Diary of a Tube Girl

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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 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 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. 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.

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.

How Did The Tube Girl Trend Gain Popularity?

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.

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 EffectI 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.” 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.