Are creepy digital avatars of your friends clogging up your Facebook and Instagram newsfeeds? Welcome to the post-MyIdol world. The Chinese phone app has begun trending in the Apple Store after achieving the level of viral fame reserved for the nae nae dance or Vines of dogs playing "Don't Fear The Reaper".

In a nutshell, the app allows you to upload a selfie and then create a virtual doppelgänger that you can customise and dress up in cute outfits, like a 4/20 sweatshirt or a Superman suit. You can even swap genders. So far, so Sims 2, right?

The real genius of MyIdol is the video option, which allows you to force your digital twin into increasingly horrifying pre-recorded situations, like singing "Let it Go", pole dancing or inexplicably gyrating next to gramophone while sassily fanning yourself like a consumptive Victorian.

Early adopter Miley Cyrus uploaded a video of her virtual self pole dancing to "Truffle Butter" by Nicki Minaj, introducing the app to 18 million followers:

MyIdol is completely in Chinese, though part of the fun comes from trying to figure everything out – and the app's creators have promised an English version very soon. (In the meantime, they've also made a step-by-step English guide here.) It's pretty much enough to know that any options in red mean "no" and green mean "yes".

But the magic of MyIdol is only just becoming clear now that people have exhausted the fun of making mini-mes and moved onto tormenting various celebrities in avatar form. Like this pole-dancing Drake:

Or Vladimir Putin dancing sensually to "A Thousand Miles" by severely underrated musical artiste Vanessa Carlton:

I don't even know what the fuck this is supposed to be:

Basically, there's nothing better in the world by taking out your internalised weirdness on a fake avatar. If you're the kind of teenager who enjoyed deleting all the doors in your Sims' house and then setting the cooker on fire, there is truly nothing more satisfying than this app. I mean this as a sincere Sims firestarter myself.

You can download MyIdol here.