It’s a disquieting new holiday tradition: a major corporation that should know not to dunk its reputation in the sewer celebrates the holidays by releasing a punishing, demonic commercial made with the latest batch of AI doohickeys.
This time, the perpetrator is McDonald’s:
McDonald’s has released an AI-generated Christmas ad The studio behind it says they ‘hardly slept’ for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — ‘AI didn’t make this film. We did’ Comments have been turned off on YouTube
— Culture Crave 🍿 ( @culturecrave.co ) December 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It’s about how much the holiday season sucks. Get it? It’s also genuinely hard to sit through because at every level from the subtle to the screechingly obvious, it looks and sounds all

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