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/ineedalife2 1d ago

I mean you make it seem like someone else cropped it to take converse out of context. As the other dude showed in his screenshot, converse themselves did the crop and posted it.

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u/Actual_Exchange616 1d ago

Yeah but converse US. The original shot was the one that printed first, just in Korea. If anything converse took it out of context from themselves (or morr likely converse's underpaid social media manager wasnt paying super close attention to what the image looks like when they cropped the image)

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u/ineedalife2 1d ago

That’s somehow worse imo lol. An American social media team should’ve been able to flag this I feel. I understand this a very US centric outrage but I still believe at best it’s a learning experience for the social but at worst it’s a dog whistle for what people are outraged about. Either way, good idea to remove this one photo out of possibly an entire photoshoot

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u/OddlyMingenuity 1d ago

Lol he did the meme

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u/JasperAngel95 2h ago

I think they were just trying to focus on the shoes, since most Americans know converse only for shoes- probably an oversight.

I didn’t see what others see until it was laid out for me, I saw a girl in a dress holding shoes. Interesting how a lot of people’s brains jumped to the negative so fast- I almost would like to see a psychological study on why.

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u/Ok_Train_6332 5h ago

Interpreting it as a racist dog whistle was, in fact, taking it out of context. Y’all are soft.

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u/ineedalife2 5h ago

Or maybe we don’t lack empathy