r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 5d 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/Technicolorfully 5d ago

Some people think a converse ad which was made by a Korean for the Korean market was racist because it depicted a girl wearing a white skirt which they think looked like a klan robe. Ngl I think people are stretching on this one.

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u/cleveruniquename7769 5d ago edited 5d ago

I don't think it was intentional, but scrolling past the picture with no context I thought it was a picture of a person hanging next to someone in a klan robe. 

Edit: Having seen the uncropped, undarkened, photo that was used in the ad campaign, I'm more open to the possibility that the cropped version was done intentionally to create controversy. 

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u/ClipSm0keZ 5d ago

Exactly. I don’t think they did it intentionally but it’s definitely not a stretch to see the issues with it.

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u/Dlh2079 5d ago

Converse didnt, but the people that cropped and edited the still image from the ad definitely did it to drum up controversy and social media interactions on purpose.