I work at a school and just explained the WcDonalds ad campaign to a kid & teacher because a commercial interrupted them watching Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties. and i only realized when saying it all out loud how baffling it is to the majority of people. like this is word for word what i said:
"In Japanese cartoons, or anime, they would flip the logo upside down a lot to get around copyright when they had scenes set in a McDonalds. So now McDonalds is doing that on purpose to be like Japanese cartoons."
but to this kid and teacher it was just inexplicably WcDonalds now until i brought it up. and you literally can't blame them.