The Smoke Detector Neglector

[@mropinionaire]

I've probably wreaked my ears through listening to loud music over an extended period of time and I'm still able to hear all the high pitched chirping noises. Strange indeed. Edit: HOLY SHIT I CAN'T UNHEAR IT NOW. I just started watching another KZbin video immediately after (Skinny Women Are Artificial) and @ 7:07 a smoke detector chirp goes off. Thanks Dev hahaha

[@MSinistrari]

After the first time I had the smoke detector beep, I immediately went out and bought a pack of batteries for it to change it at first beep.

[@jasonwoods2802]

I Hypocrite did this video like 2 weeks ago

[@genogamma13]

Tinnitus bro here and yeah can still hear lavender town fine.

[@haiderramadhan6703]

I am 38 years old, and I heard the note

[@calebcrouch6133]

I first heard about the phenomenon from the podcast Pod Awful doing a show about the chirps. It’s an ooooold internet thing.

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

-Be black man -Not be a teacher for 20 years -Get handed 2 million dollars of money stolen from the tax payers for not working because "muh oppression" God damn, i wish i was as oppressed as these people.

[@Toefoo100]

@@bogdanov2395 Germany already gives tons of money to africans straight off the boat lmao. Germany is just as bad off as the US in the

[@JohnDoe-uq9ni]

@@bogdanov2395what you already do

[@jakublulek3261]

That smoke detector was just protesting this absolute state of affairs.

[@thegatorhator6822]

SHYET NIGGA GIMME DATZ WHITIE DUN OPPREZZED ME I IZ PERFUCTLY INTEGLEMENT PROPER SMARTZ TO TEACH KEEDZ N SHYET

[@tealover70]

Honestly lol

[@RatRatRattyRatRat]

I keep a smoke detector on my desk so I can weaponize the beep in online games.

[@Darth_Bateman]

You’re a sociopath!

[@historyismetal2187]

You're a monster

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

Sigma maneuver

[@NitroNinja324]

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

[@eliaspanayi3465]

Psychological warfare

[@pickler_pickler]

>cant afford new batteries >can afford a gaming system >not a race thing

[@Tengu125]

But, if you can MAKE it about race, you can use it as an excuse not to change.

[@killgoretrout877]

my theory is they just destroy their hearing by blasting rap music at full blast constantly

[@jmass4207]

@@Tengu125 If you can identify objectively controllable circumstances improperly handled along racial lines, you find proof that said race could be doing more for themselves.

[@TrippTh3Kidd]

White peepo don't season they smoke alarms

[@tucsonbandit]

13% of the smoke alarms make 50% of the smoke alarm low battery chirps

[@justjoshua5759]

Is the other half touching little smoke alarms disproportionately. Or are lighter shade smoke alarms hoarding money for corruption making up that other 50%?

[@mr.peanutbutter6969]

Fucking based

[@YoureEasyToTroll]

Absolute savage joke

[@vovabars1234]

>What did he he mean by this

[@YoureEasyToTroll]

@@vovabars1234 KneeGrows are 13% of the US population and they commit 50% of the violent crimes. This is just a play on that because so many blacks have a smoke detector issue

[@assymptoad4989]

Embarrassed about her smoke alarm, not embarrassed by her smut fanfic. What a world.

[@-Azure.EXE-]

It is what it is.

[@GameFuMaster]

you know, sometimes people like to show off their "embarrassing" past? You know when like artists show their drawings when they were 16 compared to now?

[@kaysas9686]

I guess she was prepared for one embarassment, but not the other.

[@luketinka]

😂

[@theoriginaldemiurge]

i mean she was 16 when she wrote it, like we all did cringey shit in high school

[@superbnns]

"I can't afford new batteries for $2.49 at CVS" Everyone on voicechat that's locked behind a $499 console + $60 game + $10 monthly subscription fee: "Uh-huh"

[@CrusadiaIX]

Don’t forget the $90+ headset and microphone!

[@nerdicusdorkum2923]

Man, it's easy af to get $2.50. Just go around asking for bus fair, and eventually someone's got enough spare change to float ya a few dollars. Heck, ya could even be honest and say it's for batteries to fix a fire alarm. If someone asked me, I'd legit float them out. I had a similar issue, and I wish it was just batteries.

[@eliaspanayi3465]

What's worse, maybe having to take your headset to gamestop if you REALLY can't afford 3 dollars or having your entire house burn down and being left with nothing.

[@bvoyelr]

@@CrusadiaIX Plus the $60+ monthly internet subscription!

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

don't forget the CONTROLLERS USE THE SAME BATTERIES. WE ALREADY KNOW YOU'RE BUYING THE BATTERIES.

[@dragongamer4753]

Dev actually put the smoke detector sound at random parts of the video when he is talking, the actual legend

[@Vescrit]

I heard it at some point and actually had to pause and go back a few times because of it.

[@eliaspanayi3465]

I knew it! I wasn't sure if I was hearing things

[@bvoyelr]

Hah! I didn't pick up on that. There were enough clips playing as examples of the sound that I chalked all of them up to that.

[@EpicPredator01]

The ultimate gaslighter

[@Grassroots_Hegemon]

The actual bastard

[@joshuapannell8131]

They don't get annoyed by the beep because it sounds like sneakers on a ball court.

[@Anotherclevername20]

I literally thought that's what it was when I was 15 till my mom pointed it out. I thought it was my uostisrs neighbor so I dealt with it. Once I found out I broke it to hits and had to buy a new one lol. Now I never let it beep more than a handful of times

[@Deadassbruhfrfr]

LMFAO

[@m6smitten]

It is called Learned Helplessness - they're waiting for someone to replace the battery for them - it is easier to just ignore the chirp.

[@KornPop96]

It's not due to being poor, it's pure laziness. It doesn't cost anything to remove the batteries all together.

[@unncommonsense]

Mine has a battery switch that makes it worse if you remove the batteries altogether.

[@emalinedickinson7492]

That's also illegal.

[@secretsix43]

People that lazy are usually also poor. If they cannot be bothered to change a battery, they probably do not budget, invest, or do other constructive things.

