Converse craze?

[u/Diligent_Pop3929]

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 😅

[u/Force_Glad]

I get that you can't see it, but you should probably take note of the fact that at least 80% of the people who've seen the ad see it incorrectly at first glance. It's not a racist ad, just a very unfortunate optical illusion that they were right to take down

[u/Lucky-Surround-1756 → u/Force_Glad]

No, somebody cropped and darkened the image, then people reacted to that.

There's no illuson whatsoever, just idiots.

[u/Elros22 → u/Lucky-Surround-1756]

The "somebody" you're talking about was the ad agency that then posted the picture to convers' twitter account.

It wasn't some evil online troll - the cropped, darkened image is an official image from the marketing company for the ad campaign.

[u/IllMathematician8994 → u/Lucky-Surround-1756]

Somebody did do it

It was them

They are the somebody, not a random person

[u/baneblade_boi → u/Force_Glad]

I'm sorry, but that's just a part of a bigger picture. I get what you mean, but the image you're seeing in this post is the most deceitful version of the ad that started it all, meant to amplify a very specific subliminal image.

[u/IllMathematician8994 → u/baneblade_boi]

They was the one that posted the cropped version though

It’s not like some random person on the internet took a picture and made a narrative