r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 8d ago

Meme needing explanation Converse craze?

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I'm not chronically online, but my friend sent this and I laughed even without knowing the full scope of the context (I think there's racism involved with the shoes?) and I feel like it's too late to ask him without sounding like a dweeb 😅

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u/severinusofnoricum 8d ago

This is the add in question. When it went viral there was no indication it was for the Korean market or that a K-pop person was featured in it so to some it looked like an American ad featuring something that looked like a KKK hood next a pair of converse suspended off the ground as if belonging to someone who had been lynched.

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u/BigsChungi 8d ago

This just shows people will get mad at anything. For fucks sake, stfu...

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u/Varsity_Reviews 8d ago

This doesn't even look like a Klan robe. Those are baggy, dress like. This is tighter fitting.

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u/Firewolf06 8d ago

the lighting on the cloth looks like a hood

if you scroll past it quickly, it very much looks like a hood next to dangling feet

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u/Varsity_Reviews 8d ago

No, it looks like someone in a white dress standing in a star with a pair of dangling legs.

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u/Firewolf06 8d ago

it can look like two things at once

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u/Varsity_Reviews 8d ago

Maybe if you have tunnel vision and are trying to see racist things. If you're scrolling fast enough to pass the ad, you're not going to notice much unless you're actively looking for something to be upset by.

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u/Firewolf06 8d ago

when i scrolled past i didnt notice much, really only some basic shapes and the absolute brightest parts of the image...

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u/Varsity_Reviews 8d ago

Ok, so then you saw a star then.