[@-Zakhiel-]

@@emalinedickinson7492 Yes, because cops are going to raid your house the minute you remove the batteries.

[@Sigurther]

Admittedly, we had one in the basement of our apartment building and nobody gave a fug about it. Of course, we were all broke ass fugs, so all the more reason. Once I was making good money, all those fuggers got changed out.

[@grantforester1864]

My favorite joke about it is how Pitbulls go crazy and bite kids because their owners never change their smoke alarms

[@UraniumReaperActual]

😂

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

Is that a Ben Carson Morpheus pfp?

[@Wannabechefguy]

As someone who owns a pitbull who hasn't bit anyone since they changed the battery in the smoke alarm, true!

[@elisabethandersen1102]

@@Wannabechefguy yet

[@justadummy8076]

It’s like Chinese water torture for dogs

[@BigIndividual]

Can’t wait for Jordan Peele’s new upcoming thriller… BEEP

[@HeyRavenousRaven]

🤣

[@jeffpussylol2578]

The twist is that the evil white ceiling birds were actually possessed by evil white racists

[@Sorain1]

Honestly you could put together an analog horror plot out of this. Some kind of horror that kills and replaces people, but can't hear that specific tone range, so to periodically check residences, the 'smoke alarms' can be remote activated to beep like that. Thus allowing some government agency to check if the residents aren't human and need 'cleaning'.

[@AFoxinSpace]

I was a pest control technician in Chicago for two years, and I can confirm that the detector chirp was present in most of the more extreme and horrifically nasty houses I had to treat.

[@RezaQin]

Yo, its you!!!

[@CountArtha]

Most poor people are poor for a reason.

[@ultraman5168]

​@CountArtha culturally enshrined self-destructive behavior, enforced through generational abuse patterns.

[@valkaerie8715]

Oh SHIT you're here

[@L1mp1nB1zk1t]

It's not about poverty, Dev. It's about egregious laziness.

[@joewelch4933]

Frequently they go hand in hand....

[@hotjones9728]

All my poor white friends just detached the smoke detector while the black ones carried on *bip*

[@jimass13]

I'd say it's less about laziness and more about a sort of childish spiteful attitude. Same reason people litter. It doesn't take any effort to not litter, but it does take a basic level of appreciation for your environment.

[@Theranthrope]

They can't help being broke hobos

[@Spahki]

Egregious*. It's not about spelling or education, it's about laziness. I suppose rather than taking the time and effort to correct your small mistake, you'll just live with it hey.

[@shinigamiauthor]

The beep will forever make me laugh now. Apparently black people do not hear it

[@smelltheglove2038]

You discovered the “racism” dog whistle.

[@atenthunderbolt4215]

Irl dogwhistle

[@habibishapur]

They hear it. Theyre just too lazy to do anything about it. Tells you a lot about their character, and reminds you thats its not the white devils, but themselves keeping tgemselves in poverty

[@Jazz10164]

Kevin Samuels heard it

[@johnnygreenface]

Dungeon Crawl Classics patch pfp 😊

[@P_C-]

You expect me to go into debt to watch your members only content? That's money I could be spending on batteries!

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

I hope you are feeding the electric eels well.

[@freedomgoddess]

@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown read. my lips. (yes. i. am.)

[@Good100]

The problem with this theory is that they outright say the reason why they don't change it: "that's my dad's job." It's not fear of losing the cost of a battery. It's laziness. They don't want to change the battery because it's less effort to just ignore it until someone with more initiative does something about it.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

intertwined reasoning - they treat energy and time the same way they treat money. hoarding it at all costs because the future is not guaranteed.

[@PvtFlowers]

Even when i was young enough to say that, when my dad was too lazy to do it, my ass ripped it out of the ceiling. I would rather die in a fire than hear that beep.

[@unncommonsense]

"That's my dad's job." Dad went to get cigarettes 5 years ago and hasn't come back.

[@NoahBodze]

@@ShortFatOtakuTrue theory - blacks are extremely stupid.

[@hisaceinthehole3426]

​@@PvtFlowers for years, my house didn't have any, because rather than never sleep again, my dad ripped them out the ceiling. Good choice.

[@InvadeNormandy]

POC People of Chirping

[@isaac6077]

Yep

[@SutekhTheDestroyer]

A little while ago the battery ran low in my smoke alarm, and though it only took me a couple of days to get it sorted, that was all it took for my parrot to learn and replicate the beep. He now makes it at random intervals, particularly when he wants attention.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

My condolences, that's hilarious.

[@Knightmare-vc8qg]

Sigma Chad Parrot

[@Larry]

There was a big thing in the UK a few years ago that McDonalds were placing speakers outside their stores that blared a high frequency that only people under 25 could hear to disperse kids loitering around their store fronts. But over here now, most modern smoke alarms are mains powered by being connected to the lights.

[@turboprint3d]

They do this in malls in North America , for whatever reason as a 33 year old I can still hear the high pitched frequency. Really glad we don't use CRT tvs and monitors anymore

[@rubensano4860]

Mine are still battery-powered. Or they were until I took them out.

[@GoldenGrenadier]

Over here in the US, it's now a part of building code for new construction to have interlinked smoke detectors powered by their own breaker. They also tend to have backup batteries for power outages and they'll still beep when those get low.

[@mcfarvo]

Such alarms will still have an internal backup battery in case of power outage, which will eventually chemically decompose to the point where it needs to be replaced

[@Michael.Hunt.14-52]

I've hears recently that opera music works well for keeping the homeless away

[@CounterCultureWISE]

I have had so many students that I've had to tell they've got to fix that horrific sound or I can't have any more sessions. It's physically painful to me. These students are across the nation, well off - and all US born blacks. My African immigrant students NEVER have this issue.

[@ashsilverwizard3275]

We don't have mandatory smoke alarms here in South Africa, at least for single homes. So this sound would drive us up the wall.

[@CounterCultureWISE]

@@ashsilverwizard3275 That is valuable insight, my friend!

