Who is Nina Lin?
US-based TikTok creator with 4,400,000 followers who talked her way into the 2021 Met Gala
Jules Carmaux·Profile updated: 11 Sept 2026Account totals can overlap; this is not a count of unique people.
Nina Lin posts as @n.nina666 on TikTok and Instagram and as NinaDaddy on YouTube, and streams on Twitch as ninadaddyisback. Her TikTok grew on New York clips from 2020 and 2021, and her video about getting into the 2021 Met Gala uninvited has reached 37,800,000 views. A 15 June 2025 chopsticks clip is her largest at 57,100,000 views. Measured 26 August 2026 on TikTok at 4,400,000 followers, 12 August 2026 on Instagram at 558,517 and 28 August 2026 on YouTube at 49,300 subscribers.
| Click Analytic grade | 76.3 / 100 Instagram, 12 August 2026: a credibility score of 76.3 leaves 132,648 of her 558,517 followers, just under a quarter, below the screen. The separate follower-type split counts 8.3% of that following, about 46,200 accounts, as suspicious, beside 52.0% real accounts, 5.8% other influencers and 34.0% mass followers. The score describes her Instagram audience. |
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| Known as | Nina Lin |
| Based in | United States |
| Category | Comedy / Streaming / Lifestyle |
| Top platform | TikTok |
| Audience | Instagram followers, measured 12 August 2026: 83.6% in the US, 55.3% men to 44.7% women, and a 25 to 34 peak at 47.1%. TikTok followers, measured 26 August 2026, flip the gender and age: 72.8% women, and 18 to 24 year olds at 65.7%. |
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Who is Nina Lin?
How @n.nina666 grew on New York clips in 2020 and 2021
Nina Lin, based in the United States, publishes as @n.nina666 on TikTok and Instagram and as NinaDaddy on YouTube. Her TikTok grew on short New York clips: nine of the ten most-liked TikToks on record carry #nyc. A 2am video from 29 December 2020, tagged #trucks and #latenight, reached 26,800,000 views and 5,200,000 likes. A self-defense tip for women, posted the following night, reached 9,300,000 views and 3,000,000 likes.
Walking into the 2021 Met Gala without an invitation
In September 2021 she got into the Met Gala, the fashion benefit held each year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, without being invited. She talked her way past security by saying she was part of a newspaper’s coverage team, reached the red carpet, and chatted with guests including the rapper Lil Nas X, the singer Rita Ora, the talk-show host Jimmy Fallon and Chance the Rapper. Her TikTok about the night, posted on 15 September 2021, has since reached 37,800,000 views. Two days later she published the full story as her first YouTube video.
Twitch, Kai Cenat and Streamer University
She now streams on Twitch as ninadaddyisback, the channel her TikTok and Instagram bios both name, and a TikTok of 24 August 2026 tells followers she is live there every day. In May 2025 her Instagram posts tagged #streameruniversity and thanked the streamer Kai Cenat, whose Streamer University, a boot camp for 120 creators, was first held that month at the University of Akron in Ohio. A July 2026 post calls her part of its class of 2025. She marked her 25th birthday on Instagram on 16 June 2026.
Followers up, views per TikTok down in 2026
Between February 2026 and 26 August 2026 her TikTok gained 300,000 followers, reaching 4,400,000, while its average views per video shrank from 2,100,000 to 559,250. Her Instagram is about an eighth that size, 558,517 followers on 12 August 2026, and its likes went the other way: 77,529 a post in February, 116,611 by August. A 2026 brief is buying the larger TikTok, whose per-video reach has contracted, and the smaller Instagram, whose response has grown.
Brands Nina Lin has worked with
Across her three accounts, the posts reviewed include one disclosed sponsored post. It is a TikTok from 25 November 2025 for OIAD, a test of the brand’s lip stain hashtagged #kbeauty, and it took 2,500,000 views, 64,500 likes, 776 comments and 4,814 saves. Neither the Instagram nor the YouTube posts reviewed include a paid post.
