Yes, it's an ad. Stuff like this isn't new either, when MCSEs were all the rage in the late 90s/early 2000s TVs were playing ads about garbage collection worker

Yes, it's an ad. Stuff like this isn't new either, when MCSEs were all the rage in the late 90s/early 2000s TVs were playing ads about garbage collection workers who now earn $100,000 a year as "computer engineers".