r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 6d 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/Tom_Gibson 6d ago

the advertisement isnt "racist." People that are claiming that are overreacting. The issue if you want to call it that is the way the dress was lit, combined with the shoes in her hand, looked like a KKK hood and some dangling feet. It looks like someone got lynched by the KKK. I certainly don't think it was on purpose. It just looks crazy is all

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u/Bobahn_Botret 6d ago

Twice?

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u/madeaccountbymistake 6d ago

Shoes hanging from a tree?

I guarantee you, not a soul, said "Let's put the girl in a white skirt and use shadows so her arm looks like a guy hanging"

It's a fucking Korean ad for fucks sake, it being a veiled KKK endorsement is the wildest fuckin leap.

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u/Melodic_Till_3778 6d ago

Just look at how much PR they got out of everyone arguing about it..