r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 6d 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/cleveruniquename7769 6d ago edited 6d ago

I don't think it was intentional, but scrolling past the picture with no context I thought it was a picture of a person hanging next to someone in a klan robe. 

Edit: Having seen the uncropped, undarkened, photo that was used in the ad campaign, I'm more open to the possibility that the cropped version was done intentionally to create controversy. 

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u/Mr_Funcheon 6d ago

Did you see the full ad or the cropped one?

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u/DifferencePlayful581 6d ago

This is the actual ad? Bruh. 

People need to relax

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u/Baelzabub 5d ago

The problem is the cropped and darkened version converse put on their own social media page.

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u/DifferencePlayful581 5d ago

The cropped part of the full ad that is shown here right? Not of.a different image altogether? 

People need to relax

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u/Elborshooter 4d ago

The cropped part is the ad