Converse pulls 'deeply upsetting' advert after backlash (Page 3 of 4)
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Originally Posted By Stantonizm: My first glance interpretation was that there’s a person hanging beside a person in a white sheet, until I looked closer. I feel pretty confident, however, that a Klan lynching was not their intended artistic vision for the ad. That said, I do wonder what their actual intention for the visual was. There's a whole commercial with a girl in a dress. I can't find a link to it without some moron proving a "reaction" to it and I don't give stupid people clicks, so you're on your own. 
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Originally Posted By Jeff556: I consider myself to be very conservative and not easily offended. That being said, when I saw the picture I thought it was someone dangling with a person wearing a white sheet beside them. Not sure what it is supposed to be but I can see how someone would see something bad. |
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Isn't converse owned by Nike now? I'm surprised they don't put everything they release in front of a committee of blue hairs and race baiters just to look for anything that could be construed as racism, sexism, fat shaming, or pro American, or pro capitalism. In fact, every advertisement should have a sexually and racially ambiguous fat person just standing in a relaxed pose holding the product. AI could do this no problem. |
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Originally Posted By brahm: i really feel i should be getting paid for this. you're welcome converse. your problem is solved. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/346906/fixed_it__png-3830047.JPG 
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| Where is the offensive picture? Is it the one in this thread that is a person holding chucks, in a white dress, surrounded by chucks? |
DeltaElite777: It's not enough to just para bellum. If you really vis pacem, you gotta convince any potential troublemaker that not only can you push their shit in Genghis Khan-style, but you will.
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Originally Posted By KokopelliGolfer: I'll be honest, at first glance I see a pair of shoes dangling. Because of the lighting, the hand holding the shoes is not easy for me to see. So I do see someone hanging. However, my first thought is suicide, not lynching. Once I realize what it actually is, I have to laugh and question how warped my mind is. I am not going to blame the company for my shortcomings. It's not their fault I'm sick and twisted. This. |
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Originally Posted By Justinandfreyja: Those and Vans were at Payless Shoes when I was a kid! Originally Posted By Justinandfreyja: Originally Posted By MattyMattel: I remember when Chuck Taylors were cheap shoes. Those and Vans were at Payless Shoes when I was a kid! I wear Vans. The last pair I bought a month ago were 75 bucks. They are the only ones I can find that are entirely black.. |
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Originally Posted By Leisure_Shoot: Was this that hard to do? Now, no one will complain.... Attached File There is an even number of shoes on the right side, but an odd number on the left side. This is making my left eye twitch... |
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Originally Posted By Predicament:There is an even number of shoes on the right side, but an odd number on the left side. This is making my left eye twitch...  I thought about photoshopping one in, but then realized that is so 2024-2025.  )Gemini wouldn't touch "generate an image of a white couch with a small Asian girl with black Converse high tops on the top of the couch" with a 10 ft pole. |
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Originally Posted By NVCapCop: I would be shocked if more than 1% of their target market even knew which political party the KKK were affiliated with. Yeah but the political parties flipped.
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DeltaElite777: It's not enough to just para bellum. If you really vis pacem, you gotta convince any potential troublemaker that not only can you push their shit in Genghis Khan-style, but you will.
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Originally Posted By Leisure_Shoot: I ran out of tokens on Grok. (It kept putting the shoes on the seat cushions. I thought about photoshopping one in, but then realized that is so 2024-2025. )Gemini wouldn't touch "generate an image of a white couch with a small Asian girl with black Converse high tops on the top of the couch" with a 10 ft pole. Originally Posted By Leisure_Shoot: Originally Posted By Predicament:There is an even number of shoes on the right side, but an odd number on the left side. This is making my left eye twitch... I thought about photoshopping one in, but then realized that is so 2024-2025. )Gemini wouldn't touch "generate an image of a white couch with a small Asian girl with black Converse high tops on the top of the couch" with a 10 ft pole. LOL. That makes it better. I can accept it being AI verses a studio shoot. |
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Originally Posted By Cobradriver: I wear Vans. The last pair I bought a month ago were 75 bucks. They are the only ones I can find that are entirely black.. check out the Vans official website particularly around major holidays - I have gotten some cheap shoes on discontinued colors or over runs. little did I know they also offer a thicker cushioned premium line - picked up a pair of premium thick cushioned slip ons for 30 bucks around the 4th of July - find the “sale” section on the drop down menu thing https://www.vans.com/en-us |
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Originally Posted By Cooper1: It's the screenshot. The very first thing I saw was someone hanging next to someone wearing a white sheet. Maybe it's out of context, but that screen grab is horrible. If it was a video or an uncropped image, I may have not even noticed. *Assuming that is the actual video |
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Originally Posted By eolian: whoever approved that ad needs to be fired and whom ever presented to Converse needs to be fired. It's a Korean chick in the ad and Converse's Chief Marketing Officer for Converse at Nike is Sejal Shah Miller (https://me.sh/profile/sejal-shah-miller). You can also google search their marketing department to see what they look like. It's obvious that they did not intend to make a racist ad, only that easily offended people who look for racism and something to be offended about found something to be offended about. As usual, the demand for racism is far outpacing the supply. 
