A woman has revealed the ingenious method her husband uses when he urgently needs to contact her.
Tola Balagun, a travel content creator, amused social media users by sharing how her husband interrupts her screen time with an ‘important’ message. She posted a photo of her Amazon Fire TV screen displaying the text, ‘Tola, answer your phone. What do you mean by flatbread. Is it Naan bread or wraps.’
The travel enthusiast captioned the post: “When my husband goes to the store and he’s desperately trying to reach me, he sends messages to the TV. Tola shared this post on January 12 and it has gone viral with eight million views, 157,000 likes, 11,000 retweets and 1,000 comments.
One user said: “This is brilliant. Please answer that man.” Another asked: “How did he achieve this incredible discovery? A lot of men all over the world need this update like yesterday. Immediately, she’s into her Korean or Mexican soap operas, the man’s message just interrupts like breaking news.”
A third joked: “Taking relationship communication to a whole new level.” Some people praised Tola’s husband for his clever use of the TV to get her attention.
One user commented: “Oh this would work on me better than a text cause the way I’m always watching something! He smart!.”
A second user speculated: “The man knows his wife is in front of the TV whenever she’s not with her phone.” Meanwhile, another comment praised Tola’s husband for his clever use of technology, with one person revealing: “That’s actually brilliant. I did something similar to send a message to a Google home speaker and freaked (out) my mom who suddenly heard my voice through the speaker.”
Intrigue spread across the comments as users wanted to know Tola’s husband’s trick: “How did he do this? We need this” and “How was this achieved? Need tutorials.”
A fellow husband said: “Omg. This. I need this. The number of times I can’t reach my wife…” In response, Tola explained the process: “For those asking how to do it, you need Fire TV. Then go to Alexa app>More>Communicate>Drop in or go to Alexa app>make an announcement.”
Amazon’s help and customer service page adds: “Use Alexa to make one-way announcements to all Alexa-enabled devices registered to your account.” This supports how Amazon’s virtual assistant, can broadcast messages across all linked devices including the Amazon Fire TV Smart TV.