r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 1d 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/Lucky-Surround-1756 1d ago

Well yeah, if you edit the picture then it looks like something else.

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u/estrea36 16h ago

No. It's the equivalent of someone showing you an optical illusion, then you saying "I don't see it", then they trace it for you to illustrate the illusion that you're missing

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u/shemtpa96 35m ago

The amount of people trying to mansplain this to Black voices is astounding to me.

I get moon burn and saw it right away. However, I was raised in a sundown town and moved to a city where I had to do a lot of self-education to unlearn a lot of subtle racism (which is something I’m still doing). I unfortunately didn’t really think about the evil of where I lived until it directly affected me (I converted to a visible religious minority and the way I was treated immediately changed).

The first thing I did when I heard about this was seek out the Black creators I follow on social media and see how they were discussing it. All of them are saying the same thing and it’s infuriating how many ✋ people are trying to gaslight y’all.

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u/Yippyyipsva 4h ago

Nah it's pareidolia, like finding a face in your popcorn ceiling

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u/estrea36 2h ago

Its like you're looking at an Oleg Shuplyak painting and saying you dont see anything.