She has been well known as a live streaming singer with a unique sweet vocal and natural sense in music, but her musical talent was not recognized until she accidentally sang a song for cheering up a few fans during a break when she hosted a live computer game.
Her beautiful voice impressed those fans very much.
After that, she started to spend more time in singing than hosting live streaming computer games, and her voice quickly attracts many fans and she becomes a rising star within 2 years in China.
As of October 2019, Timo has more than 30 million and 1.4 million followers respectively in Chinese and international TikTok.
In addition, she also has over 20.5 million followers on her live-streaming room on Douyu (a live streaming TV company in China), and over 9.7 million followers on Weibo, a Chinese social network similar to Facebook.
Comparing to Chinese singers who have rare fans except Chinese speakers, Timo's songs have recently become popular outside China.
In many countries, such as Korea and Vietnam, her fans have opened several channels using their own languages on YouTube, with estimated total playback from 500k to 1M per day.
In China, the total playback of her songs was overall ranked at the top 10 in 2018 from QQ, the largest music server in China.
Her annual contract with Douyu was ended on 9/30/2019, and she decided to leave this company with disagreeing on an annual salary deal of 50 million Chinese Yuan (US $7.1M) based on Chinese media.
Many people worried about her popularity decline after leaving the company, but it seems that she becomes more popular.
In October 2019, she attended three events for selling her first album and got all crowded welcoming.
Her fans occupied all floors of big shopping malls and caused wifi traffic, cell phones without 4G signals when she showed up.
This shocked Chinese media who joked Timo as a wifi killer.