A college student hung his own poster on a blank wall at McDonald's — and employees didn't notice it for 51 days

• YouTuber and University of Houston senior Jevh Maravilla hung up a fake poster of himself and a friend at a McDonald's.
• The poster has been up for 51 days and counting, Maravilla said in a viral tweet that the poster remained in the fast food restaurant for 51 days without anyone noticing.
• In a YouTube video explaining how he did it, Maravilla said he was inspired to carry out the prank because of the lack of diversity in stock photos— specifically at that McDonald's.
• People think the viral prank is ingenious.

YouTuber and University of Houston senior Jevh Maravilla pulled what people think is a pretty impressive prank on McDonald's. In a now-viral tweet, Maravilla said that he and a friend decided to hang a poster of themselves on a blank wall at the restaurant — and no one spotted it for 51 days and counting. 

"I noticed there was a blank wall at McDonald's so I decided to make this fake poster of me and my friend," he wrote on September 2. "It's now been 51 days since I hung it up."

Maravilla also posted a YouTube video detailing how did it. In the video, the college student also shared his motivation for the prank.

"If you haven't noticed, there isn't a lot of Asians represented in media. And hopefully one day I could see someone like me on the big screen," he said in the video. "So one day, my bud Christian and I were eating at McDonald's, munching on some snack wraps. I look up and I see a blank wall and I tell Christian, 'Hey, what if we put a picture of us on there? Look around, there are literally no Asians in any of these walls. Maybe we can change that.'"

And so they devised a plan.

Maravilla said that along with several of their other friends, he and Christian were dedicated to making it work. To accomplish it, they staged a picture in the style of a McDonald's poster, purchased a uniform at a thrift store, and stealthily hung the poster in the restaurant during business hours without anyone noticing.

At the time of the video and his tweet, which were posted about a month apart, the picture was still up. According to ABC 13, they pulled off the prank at the Pearland, Texas, location of the chain. 

Needless to say, people are beyond impressed.

It's unclear if the poster is still up at this time, but the fast-food chain has heard about the prank.

"We take pride in highlighting diversity in every aspect of our restaurants," a representative for McDonald's said in a statement to INSIDER. "We applaud these students' creativity and hope to see them in our restaurants again soon."

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