, including persons of any race, was 20.5% of the total, and non-Hispanic whites made up 48.8%. The city is majority minority.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearland,_Texas#Demographics
Overall in the USA the demographics are as follows:
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_States#Race |
Asians compose only 5.2% of the entire population in the USA! Is it any wonder then that Asians are not represented as much in the media? No it's not but these guys have drank the social justice and identity politics kool-aid and think that faces in media must be so diverse as to always be representing people who like them.
So what do these guy do in response to this alleged underrepresentation of Asians in the media? They find a McDonald's polo at a thrift store and one of them wears it so he appears official and then they install a huge photograph of themselves eating McDonald's food.
Not only is that not a very funny prank but now with their stunt going viral they have given McDonald's free advertising. With the social climate in the USA as it is there is no way McDonald's will ever remove that unauthorised photo because if they do charges of racism will automatically be thrown at them and that will be the death knell of that particular McDonalds's store.
A better prank, in my opinion, would have been to have these two friends eating food from Burger King or Taco Bell or anywhere else but McDonald's. Such a photo would have been subversive and very funny. It would have been a prank.
But as it is these two Fil-Am's have not broken any barriers or done anything funny but have only continued to play into the hands of modern day American identity politics. Honestly who cares if there are people that "look like you" in advertisements or TV or movies? These are all means to sell you products!! All companies care about ultimately is the bottom line. If people do not buy their products then the company will not make money.
Unbeknownst to them these two friends have become part of the capitalist corporate machine that rules America.
Ha ha ha ha! Good one guys! But the joke's on you!
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