If someone is blowing something at you in the NYC subway system, it’s not usually not a kiss.
But Tamia Jones has recently gone viral for her TikTok videos in which she blows kisses at unsuspecting male straphangers – intending to bring “love and positivity” to the otherwise ugly, crime-inflicted underground, she said.
“I hear about all the bad stuff going on on the train, so I just wanted to put myself out there by spreading love,” Jones, 25, told The Post between air kisses at the 50th Street B/D/F/M station this week.
“There’s shootings and stabbings on the trains, so I wanted to put smiles on people’s faces and for them to know that kindness and love is always the answer – not violence,” she said.
Jones, a lifelong Bronxite, had a friend record the hilarious reactions to her encounters for the first time earlier this month, and posted a video of the subterranean shtick on TikTok.
Almost overnight, the clip had amassed millions of views.
“I was so proud. I was like ‘Yes!’…People were reaching out to me saying such nice things,” she recalled about the viral moment.
However, “I also get a lot of creepy guys being like, ‘Where’s my kiss at? Where’s my kiss at?’ in my messages,” added Jones, who works as an outreach case manager for the social services nonprofit Breaking Ground.
So far, she’s only tried the act out on men, “because I don’t want ladies to get the wrong idea,” she said.
Since the first TikTok video on Nov. 4, Jones has continued to throw kisses at random men from the platform as their train rolls away — and racked up nearly seven million views on the seven videos she’s posted.
While some are seen smiling, waving and even blowing kisses back, others pretend not to notice — in typical jaded-New Yorker fashion.
“A lot of people will just look away – I really don’t care, cause the train is gone and I’ll never see them again,” she said with a shrug.
Jones – who has seen homeless men masturbating on the subway and someone who recently spewed racial slurs in her direction – takes extra precaution to keep herself safe.
“I wait until the train doors close before I knock on the window and blow the kiss. I don’t want to give anybody the opportunity to hurt me – you just never know with people,” she explained.
“I just love to think that it makes someone’s day. You know, people usually look really miserable on the train. People are just down. But if I can put a smile on someone’s face, that doesn’t hurt,” Jones said.
Grizzled straphangers — more accustomed to dodging unhinged vagrants or dope-puffing junkies — saluted the “sweet” stunt.
“I think some people are probably weirded out by it, but overall it’s really nice. It’s a good effort, and it’s important that she’s out here doing that for people,” Anooshka, a 33-year-old Williamsburg woman, told The Post.
“Riding the subway is a stressful thing, you know, and if somebody is showing you a little love, it means a lot,” agreed Ashon Mac, a security guard from Harlem.
“I would blow one right back to her. If a pretty girl is showing me love, I’m showing it right back,” Mac, 34, added.
“I think it’s awesome – more people should do that,” gushed Jonathan Smith, a 40-year-old visitor from Amsterdam.
