Sabrina Carpenter is having a moment. Actually, she’s been having a moment for two straight years now — chart-topping, Coachella headlining, everywhere-you-look kind of a moment. But there’s one specific moment from her Short N’ Sweet Tour that has a very particular corner of the internet absolutely convinced they witnessed something historic.
We’re talking about the Juno position. And we’re talking about a very suspicious sound.
First, Let’s Talk About the “Juno Position”
If you haven’t seen a Short N’ Sweet show, here’s what you need to know: the live performance of her song “Juno” has become its own viral phenomenon, and not because of the vocals. At each tour stop, Sabrina drops into increasingly creative (and let’s say theatrical) physical positions onstage during the song. Fans started cataloging every new position across every city, TikTok blew up with clips, the whole thing became a running joke with a fanbase that absolutely loves her for leaning into it.
The choreography involves, to put it diplomatically, a lot of bending, dropping to all fours, and general floor-level activity that leaves very little to the imagination. It sparked an actual controversy about whether the show was appropriate for kids. Sabrina’s response? Essentially: “Don’t bring your kids then.”
King behavior, honestly.
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The Fart Heard ‘Round TikTok
Here’s where we come in. During at least one concert stop, fans with very attentive ears (and cameras aimed in exactly the right direction) became convinced that the Juno position produced a little extra sound effect that wasn’t exactly in the setlist.
The TikTok comments are unhinged in the best possible way. One clip tagged #sabrinacarpenter #junoposition #fart has fans absolutely losing it, with the top comment energy being “SABRINA ILY GIRL IM SORRY” — which, honestly, is the most loving way the internet has ever reacted to a possible celebrity fart. Her fanbase did not drag her. They celebrated her. They made it a whole thing.
This is the parasocial relationship we all deserve.
Has Anyone Confirmed Anything?
No official comment from Sabrina’s camp, no MTV-style statement, no publicist scrambling. Unlike the Taylor Swift VMA incident where MTV felt compelled to issue an actual press release about a boom mic, Sabrina’s team has stayed conspicuously quiet on this one — which means we’re left with the audio, the TikToks, and the extremely zoomed-in crowd reactions.
The case for “it happened”: The timing is very specific, the crowd reaction in several clips is immediate, and this is a song that involves sustained physical exertion in increasingly ridiculous positions at 200 shows across multiple continents. The human body can only take so much.
The case for “it didn’t”: Concert venues are full of ambient noise, sound equipment malfunctions constantly, and Sabrina Carpenter is a trained professional performer who has done this exact routine hundreds of times. Also, audio from fan-filmed concert footage is notoriously unreliable.
The Verdict
We’re calling this one: gloriously unresolved and probably staying that way forever. But what makes this different from your typical celebrity fart discourse is the fanbase reaction — nobody was horrified, nobody demanded an apology, nobody made it weird. They just loved her more for it.
That’s the Sabrina Carpenter effect. She has built an entire brand on being the girl who winks at the audience and does whatever she wants, and her fans have decided that includes potentially farting during “Juno” at a sold-out arena. The content practically writes itself.
We’ll be watching every new tour date very closely. For journalistic purposes.
