About

What Kind of Fucking McDonald's Has a Message? is a viral voice message in which a customer complains about a McDonald's restaurant having an answering machine. The audio recording has since been circulated in memes as a punchline.

Origin

On February 9th, 2019, Twitter^[1] user @Gmurda301 uploaded a Snapchat story posted by his manager. In the video, an answering machine at a McDonald's restaurant plays a message left by a customer. The customer complains about the McDonald's having an answering machine and questions its purpose. The video received over 629,000 views, 17,400 retweets and comments and 46,400 likes on Twitter in one year.

this was on my managers story and it just made me laugh so hard dude pic.twitter.com/LHn14M4B0h

— genaro (@Gmurda301) February 9, 2019

What kind of fucking McDonalds has a message? What do I say, I want a burger tomorrow? What? What the?

Spread

On February 22nd, 2019, YouTube^[2] user Angel Breel reuploaded the video to YouTube where it received over 146,700 views in one year. A March 12th, 2019, reupload by YouTube^[3] user ROID received additional 406,400 views.

On April 4th, 2019, iFunny^[4] user yeesh reposted an Instagram^[5] reupload of the video, gaining over 68,600 smiles on the platform in one year. On December 26th, Redditor^[6] ItsMichaelRay posted the video to /r/youtubehaiku subreddit where it received over 5,800 upvotes in six months.

Following the viral spread of the video online, it gained popularity in video edits on YouTube, Instagram and other platforms as a punchline. For example, on September 29th, 2019, YouTube^[7] user Not So Melancholy posted a Neon Genesis Evangelion meme that received over 17,300 views in ten months (shown below, left). On June 21st, 2020, YouTube^[8] user The Legendary Shitposter posted a Regular Show meme that gained over 83,500 views (shown below, right).

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