Meet Gavin Thomas, the kid who broke the Internet with his expressions

遇见加文·托马斯，用表情引爆互联网的小朋友

According to estimates, the total number of Gavin’s GIFs used across social media platforms in China must have exceeded 1 billion.

据估计，中国各大社交媒体平台所使用的加文GIF表情图总数加起来超过10亿。

Beijing: Heard of an eight-year-old who has exploded the internet with just his expressions? Meet Gavin Thomas, an American kid who became an overnight sensation in a completely different corner of the world – China.

北京消息:听说过一个8岁的孩子仅仅用他的表情就引爆了互联网吗?来认识下加文·托马斯，这个美国孩子一夜之间在世界上完全不同的另一个地方—中国，引起了轰动。

What started off as a normal social media profile like anyone else, became a viral account in no time. Gavin created his profile on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to social media platform Twitter, and hit jackpot right away after gaining an astonishing 1.8 million followers, and counting, according to a report by CNN. On Twitter, he has ‘just’ 550,000 followers.

一开始只是一个无异于他人的普通社交媒体账号，但很快就蹿红成为了网红账号。据美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)报道，加文在微博(相当于社交平台推特）上创建了自己的个人主页后，以惊人地速度迅速吸引180多万粉丝关注，且粉丝数量还在持续增加中。而在推特上，他“仅有”55万粉丝。

It all started off after videos of baby Gavin with his uncle Nick Mastodon became an instant hit online back home in the US. Born in Minnesota, and in elementary school right now, Gavin facial expressions became an instant hit, so much so that his expressions became used in memes and GIFs.

这一切都源于小加文和叔叔Nick Mastodon玩耍的短视频上传到网络后，迅速在他的家乡美国走红。加文出生在明尼苏达州，现在还在上小学，他的面部表情火速窜红，广泛被用于表情包和GIF表情图中。

“A GIF of Gavin’s face where he is seen smiling awkwardly might be getting used as many as 10 million times per day across China’s various social media platforms,” Ann Ding, founder and CEO of Dongtu.com, a big distributor of online GIFs, told CNN. He is more popular in China than in the US, she added.

在线动图（GIF表情图）的经销商、动图宇宙创始人兼首席执行官丁焱告诉CNN：“加文尴笑的GIF表情图，在中国各大社交媒体平台每天被使用多达1000万次，”她补充道，他在中国比在美国更受欢迎。

According to estimates, the total number of Gavin’s GIFs used across social media platforms in China must have exceeded 1 billion. （Timesnownews）据估计，中国各大社交媒体平台所使用的加文GIF表情图总数加起来超10亿。