上周，火遍全球的“假笑男孩”加文•托马斯(Gavin Thomas)正式入驻中国社交平台！

△ Gavin的抖音主页

作为当之无愧的“表情包”，这位网红男孩在海外各大社交平台都有自己的账号，圈粉无数↓↓↓

YouTube 平台

△ 粉丝数四舍五入为1万

Twitter 平台

△ 粉丝数为38万

Instagram 平台

△ 粉丝数为47万

Facebook 平台

△ 粉丝数为106万

显然，中国网友们的能量还是相当巨大的！Gavin开微博不久，#假笑男孩开微博# 这一话题就登上了实时热搜，账号在一天之内吸引了超过百万粉丝关注。

一周的时间过去，这位“表情包”男孩已经在微博上成功吸粉132万！

截至目前，Gavin一共发了9条微博，每条都能收获好几大万的网友点赞。其中，第一条向大家问好的视频，点赞量高达44万，转发超过16万次！

视频中，Gavin用英文说，希望有一天能来到中国，和大家一起拍照。

"Hey guys, it's Gavin here. Welcome to my page. One day I really want to go to China and meet you and take pictures with you."

Last week, the popular 7-year-old online celebrity Gavin Thomas opened a Weibo account. Within one day he amassed over one million followers, and his first video has been re-posted over 167,000 times.

In China, Gavin is mostly known as “The Boy with a Fake Smile,” because in many videos and memes, he is seen wearing some kind of forced smile, but it's interesting to see that Gavin’s facial expressions can transcend cultural boundaries, as most memes tend to remain in just one nation or language.

同样精彩的还有这条微博的评论区，粉丝们纷纷开启斗图模式，甩出各种“假笑男孩”本尊的表情，画面也是相当喜感了！

Chinese Internet users were quick to show their love after seeing Gavin's first video. They made numerous memes with him, most of which were done with Chinese characters.

还有一位网友留言说：

“Through his fake smile, we can see that he may not want to come to China and take pictures with us.”

这位盆友，皮一下很开心吗？你的玩笑都快把人家的Nick舅舅吓惨了！

Gavin’s uncle, Nick Mastodon, responded to this comment on his Twitter page with a screenshot of Chinese media’s report, humorously saying“I’m dying.”

这位Nick舅舅是何许人也？

事实上，Nick是社交短视频鼻祖Vine的早期网红之一，Gavin正是在他的带领下实现“C位出道”的。

Nick was one of Vine’s earliest stars. Launched in 2013, Vine was a short video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. It was immensely popular at the time but was shut down in 2016.

当时，已经小有名气的舅舅Nick不时让Gavin在自己的视频中随性出镜。一开始，粉丝们觉得这个小男孩很可爱，倒也没有过多留意。Nick曾在接受《纽约杂志》(New York Magazine)采访时说到：

“And throughout that time in 2013, I started putting my nephew Gavin, who was 2 at the time — he would appear in my videos. And people thought he was cute, but they didn’t really take notice of him a whole lot.”

人们开始真正关注Gavin是在2014年春天。在一条视频中，Gavin头上顶着一只小蜥蜴，眼中泛着泪光，脸上一副呆萌尬笑，完美戳中网友笑点！

这之后，舅舅Nick又设计了多个“场景”企图让Gavin还原这一搞笑的表情，但结果均以失败告终——因为事实证明，Gavin能做出更多让人惊喜的表情，而且毫不费力。

“People started to comment about his reactions and how great it was,” he recalls. “And I was like, 'Let’s find other ways to capture him in funny situations and see if he can make that face some more.' He just made a whole lot of different faces; it’s just something he seems to be good at without even trying.”

就这样，Gavin继续在舅舅Nick的视频中不时露个脸。这些戏很足的表情被网友截图做成了表情包，并配上了各种文字。

Gavin’s reaction memes are typically screenshots from Nick’s Vines. And his facial expressions provide perfect meme fodder for every situation.

They're also meant to convey the emotions of someone trying to stay positive despite feeling vulnerable.

妈妈Kate在接受采访时曾说，这些表情全部来自网友的加工。

“People are always like, ‘Oh, I love your memes!’ And I’m always like, ‘Oh, I don’t make them,’” Kate said.

慢慢的，Gavin的人气逐渐跨越Vine，延展到其他社交媒体，他的表情包也开始被更多大V转发。到了2016年6月份，Gavin彻彻底底的成为了表情包界的扛把子。舅舅Nick这样说：

“It wasn’t up until, like, this past June that he really blew up, and I think it was because more and more big meme accounts were posting pictures of him.”

红得一塌糊涂之后，舅舅Nick也有自己的担心。

“The only thing I worry about, really, is that he would ever resent any of us for making these videos and posting these pictures,” Mastodon admitted.

“I’m hoping that he thinks it’s cool. I’m hoping that it’s not something that he gets teased about. I think his parents feel the same way.”

事实证明这位舅舅可能有些多虑了，看样子Gavin还蛮享受目前的状态，这不最近又开拓起中国市场了嘛。

不过有网友甩出图说，Gavin需要继续努力，毕竟竞争对手还真不少......

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