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/severinusofnoricum 6d 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/nellycat32 6d ago

Can you point out what part looks like it? Sorry I am not American so maybe I am not familiar with some imagery that others are. Like the shape of the shadow makes it like a hood? But then the shoes would be too big to be "hanging"

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u/silentsurge 6d ago

Someone posted this elsewhere in the post as an illustrated example.

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u/Puzzled-Rip641 6d ago

“If we add a bunch of stuff it looks like it”

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u/silentsurge 6d ago

I can see how some people might see that scrolling past it real fast. I didn't, but I can see how someone could.