[@OlaAremu]

Africans living in America are usually well off enough to not have the hyper-debilitating poor mindset Although, they DO like to be frugal

[@chad_bro_chill]

​@@ashsilverwizard3275 This is an alien concept to the average American, too. Until this very video I had no idea that a particular demographic learned to tolerate it. I've never heard that sound at a friend or relative's house. The moment that sound starts, either the battery gets changed or we just take it down and change the battery when we get around to it (within days, and never more than one alarm down at a time).

[@kylelacey1212]

Yeah it's not a racial thing, its a culture thing. These things often tend to be cultural rather than racial, though it is incredibly hard to address it without someone calling you a racist.

[@chrisw207]

"That's my Dad's job" says it all. Some people just won't do what needs to be done. I have an aunt that left dog shit in the kitchen for a week until her husband came home to clean it up.

[@SSK1977FEB]

IF that was done to me, I would pack a bag and leave her on the spot to line in the shit ...

[@ggggg77273]

☕

[@OnlyTwoShoes]

There's a certain level of intelligence required to hear that beep.

[@justjoshua5759]

Yeah I wonder why you’re saying that🙄I’m getting tired of dev not recognising how legitimate racists flock on these topics with no real intervention and hide behind stupid thinly veiled statements like this

[@Jazz10164]

Rick and Morty fan?

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

its like we could do morse code to send racial epithets to each other right in front of them and they wouldnt know as long as we use a smokey D

[@DanishWistara]

@@justjoshua5759 he didn't even specify race...

[@linhero797]

​@@justjoshua5759Because it isn't meant to involve race. And I am saying this as a darkie. It's about how stuoid and lazy tend to coincide. So stupid people tend to not both with the chirping because they are also lazy.

[@Ahmenthi]

My family has a poor background. We've never put up with the chirping. Though, we aren't black. A dying carbon monoxide detector is way worse. That shit will wake the dead.

[@williambenton9959]

Unlike carbon monoxide, which prevents anything at all from waking 😂

[@Sorain1]

It kind of needs to, that's an invisible and immediate threat of death. Which doesn't make the noise any less jarring.

[@Ramsey276one]

Oh crap, they're going to install one in my house! O_0

[@QbutNotTheQ]

3:45 2 Million Dollars for FAILING the teacher’s proficiency test and he can’t form a meaningful sentence. Completely sums up 2023.

[@REGIMENT157]

He can’t even pronounce words correctly. Notice how he just mumbles throughout the whole thing?

[@ragnarok7976]

He got that smoke detector beep in his head

[@androidphone1901]

I could barely understand the guy, I could understand drunks better.

[@ProfDragonite]

My man just used Lavender Town Syndrome to explain the cultural significance of an underground meme.

[@Noid]

Felt like I was just told a comparison of a global issue to a f**king marvel movie lmao

[@natemarvel2471]

I'm almost 40 and I can still hear that Lavender Town squeal. Ear pro is boss.

[@newbleppmore7855]

Its a myth you have to be like 80 90 before your can’t hear it

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

Dev, I want a god damn warning if you're going to put a full Joy Reid clip in a video, that woman can literally cause ear cancer.

[@nautdead3197]

And loss of IQ with dumb as fuck arguments like " you don't want illegal immigration, well you're grandparents were immigrants so that's hypocritical!"

[@fkcombustion]

Her lil hand motions 😂 brutal

[@zacharysnyder2520]

Funny for a woman named joy she causes me so much damn pain.

[@613harbinger316]

On the other hand, that video could be used as an excellent teaching tool for what a strawman argument is.

[@absolutelydegenerate1900]

She makes me want to cause head trauma to myself. Good god. And she can’t even change her fucking smoke alarm batteries? How much is she worth?

[@_Carlos]

"Maybe they can't hear it because they're older" Right after rolling a clip of a 16 year old saying she can't hear it.

[@tedlogan4867]

I suspect these people are in government housing, so they view even something like a battery in a smoke detector as the huhwyte man landlords problem.

[@rubensano4860]

Right. There is the same issue with the degenerates that live in council housing in the UK. They are perfectly content to have black mould growing all over their walls and ceilings with them and their spawn breathing in God knows what, because someone told them it was their landlord's responsibity.

[@HeyRavenousRaven]

When it was mostly balck people being shown, I started to wonder if they were purposely ignoring it because the rasissmus is that deep? Then again this whole smoke alarm chirp thing intrigues me a lot.

[@SeanWinters]

​@@HeyRavenousRavenNah, it's because literally EVERYTHING is someone else's problem/fault.

[@tedlogan4867]

@@HeyRavenousRaven poor whites and poor blacks in america in the projects are of the same culture. Same rates of father excluded homes, same acab ideology, same lack of self-accountability.

[@613-shadow9]

@@HeyRavenousRaven ah, a fellow Vee enjoyer

[@DamazViccar]

Some indicators that are candidates for Western Civilization Voight-Kampff tests: - returning shopping carts - handling a traffic stop - maintaining a smoke detector - what a person says they would do if they hadn’t had breakfast this morning

[@ComicGladiator]

But I did have breakfast!

[@UnitSe7en]

Returning shopping carts. Oh brother. The nearest shop is a 10-minute walk (at least) and all the carts have wifi badges that engage wheel brakes if you take them outside the lot. Yet, somehow, in this neighbourhood full of a certain demographic...

[@Hath.0]

-High time preference. -Low impulse control.

[@justjoshua5759]

@@UnitSe7enwhat white ppl? Because if you’re referring to black ppl like it’s just them and your experience means anything, then I’m gonna ignore it like you should ignore mine since they’re literally the same and the difference isn’t due to skin colour.

[@Hath.0]

@@justjoshua5759 yeah exactly, "were all one race, the human race". Ignore any pattern recognition, cultrual diffrences, biological, crime statics, history or lived experiences. Wolves and poodles are both canines, definitely nothing differentiating behavior or outward appearance. Just ignore anything opposing your spoon fed narrative and label it bigoted.