The post predates the monthly figures, which start in February 2026, so it can be read against two different baselines. Its 2,500,000 views are 4.47 times the 559,250 average measured in August 2026, but only 1.19 times the 2,100,000 average of February 2026. Its 64,500 likes are 1.56 times August’s 41,450 average and 0.85 times February’s 75,925. With a single November 2025 post as the only paid record reviewed, a 2026 booking has to be planned on her organic averages.
Four clothing names appear among the accounts she tags without a disclosure. On Instagram, Off-White and Urban Outfitters are each tagged in 6.7% of recent posts and PacSun in 3.3%; on TikTok the dress retailer Azazie is tagged in 6.7%. A tag only shows that a brand’s account was named in a caption, not that she was paid for it.
Her Instagram followers, measured on 12 August 2026, bring their own brand affinities, ranked on the audience rather than on her. Apple ranks first, then Nike, Walt Disney, Adidas, DC Entertainment and Honda, with SoundCloud, Starbucks and Spotify further down the ten. Two music services in that list sit with an audience whose third interest is music, at 29.8%.
For a beauty brand the OIAD post is the one precedent, and it points at TikTok: a product test that drew 2,500,000 views on an account where women are 72.8% of the audience and 18 to 24 year olds 65.7%, as of 26 August 2026.
Per-platform analytics
Followers, engagement and average views on each platform, free tiles below, full breakdown with a trial.
Her Instagram, also @n.nina666, holds 44 posts in total, far fewer than her 580 TikToks, and 558,517 followers measured on 12 August 2026. Its bio lists NY, LA, ATL and MIA and points to her TikTok and her Twitch. What matters for a buyer is what those 44 posts earn, the jump between June and August 2026, and the accounts she tags.
On Instagram the average post draws 968 comments on 116,611 likes, and the average Reel 1,482,234 views. The 20.88% engagement rate matches 116,611 likes divided by 558,517 followers. Reel views come to 2.65 times her follower count, so they run well past the size of the following. Comments trail far behind, at one per 120 likes.
The account was roughly level through the first half of 2026, at 534,658 followers in February and 532,257 in June. It then added 26,260 followers in two months to reach 558,517 in August, and average likes rose from 77,913 in June to 116,611, up 49.7%. Her five newest posts went up in that same stretch, between 13 June and 20 July 2026.
The feed mixes travel sets with New York jokes. Two Bali photo sets, posted on 28 June and 6 July 2026, took 173,096 and 134,186 likes. A 5 April 2025 post punning on beef took 117,423 likes. An 18 August 2025 post making a chopped cheese, the New York bodega sandwich, with ramen drew 3,154 comments, more than any other Instagram post of hers.
Streamer University runs through the account. A 17 May 2025 post about going back to uni, thanking @kaicenat, reached 1,663,289 views. A 13 June 2026 application post for the 2026 edition took 35,413 likes, and a 20 July 2026 post calling herself class of 2025 took 29,098. @kaicenat ties for the top spot among the accounts she tags, at 10.0% of recent posts. @sidetalknyc, the Instagram show of one-minute New York street interviews, appears in 6.7%: it is tagged on her truck posts of January 2021 and March 2025, and the March 2025 one reached 1,806,416 views.
Her Instagram audience credibility score is 76.3%. That leaves 132,648 of her 558,517 followers outside the screen, just under a quarter. Separately, the follower-type count classes 8.3% of the following as suspicious, about 46,200 accounts.
TikTok carries 4,400,000 of the 5,007,817 followers and subscribers across her three accounts, measured on 26 August 2026, a total that counts anyone following two of them twice. The account holds 580 videos and is not verified.
Each video averages 559,250 views against 41,450 likes and 238 comments, and her TikTok engagement rate is 10.24%. Those average views come to 12.7% of her 4,400,000 followers. Views outnumber likes 13.5 to 1, and likes outnumber comments 174 to 1, so people watch and like her clips far more readily than they reply to them.
Through 2026 the two main numbers have moved apart. February’s 4,100,000 followers became 4,260,000 by June and 4,400,000 by August, a gain of 300,000, or 7.3%. Views per video went the other way: 2,100,000 in February, 634,080 by April, 415,780 by June, a rebound to 904,581 in July, then 559,250 in August, 73.4% below February. Lifetime likes still climbed by 12,400,000 over the same period, to 158,100,000.
