/unfortunately I do need this tag

There are people that look like monkeys. Others look like hippos.

There’s no end to this.

Unless it is intentionally used by a racist in a racist context, this is all nonsense – unless of course you really do look like a monkey. But from the pic here, this kid just looks like a nice kid – with an Olympic gold medal to top it all off.

To show an “animals doing something cute” advertisement in connection with humans doing something similar for real would be an obvious advertising ploy, to help people to remember the product the ad is pushing. These things are scheduled weeks, if not months, in advance. It could not have been known who would win the gold medal.

Without the “everything is racist” paranoids, no one would have perceived any connection between Miss Douglas’s skin color and the cute little animals in the ad.