McDonald’s rewards Fil-Ams in viral prank video
Fast food chain McDonald’s has officially hired two Filipino-Americans whose social media post recently went viral after they hung a picture of themselves at a McDonald’s branch in Pearland, Texas.
The announcement was made by television host Ellen DeGeneres during the guesting of Jehv Maravilla and Christian Toledo aired this week.
“McDonald’s loves customers like you and they’re committed to diversity and want to represent their customers,” DeGeneres told the visibly surprised Maravilla and Toledo.
“They’re going to use the two of you in a marketing campaign,” she said, adding that
they would each be receiving $25,000 (around P1.3 million) as payment.
Maravilla and Toledo, along with their group of friends, recently posted details of the prank they did at the local McDonald’s branch.
“I noticed there was a blank wall at McDonald’s so I decided to make this fake poster of me and my friend. It’s now been 51 days since I hung it up,” Maravilla said in a tweet posted on Sept. 2.
The post has since been liked over a million times and was retweeted by over 250,000 people.
A follow-up video showed how the group managed to hang the photo without the employees noticing, including getting a crew uniform and printing a fake badge.