Since you just made this an on-topic subject....
Nothing has been confirmed in-universe either way. We do know that even though minions will eat anything, they do particularly love to eat bananas, even the evil purple minions love bananas, so it would be a little weird, almost cannibalism if they were made from bananas.
In-universe canon from Despicable Me tells us that they are from a single mutated strand of DNA, implying Gru made them, but the Minions movie shows us that they evolved along with other life, so this tells us that when it said it was a “mutated” strand of DNA, it must’ve meant mutation the same way all natural selection is a type of mutation. However, the Minions Mayhem ride at Universal Studios indicates that minions are possibly made from humans by a ray that turns humans into minions. If these are all canon, then what it means is that some minions evolved like all other life, and then later Gru learned how to convert human DNA into Minion DNA to be able to make MORE minions later on (apparently you could become one too).
Out of Universe, they were originally supposed to be large and orc-like but their concept evolved until they became smaller and smaller and were inspired by and thus are partially descended from Jawas (Star Wars) and Oompa Loompas (Willy Wonka). Which only makes them even cooler than if they were descended from bananas. I wonder if any minions have been force sensitive or built their own light-sabers? Or even better, if any of them were Sith/dark force users. There needs to be an alternate universe with this.
So given that minions and bananas were brought up in the context of the AI…
Does this mean you’re soon going to show us how to set up our AI to have Minion and banana detection with that Wyze Anything Recognition, or will they be natively supported by the AI? I mean, I might want my HMS or Cam Plus Pro to trigger an alarm anytime a PERSON sets them off…but it would be nice if I could tell it not to worry about minions or bananas as both of those are welcome at my house any time. Thanks for all your hard work at making this possible in the near future.
Wyze Cam Minion Camera Covers (Add AI Detection to make them more intelligent minions that understand what they are seeing):
