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By Alyce Collins
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While door cameras are useful means of security and communication, one woman has revealed the hilarious reason why she was left incredibly humbled by one particular notification she received from her sensor.
Victoria Mejia often gets notifications from her Blink camera when there’s movement outside her home in Porterville, California, so it didn’t seem surprising when her phone went off once again. However, when she opened the notification on this occasion, she was somewhat surprised to read that the description suggested there was a “brown chicken” in the yard.
Mejia, 37, thought it could be possible that a chicken was roaming around outside, so she watched the footage back to see for herself. But what she saw left her deeply humbled, as Mejia told Newsweek that she “openly laughed out loud” after seeing the clip.
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It turns out there was no chicken after all, but rather, it was Mejia herself. Her hair was clipped back and sticking up above her head, apparently resembling a chicken.
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“When I initially saw the notification, I thought it was a chicken because I live out in the country and some chickens have come into my yard before,” Mejia said. “I opened the notification to see which way it had wandered off to, and then realized it was, in fact, not a chicken.
“I actually had to share it with some of my family members because of how much it made me laugh. They were the ones that encouraged me to put it on social media.”
Mejia posted a video on TikTok (@think.create) showing the Blink notification she received and the footage it was referring to. Internet users can’t get enough of the hilarious mix up, leading to the video going viral on social media. In just a matter of days, the TikTok video has generated over 2 million views and more than 320,400 likes at the time of writing.
The online reaction is beyond anything Mejia expected, as she never imagined the footage would generate so much attention. When she posted the video online, she thought it would probably only be seen by 100 people at most, certainly not millions of people across the world.
Nonetheless, she’s overjoyed this little moment of confusion could bring laughter to so many people.
“When the numbers and notifications kept coming in, I kept having to close my app because I was thinking it was some sort of mistake. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought this video would’ve blown up like this,” Mejia told Newsweek.
She continued: “I am grateful for all the views and comments about how much laughter this video has brought them. I’m glad I was able to make another person laugh with me.”
In the days since the footage went viral, thousands of TikTok users took to the comments to laud the highly specific nature of the camera’s description. This has led to more than 1,700 comments on the TikTok post so far.
One comment reads: “These blink AI notifications are hilarious.”
Another TikTok user wrote: “How can it be so specific and so wrong at the same time?”
While another person replied: “The detailed descriptions were the best update Blink ever did. Endlessly comical!”
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