[@explodojones]

There is no past or future. There is only the immediate present, and if it's not beeping right this second, it's not beeping at all. The previous beep was the past's problem, and the next beep is the future's problem, but it's not beeping right now, so it's not a problem.

[@chrissant6277]

Yeah but it will be a problem when it dies before a fire and kills you. I'd say that's a problem all the time due to the possibility.

[@huntersigler9895]

Dev, not being able to hear high frequencies doesn’t mean your ears are developed. It means they’re damaged. It’s normal, but it’s damage.

[@verindictus3639]

Could it be from listening to rap music turned up way too loud?

[@Meloncholiac]

@@verindictus3639 Or guns. Wear your ear pro, kids!

[@NightimeInDeepSpace]

They're going to need a smoke alarm with a bass that shakes the windows

[@Theranthrope]

@@Meloncholiac I would never-not wear hearing protection on a gun range. What kind of person shoots without it? Perhaps a person with an illegal gun? Hmmmm...

[@Theranthrope]

@@NightimeInDeepSpace That sounds like a sonic crowd-control weapon that only affects non-broke people.

[@BasementPepperoni]

Make no mistake about it, this has absolutely N O T H I N G to do with people being "too poor to buy batteries". It's people being too lazy and entitled to do something as simple as changing batteries out of a smoke detector, and thinking that they're "above" having to change them. That's why there's also a 99.9% chance of these domiciles A. smelling like sh^t, and B. being dirty af.

[@anosmibell6473]

This is literally the same thing Dev is saying just being way shittier about it

[@BasementPepperoni]

@@anosmibell6473 oh no, anything but that...anything but the truth these days.

[@anosmibell6473]

@@BasementPepperoni Being an asshole is not the truth. Cope harder, Karen.

[@Sigurther]

Been in some low income housing doing insect treatments and you are not far from the truth. Like, bro, I get it, you don't have a lot of money - but you can still pick up a sponge and a broom. Depression, or so I'm told.

[@lolbuster01]

You could probably knock on your neighbor's door and say "hey do you have any double A batteries I could borrow, my smoke alarm is driving me crazy and the ones I have are flat" and you could get them for free.

[@LOUDMOUTHTYRONE]

If you grew up in a single mom home were she knows nothing about fire safety it becomes apart of daily life.

[@sterlinga8307]

People's reaction to hear high pitched sounds is related to tending to a crying baby/child, so women wake up more easily in response to them than men. Black people not reacting to that sound puts that whole single parent thing into focus...

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

70% is a hell of a number.

[@HSE331]

@@sterlinga8307they lack empathy

[@mrdumbfellow927]

The smoke detector bit from loveline was a thing of beauty. 9 times out of ten they could predict if the caller was a stoner as well...just by the laugh. Extra points for stoner+smoke detector dead batteries.

[@alsmith9853]

We had white neighbours who neglected theirs for a month. We had to swap bedrooms because it was loud enough to annoy us but obviously didn't bother them. It's an oddity.

[@Xplora213]

At least where I am, you could get a noise compliant to force them. It’s definitely a safety issue and a quiet enjoyment of your property issue. They would be forced to change the battery.

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

why would you trade beds with your neighbors instead of change their battery for them?

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

Apartment complex ? How’d u hear their detector through the wall?

[@nirktheman-thingstab-cutter]

As a merchant who knows a lot about smoke detectors as product, I can say the scariest thing about this phenomenon to me is that the chirping is a diagnostic tool that can indicate more than a simple battery change. It can mean the unit is at the end of its life quite often. So, there's a good chance some of these people...have a smoke alarm that won't actually do its job in the critical moment where there is a fire and they need to be alerted. Always save your manual for your detector and consult it: it will tell you what the chirping means depending on the intervals at which it occurs.

[@walter1383]

I didn't know that, but it makes good sense. Thank you for your wisdom Skaven-scribe.

[@raggens]

I see you’re a man of culture as well, remembering that “Be Cool About Fire Safety” PSA. Rip, Gilbert Gottfried

[@bvoyelr]

Mother f&^(^& I forgot he died. Everything sucks.

[@DeathUnlimited04]

Suddenly I have the urge to make French fries at my grandmother’s house in the middle of winter

[@lolbuster01]

​@@DeathUnlimited04don't forget to throw it into the snow.

[@lord_boneman]

Glad I’m not the only one who remembered that, used to watch it every time I helped my father with fire department events when I was a kid.

[@EmperorPenguin1217]

@@bvoyelr I remember the day or two before he died I thought he would be a perfect cast for Cranky Kong in the Mario Movie, RIP

[@theclown3967]

Yo that woman reading the smut is gross

[@Itariatan]

That shit is not designed to be read out loud

[@Augrills]

You don’t want to read about her getting her butthole licked?

[@unncommonsense]

I would not go anywhere near her anal walls, much less with my face.

[@NoahBodze]

@@Itariatan That feral subhuman should never evoke her nudity if she wants anyone to look at her for any reason. Gross.

[@MissRora]

So is the smut. Does she want a yeast infection? Because that shit's how you get yeast infections...

[@Chiefaroni]

Imagine if Dev had a smoke alarm chirp throughout the entire video just to mess with us

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

I'm sure he'd *never* do that. Right? Right?!

[@supercomp65]

I used to do maintenance at an apartment complex. The white residents would either change the batteries or take them out, or they'd leave them out. The black residents would either ignore them and let them chirp till a neighboring non black resident complained, or they'd take a broom handle and knock it off but not before missing several times and putting a bunch of holes in the ceiling or wall first.

[@waydegod]

Fmd how retarded are they

[@pepperonipizza8200]

>”It’s predominantly poor people that do it.” >Shows a rich black woman doing it

[@ShortFatOtaku]

poverty mindset!

