These guys snuck a fake poster of themselves into McDonald's to make an important point
If you're going to pull a prank, you might as well do it right.
The fake McDonald's poster that 21-year-old student Jevh Maravilla shared on Twitter on Monday is the absolute perfect example of this.
"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. "It's now been 51 days since I hung it up."
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Let's go in for a close-up of those:
To be fair, they really have done an excellent job with that poster.
On a YouTube video Maravilla posted in August after he first carried out the prank, he explained a little more about the motivation behind it.
"If you haven't noticed, there isn't a lot of Asians represented in media," he says in the clip. "And hopefully one day I could see someone like me on the big screen. So one day, my bud Christian and I were eating at McDonald's, munching on some snack wraps. I look up and I see a blank wall and I tell Christian, 'Hey, what if we put a picture of us on there? Look around, there are literally no Asians in any of these walls. Maybe we can change that.'"
After that they staged the photo, made a few edits, and bought themselves an old McDonald's shirt in a thrift store. Then they made their move.
Here's the full video:
"To this day, I can say that the poster has been up since," concludes Maravilla, "and I really hope they never take it down.
"Remember, folks: all races deserve recognition. And I guess I did my part."
