15 Insanely Terrible Advertising Campaigns You Won't Believe Are Real
13. McDonald's Inadvertently Promotes Having Sex With Hamburgers
Corporations are always trying to use Internet slang in their marketing, showing the kids that these massive, faceless companies run by 50 year old men in business suits are just like them. If they're going to do that, though, they should probably take a few seconds to look up the meaning of the phrases they use in their multi-million dollar promotions.
Apparently nobody at McDonald's did that before they launched this 2005 campaign. It only appeared online, but it featured three banner ads with a teen saying, "Double cheeseburger? I'd hit it." In case you aren't aware, "I'd hit it" is basically another way of saying "I'd have sex with him/her." So yes, this is an ad from one of the biggest fast food chains in the world in which a teenager wants to have sex with a cheeseburger. Is this a commercial for McDonald's or for the next American Pie movie?