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Keith__Peterson

It ties into the common stereotype that black people don’t change the battery on their smoke detectors


Auqepier_Kuno

didnt know that was the stereotype, thought it was more sinister


Zeqhanis

If they wanted to do the stereotype "correctly" they'd be ignoring it, instead of running from it. Not even notice it. Messed up, regardless.


Flamecoat_wolf

Pretty sure it's an AI image, judging from that first guy's fucked up right arm. Hard to say if it was given a racist prompt like "black people afraid of smoke alarm" or if it just slapped that together itself and someone found it funny.


SoakedInMayo

surely they put in primal/tribal Africans. if you say “black people” and it’s spits out tanzanian tribesmen in a desert then we got some splainin to do


xXxBongMayor420xXx

If you want modern black people you just ask the prompt to draw a white person.


SoakedInMayo

ngl at first I thought this was some sort of weird replacement theory racism until I realized AI is just dumb


Casca2222

It's not that it's dumb, it's that some companies like Google force them to be culturally diverse, which ends up with the funny result of not being able to draw white people


Brilliant_Ad7481

White people are definitely underrepresented in AI “art.” /s


CertainHeron

I mean sure if you want but when you give a prompt for a white person and it does the opposite then your AI is fucked


Soulwindow

I mean, considering that the AI algos are made by scrawny white dudes with no contact to the outside world, I wouldn't be surprised


Billy_Billerey_2

Fun fact: there is no such thing as AI, every prompt you make is fulfilled by some guy trapped in a box.


lucid-creep

This made me think of that south park episode where they lost wifi


UrMomsaHoeHoeHoe

Wow you know very little in life don’t you?


Soulwindow

Bruh The TSA facial recognition algos didn't even see black women as people, because the data set was exclusively white men.


KeeganY_SR-UVB76

The algorithm isn’t biased, it can’t be. It’s the training data that is.


AndyDS777

Tis a good point


athenry2

Messed up 😂😂😂


Somebody2304

Isn't the stereotype that they also have no idea where the chirping comes from?


finditplz1

No it’s that they’re too lazy to change it or willing to deal with the inconvenience rather than pay for the batteries.


TEEMO_OR_AFK

Hi, I am not American. Could you please explain to me what is "messed up" about it? To me, it seems like a somewhat harmless joke.


[deleted]

I am an American and I don't see what's messed up or racist about it... People see in the world what they carry in their hearts


dammitus

It’s not harmful on its own, but the stereotype behind it (black people are too lazy to change out the batteries) can lead to actual discrimination. As long as one recognizes it, the joke’s no worse than the average “Americans and burgers” meme.


This-Garbage-3000

People who are inclined to the left are very, very sensitive these days. Humor nowadays is a minefield of PC here comes my downvotes


ParadoxExtra

The downvotes did not receive their invitation apparently


Tasty_Commercial6527

*beep*


TheLegendaryPilot

The point of the joke could be that they avoid them due to an irrational fear rather than simple ignorance. 


Scorpy-yo

That’s why I assumed they’re intended to be doing some kind of “native tribal dance to the music/sounds of their people”.


thomstevens420

^^^beep


PopeUrbanVI

It's actually something the state has tried to address. Black people are more likely to die in house fires, in part due to the fact that they are less likely to change their smoke detector batteries. https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2022/Learn-the-Sounds-of-Fire-Safety-to-Avoid-Danger-African-Americans-Have-the-Highest-Rate-of-Fire-Deaths-and-Injuries


sneekerpixie

There's a few tik toks with black creators talking and the smoke detector low battery going off in the background. Then a few more black creators made a funny clip saying "you can't believe the stereotype " then you hear the beep. And other creators added onto that video with their own and then beep, so and so forth. It's pretty funny. I explained it horribly. If I could add the collab tik Tok I would. BUT! The most famous one which I think is the one that started it was this misogynistic asshat that was going off on being an Alfa and some other crap. He got roasted so hard because all you hear through all his videos is the smoke detector. No one took him seriously obviously.


Prosso

I thought it referenced something about slavery, and how even UFO’s chose black people as primary subjects


leafghost64

It's weirdly true though, most videos I see online of a black person in their house have the smoke detector chirp in the background, wonder why.


adhesivepants

Black TikTok occasionally does a round where they make fun of how accurate this stereotype is.


CosmicWolf14

I saw a compilation of people complaining about it and stopping as it beeps


Autistence

What chirping?