[@TheDolphinTuna]

Nouveau riche

[@10thletter40]

The word *predominantly* means something

[@jht3fougifh393]

Except his claim that people can't afford it is bs. If you can afford rent, you can afford 3 dollars. Sincerely, a poor

[@OldSnake630]

@@jht3fougifh393 lol ur poor

[@lisapop5219]

My husband actually has severe high pitched hearing loss from the military. I was writing the last sentence when he came in to ask if that was coming from my video because it was driving him crazy 😂. We spent our lives being poor and the smoke detector battery was changed or taken down until we could get a battery. It's just so annoying and borderline painful

[@cody180sx]

I was gonna say something similar. I spent an extended amount of time in very loud Navy engineering spaces (80-120dB), sonar so loud it physically hurt my ears, and shoot very loud caliber rounds (160+dB) on the regular now... If I can hear it everyone can hear it.

[@acutelilmint8035]

It’s like waterboarding

[@dogofwar6769]

Fun fact: the dollar tree (the store) still exists. Get a cheap 9V, then buy a second one. Change your damn smoke detector and leave that spare battery for when that one goes dead. It's not that damn hard.

[@deadbeef576]

But how do I open the door to the store? I cant get in because of the door. Someone told me to push it, but what is pushing? Living is hard.

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

Instructions unclear, scrolling through Amazon Prime on my iPhone says 9v batteries are $10 and I cant afford that.

[@Shade7x]

That would involve a) taking effort to solve a current problem b) putting forethought into preventing a future problem

[@andyvirus2300]

That would require first to not be lazy enough to get that fat ass off. And then smart enough to plan stuff.

[@jakublulek3261]

Or just take that battery out, if you don't care about your smoke detectors.

[@Ayyydrianne]

The ghetto crickets😭🤣

[@TheUnrealPirate]

I used to work in a factory where I had this insanely loud, rhythmic banging sound for 12 hour shifts. I'm talking loud enough that even with hearing protection it still sounded loud. Eventually this became background noise to the extent where i'd hear the sound whenever it was quiet at home even though it was not there, I thought I was going crazy. I think that if you wait long enough the human brain really does adapt somehow.

[@zraptor7679]

Same thing happened to me as a teen in a tire factory, would come home and hear the stud guns and would wake up in the night pulling my finger as if it was on a trigger

[@ExPwner]

Every player from Mexico playing Gears of War somehow had a mic, a mom vacuuming constantly, and a low battery smoke detector 😂

[@madlaboratorian8696]

I grew up poor. When I got a job with an affluent coworker, I noticed a surprising difference between us. She would complain about stuff that I was willing to put up with. Is the door handle to our office sagging? Report it to maintenance. Toilet flush a little weak? Get the plumber! My tolerance for minor things like that was so much higher than hers; to the point where I wouldn't even notice them until she pointed them out. So yes; probably has to do with the standard of living you're used to. But for the record, we changed our smoke detector batteries. We might have to jiggle and hold down every toilet handle in the house, but our smoke detector batteries were always fresh.

[@Sorain1]

Because you recognize that some things you _CAN NOT_ be cheap about. When it's a matter of life and death, like with the smoke detector, you don't even question the utility of it. Some people out there, for whatever reason, simply do not understand that concept.

[@Squeaky245]

@@Sorain1 Honestly it's not even about the safety issue to me, that chirp noise is just beyond irritating. If it was between living with a functional but constantly beeping smoke detector, or dying in my sleep to a housefire, I'd pick the latter.

[@CountArtha]

Conscientiousness is the only trait that correlates with wealth more strongly than intelligence does.

[@compatriot852]

God bless smoke detectors for exposing people for being the lazy bumbs they are. Smoke alarm abuse is no laughing matter. Remember to always feed your detector batteries and take it for walks

[@OGDelulu]

I just died at the mental image of a smoke detector excitedly and rapidly beeping as someone takes it for a walk.

[@FargonNemeloc]

If you have the ability for people beyond your neighbors to notice you have a low-batt smoke detector, of course you have money to buy a battery

[@ALovelyBunchOfDragonballz]

I cant afford batteries. _Dude, you have an Xbox, a flat screen, a controller, and a headset....and the control takes AA batteries!!!_ Nah, man, I cant afford it.

[@Kong20012]

tbf sometimes it isn't just the battery, it could also mean that the unit has other problems or is at it's end of life. Putting in a battery in that case wouldn't fix the beeping and maybe if there was a fire it would fail at it's function. In that case they would have to buy a new smoke detector which is around $20. Still a low amount if you ask me especially if it means saving your life or your sanity.

[@FargonNemeloc]

@@Kong20012 you dont buy one, you call fire department argumenting your device is either faulty or obsolete and cant stop beeping Its better to do something about it than nothing at all

[@CountArtha]

My landlord kept 9V batteries in her office and would give you one for free. All you had to do was ask.

[@allpapiodin]

So... your reasoning does not answer how they manage to keep the batteries in the TV remotes working, but not the ones in their smoke detector.

[@marcoaraiza9381]

Same reason they leave trash all over the street and never improve their lives

[@kxkxkxkx]

No wait that's unpossible

[@SuperXrayDoc]

I said this before but the smoke detector low battery chirp is a litmus test. It's an extremely simple task to fix, however you can be slightly lazier by not fixing it. Or, that person can't complete a simple task and needs someone else to fix their problems for them, ie: wanting government to solve all your problems for you

[@eliaspanayi3465]

It's an extension of the shopping cart test. If you don't put the shopping cart back even though it costs you nothing and is barely an inconvenience then you're likely to be more selfish in other ways

[@count69]

I don't think it is like the shopping cart test. I think a lot of people simply just do not know what it is.

[@jacob-2271]

​@count69 so you're saying it's an IQ test?

[@count69]

@@jacob-2271 I feel it's the same type of person that would say we don't need farmers for food in a modern world because we've got supermarkets. Nearly at idiocracy levels where anyhthing related to infrastructure is almost arcane. Like children living in toytown, everything is just there. There is no concept of the constant maintenance and renewal that is required to keep society afloat.

[@Macca-95]

@@count69 Are people really so damn stupid that they don't know what the beeping is? Is it that hard to follow the beep and to use basic experimentation to open the smoke alarm and pull the battery and find out that it stops?

