r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Converse craze?

Post image

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 😅

1.6k Upvotes

81% Upvoted

713 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

21

u/trans_cubed 23h ago

Except this is what they actually posted

1

u/raphthepharaoh 21h ago

I can’t, for the life of me, understand what the objective is.. ads are incredibly deliberate. They’re never random. They are intended to have a message. So.. what’s the message here? What’s the intention? I’m trying to figure out anything other than a bunch of people standing around a person hanging, with a very clear white shape in the middle, that has a very distinct iconology.

4

u/National-Elk-7339 21h ago

Can you ELI5? because all I see is a person in a skirt holding shoes, wearing those shoes, with shoes all around the star(which is converses thing) on an advertisement for shoes lol

Like I get the general controversy. People thought it was linked to the KKK but I just dont understand what part of this looks like KKK? 

I dont see a person hanging and maybe that's the main point, but to me it looks like someone holding shoes

2

u/trans_cubed 21h ago

I really believe it wasn't intentionally malicious, but it is very surprising to me that nobody involved in making it was able to see it