No, this isn’t a real McDonald’s billboard recruiting ‘crypto bro’s’

McDonald’s didn’t suggest that men who work in cryptocurrency would be lovin’ a career in fast food instead, but a supposed photo of a McDonald’s billboard is again spreading on social media. 

"Hey crypto bro’s we are hiring," reads the text replete with a misplaced apostrophe in what looks like a McDonald’s billboard. The image features McDonald’s red and yellow colors and a URL for McDonald’s careers page. 

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McDonald’s didn’t immediately respond to PolitiFact’s questions about the image. But as Snopes reported in 2022, this claim has been circulating since 2021, when several cryptocurrencies saw their values plummet.

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A reverse-image search of the supposed billboard led us to a November 2009 Flickr post from a Poland-based photographer who identified the location as Warsaw. The billboard in this image advertises a Hyundai car — not McDonald’s. 

We found other instances of the same image being altered to replace the Hyundai advertisement with personal photos. 

What we didn’t find: Any credible sources to corroborate claims that this is a real McDonald’s billboard.

We rate claims that this image shows an authentic McDonald’s billboard False.