Toddler Calls Her Triplets’ Grandpa’s Brother ‘Another Dad’ In TikTok (Exclusive)

• A 21-second clip on TikTok has gone viral after 3-year-old Naomi mistook her grandfather for one of his triplet brothers
• “I didn’t expect it at all,” her aunt Leah Lai Hing tells PEOPLE
• Naomi’s mother says she hopes her daughter continues to bond with her “daddy” as she grows

Leah Lai Hing had no idea that a TikTok Highlighting her three-year-old niece’s adorable confusion would trigger such a reaction – but it did.

“I didn’t expect it at all. Not at all. I don’t think any of us were,” Lai Hing, 33, tells PEOPLE.

With more than 16 million views and 2 million likes, the viral clip showed young Naomi affectionately trying to guess which family member was her grandfather after he stood next to one of his identical triplet brothers.

The family was gathered at a cousin’s funeral in Georgia in late August, when Naomi’s mother Javon Gordon said she initially asked why there were “two” grandpas.

“I was like, ‘Oh, this is a perfect time to record her and try to see (if) she can differentiate between who is her grandfather and who is her uncle,’” she says. “So we recorded it and we just asked. her: ‘Who is sitting in front of you, and who is sitting next to you?’ And she just said, ‘(Another) daddy.’ ”

Leah explains that she turned off her notifications for TikTok, and by the time she reopened the app the next morning, the response to the 21-second video had just “gotten out of hand.”

But the playful dynamic between the family was not new, according to Gordon. It’s just something Grandpa Leslie and his brothers “have always done with the grandkids,” the 39-year-old mother adds. “This is only the first time we’ve actually noticed a reaction.”

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Now in his early 80s, Leslie says “a lot of people” confused him and his brothers because they “are identical.” The three “were like peas in a pod” growing up together in their native Trinidad, he says.

And even though the brothers now live in different parts of the U.S., Leslie tells PEOPLE they still keep in close touch.

Leah, who travels back and forth between New York and North Carolina – where Javon and her daughter live – says the family is trying to make the best of spending as much time together as possible. Even if that means at a funeral.

“Sometimes it’s not something we would want to come together for, but we had to,” says Leah.

For now, Javon shares that she just wants Naomi’s bond with her “daddy” to continue.

She says, “I just hope they continue to grow together and that she remembers the moments she has with him.”