By Ej Dickson. They want you to go up to the car seat and look around while they snatch you really quick. The woman who posted the video is princessbellesunflower, a.
Despite her lack of credentials as a sex trafficking expert, however, her video has gone massively viral, racking up Before posting her TikTok, she contacted a trafficking hotline. On Oct. But the post does not actually say that the car seat in the photo was used as a lure by sex traffickers β in fact, it says the opposite.
The Wilkesboro Police Department has investigated this incident and discovered the circumstances of how the seat was left in the parking lot. According to the post, two Wal-Mart customers simply had left their old car seat in the parking lot after buying and installing a new one. In response to such feedback, though, Parker appears to be doubling down.
And because the post went viral, I believe that many people feel the same way. There are other videos and pictures of strange activities that have been posted on Facebook and TikTok.
Last summer, for instance, the Wayfair sex trafficking conspiracy theory, which posited that sex traffickers were using high-priced Wayfair items as a front for smuggling children, first went massively viral on TikTok; as recently as last April, a rumor that sex traffickers were procuring victims at Target stores across the country also gained traction on the app. Scary content goes quite viral. Such content obscures the reality of sex trafficking in the United States, which is that it rarely involves strangers hiding in dark corners, waiting to snatch unsuspecting victims.
