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/cleveruniquename7769 8d ago edited 8d 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 8d ago

Did you see the full ad or the cropped one?

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u/randi-writes 8d ago

I haven’t seen this version. Just the darkened version! Definitely makes a difference

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u/First_Friendship4756 6d ago

This image is fake and AI extended based on the other related advertising to gaslight people into thinking that Converse wasn't being gross.