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Somehow, this AI-generated McDonald’s ad about hating Christmas was a flop

DATE POSTED:December 9, 2025

If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism.

Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, and putting up a Christmas tree, each of which goes wrong somehow. The ad concludes by telling viewers to "hide out in McDonald's until January's here."

McDonald's has unveiled its own AI-generated Christmas ad that somehow looks even worse than Coca-Cola's.

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Read the full story at The Verge.