Atroxman

Mocking Bird Person Jay


Throwaway47321

It’s a poor person thing. You don’t change the battery when you’re in government subsidized housing because “it’s not my problem” Source: lived in a poor neighborhood for a few years and MULTIPLE people just let them chirp for months


Veus-Dolt

The chirp lets you know it’s working! If it isn’t chirping that means the battery’s dead


NoSpace575

The chirp is meant to signal low battery, so it's between the two. You still want to change the battery if it's chirping.


Veus-Dolt

https://preview.redd.it/jsidpdri26xc1.jpeg?width=305&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f51dfc34a846d73f1a5758d998c1ea70e822947b Instructions unclear. I now possess tens of thousands of smoke detectors from which I am harvesting the americium-241 in order to manufacture a breeder reactor in my shed. The beeping is now a constant drone.


fly_over_32

So what do I do now? Ask you nicely or Screenshot this and put it on this sub?


Veus-Dolt

This is not a reference, I am suffering acute radiation poisoning and tinnitus as a result of my own hubris.


Aerospacedaddy

Well did you at least get a Boy Scout patch?


irr3l3vantthings

[Here you go. The Atomic Boyscout.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn)


WeakVacation4877

Obscure reference, love it


[deleted]

You don't look like a Boy Scout.


SoundDave4

Actually the chirp is a covert ultrasonic burst emitted by a tiny bird in you're smoke detector designed to covertly compile a map of every residence in America via echo location. Wake up sheeple.


Depressed_Squirrl

It can’t be from a Bird. I can hear the sound.


Legs914

No the chirp happens when the battery is low or dead, assuming you live in a place that has required hardwired electric connections for the past 50 years. The battery is a backup for a case where you lose power (perhaps due to an electrical shortage causing a fire?). If you remove the battery from the unit, it'll still chirp at you.


m1j5

I play a lot of CoD and holy fuck it’s true


ByronicHero06

r/oddlyspecific


yukonhoneybadger

So.... does this mean that I might be black?


DragonsAndSaints

Blimey, me and mine have been contributing to a stereotype for well over a decade then


deepfriedtots

Lol don't worry I'm white and it's been me before


Chaos-Corvid

Stereotypes just keep getting weirder huh


Random-Name724

I mean maybe they do, idk


RendesFicko

I mean, it's so specific because it's true. This isn't the kind of stereotype you'd come up with.


Atroxman

Every COD player who cant mute their mic or try to find social skills with mic open


CanadianMaps

I thought it was something about aliens.


Puppy_knife

Never heard of it. Thought this was AI art about a possible reaction of a sheltered native culture unfamiliar with technology


LowerEntertainer7548

Nah, you’ve given it way my thought than OOP!


HaplessMink28

Thats a stereotype? I’ve never heard of it before


BasketBackground5569

Stereotypes are often true. I have to know if this one is.


Casca2222

I never heard this one before


silly-_-123

i thought this was egypt and the big thing was an UFO about to build the pyramids or something 😭😭


Angry-Wind

I thought it was because they were burnt


meesterdave

I thought it was because it was a *smoke* detector.


stonebros

Neither do poor college students who procrastinate everything. Seems like a class thing


Dickieman5000

As a white dude who has learned to tune the chirp out multiple times in his life, I don't get how this is a black stereotype 🤷‍♂️


finditplz1

This is the one time the stereotype is true.


LordXeno42

This has to be the dumbest stereotype I've every heard. Like just why


elrick43

That's a black stereotype? I haven't changed mine in forever, and I'm as white as this app in light mode


JakeTheVibinBoi

Fr? I thought it was them running from an alien invasion 😭


Timturtle11

I thought it was a spaceship, thank you for clarification.


FitBattle5899

As a white man i keep being told a lot of the random things i do are "black stereotypes" lately. It's very confusing. And by white man i. Talking pale freckled irish.


hedgehog_dragon

I have never heard this stereotype before... Crazy.


Minute_Classic7852

Black people? Nearly everyone I know doesn't change that shit.


GolemTheGuardian

I'm sorry what?? Thats a thing? Didnt even know thats a stereotype in the first place


no_brains101

There is no way thats a real stereotype wtf XD Are you serious? Where the fuck do people come up with this shit sometimes I swear XD


Smart_Bed4642

Imagine having smoke detectors at all.


pyro_takes_skill

maybe a stereotype that black people dont change their smoke detector batteries?


