I had to work on that the whole time in university and after that, I was like, I want to get into fashion and music. I want to have confidence. I didn’t come from anything close to these industries. I was doing a law degree. Rihanna says fake it till you make it, so I was like, I have to act.” Sabrina Bahsoon – known as Tube Girl – is a 22-year-old former law student who lives in London. She is originally from Malaysia and moved to London after graduating from Durham University. Before her TikTok account went viral, she was a Maths, Business Studies and Law tutor, but at university, she realised that she wanted a creative career. 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? 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.

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.Describing the experience as a ‘whirlwind’, she told The Daily Mail'I get recognised the most while I'm on the tube, which is funny. I love it. The last few days have been a little crazy and I wouldn't say that it's my normal yet.' How can I do the Tube Girl TikTok trend? 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. 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 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.

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. 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. 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").

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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.” They say you should dance like nobody’s watching, and one girl is inspiring us to do exactly that. Last month, law graduate Sabrina Bahsoon became a viral sensation known as ‘Tube Girl’, after filming herself dancing on the London Underground.