[@Hammerhead547]

"smoke detectors save lives, always check yours twice a year and replace the batteries twice a year because you never know when disaster might strike." ~William Shatner (Rescue 911 ending monologue)

[@aventarix]

This triggers me too. I don’t get why people just don’t take the battery out, even if they don’t want or can’t afford to replace it. Better to hear nothing than that noise every 30 seconds…

[@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302]

Cannot tell if serious or trolling......... Taking the battery out will not stop the sound, it maintains a residual charge that can last up to a week. Say you live in your parents house without telling us you live in your parents house still.

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

I don't think we've had batteries in our fire alarms since we moved into the house.

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

​@@thisismyyoutubecommentacco6302 lasting a week or lasting months is a big difference.

[@killerkonnat]

I don't know what kinda smoke detectors you are buying, but I haven't seen a single one that doesn't shut up when you take the battery out.

[@SuperXrayDoc]

Because you can be a little lazier in your life by not changing. That, or these people are so stupid they don't know how to fix it and need someone else to fix it for them

[@____________________________J]

I believe Maya Angelou wrote a poem "The caged ceiling bird sings"

[@LordBaktor]

If you can afford an X-Box Live subscription you can afford to get rid of the chirp.

[@CC-ru8pi]

I literally replace every single battery in every single smoke alarm once I hear one start going off, just so that I don't have to deal with it again for another 8 months or so. That beep drives me insane. I cannot fathom ignoring it for extended periods of time. EDIT: Regrettably I can also still hear the high octave tones in the Lavender Town theme. Occasionally leads to moments where machine hum/screeching is painfully evident to me while everyone around me is completely (blissfully) unaware of it.

[@Ammoniummetavanadate]

8 months? Just replace the detector with a modern one. Mine go 10 years.

[@unncommonsense]

I hate trying to figure out which one is doing the beep. Last month, I had one beeping and took care of business. The very next day, I shit you not, the one in the next room started beeping. HOWEVER, this one took a 9v battery and I don't have them just hanging around. I got to the store right before they closed.

[@NYG5]

The fuckin chirp ALWAYS starts at 3AM too

[@jbonkerz]

I am 37 and I can still hear the high pitch noise in that part of the song.

[@Michael-1337]

It still sounds right to me now lol

[@BrettVanWey1]

I’m 40 have had hearing tests from the military for 20 years and documented hearing loss and I can still hear that high pitched squeal.

[@khatdubell]

Those same people that don't want to spend 1 dollar every 3 years on batteries for smoke detectors spend 5 dollars a day on cigarettes and starbucks.

[@GoreGutztheImpaler]

It sounds like sneakers squeaking on a basketball court.

[@PaulvonOberstein]

I am happy to report I also hear the Lavender Town music part that normies supposedly can't hear. Normies try to ruin everything.

[@salsamancer]

It's not a normies thing. It's an actual fact that you lose the ability to hear higher pitched sounds the older you get

[@blackchibisan8116]

I can hear that higher notes

[@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown]

I can't say if I'm even aware of which notes I should be hearing or not, since I've heard it years back at 10 or so and the clip today at 24 and it sounds exactly how I remember it.

[@TheMelnTeam]

@@salsamancer Somehow I've kept that particular ability into late 30s. "Man child" indeed! I'd have preferred to keep my early 20s athleticism rather than the ability to hear high pitched sounds, but it seems reality isn't keen on bargaining this way unfortunately.

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

I've always been able to hear it but never actually realised that was the part people are referring to.

[@brachiosnores7829]

This was a total culture shock to me - I had never heard of this until now. I didn't grow up wealthy but the first time I heard this was when my then boyfriend's mum couldn't be bothered to replace the batteries - she definitely had enough money 😂 when we moved in together we had it at our house. In the UK they are 9v batteries so a little bit harder to get a hold of, but not by much. A 2 pack with a 5 year guarantee cost just £6. A lot of it is mentality, and if you have the money, the reason is just laziness.

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

I'm getting a shock right now. Didn't even know they beeped when the battery was low.

[@habibishapur]

Imagine seeing that and staying a mud shark.

[@f.f.s.d.o.a.7294]

Many assumptions

[@Squeaky245]

@@KyriosHeptagrammaton Bro...

[@MaxwellAerialPhotography]

I call bullshit on people not hearing the high pitch of a smoke alarm low battery chirp. I have partial tinnitus, I get intermittent very high pitch ringing in one hear. The beep from a smoke detector is far lower pitch than the buzz from tinnitus, and a lot of other high pitch ordinary sounds. Its just people willfully ignoring something important.

[@kengrantk]

This is just another example of the "shopping cart test" in practice. The unwillingness to so minorly inconvenience yourself for the benefit of others and/or yourself proves your inability to be a productive member of civilized society.

[@khatdubell]

I can be dead asleep and the instant i hear that chirp i'm instantly awake and running for my ladder

[@Underfist101]

Think we wouldn't notice the chirp at 8:54? Nice try Dev.

[@eliaspanayi3465]

It happens throughout the video

[@Underfist101]

@@eliaspanayi3465 Lmao, guess I had just started to ignore it.

[@mrosskne]

what chirp?

[@eliaspanayi3465]

@@Underfist101 are you part black?

[@Underfist101]

@@eliaspanayi3465 We're all from Africa homie

[@SouthernGothicYT]

The dumbest part imo is that you don't even need to do it yourself or pay for batteries. Literally just call the local fire department and they'll do it for free. They're probably not going to rat on you for smoking weed or judge you for having a dirty house. Like y'all would really rather live with that beeping?!?! Edit: please let me clarify that is happened 1 time and only because they were already there. It's not a regular occurrence wtf

[@miguellopez3392]

Cool so what does the city charge you?

[@SouthernGothicYT]

@@miguellopez3392 nothing because they get my tax money

[@miguellopez3392]

@@SouthernGothicYT so they do eventually charge with higher taxes to pay for that.

[@trikstari7687]

There's a reason certain parts of the world are in the shape they are, and have been in that same state since the beginning of time. Just sayin.

