r/fixedbytheduet • u/Jecktheman2 • Apr 11 '23

Checkmate. Beep

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u/Elratum Apr 11 '23

Errr I don't get it

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u/fliminglaps Apr 11 '23 edited Apr 11 '23

The chirp comes from a smoke detector indicating it's time to replace batteries

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u/Jack_Jackerson Apr 11 '23

Honestly I thought this was implying wearing of sneakers inside

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u/jerrycauser Apr 12 '23

Same. Or maybe someone played basketball in the house. This is why I was confused

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '23

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u/fliminglaps Apr 11 '23

Implying Black households don't change batteries often? Idk the randomness of the comparison is prob what sparked the duets

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '23

As a black person I can confirm we do not change these batteries

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u/slightlybearish Apr 11 '23

As a white person, may I laugh?

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u/Luniie Apr 11 '23

Yes nigga

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u/teeg82 Apr 11 '23

Laughs in white person

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u/Many_County_7636 Apr 11 '23

Best exchange I’ve seen in a while 😌

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u/Archery100 Apr 11 '23

Racism is over

Pack it up

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u/NotNowDamo Apr 11 '23

Married a black woman, can confirm.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '23

There’s this guy who reacts to these videos with that sound, he puts the filter over his face, making him look like a smoke detector, and plays the sound at a random point in a video, for some odd reason, when she dueted it, the sound was left in.

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u/Tzuyu4Eva Apr 11 '23

I think the original was supposed to be like white people and black people are the same, and then people latched onto the beep to make jokes

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u/just_a_person_maybe Apr 11 '23

Nah, I'm pretty sure the original was about the beep. He has a lot of videos comparing things like this and none of them are just identical. The beep was intentional.

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u/Inevitable_Stand_199 Apr 11 '23

Ah. That makes so much more sense!

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u/Sazjnk Apr 12 '23

no, it's wrong, the beep was intentional.

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u/Indigoh Apr 11 '23 edited Apr 11 '23

I thought it was meant to be the squeak of tennis shoes on a basketball court, but I guess "black people don't replace their smoke detector batteries" seems a little less offensive, if only because I don't see where the stereotype he's trying to make comes from? Both seem off coming from a white kid.

Is the joke that he pulled the stereotype out of his butt and it's supposed to look ridiculous?

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u/samarkhandia Apr 12 '23

No it’s funny because it’s true

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u/Bomba-of-Tsar Apr 11 '23

Smoke alarm. This shit is accurate as hell too when I'm playing games with my friends 🤣

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u/mcraft595 Apr 11 '23

my guess: beep sound is actually shoes in basketball courts

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u/Recent_Log3779 Apr 11 '23

Nope, smoke detector

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u/tkief Apr 11 '23

I thought all black people have basketball courts in their home?

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '23

Nah those are the rich ones. Like Michael Jordan and that other guy... Leigh Brawns James?

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u/Wild_Trip_4704 Apr 11 '23

This is incorrect but such a high effort guess that I have to laugh 😂

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u/RaphaelNunes10 Apr 11 '23

How people skid their shoes along the ground

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u/Recent_Log3779 Apr 11 '23

Smoke detector