Avatar Studio
Mix 1,200+ pieces — punk fringe, Y2K visor, fox ears — into a self nobody else has.
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Social Network for the Soft Internet · Beta
Your soft-internet
Social Playground.
Be anyone. Feel everything. Yinniu is an emotional oasis where shared moods, vibes, and honest thoughts connect you with the people — and personas — that actually get you.
- 1,200+Avatar pieces
- 6Ways to play
- 0Targeted ads
✨ Vibe: dreamy
🎧 Lo-fi addict
💜 3 new souls
01 · Identity
Create a new you.
Drop the LinkedIn version of yourself. Build a 3D avatar from a thousand presets — retro Y2K, neon punk, dream-academia — and let your vibe speak before your nickname does. No selfies required. No public real names. Just the version of you you've always wanted to share.
- 1,200+ avatar pieces, all free
- Mood-based outfit shuffler
- Lip-sync your avatar in voice chat
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Punk
Y2K
Dreamy
Cyber
02 · Discovery
Your feed, your call.
Yinniu Square shows posts from the tags you follow, in the order they were posted. You pick the tags. We don't run the algorithm carousel. No recommendations, no ranking — just the people you chose to listen to.
- Chronological feed only — no ranking algorithm
- Tags you manually follow, not "for you" guesses
- No targeted ads, ever
SquareFor You
nightowl_42 🌙 insomnia club
"played the same song 14 times tonight. anyone else?"
soft_static 🎧 lo-fi
"new mixtape dropped. it's mostly rain and regret."
apricot.poet 📓 journal
"writing a letter to my future self. drop a word."
03 · Diary
Write to your future self.
A private mood journal that's just for you. Tag your feelings, watch your patterns over weeks, leave gentle notes for the version of you that's coming. Nothing is shared. Nothing is ranked. Nothing is sold.
- End-to-end private — only you can read it
- Mood tags, photo attachments, voice memos
- Schedule a letter to your future self — any future date
Today · May 19Private
🌧️ heavy
☁️ meh
☀️ glowing
Long day. Coffee with M went better than I thought. Maybe I'm not as bad at this as I keep telling myself.
Letter scheduled · 2027-05-19
"Dear future me, remember today felt heavy but…"
04 · Playground
Six ways to play.
Drag, swipe, scroll. Tap any tick on the ruler to jump.
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Style Vault
Save the avatar combos that hit different. Tag them, name them, pull them back any time.
Identity
Yinniu Square
A chronological feed of posts from the tags you follow. No algorithm, no ranking, no "for you" guessing.
Feed
Vibe Mailbox
Send a one-liner to a soul who follows the same tag. They reply if it lands, or pass without judgment.
1:1
Daydream Diary
A private mood journal that's just for you. Tag your feelings, watch your patterns, celebrate the tiny wins.
Self-care
Time Capsule
Write a letter to your future self. Pick a date — next week, next year, next decade. Yinniu seals it and delivers.
Memory
05 · Story
Ten years, one obsession.
Building a kinder corner of the internet, one ship at a time.
- 2016
First spark
Yinniu launches as a small mood-tagging diary app. 10,000 users in week one.
- 2018
1M DAU
Yinniu Square ships. The "for-you" feed becomes our north star.
- 2020
Vibe Mailbox
1:1 notes between tag-mates ships. Slow conversations replace doom-scrolling.
- 2021
3D Avatars
1,200+ pieces. The first time the avatar is more popular than the selfie.
- 2023
Daydream Diary
Private mood-journaling ships. Users start scheduling letters to their future selves.
- 2025
Going wider
We expand to four more domestic app stores and ship a serious moderation team.
- 2026
Open studio
We open-source our entire 3D avatar pipeline so anyone can build their own.
Ready when you are
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