@@miguellopez3392 they are going to charge you even if you dont use it, so make use of it

[@hacim42]

I'm going to college for sound design and we had a day where we talked about the hearing ranges of people as they age, and can definitely say that they are hearing the sound, they've just become acclimated to the point of not perceiving it as a distinct sound from the background. Healthy juvenile ears have a range from 20hz to 20khz, which diminishes to around 16khz when you reach adulthood, and can go to around 11khz in your sixties. The average smoke alarm is around 3khz, well within the vast, vast majority of people's hearing ranges. The highest note on an 88 key piano is above 4khz.

[@Sorain1]

Seems logical to me. You use a sound for a safety alarm that no one not legally deaf (and plenty who are!) can't hear.

[@EFGAlterEgo1]

@@Sorain1 Way to show you don't understand what @hacim42 said.

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

@@EFGAlterEgo1 way to project your failed comprehension. "no one not deaf can't hear" is an awkward af quadruple negative, but it checks out. it simplifies to "anyone with hearing can hear."

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

what?

[@ianyoder2537]

I'm 23, I listen to power metal at full volume, and yet I can hear the high pitched worbly whine from lavender town.

[@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer]

We're rewarding people who cant do basic tasks. The world is doomed

[@ZestyJesus]

Can confirm that something like tinnitus and age masks the beeping sound.

[@GoldenRedder]

Didn't expect to see you here. Sniper needs a nerf.

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

Oh hey, Zesty's here. Neat.

[@na-vn5qy]

could you not hear the high pitched part of the (pokemon?) song; and how old are you? i'm in my mid 30's and heard it clear as day, and don't think of myself as someone with great (or very good at all) hearing. anyway jc. also is it annoying when you comment something and the only replies you get are 'HEY I KNOW WHO YOU ARE, YOU MAKE STUFF (or whatever)' instead of anything related to what you said? you don't have to answer that last one.

[@alexrexaros9837]

Is it also the ching-ching sound that your money makes when you buy paints?

[@secretsix43]

I hear one god damn chirp and my only goal is to track it down. I cannot fathom living for days or weeks or god forbid months of this.

[@Sorain1]

Now imagine someone using one to gaslight you. You hear the goddamn noise, check every detector, and because it never chirps again, you can't even be sure it was real. Repeat once every few days for a month.

[@connor1734]

I literally smashed my smoke detector when it started beeping. I can't understand people that just live with that intollerable beeping!

[@highbread817]

Smart man, I wouldn't contribute another dollar to the Battery-Smoke Detector industrial complex. We can make our own smoke detectors

[@janinecat1865]

Ths chad Grug solution instead of the virgin Change the Batteries

[@connor1734]

@@highbread817 Lol, it actually isn't one you change the batteries for. I gotta buy a new eventually! But whoever installed it is a masichist! It was installed at the top of the stairs going down to my basement, above the height of the doorframe, on the wall next to it, then like 2 feet away from the door! It was hell to get down!! So ya I smashed it

[@ADUSEI6111]

It's very easy to ignore actually😂..I did it for weeks until somebody mentioned it

[@unncommonsense]

How did you fit your dick in there?

[@xato3796]

Someone that works for a musician-specific hearing clinic here: I’d hypothesize that there’s more likely a correlation between hip-hop listeners and hearing loss. Lots of hip-hop is mixed with an insane amount of low frequency built in. This usually is boosted even more by listening to it with loud and powerful subwoofers. Subs can get REALLY loud before you PERCEIVE it as loud. This is because the majority of infrasound can be below your hearing threshold but still damage your hearing. And low frequencies can create more pressure which is what dB is actually measuring. Think of it like this, it’s much less painful to your ears to stand next to a motorcycle starting up than nails on a chalkboard, but nails on a chalkboard is all high-frequency and actually quieter than a motorcycle. When your hearing is damaged, you lose high frequency first even if caused by low frequencies. I would suspect that people listening to music that skews into high-frequency prevalence listen as a quieter SPL because those frequencies become painful at lower volumes, and people that listen to majority bass-heavy music very loud probably lose enough hearing to have difficulty hearing smoke chirps. Hip hop is probably the most dominant form of pop music and technology has granted many more people with headphones and high-powered subs for personal use than ever before which would explain the rise of this phenomenon. Especially among urban centers which have more of a low-income bent. I bet it has nothing to do with race or poverty, but everything to do with the type of music listened to and the volume tug it is enjoyed. Bass frequencies are dangerous because they “feel good” at damaging levels. Whereas high frequencies hurt much sooner and discourage loud volumes.

[@damon4465]

Interesting 5 minute hypothesis. But here's an interesting 5 second hypothesis: procrastination correlates with poverty.

[@rokudan96]

We call that the single woman chirp. It's how you tell a woman who tune it out.

[@jht3fougifh393]

Being a woman has nothing to do with it. Some people are just irresponsible.

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

@@jht3fougifh393 If your man doesn't hear the chirp, that's a woman

[@mopedgubbe1059]

Several men in this video had that chirp.

[@nickvanachthoven7252]

@@mopedgubbe1059 are they really man?

[@mopedgubbe1059]

@@nickvanachthoven7252 yeah

[@thatlittlevoice6354]

If only the smoke detector was their only flaw.

[@razorkid1525]

There must be a correlation between IQ and detecting the alarm beep. No other explanation is scientific enough 😂

[@harleygator]

Melanin content, perhaps? 😅 (just kidding)

[@razorkid1525]

@@harleygator Most likely (just kidding)

[@harleygator]

@@razorkid1525 or maybe, a direct correlation of crimes per beep. 😁

[@razorkid1525]

@@harleygator Allegedly

[@steven1479]

They dont not hear it, when its pointed out to them they acknowledge it.

[@robertkeyes258]

Love this. I used to live in a house with 5 other people, We were slackers in our twenties. Big house, lots of smoke detectors. I couldn't stand the chirp, but no one else cares. I tracked down all of the fucking chirps and silenced them, first by using fresh batteries but when I ran out of those, pulling the batteries out. One housemate had the alarm going off in his room, and wouldn't let me in to change it. So I waited until he left for school (art school, of course) and snuck in and changed it. Mo Fo. That house was an absolute waste of time in my life.

