Comments | symian: Saved by TikTok Hand Gestures

symian

Saved by TikTok Hand Gestures - Not!

Nov 17, 2021 02:33

You probably heard or saw the news reports recently about the missing teen girl who was saved when a stranger saw her using TikTok "Help!" Hand gestures while in a car being driven by her 61 year old abductor. It wasn't ever actually a TikTok specific thing, it was something that was circulated on TikTok by The Canadian Women's Foundation and ( Read more... )

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lautenist November 17 2021, 09:48:30 UTC

Your last sentence was exactly what I thought when I first heard about this incidence. Then I thought "maybe tic toc-promotion?"
Getting older I seem to become a grumpy, suspicious man

symian November 17 2021, 15:31:28 UTC

Well, I added a new last line, so, sorry about that. Heheheh

It sure became a TikTok promotion, and they didn't even have anything to do with it, really. That Women's Foundation was the one, and they get mentioned in passing only.

If there is a need for a hand signs, I still say use the existing ones in official sign language. There is not reason to create a new one that really does look like what it supposed to convey.

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lautenist November 18 2021, 11:13:14 UTC

I wouldn't react on such a gesture - never