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Originally Posted By RobertM: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/3738/IMG_0319_webp-3829832.JPG American footwear brand Converse has pulled an advert that social media users said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying it recognised "that we got this wrong". The photo, posted to the company's Instagram account, received backlash online after critics described lighting in the image as looking like a white pointed hood. A pair of shoes, dangling in the picture, were also likened to an image of a lynching victim by social media users. In an apology, first issued on Friday, Converse said the photo had been removed from its social media channels and it was working to remove it elsewhere. "This should not have happened and we will do better," it said. The statement also said: "We're sorry. We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong". The photo was part of a campaign promoting its Chuck 70 X trainer, launched internationally on 27 August. The campaign features the South Korean singer Karina, of the K-pop group Aespa, who is pictured in a series of advertisements for the shoes Founded in Massachusetts in the early 1900s, the popularity of Converse has skyrocketed since its Chuck Taylor sneaker was first introduced to US basketball courts in 1917. The global brand has been a subsidiary of Nike since 2003. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crwyzj53pl1lo |
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Originally Posted By thawntex: Imagery means something, and that's a bad image. Sorry.  |
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Originally Posted By trails-end: I don't understand the image, but I don't see it as racist. I'm also not trying to find racism in everything. Get with the(ir) program. |
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Originally Posted By mcantu: This was an ad campaign with one of the biggest kpop singers around right now  that's her holding the shoes https://celebmafia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/aespa-s-karina-converse-korea-2024-10.jpg That's child porn i'm deeply offended. |
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DeltaElite777: It's not enough to just para bellum. If you really vis pacem, you gotta convince any potential troublemaker that not only can you push their shit in Genghis Khan-style, but you will.
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Originally Posted By mcantu: This is the real picture. hopefully she sues the fuck out of somebody https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HSrkXjYXAAEgsJn?format=jpg&name=medium Makes a little more sense in context, doesn't it? Hard to see unless you are looking for it. |
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Originally Posted By Smashy: I didn't see any of that imagery they're describing when I first saw it. But then I'm not looking for racism everywhere I can possibly find it. Still, at the end of the day that *IS* a crappy ad, I think. They can do better. |
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Originally Posted By mcantu: This is the real picture. hopefully she sues the fuck out of somebody https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HSrkXjYXAAEgsJn?format=jpg&name=medium |
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Originally Posted By MattyMattel: I remember when Chuck Taylors were cheap shoes. I remember when they were made in America https://www.robesonian.com/news/101419/converse-kicks-the-bucket |
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Originally Posted By Smashy: I didn't see any of that imagery they're describing when I first saw it. But then I'm not looking for racism everywhere I can possibly find it. I looked at it before reading and thought it was someone in a mental ward. I figured they were mad about that. When I saw what they were claiming, I wanted to lol. I have never seen a white racist in converse. They usually go for boots of some type. I imagine most of the Klan is probably in orthopedic shoes or slip ons, now. |
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Originally Posted By MattyMattel: I remember when Chuck Taylors were cheap shoes. What year was this? When I was a kid growing up in the 60’s Chucks and PF Flyers were $15 a pair….fast forward that is like $150 a pair today. Coming from a family of 5 kids my parents could not afford that luxury. They were American made canvas sneaks unlike the shoes made in SE Asia today. |
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Originally Posted By Smashy: I didn't see any of that imagery they're describing when I first saw it. But then I'm not looking for racism everywhere I can possibly find it. My first thought if anything was that it’s just a boring dull ad |
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Originally Posted By RWC57: What year was this? When I was a kid growing up in the 60’s Chucks and PF Flyers were $15 a pair….fast forward that is like $150 a pair today. Coming from a family of 5 kids my parents could not afford that luxury. They were American made canvas sneaks unlike the shoes made in SE Asia today. Originally Posted By RWC57: Originally Posted By MattyMattel: I remember when Chuck Taylors were cheap shoes. What year was this? When I was a kid growing up in the 60’s Chucks and PF Flyers were $15 a pair….fast forward that is like $150 a pair today. Coming from a family of 5 kids my parents could not afford that luxury. They were American made canvas sneaks unlike the shoes made in SE Asia today. In the 80's-90's. They weren't super cheap, but they were a hell of a lot cheaper than a pair of Jordans |