[@TwoBs]

A bunch of us at work a couple years back were talking about needing some type of noise to fall asleep to because the quietness was more distracting. Most of it was the usual: brown noise, white noise, ceiling fan, rain, computer fan, AC sounds, etc. But one talked about listening to a KZbin video at night of the smoke alarm chirp because she grew up hearing it so much that it became like a lullaby. The (new) house she was in at the time had alarms that were hardwired, so they were always working. Think about that. A parent so fuggin lazy to ever change the batteries, raising a kid in a home that grows to think it’s totally normal. So normal that it even becomes comforting to hear… the opposite of what it’s designed to do lol. I just sat there dumbfounded, but what made it even worse was hearing other coworkers say “yeah, I have tuned mine out for so long that I don’t even notice it” while laughing as if it’s just a cute and quirky thing to be proud of… Then I recalled that very same coworker lost all her shit in a house fire back in 2015, talking about how she was lucky she woke up in time to get out of the house. It all made sense. If only there was a small device that could be placed in a home to detect smoke during a hazardous situation that only required the owner to just test it occasionally. Maybe even have it beep when it needs new batteries … ah, if only …. I think it’s perfectly okay to judge the types of people that let alarms chirp, much like it’s okay to shame those won’t return the buggies they used to the corral … one small thing can speak volumes about them as a person.

[@kxkxkxkx]

You are indeed allowed to judge people for the choices they make ☝️

[@nigghaareyoujoking]

was she black? just curious

[@UmamaGoblin]

"Why not replace the battery" "Cuz that's my dad's job" Lazy ass non wife material 🥃 Also damnit I heard it, why are my ears not fully developed at 30?!

[@SezmoistheWorst]

It's not that your ears are underdeveloped, it's that they you didn't destroy your hearing.

[@konnosx1213]

meanwhile gigacahd not having a smoke detector mindset

[@One_Man_Banned]

How the hell am I 33 years old, lived a life of heavy metal, motorcycles, guns and explosions.....but I can still hear that in the music?

[@someguy4384]

This unironically happened to me last night. Smoke detector guy just ignored the chirps. It was 5pm, he had the option to go down to any gas station, any Lowe's/Home Depot, any Walmart or Target, and grab himself a battery to swap it out. Homie just actively refused.

[@knottheory79220]

I can understand if you're not able to access the smoke alarm due to disabilities or lack of equipment or something, but come on!

[@YourKawke]

I mean, even if you're on wheels, you can still like... throw a shoe at it or something. Or poke it with a broom. Anything to stop the beeping.

[@knottheory79220]

@@KT-pv3kl Not everyone's smoke alarms are accessible with a chair. My mom has one mounted on a vaulted ceiling in a room full of furniture with an easily scratched hardwood floor. The logistics of changing that battery are considerable lol.

[@rubensano4860]

You get used to it after a while. Try working in a nuclear facility with a criticality alarm. That is constantly chirping by design.

[@Fakheet]

Doesn't it kinda defeat the purpose of an alarm? If it's always going off you'll start to tune it out.

[@rubensano4860]

@@Fakheet I shouldn't have used the word 'constantly.' It's the same sort of periodicity as the domestic fire alarm low battery chirp. Likewise, the criticality alarm is like the fire alarm being triggered: loud and...alarming. The difference being, I would take a genuine fire alarm over a criticality alarm every single time. The point of the criticality alarm's periodic chirping is so that operators and personnel know that it is functioning normally. You get used to it and indeed when it stops chirping is when you notice it.

[@Ramsey276one]

I will assume that sounds VERY DIFFERENT when it hits the actual alarm?

[@Fakheet]

@@rubensano4860 oh ok, that makes sense

[@orirune3079]

I truly dont understand how you could get used to this sound. Whenever my smoke detector chirps I'm scrambling to do whatever i have to to make it stop because it's almost physically painful.

[@greasybumpkin1661]

Audio engineer here, I put those smoke alarm beeps to be within the range of 1khz to 10khz. Most adults without acute hearing damage will be able to hear that no matter how big your jaw bones are.

[@Livesinyourwalls]

He still hasn't noticed that I stole and sold the ceiling bird batteries to pay for super chats.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

This video came out EARLY for channel members! I'm gonna experiment with this feature. If you want videos early, you should become a member too!

[@aaacowsad6388]

Why does it sound like basketball players walking on the court

[@majdjinn5042]

Joy Reid actually destroys your theory about it being broke mentality

[@WhyDoBabiesStareAtMe]

I can barely afford to _have_ a member, let alone _be_ a member

[@chadgarcia983]

FINISH THAT LAST LINE

[@ty2010]

Windows and discord notifications are white people smoke alarms

[@swordguy1243]

Blueface :Who's AI? Interviewer: artificial inteligence Blue : I don't know none about none ::alram beeps:: Blueface gf : whos AI Interviewer : artificial intelligence :: confused :: :: alarm beeps ::

[@mattd5240]

There's a deeper meaning in there somewhere.

[@ComicGladiator]

They know artificial, it's the word intelligence that baffled them.

[@DioTheGreatOne]

Blueface's mind is probably just constant TV static noise

[@alouiciouswrex7141]

The worst situation is when a wired smoke detector starts chirping at 3AM in a townhouse. You can replace the battery, but it will keep chirping until you test the unit, ie the full foghorn. So to not be an asshole and wake the neighbors you have to wait till 9AM listening to that fucking thing chirp every 30 seconds.

[@TyrantJaeger]

I've talked to some black people who straight up don't know what the chirp is. They think that's just what a hallway sounds like. Because they were raised by parents who were too lazy, poor, or incompetent to change the batteries, so the kids just got used to it. It's pathetic. Really shows a lack of intelligence that goes beyond just having a "poor mindset".

[@CrusadiaIX]

One of the most embarrassing moments of my life was when a friend came over while I was house sitting and heard the smoke alarm chirp. I had no idea what the noise was because my dad always changed our batteries before they got to the chirping point, so he had to explain it to me. I dunno how people can live with that shit for that long.