Sabrina Bahsoon’s videos of her dancing and lip-synching on the London Underground have triggered a global revolution of confident self-expression. (Photo: Keaton Rich)

By NATASHA JOIBI

If you're on TikTok, you'd have definitely come across a whole host of videos by young content creators dancing on public transportation like no one's watching.

But what you may not have known is that this trend of confident self-expression that's touched every corner of the globe, from Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to Paris and New York, was kickstarted by a 22-year-old Malaysian law graduate — Sabrina Bahsoon a.k.a. "Tube Girl".

To cut a long story short, Sabrina filmed a video of her dancing on the London Undergroundback in August.

And to date, not only has she amassed over 750,000 followers because of it, she's also become the centre of the world's attention, with musicians like Troye Sivan, Omar Apollo and Leigh-Anne Pinnock and fellow TikTok influencers Bella Poarch and Chris Olsen lining up to collaborate with her.

But who was Sabrina Bahsoon before her meteoric rise to TikTok fame?

From Kuala Lumpur to Durham and the London Underground

Sabrina, who has Lebanese and Sierra Leonean heritage, was born and brought up in Malaysia. At 16 years of age, however, she relocated to London to do her A-levels.