People See Wholesome Overseas McDonald’s Ad, Realize What the Company’s Doing Here

A McDonald’s advertisement in a foreign country is going viral after people realized just how different it is from advertisements here.

On Wednesday, McDonald’s 🇯🇵Japan released a cute and wholesome ad on social media that showed an anime family happily enjoying a meal from McDonald’s while spending quality time together.

This simple advertisement immediately went viral internationally, especially among Americans.

On the surface, it is hard to see why such a simple ad made such waves.

One journalist, however, had an answer: Westerners have forgotten what it means for a company to have messaging that appeals to the human experience. Instead of that, we’re subjected to divisive, politically-charged virtue signaling.

Compare this Japanese advertisement to an ad released by McDonald’s in 2020 that featured a black transgender activist who goes by the name of Imara Jones saying, “Black trans women have a very simple message: Stop killing us.”

The theme of the bizarre advertisement, as well as the timing, suggests that this was McDonald’s way of pandering to the woke left in the wake of the death of George Floyd.