My Idol app produces scary and hilarious avatars

My Idol is the internet'slatest, and perhaps creepiest, obsession. The avatar generator,currently trending in the app store, is a Chinese application written in Chinese. The language barrieris causing some confusion for increasingly hooked users, and that could be making some of the resultseven more ridiculous.

How it works: After taking oruploading a selfie, users can dress their cartoon avatar (think Bratz dollmeetsdancing baby) andmake it do stufflike pole-dance or sing Frozen's Let it Go on an icy throne.

Some have had trouble getting the app to assign them the rightgender, but according to Elle's English translation of the instructions, that may be an easy fix.

If you don't have time to play around with it (although we recommend you do),Mashablehas done some of the heavy liftingand offered upMyIdoltipsforgetting your perfect cartoondoppelganger.

See theMy Idol vine here.

You can also upload photos of friends, celebrities and famous faces.Ever wanted to see world leaders pole-dance? Apparently you aren't alone.

See the President George W. Bush My Idol avatar here.

See the President VladimirPutin My Idol avatar here.

• See the PresidentObama dancing avatar here.

What happens when you give your pets the My Idol treatment

Some users tried making avatars of their pets, with results ranging from horrifying tokind of cute.

Watch thecatwalkingdog vine here.

CBC News host Andrew Nichols and CBC Newsweb writer Lauren O'Neil tried it out:

Some of them ...just shouldn't exist.

Some results are laugh out loud funny:

See the dancing Zayn Vine here.