Beginning in October 2022, rumors spread largely throughout TikTok and Snapchat alleged that the app was linked to human trafficking (in particular sex trafficking). According to Bier, the rumor originated with a single user review from China on October 5, and then was disseminated through TikTok accounts with "few to no US teen followers.". An app called Gas, created to share compliments anonymously for kids, got wrongly tagged as a Human Trafficking Search on LinkedIn: How a viral teen app became the center of a sex.