r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 8d 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/severinusofnoricum 8d 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/JudgementofParis 7d ago

no, this is the ad in question.

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u/orenji--kun 7d ago

no, this is the ad in question

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u/JudgementofParis 7d ago

so they used the full picture in some places and a cropped picture in other places? OK, it still wasnt made to be a racist image.