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Meet ‘Tube Girl’, who started the TikTok trend involving dancing on London Underground

Sabrina Bahsoon, a 22-year-old woman of Malaysian origin, is a law graduate from Durham University.

Sabrina Bahsoon is of Malaysian origin and graduated with a law degree in July from Durham University.

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There is a new viral trend on TikTok that involves dancing while travelling on the London Underground, also called the Tube. And the woman who started this trend is Sabrina Bahsoon, a 22-year-old content creator who has earned the sobriquet Tube Girl.

Bahsoon, who is of Malaysian origin and graduated with a law degree in July from Durham University, soon realised she wanted to be in a creative field like fashion or music, according to a report in The Evening Standard. She joined TikTok in 2020 during the lockdown like many other people. She told the British newspaper that she felt everybody was socially anxious, especially after the pandemic.

“It’s like we are socially wired to not interact with each other and care so much about what other people think,” Bahsoon said. Wanting to pursue a career in a creative field, Bahsoon said she decided she needed to become comfortable with how she might be perceived. That is when she got the idea to make a “music video-esque” TikTok.

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Bahsoon first tried it on the bus but it did not really work. She then tried it on the underground railway. She posted her first “Tube Girl” video back in August to the 2011 hit Where Dem Girls.

Bahsoon posted videos of her dancing on the Tube on Instagram as well, and they have received millions of views.

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“What happens when she stops filming does she just sit back down?” an Instagram user commented. “Latest cringe trend,” said another. “Imagine the loud awkward silence from everybody after she stops filming,” wrote a third. “I just wanted to go home quietly after a hard day of computer work,” another user posted.

First uploaded on: 27-09-2023 at 20:12 IST

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