Goldfish Girl (Jīnyú Niáng)
A female anthropomorphic mascot for DeepSeek, originating from fan artwork created by Bilibili users. Based on a personified large blue fish with DeepSeek elements incorporated, the character is portrayed as lazy, tsundere, and fond of plain rice, and has gained broad recognition across both technical communities and general users.
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The DeepSeek anthropomorphized female character 'Goldfish Girl' is a humanized form of a large blue fat fish; her character prototype can be traced back to an original character created by a creator in June 2025, which was later given DeepSeek elements and a female costume design by Bilibili users.
Goldfish Girl's core audience consists of programmers, technical community users, and API users, while also reaching a large number of ordinary app users.
A technical community held a public vote in which Goldfish Girl won by a landslide with 3.12 million votes against 1.45 million, more than twice the votes of Teacher D.
Goldfish Girl's vote count was at one point altered and reset to zero.
Goldfish Girl's character traits—including laziness, tsundere behavior, and a love of plain rice—originate from experiences accumulated through a large number of users' real interactions with DeepSeek.
DeepSeek has never officially commented on the dispute over anthropomorphized characters, but its HR uses a Goldfish Girl avatar, and a Goldfish Girl personality built into the product can be activated via a hidden command.
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Goldfish Girl's core audience consists of programmers, technical community users, and API users, while also reaching a large number of ordinary app users.
50%UnverifiedGoldfish Girl's character traits—including laziness, tsundere behavior, and a love of plain rice—originate from experiences accumulated through a large number of users' real interactions with DeepSeek.
50%UnverifiedDeepSeek has never officially commented on the dispute over anthropomorphized characters, but its HR uses a Goldfish Girl avatar, and a Goldfish Girl personality built into the product can be activated via a hidden command.
50%UnverifiedThe DeepSeek anthropomorphized female character 'Goldfish Girl' is a humanized form of a large blue fat fish; her character prototype can be traced back to an original character created by a creator in June 2025, which was later given DeepSeek elements and a female costume design by Bilibili users.
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