Her largest videos are mostly old. Nine of the ten most-liked on record date from December 2020 to September 2021: New York skits, safety tips and the Met Gala clip, which is second by views at 37,800,000. The one recent exception is the biggest of all. A 15 June 2025 clip captioned as her chopstick grip reached 57,100,000 views, 102 times her August average, along with 5,500,000 likes and 280,277 saves.
Her ten newest videos, all posted between 22 and 25 August 2026, average 148,990 views, 26.6% of the 559,250 account figure, and 19,555 likes. They include trend sounds, a clip asking whether she is a new BTS member, and a plug for her Twitch stream, which took 50,900 views. The best of the ten, a 24 August clip about one-sided beef set to a trending sound, reached 477,000 views and 85,400 likes.
For a campaign, TikTok is both the biggest account and the one whose numbers swing hardest. A booking here should be planned on the 559,250 average views, not on 4,400,000 followers. Whoever books a TikTok placement reaches a following that is 72.8% female, with 68.9% of it in the US. Nearly two in three are 18 to 24 (65.7%), and 13 to 17 year olds, the under-18 slice, come to 8.7%, about 383,000 accounts.
Her YouTube channel, NinaDaddy, has 49,300 subscribers and two videos, measured on 28 August 2026. Its description, in her own voice, reads “wusgood chat ya not ready hehe”, and both her TikTok and her Instagram link to it. The channel is small, but it holds her own telling of the 2021 Met Gala night.
The first upload, published on 17 September 2021, is titled as her sneaking into the Met Gala. Its description calls it her first YouTube video, says she almost got caught eight times, and tells viewers not to attempt it. It has 831,914 views and 81,155 likes. The second, a clip from 14 April 2022, teases a trip to the west coast and a video to come; it has 83,694 views, 58 comments and 3,862 likes. No video has followed it.
Every channel average is therefore two videos averaged. The 457,804 average views are 831,914 and 83,694 added and halved, and the 42,508 average likes come the same way from 81,155 and 3,862. The Met Gala video supplies 90.9% of the views across the pair, and the 7.22% engagement rate describes those two uploads rather than any current habit.
The channel still gains without posting. Its subscriber count climbed by 800 across February to August 2026, reaching 49,300 from 48,500, and lifetime views rose 5,117 to 916,763. Both happened with no upload since April 2022.
Of her three audiences, the YouTube one has the smallest under-25 share, 21.8%; Instagram’s is 39.2% and TikTok’s 74.4%. The 25 to 34 band alone holds 71.1% of the YouTube audience, more than three times TikTok’s 22.3%, and 13 to 17 year olds are 2.0% against TikTok’s 8.7%. Women are 73.0% of it, within a point of TikTok’s 72.8%. The US share is 59.3%, the lowest of her three accounts, and Australia (5.9%) and the United Kingdom (5.3%) come next.
For a brand, NinaDaddy is an archive with one viral video in it, not a publishing channel. A sponsored upload would be her first new video since April 2022, placed in front of 49,300 subscribers with no recent video to compare it against. Her live work happens on Twitch instead.
Top postSince y’all been begging for this. I finally made my first youtube video. YOUR GIRL ON VOGUE. Shoutout to all 831,914 views · 81,155 likesTop postIf I’m flyin to the mf west coast ya already know wussup 🤫😏 video drop in soon 🤪83,694 views · 3,862 likesWho follows Nina Lin?
Audience data measured on Instagram, 12 Aug 2026.
Where Nina Lin's Instagram followers are, as a share of the audience we measured.
83.6% of them are in the United States and 3.1% in Canada. The 5 markets shown cover 89.9% of the measured audience.
How old Nina Lin's Instagram followers are.
The largest group is 25-34 at 47.1%. With 18-24 that is 81.1% of the measured followers. 5.2% sit in the 13-17 bracket, which matters if what you are selling is age-gated.
The gender split of Nina Lin's Instagram followers.
