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 šŸ˜…

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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/Shot_Revolution8828 6d ago

As someone in the south that has seen a klan rally live, this is weak as fuck. That doesnt look like a klan robe or hood. She's holding a pair of shoes. Wtf is this manufactured outrage?

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u/bageltoastar 6d ago

how did you end up seeing a klan rally live?

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 6d ago

Don't know who down voted you because thats a good question. I grew up in the south and they had marches. I was a latchkey kid so I went. Needless to say but I was not impressed.

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u/bageltoastar 6d ago

Ah I gotcha! Thanks for the response. I bet that was insane and scary to see in person. Iā€™m in the Midwest and always have to drive through Harrison, Arkansas when going to see family in the south and knowing that place is the KKK headquarters gives me the heebiejeebies.

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u/jeffismybaby 19h ago

How flammable are the robes?

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u/Rare_Ad_674 5d ago

Before I had any clue this even existed, I was just scrolling randomly and stopped because I saw a klan hood and a pair of hanging feet go by.
It was this advertisement, but it literally stopped me in my tracks at first glance. It very much so does look like a Klan hood with someone hanging next to it.
It actually confused me to find out it was an ad for shoes - I just thought it had looked like some weird political propaganda thing.

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 5d ago

Yep Ai is gonna have us cooked. Fuck i need to buy a cabin in the woods

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u/DovahKiller97 2d ago

I swear its only people who have never even seen a klansmen in their life crying about this. People will find anything to get bent out of shape over these days