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McDonald's faces backlash after airing 2025 Christmas commercial: 'This is just … terrible'
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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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Seems to be successful advertising when articles are written about it.
For small/unknown companies, all publicity is good publicity may be true, but McDonald's is one of the biggest and most well-established brands around. A horrible ad isn't going to turn many new people onto their products but it sure as hell can turn a lot of people off.