Diary of a Tube Girl

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TikToker and model Sabrina Bahsoon first started posting content on TikTok in 2020. Her first few years of content consists of lip dub trends, comedy videos and fashion content. These videos helped her start a following throughout the 2020s, although she didn't gain viral acclaim on TikTok until August 2023. In a video answering a question if she is ever embarrassed, the caption reads: “Personally i think I’m slaying and trusssttt nobody cares.” @sabrinabahsoon Karma is real and I am her 🤪 @tate mcrae said rent was due and she pulled through!! #greedy #londontiktok ♬ greedy tate mcrae unreleased – babytatie1 Clearly, Sabrina’s fashion career is just taking off. However, beyond the Tube videos, what’s her plans for the future? “I have to be selective with what I choose to align with – there have been moments where I have had to turn down opportunities,” she reveals. “Ultimately, my aim is to work in music and continue doing fashion projects. But I need to set new goals, as the ones I initially dreamed up, I've already smashed them.”

Sabrina Bahsoon has gained TikTok popularity almost overnight for her brazen shows of confidence on the Tube. The 22-year-old from Malaysia, now living and working in London, posted her first viral Tube video in August. Now, her feed is littered with similar posts, with almost all garnering upwards of a million views. Comments call out her confidence ("How do u do this in a populated car ???? 😭"), windswept hair ("Where does the wind come from and where is this ? 😍😍😍"), and praise her style of filming ("the camerawork is so satisfying it’s scrumptiously made i rate 10/10"). I wasn’t always this way,” she admits. "You have to have self-love and appreciate yourself and what you can do. I am smart and analytical and beautiful. I have a good personality. Admitting that to yourself is really hard because people will tell you otherwise when you say it out loud. Speaking to the BBC last week, Bahsoon, a law graduate from Durham University, said, "I think that the Tube Girl has already become something more than just dancing on the Tube. So I think it's about confidence and it's about being more comfortable with your authentic self." Enter: Tube Girl EffectFor a while now, TikTok has plunged into the discourse of being "cringe". Some practice cringe comedy, while others propose TikTok as a way to embrace the cringe within us all. The Tube Girl effect seems to be a byproduct of this, essentially being proposed by followers as a way to embrace confidence and subvert social perceptions. It's also in line with a Very Online concept often purported by those of TikTok: the idea to not take anything, really, too seriously. Her idea for the first Tube Girl video came about when she asked another passenger to film her dancing, during one of her commutes home from a night out. When the passenger said no, Sabrina took matters into her own hands. ‘I went on the bus and I tried it there, but it didn’t really hit. Then I got on a tube and felt the wind and my hair was really big that day so I just went for it,’ she told The Evening Standard. Tube Girl has a few songs that she tends to dance to. Some of the most popular songs are "Where Them Girls At," the unreleased Tate Mcrae song "Greedy" and "Water" by Tyla. One song, however, where she sings that she's the "first lady of Juicy Couture," has stood out to viewers, who are curious what the song is. I dance like I’m alone in my bedroom – embarrassingly, waving my hands around, mouthing the words and getting some wrong. I can’t believe I’m doing this on the Tube in broad daylight. But I am. And when I finish, my heart is racing. I’m so proud of myself for doing this and for enjoying it. No one knows how to start a craze quite like a creator on TikTok. There are whole trend cycles — cottagecore and coastal cowgirl, for example — that wouldn’t exist if not for the platform. The latest trend taking over the FYP isn’t an aesthetic, though — it’s more of a movement. This month’s viral showstopper has come straight out of London, with TikToker Sabrina Bahsoon (aka “Tube Girl”) earning millions of views for hyping herself up on the British subway system. Her videos, which are self-taped while taking advantage of the train’s inadvertent wind machine, are inspiring people to push themselves to be more comfortable in public spaces. Here’s how to do it. Who Is “Tube Girl” Sabrina Bahsoon?

Until I realise that the Tube has stopped, a whole group of people on the platform have seen me dance, they’re now laughing hysterically, and they’re all getting on my carriage. The three minutes until my next stop – when I can get off and swap Tube lines – are the longest of my life. I can barely look at these people. I know it’s not very Tube Girl of me – she brazenly stares her fellow passengers in the eye – but I’m too mortified to look up. I am, however, excited to send the video to my friend. ‘You look like you’re in a 90s music video,’ is the response. I’ll take it. So, who is Tube Girl and how can you take part in the trend? Here’s everything we know... Who is Tube Girl? As Tube Girl continued to go viral on TikTok, viewers have begun posting edits of her content and videos referencing her. Some of the most popular videos feature people inspired by Tube Girl's confidence and attempting to dance and lip dub in public like Tube Girl. Tube Girl even got a shoutout from Tate Mcrae recently, whose song "Greedy" she often dances to. Sabrina is pleased the movement has caught on, telling the BBC'When I see people imitating it I'm like "Finally like people are getting it!" They're enjoying their their commute a little bit better. And I love to see people having fun so it's honestly such a heart-warming thing for me.' What is Tube Girl doing now?

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I’ll be straight up when I say that I envy people who can confidently take photos and film themselves in public. While I have 23 years of humanhood under my belt, I still shudder at the thought of vlogging in public or taking a fire IG photo in a crowded place. However, a new creator is inspiring me, and many others, to walk the planet with confidence — and she’s known as the “Tube Girl” on TikTok. I love being a hype woman, making people feel you can do what you, and live the life you want. People are out for themselves, so you need to start caring about you and what makes you happy. Nobody else will do it for you. At the end of the day, you’re left with yourself.” However, according to Know Your Meme, Bahsoon didn’t begin referring to herself as Tube Girl until Aug. 26 when she recorded another video in — you guessed it — the tube. By the end of September, videos tagged #TubeGirl had been viewed over 750 million times. How To Do The “Tube Girl” Trend