{"id":182408,"date":"2018-09-21T22:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T02:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=182408"},"modified":"2018-09-21T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T02:54:34","slug":"viral-filipino-american-pranksters-guest-on-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/21\/viral-filipino-american-pranksters-guest-on-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Filipino-American pranksters guest on Ellen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_182432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182432\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/XbsyCOlU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182432\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/XbsyCOlU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/XbsyCOlU.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/XbsyCOlU-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jevh and Christian shared that their prank was modelled after the\u00a0popular film \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d an adaption from Kevin Kwan\u2019s bestselling novel; then hoping to push for racial diversity in restaurant posters. (Screenshot from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellentube.com\/video\/ellen-has-a-big-surprise-for-viral-mcdonalds-pranksters.html\"> Ellen Has a Big Surprise for Viral McDonalds Pranksters<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellentube.com\/\">EllenTube<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jevh Maravilla and Christian Toledo, who recently became viral for standing up for race representation through a McDonald\u2019s billboard prank, got recognition from Ellen Degeneres who said, \u201cI know a great prank when I see one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The television host asked the two to guest on her show after Jevh\u2019s Twitter post presented photos of their prank. It captioned, \u201cI noticed there was a blank wall at Mcdonald\u2019s so I decided to make this fake poster of me and my friend. It\u2019s not been 51 days since I hung it up.\u201d The post has gotten 1.02 million likes since its initial date of sharing on September 3, as of writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jevh and Christian shared that their prank was modelled after the\u00a0popular film \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d an adaption from Kevin Kwan\u2019s bestselling novel; then hoping to push for racial diversity in restaurant posters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jevh told Ellen, \u201cI watched the movie three times. It was insane,\u201d with Christian adding, \u201cAnd so we wanted to be crazy middle-class Asians.. Or maybe lower middle class.\u201d Jevh continued, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We were eating McDonald\u2019s one day and we looked around and saw there were posters around that didn\u2019t have any Asians. They had other races but no Asians so we felt like it was our duty to put ourselves up there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview with NBCNews.com, Jevh also said, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope that we can inspire others through the use of film through media platforms\u2014either on the web, television, or on the big screen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ellen ended Jevh and Christian\u2019s guesting by congratulating the Filipino-Americans for a job well done, following it up with a $25,000 check from McDonald\u2019s and an upcoming marketing campaign featuring the duo. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McDonald\u2019s corporate office has reported that they have taken down the poster, but it has been put up for auction and will be donated to Ronald McDonald House Houston charity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jevh Maravilla and Christian Toledo, who recently became viral for standing up for race representation through a McDonald\u2019s billboard prank, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":182432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}