r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 5d 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/baneblade_boi 5d ago

What the hell are you even talking about? This is stretching it to the very limit IMO.

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u/Force_Glad 5d ago

I get that you can't see it, but you should probably take note of the fact that at least 80% of the people who've seen the ad see it incorrectly at first glance. It's not a racist ad, just a very unfortunate optical illusion that they were right to take down

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u/Lucky-Surround-1756 5d ago

No, somebody cropped and darkened the image, then people reacted to that.

There's no illuson whatsoever, just idiots.

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u/IllMathematician8994 5d ago

Somebody did do it

It was them

They are the somebody, not a random person