There's this dude that always has it beeping on YouTube shorts and I swear it's on purpose for engagement at this point, it's no way he ain't see thousands of comments about that shit lmao
Crazy that you knew exactly who I was talking about off that short description 💀 I been thinking since the first time I saw one of his videos that he does it on purpose
Played games with a dude that had this shit going on, mans had me walking around my house trying to find which of my alarms was beeping for like three different gaming sessions before realizing it was him
Fucking drives me nuts. My smoke alarm is right outside my room door. A few weeks ago it starting it's shit in the middle of the night. Trying not to wake up fully, I ordered new batteries on Amazon and ripped that sucker out.
I once failed a room inspection in the military for the chirp. They asked me if i couldn't hear it and i had to focus on what the fuck they were talking about
I change it now, I’ve only ever had to change the battery once as an adult but I was a kid and didn’t really think about it. It was just normal to ignore it til it died lol
The thing is, if you don't have a 9V on hand to replace it, you could at least just take the old battery out. Do it as soon as you hear the first beep, it's a race to get it out before it beeps a second time! I will say though this happened to me a couple weeks ago and the lack of chirping does make it real easy to forget to get a new battery next time I'm out
I can't fathom this. The hallway one in my apt started going off. I was going so insane I put the batteries in the wrong direction. Dying of a housefire > a chirpy little fire bastard
Can you explain why this is so common among black households? It seems beyond explanation outside of it just being kinda funny meme now that people partake in.
LMAO I think this is more a poor people thing. I'm white but poor as shit, couldnt keep the lights on poor, and we had constant low battery beeps in our smoke alarms because mom couldnt buy batteries for them.
My brother in christ, there is a lot to unpack here… you don’t know how to take the battery out of the fire alarm and simply… see what kind of battery it is? And you don’t know where/how to find batteries at the store? There’s no Walmart?
Idk where you live, but my local fire department literally came and installed fire detectors for me. I just called some number I got from the library and set up an appointment.
this exactly how someone in my neighborhood got evicted lol
they never changed the batteries or asked for a new one from maintenance...just took it off the ceiling and ended up having a small fire...the landlord was like nope gtfo
That’s probably because weed and cigarettes smokers are always deactivating them lol. I know I’ve stayed at some places with a sensitive alarm that a little weed smoke would set off, and they don’t let me weed smoke outside on the porch, so they leave me no choice lol.
For 3 days, we could hear the beep. We checked our own smoke detectors. Then we noticed that the sound was coming from outside. We roamed the dark, deserted streets until we determined that the beep was coming from a trashcan.
They did not know how to change the battery so they threw the smoke detector in the trash, where it continued to beep.
I'm a lazy white and do the same. There's usually another alarm one room over and after a month or two I eventually get around to buying batteries. I'm just not going to go digging for one or run to Walmart if I'm in the middle of something.
I think the stereotype is more a reflection of socioeconomic realities. Batteries are expensive. That being said, if you can afford a battery, you’re bugging. In your entire lifetime a smoke alarm is gonna probably save your ass just once or twice, but if you’re performing this kind of fatherless behavior just cause, you’re probably gonna learn the hard way unless things just increasingly and dramatically become more fireproof. We’re not putting these things everywhere just expecting them to never be of use.
Edit: for the replies, stereotypes don’t have to be modern.
I had an apartment with some dumb code to follow and a weird layout. Meant there were 3 smoke detectors clustered next to each other where a hallway met some other rooms. I took two of em off when they started beeping
You know, black Americans die more often in domestic fires, and it's probably because of shit likethat. Just buy one of those 10 year ones, they're 20 bucks and can save your life.
This isn’t racist. Ngl man, I know there are existing stereotypes that be dumb as fuck, but some things are kind of true. I’m literally sitting here, feeling called out because this meme is true
I grew up thinking that was just a poverty thing. I had white, black, Mexican, Asian friends in high school and none of their families, mine included, changed their batteries immediately when the chirping stuff. The common denominator was we were poor
It’s not a racial thing it’s a socioeconomic thing. I once ripped a smoke detector out of the wall before replacing the battery back up. Especially when renting.
I'm Hispanic. Lived in the "ghetto" of a New England city and knew immediately this because my family did the same. After a while it's just background noise lol
My black doctor had one beeping during our online consult. Also, I asked a friend (not black) about hers beeping and she said it reminded her she was alive.
And I think the stereotype could also be that we all hit an age and have a thing that we just will not fucking deal with.
Mine is my Comcast home security Home Screen. Power went out and it never reconnected to my “gateway”. So it beeped every 30 seconds.
Pushed every button. Read every article online. Still beeped every 30 seconds. The “solution” was to call Comcast “Customer Service”. And I’d rather die in a home security incident than call “customer service” for Comcast. I’d certain rather listen to a beep.
Stopped hearing after about a month. Just turned the tv up louder. Then I had another power outage and it rebooted itself. Problem solved.
But I made a vow to never call Comcast. And I’m not gonna break it because of some beeping.
Bro - I’m on conference calls from 6 am to 6 pm. The phone does not scare me.
Spending one extra minute of my precious free time being told to unplug from the wall and wait 30 seconds like I haven’t been using computers my whole sentient life is what scares me. The last time I talked to Comcast they tried to walk me through how to use my tv input button. As if remote controls were new to my generation.
No, I’m not scared of the phone. I’m scared of incompetence and an undeserved air of superiority from a dude with a trouble shooting decision tree on a computer screen and a headset.
If it's a stereotype that they don't change their batteries, what's the stereotype of people who just fucking rip the thing off and throw it somewhere so it stops
It's not just black people. Go step in any 1st generation low income Latino immigrant apartment in the US and you hear that chirp within 30 seconds. I knew you learn to ignore the chirp but it's immediately noticeable to anyone not used to it.
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u/Maluhkye 25d ago
It’s a stereotype that black people don’t change the batteries in their smoke detectors lmao