Meet Gavin Thomas, the kid who broke the Internet with his expressions
遇見加文·托馬斯抛计，用表情引爆互聯(lián)網(wǎng)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.
據(jù)估計，中國各大社交媒體平臺所使用的加文GIF表情圖總數(shù)加起來超過10億照筑。
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:聽說過一個8歲的孩子僅僅用他的表情就引爆了互聯(lián)網(wǎng)嗎?來認(rèn)識下加文·托馬斯吹截，這個美國孩子一夜之間在世界上完全不同的另一個地方—中國录豺，引起了轟動。
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.
一開始只是一個無異于他人的普通社交媒體賬號饭弓，但很快就躥紅成為了網(wǎng)紅賬號双饥。據(jù)美國有線電視新聞網(wǎng)(CNN)報道，加文在微博(相當(dāng)于社交平臺推特）上創(chuàng)建了自己的個人主頁后弟断，以驚人地速度迅速吸引180多萬粉絲關(guān)注咏花，且粉絲數(shù)量還在持續(xù)增加中。而在推特上阀趴，他“僅有”55萬粉絲昏翰。
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.
這一切都源于小加文和叔叔Nick Mastodon玩耍的短視頻上傳到網(wǎng)絡(luò)后，迅速在他的家鄉(xiāng)美國走紅刘急。加文出生在明尼蘇達(dá)州棚菊，現(xiàn)在還在上小學(xué)，他的面部表情火速竄紅叔汁，廣泛被用于表情包和GIF表情圖中统求。
“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.
在線動圖（GIF表情圖）的經(jīng)銷商、動圖宇宙創(chuàng)始人兼首席執(zhí)行官丁焱告訴CNN：“加文尷笑的GIF表情圖据块，在中國各大社交媒體平臺每天被使用多達(dá)1000萬次码邻，”她補充道，他在中國比在美國更受歡迎另假。
According to estimates, the total number of Gavin’s GIFs used across social media platforms in China must have exceeded 1 billion. （Timesnownews）據(jù)估計像屋，中國各大社交媒體平臺所使用的加文GIF表情圖總數(shù)加起來超10億。