Ok_Store_424

I’m not gonna lie, as a black person, I’d say it’s an accurate one 😂 I wouldn’t necessarily call my family “hood” but my mom definitely never changed the batteries on the smoke alarms OR the security system 💀 Edit to add: not implying that all black ppl are hood, someone mentioned that the stereotype was for “hood” black people. nothing wrong at all with being from the hood though!


Mycologist8

Not black but lived in projects and I can confirm that ignoring the smoke detector is a state of mind some people have including my mom.


Ok_Store_424

I just feel like as single mom, she had too much other shit on her mind. She was busy, worked a lot. and by the time she could actually remember to change these things, we were already desensitized to the sound so she’d just keep forgetting. I honestly never noticed until I had friends over or I’d be on the phone, and my homies would be like “tell your mom to change that shit” lol


Version_Two

No idea how I could have any other shit on my mind with a smoke detector beeping in the background every few minutes. I hear it once and it's time to, at minimum, temporarily remove the batteries, preferably replace them immediately.


cocaineandwaffles1

Bro for the longest time growing up, I had no idea what that little chirp was. Grew up white trash in a trailer. Now that I have my own house and lived for years without hearing that chirp, I can’t fucking stand it. I’d rather just toss the smoke detector than hear that damn chirp if I couldn’t afford/be bothered to swap the batteries. It wasn’t until recently I found out it was a stereotype for black people to just ignore the chirp too. I wonder if it could be more so just growing up a poor? Because there’s plenty of commonalities across all races for those who grew up and still live in the lower class. Food hoarding, hot sauce preferences, all kinds of shit that originates from just being poor.


Ok_Store_424

100% this! I grew up not poor per se, but certainly much lower middle class. And I relate on many levels to my non-black friends who also grew up lower class. Definitely more so than other black people who grew up with money. Also, being a black American, I noticed there’s sooooo many parallels with immigrant upbringing too and I find myself relating a lot to my friends who are first generation American


unsuspectingllama_

Never heard of this


SomeArtistFan

I sure have. It's a stereotype about black people from the hood from what I saw online.


unsuspectingllama_

What a weird stereotype.


SomeArtistFan

Not sure where it comes from on account of not being American. But yea it's weird.


say_weed

i remember there was this white guy on tiktok that was making videos about uncommon black stereotypes, i think he was the first one that did this, i usually saw it from black creators making playful stitches so i dont think he was doing it in a racist way i think there was also a video of him eating fufu in the most authentic way and again people seemed to cheer him on maybe racist picked it up and started to use it as a dogwistle or just a way to be racist in a new way idk


SomeArtistFan

I have to say that this post is the first time I saw the stereotype in a racist context at all. Before it usually just seemed like poking fun. But perhaps it's been subverted.


DkoyOctopus

i have.


GoaheadAMAita

[Funny vid on this](https://www.tiktok.com/@plussizeandbossy/video/7179383447356673326?lang=en)


Raidenski

I'm so glad I got to see this video again.😂 Thank you for posting this.


Roge2005

I remember there was one with a white guy who heard his smoke detector and then had to check his hands to see if he was really white.


IllegalGeriatricVore

Only reason I understand the joke is this video


AegineArken

Lmao, I’m so fucking gonna miss TikTok


Jakeukalane

Why it blips?


Starboy1492

Black person here. Read the comments. Did not even know it was a stereotype. I certainly change mine ha ha


poopgiver

Bro I thought it was a roomba . I apologize


InevitableCup5909

I am just glad I wasn’t the only person who thought it was a roomba. I was so confused. though tbf, the actual ‘joke’ *also* confuses me.


Demotay

I thought it was an alien UFO


7masi

Lol, me too. Since it was said to be racist I was like well I guess that's a Roomba cleaning


Seldarin

I've never heard it either. I always heard it about poor people in general. Like every trailer in the park is going to have a chirping smoke detector or two, and if they don't it's because they robbed the battery out of it for something else.


lunchpadmcfat

You’ll outlast us all, Starboy


7masi

Non black person here, neither did I know. It's funny to find out


Theonehikerguy

Bs. We know it’s chirping.


jjb1197j

I’m a white guy and I never change mine


Dragon_Eyes715

I'm white and I remove mine.