55.3% male44.7% female
What Nina Lin's Instagram followers are made of: real accounts, suspicious accounts, mass followers and other creators.
What Nina Lin's Instagram followers care about, beyond this account.
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Instagram, measured on 12 August 2026, carries the fullest audience data of her three accounts, so it leads here. TikTok and YouTube come in where they differ, and on age and gender they differ sharply.
55.3% men on Instagram, 72.8% women on TikTok
Men lead her Instagram audience, 55.3% to 44.7% for women; applied to 558,517 followers, that comes to roughly 309,100 men and 249,400 women. Almost half, 47.1%, fall in the 25 to 34 band and another 34.0% in 18 to 24, so 81.1% are between 18 and 34 and 13.7% are 35 or over. Her TikTok audience, measured on 26 August 2026, flips both: 72.8% women, and 65.7% aged 18 to 24. A brief aimed at young women belongs on her TikTok; one aimed at men, or at people aged 25 to 34, fits her Instagram.
83.6% of her Instagram audience is in the United States
US followers dominate the Instagram side at 83.6%, roughly 466,800 accounts, and 96.2% of that audience is English-speaking. Outside the US and Canada, at 3.1%, no country reaches 2%: the United Kingdom is 1.6% and Australia 1.0%. On TikTok the US share drops to 68.9%, and the Philippines, at 3.3%, edges out Canada, at 3.2%. For a campaign that sells only in the United States, the Instagram audience loses the smallest share to other countries.
132,648 Instagram followers do not pass the credibility screen
A 76.3% credibility score on Instagram means 132,648 of her 558,517 followers fall below the screen. The follower-type split is a second, separate measure. It puts real accounts at 52.0%, roughly 290,400, and mass followers at 34.0%, roughly 189,600. Suspicious accounts come to 8.3% on that split, about 46,200, and other influencers to 5.8%.
Clothes, film and music lead the Instagram interests
Clothes, shoes, handbags and accessories top the interests at 31.7%, followed by television and film at 30.2% and music at 29.8%. Friends, family and relationships come fourth at 29.1%. Travel, which her two Bali sets lean on, is eleventh of the twelve measured interests at 21.2%.
8.7% of her TikTok audience is aged 13 to 17
The under-18 share depends on the account: 5.2% on Instagram, about 29,200 accounts; 8.7% on TikTok, about 383,000; and 2.0% on YouTube. Alcohol, gambling and other age-restricted offers need that TikTok share excluded before anything runs there.
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Nina Lin, frequently asked questions
How many followers does Nina Lin have?
On TikTok, @n.nina666 counted 4,400,000 followers on 26 August 2026; on Instagram the same handle counted 558,517 on 12 August 2026. Her YouTube channel, NinaDaddy, had 49,300 subscribers on 28 August 2026. Together that is 5,007,817 followers and subscribers, counting anyone who follows more than one account more than once.
How did Nina Lin get into the Met Gala?
In September 2021 she got past security at the Met Gala in New York by saying she was part of a newspaper’s coverage team, and reached the red carpet without an invitation. Her TikTok about the night has since reached 37,800,000 views. She told the full story in her first YouTube video, published on 17 September 2021.
Does Nina Lin stream on Twitch?
Yes, she streams on Twitch as ninadaddyisback, the channel named in both her TikTok and Instagram bios. A TikTok she posted on 24 August 2026 tells followers she is live there every day.
What is Nina Lin’s engagement rate?
On Instagram it was 20.88% on 12 August 2026, the result of 116,611 average likes on 558,517 followers. Her TikTok was measured at 10.24% on 26 August 2026 and her YouTube at 7.22% on 28 August 2026. On TikTok the figure that moved most is views, 559,250 per video in August against 2,100,000 in February 2026.
Has Nina Lin done sponsored posts?
The posts reviewed include one disclosed sponsored post, a TikTok for OIAD on 25 November 2025 that tested one of the brand’s lip stains. The clip drew 2,500,000 views and 64,500 likes, 1.56 times her August 2026 TikTok average for likes. No paid post appears among the Instagram or YouTube posts reviewed.
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