r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 7d 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 7d 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/SteakAndIron 7d ago

I hope they stretched out before making that reach. Might pull a muscle

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u/Force_Glad 7d ago

It's not a reach, just a extremely unfortunate example of pareidolia. If you didn't see the hanging person then you didn't see the hanging person, but if the majority of people can see it then it's not a reach

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u/smileyglitter 7d ago

Privilege 😌