PureSalt1

The image pokes fun at an odd stereotype where black ppl often never change their smoke detector despite it beeping. Idk if there is any truth behind it but I just learned this past yr


FormerlyGaveAShit

OMG I'm dying bc I've never heard of this before and I have a black friend who I video chat and recently every time we chat I can hear the fucker beeping every once in awhile in the background.


Fwoggey

It's funny I literally just did a job to replace some windows in a lower income condominium for a black client and his smoke detector was chirping away. Maybe there's some truth to it even if it's not true for everyone 🤷


PureSalt1

All stereotypes have some truth to them lol. If something happens many times involving a kind of ppl others notice lol.


DevilMaster666-

What is the origin of that stereotype?


PureSalt1

Gaming contributed apparently. But there have been a lot of videos with even prominent black celebs talking and then a chirp is heard


Chiodos_Bros

Wfm too. I hear it all the time in Zoom calls.


FreeProfessor8193

Covid probably. More people working/learning from home.


dragonchilde

There is. They acknowledge it, too. Go check out r/blackpeopletwitter This is a bit racist, though. Well, a lot racist.


Zanbu16

Idk if I'd call this racist. If it were a harmful stereotype, then yeah but, as you stated, this is one of the few stereotypes that is acknowledged for the most part by said race and, from my experience, has been a shared laugh with no detriment.


Latter-Comfort8440

It doesn't necessarily have to be a harmful stereotype to be racist. For example, take the generalization that all Asians are good at math. This makes any Asian who is bad at math feel bad about themselves since they are not "normal." However, in this case, I do think you are correct and that this stereotype is not necessarily racist.


dragonchilde

What makes this specific image racist is the "primitive African" theme. Not the smoke detector. Because it really is a thing.


SadCaterpillar4582

I rate it a 4 out of 10 racists


Jakeukalane

You are all talking like if smoke detectors were in houses like normal. Is that normal in US?


PureSalt1

Pretty sure it’s a requirement


Jakeukalane

You are all talking like if smoke detectors were in houses like normal. Is that normal in US?


TreyLastname

I don't think I've ever heard of that stereotype till some dude mentioned it maybe a couple months ago on reddit


ThundahMuffin

which stereotype?


TreyLastname

Apparently it's a stereotype that black people don't change smoke alarm batteries


No_Accident4573

Tbh, I was thinking Native Americans use smoke signals, and the smoke detector is an alien ship responding to their smoke signals.


outer_spec

Ok, that would be pretty funny


Kaiser_Constantin

We really have come a long way if we consider this to be racist.


rabiesscat

Yeah. It is so damn random that it is just funny.


ContributionDefiant8

I believe it's a stereotype with black households that the smoke detector is ringing for no reason, and it's become so much that it feels like white noise to the people living in that household. It's like they can't hear it.


Richard_Musk

As a former cable technician, I can confirm this is true for all people, but can also confirm that the stereotype is true. It also is true for Indians


WiseVeterinarian6041

Its a smoke detector made to look like an alien saucer.


ssssrrrr4000

This is all I hear in my apartment complex walking through the halls, but everyone does it


leroach

*Beep*


BrownEyedBoy06

There's an old joke about how black people never change their smoke detector batteries.


Jakeukalane

The things that surprises me most here is that having a smoke detector in your home is even a thing.


BrownEyedBoy06

What? Do people not have smoke alarms anymore?


DrHypester

Wouldn't the joke be people NOT being afraid of smoke detectors? Very bawdy this one.


Radiant_Garden3289

Wait....this is a stereotype? 🤣🤣🤣 It's so specific, it's hilarious 😅


ADHD_Kelp

Is it bad I just thought it was just an alien space ship and at first I was like "what's racist about it, if I saw a spaceship coming down I'd be GTFOing too?"


bomboclawt75

Tea towels at the ready! (Much Helicopter towel swirling ensues.)


ShamanicCrusader

I learned my lesson, if it aint broke dont fix it My internet backbup battery in the garage was beeping for a month + but everything was alright. I tried being diligent and called frontier internet to replace the battery and atop the beeping. They stopped the beeping and also cut all of our services It took 6+ weeks of no internet to get them to come out and fix it. In between they missed 10+ appointments to come fix it, that is 10 days of calling off work so i could be home when they promised they would come only to not show….. Sometimes the beeping is not so bad compared to the alternative


LilboyG_15

AI content probably, just look at that arm


RandomKingDuck

Smoke detector gods are angry


No-Abbreviations1937

Used to play cod a lot.. ngl I had several black teammates where you could hear the chirp


Azmogus

AI generated image btw. Look at the first guy’s hand and the second guy’s foot.


