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Frustrated New York City straphangers are sounding off after yet another unprovoked case of subway violence, the third in the transit system this week, according to police, left a good Samaritan slashed in the face — and one victim’s TikTok recounting of her experience is resonating strongly with hundreds of thousands of them.

The stories have felt all-too-familiar and all-too-frequent in recent months for many. On Sunday, a 36-year-old was gashed for trying to stop a man who was randomly harassing commuters at a Brooklyn subway station. Six days earlier, a 68-year-old woman was pushed down a staircase at the Union Turnpike-Kew Gardens hub in Queens, another allegedly unprovoked attack, cops say.

A victim from a different violent incident took to social media to warn others to remain vigilant while on the train — and her message is going viral.

“Could I have done something, did I deserve it? Like what did I do to deserve this? I kept asking myself over and over and over,” asked Vesly Beato, who says she’s traumatized after a bizarre but scary attack on the subway on Friday.

Beato says she was sitting next to her 15-year-old cousin as they were heading uptown on the 1 train that afternoon. As it pulled into the 66th Street station, she says she was blindsided by a slap to the face.

“The train doors open and I hear the slap. That’s when I look up and everyone is looking at me. It feels like everything stopped at that moment,” she said. “I look over to my cousin, she’s crying. And then I hear, ‘She’s bleeding.'”