![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/how-tube-girl-became-tiktoks-latest-icon/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/131102330_img_0125edit.jpg&description=By Anisah Vasta BBC Asian Network 1 hour ago Image caption, Sabrina Bahsoon says her upbringing in "relaxed, hot" Malaysia had a big influence on her How do you pass the time on public transport? Spend the journey scrolling on your phone? Listen to music and stare at the floor? Well, not if you're Sabrina Bahsoon. Or, as she's now known to millions of people around the world, Tube Girl. Her self-shot videos of energetic dance routines filmed on the London Underground have quickly taken over TikTok, attracting 300,000 followers and 12 million likes. It's turned Tube Girl into a trend as others upload their own takes on it, and launched Sabrina to overnight icon status in the eyes of her fans. And if you needed any evidence of how popular she's become, when BBC Asian Network meets her in central London, our interview is interrupted when she's spotted. The shout comes from a group of schoolgirls. They nervously approach when they recognise Sabrina, who happily chats to them and poses for a photo. Her rise to becoming TikTok's dancing queen and an internet celebrity has happened in the space of a few weeks - but how did she do it? Well, it all started with a "no". "I have to commute everywhere because I live quite far out from everyone," says Sabrina. "So on the way back home after a night out, I'd put my music on. And when you're bumping your head, people don't come up to you, people leave you alone a bit more. "So I was feeling more safe and enjoying my journey a bit better." Image source, TikTok/SabrinaBahsoon Image caption, Sabrina's first video got people asking: "How are you so confident?" Sabrina says she had a "TikTok idea" and asked another passenger to help her film it. "And he just straight up said no," she says. "So I was like 'you know what? I'm gonna do this alone. I want to make this video'." So she did. The 11-second clip, showing Sabrina miming to Where Dem Girls At while swirling the camera around, took off. Mainly because people couldn't believe that){kind=link}
How do you pass the time on public transport? Spend the journey scrolling on your phone? Listen to music and stare at the floor?
Well, not if you’re Sabrina Bahsoon.
Or, as she’s now known to millions of people around the world, Tube Girl.
Her self-shot videos of energetic dance routines filmed on the London Underground have quickly taken over TikTok, attracting 300,000 followers and 12 million likes.
It’s turned Tube Girl into a trend as others upload their own takes on it, and launched Sabrina to overnight icon status in the eyes of her fans.