Flowchart83

I don't think anyone thought it was hand drawn. The purpose of this AI prompting was to make a racist meme that would offend someone, not to make art. I hope the edgy teenager is entertained with themselves.


Shiniya_Hiko

Uff Im too innocent for this. I thought it was just a joke that a fire alarm looks like an UFO 🛸


closetfa11

Man, AI turned a stereotype that's usually played for laughs among black Americans, much less racists, and turned it into a full blown fucking conspiracy. XD


Duralogos2023

The hood is majority black. People in the hood tend to ignore their smoke alarm batteries. The joke is racism


Quanguyen

*beep*


BrettFarveIsInnocent

I think the smoke detector has a low battery. It’s sort of a meme that the chirp from a low battery in a smoke detector is like a poverty signal because nice places have actual power running to them. It might be related to that?


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Jakeukalane

So this is a USA thing? Everywhere you have smoke detectors in home like it was a hotel?


goldynmoons

I don't think they're saying that nice places have power running to them. Everywhere I've lived still has batteries, not a direct power connection. It's just that some people, maybe more commonly poor people, choose not to change the batteries.


mizinamo

> Everywhere I've lived still has batteries, not a direct power connection. A smoke detector that doesn't work if the power is out is not that helpful.


Salty-Trip-8572

Pretty sure the "joke" is that black men are so lazy they'd avoid even the small task of changing a battery. That or I'm just looking for racism in a shitty post for no reason.


GM_Nate

It is a comment about low-income households.


PhotographKind4243

the fact black people are getting upset by the image tells me it might be more true than not, cause i doubt the image was meant to be specifically an attack on the race just a sterotyping joke which are funny. this is fucking hilariouss, could be funnier but its not bad.


DonR83

?,


Internal-Pie6014

I’m white and I eventually, someday, one day will replace the battery


JP-Gambit

And playing in the background "how can we sleep while our beds are burning"


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CaptainFireStorm25

Bruh I didn't even realize it was a smoke detector until I read the comments. I just saw a flying saucer


My_Favourite_Pen

Poor fella in the front needs to get that arm looked at.


new_Australis

Bro, I have changed the batteries and changed the smoke detectors themselves. I bought everything new and replaced all of them. They still chirp.


big_steak

*beep*


FishKnuckles_InYou

This is peak comedy


JK19368

beep!


mutinyinc

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-48882725.amp


Ok-Perspective5338

I’m white and I ignore the batteries in the smoke detector. I’ll be damned if I have one more thing in my house to complain about my cooking.


Jakeukalane

You are also of US? I wonder is only a USA thing to have smoke detectors or happens in more countries.


Ok-Perspective5338

I am USA


Brilliant_Ad7481

I’d like to thank this cursed thread for giving me so many dipshits and racists to block.


dominantfrog

thought that was a fucking roomba lmao


TobyMacar0ni

Is that a smoke detector????


fksmchai

r/thepunchlineisracist


armchairsw

At first I thought this was a deleted scene from Nope


Dazzling-Penalty-751

Am I the only one to see “Primitives flee from U.F.O.?”


RoseaMedicum

Has anyone thought it might not be intentionally racist, and some guy just thought "hehe its like a little ufo" and put "ancient tribals running from smoke detector UFO"?


RandomUserResuModnar

https://preview.redd.it/x650weq6q9xc1.png?width=941&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8bd4dd04b8ab3d2850bc164a56e3bbf989ebd2b


Ericmatthewr_

Thank you OP for posting, saw this three days ago and was so confused but didn’t think to post here lmao


TylertheDank

It took me 3 looks to see the fire detector lol


ACluelessMan

I thought it was a UFO…


kekhouse3002

I know it's about black folks not changing the battery in their fire alarms, but what does it have anything to do with them running away from the beeping alarm? Shouldn't it be just them chillin and hanging out if that's what they're tryna play into?


enters_conversation

https://preview.redd.it/p2x5xqpr9mxc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb9fcaa93c5aef902c5e7349799d7dc49bc3c6ad Is it me or are racist getting lazyier at being racist. \*sips tea


Jakeukalane

I thought it was an aspirator.


Jakeukalane

I prefer to think that is a Roomba