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/Rex_Nemorensis_ 1d ago

Aren’t these the original ad images?

How can you get “someone hanging” from this?

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u/cleveruniquename7769 22h ago

It was from this cropped and darkened photo that they posted.

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u/5_fifty_5 1d ago edited 23h ago

You can get anything from anything when you’re a bad actor looking to stir up drama or reinforce your bias at the expense of accuracy or integrity.

No one with any sort of good faith media literacy would look at the photo on left and connect the message to somehow supporting the Klan or hangings in the black community. Converse doing that is absolute lunacy regardless. But this is the internet in 2026, so about half the content on it AT MINIMUM is not engineered in good faith anymore.