You can learn lifesaving skills on TikTok. A missing 16-year-old girl from North Carolina is home safe after investigators said a trick she learned on TikTok may have helped lead to her rescue.
The person who spotted her was behind a vehicle and noticed a female passenger in that car making hand gestures that are known on TikTok to represent violence at home. The gesture, which involves tucking in the thumb into the open palm and closing the four other fingers over the thumb, was developed to help domestic violence survivors.
The SOS hand gesture gained popularity on TikTok during the pandemic as a signal for people to indicate they were unsafe.
Police were called and were able to stop the vehicle and arrest the 61-year-old suspect at a traffic stop! Listen back to the full story above and learn the hand gesture.