@CNN: Eight-year-old Gavin Thomas is a global viral star, appearing in gifs and memes across the internet.

But nowhere has fallen for him like China, where images of the “fake smile boy” are sent as many as 10 million times a day. https://t.co/fXJ7UaBFTx

Eight-year-old Gavin Thomas is a global viral star, appearing in gifs and memes across the internet.

But nowhere has fallen for him like China, where images of the "fake smile boy" are sent as many as 10 million times a day. https://t.co/fXJ7UaBFTx

— CNN (@CNN) November 9, 2018