The wits who run the McDonald’s PR machine have been busy – and the agency is now having fun with some free Twitter advert area on the expense of the crypto neighborhood, with everybody from bitcoin (BTC) miners and maxis to world leaders indulging in some price- (and burger-)themed gallows humor.
Bitcoin and most different cash are nonetheless reeling from a large value drop over the previous few days – main many crypto neighborhood members to crack jibes about having to swap their crypto careers for a job flipping burgers on the world’s most well-known fast-food franchise.
Their quantity included the El Salvador President Nayib Bukele – who has invested hundreds of {dollars} from his nation’s treasury in bitcoin purchases. The chief posted an image of himself photoshopped right into a McDonald’s uniform.
The President additionally lashed out at “drama queens” discussing his BTC-buying methods, who criticized him for purchasing when costs had been excessive, as a substitute advising them (sarcastically) to “make investments a bit of your McDonald’s paycheck” in BTC, ending by urging:
“Now return to flip extra burgers you lazy fvçk!”
All this was just too tempting for the McDonald’s PR workforce, who gleefully goaded: “How are you doing, individuals who run crypto Twitter accounts?”
Some embraced the barb with darkish humor of their very own, however when one person tried to reply with sarcasm, the sharp-witted McDonald’s wordsmiths replied with rapier-like precision.
MicroStrategy’s CEO Michael Saylor duly donned a key a part of the uniform – and hinted he may additionally have to moonlight with an extra shift at a restaurant that accepts BTC.
Others expressed disbelief at McDonald’s opportunism.
However Twitter being Twitter, the mere point out of “crypto” immediately unleashed swarms of barely intelligible doggy memes from advocates of dog-themed altcoins, in addition to leagues of scammers shilling a plethora of implausible crypto scams.
Some jokes, nevertheless, merely by no means get previous – and this was a golden alternative to wheel out some favourite previous chestnuts.
For many, it was a matter of attempting to smile via the tears – actually. Dozens of renditions of Pepe the Frog and Wojak tearfully donned McDonald’s uniforms, poked sad-looking burgers round on grills, and shunted their method across the replies.
Others quipped about their coming profession shifts.
Some pitched their “{qualifications}” straight on the fast-food agency…
…whereas Homer Simpson additionally made a well timed entrance/exit/entrance.
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