What is Giant Thumb Guy?

Giant Thumb Guy is a three-panel reaction comic in which a group of friends dismisses an off-panel critic with a silent thumbs-up before returning to their conversation. A July 2021 remake featuring a cartoonishly oversized thumb became the dominant version online.

Where did Giant Thumb Guy come from?

Brazilian artist Caio "Furfles" Slikta drew the original comic for his Blogspot before November 2010, with the earliest surviving copy appearing in a bloganguangu repost on November 12, 2010.

What does Giant Thumb Guy mean?

It signals that someone's negative opinion was heard but is being ignored, in the same spirit as Who Asked and Nobody Asked reactions, with the giant-thumb redraw turning that dismissiveness into something absurd.

How do you use Giant Thumb Guy?

Users post it under tweets, replies or memes that criticize something they enjoy, where the thumbs-up reads as a sarcastic acknowledgment. The giant-thumb variant is common for reactions needing extra emphasis.

Is Giant Thumb Guy still popular?

After the July 2021 Twitter remake brought the format into English-speaking communities, usage held steady on Facebook meme pages through fall 2021 with Dark Souls and Donda edits.

Giant Thumb Guy

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Published October 16, 2026

Giant Thumb Guy began as a three-panel webcomic by Brazilian artist Caio "Furfles" Slikta posted before November 2010, in which a chatting group dismisses a hater with a silent thumbs-up5. The image floated through Portuguese and Spanish meme circles for a decade until Twitter user @NekoHappix shared a crude July 2021 redraw that gave the thumb cartoonish proportions1. By late summer that year, Facebook pages were pasting the new version into Dark Souls and Kanye West Donda jokes10.

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Overview

Across three panels, five people chat enthusiastically, an off-panel voice yells an insult while one group member turns to deliver a flat thumbs-up, and the group returns to its conversation as if nothing happened4. People post it as a visual "noted, now please leave," usually under tweets or comments that criticize something fans like3.

@NekoHappix's July 2021 redraw exaggerated the thumb into an oversized, lumpy shape that nearly fills the second panel1. That cartoonish version spread faster than the original and largely replaced it as the go-to reaction on Twitter and Facebook2. Captions on the hater's dialogue often get edited so the meme answers a specific hot take, from console-war posts to music discourse10.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Blogspot (origin) / Twitter (viral remake)

Creator

Caio "Furfles" Slikta

Date

2010

Brazilian cartoonist Caio "Furfles" Slikta published the original three-panel strip on his Blogspot comic blog Furfles Tiras before November 12, 2010; the original post is no longer online5. In the strip, an off-panel character shouts "This blog sucks" at a group of five friends, one of whom turns around for a silent thumbs-up before resuming the chat.

Blogspot user bloganguangu made the earliest archived repost on November 12, 20104. The comic stayed inside Portuguese and Spanish-speaking blog communities for years before migrating to the wider internet.

How It Spread

Portuguese and Spanish meme communities kept the comic alive through the 2010s. Desmotivaciones user NeltharionVastoLorde turned it into an atheism demotivational poster on January 17, 20136. A reworked version hit Imgur on March 24, 20167. By 2019, a cropped edit captioned "Ah, ya, en qué estábamos" ("Oh, yeah, where were we," translated from Spanish) caught on as a Facebook reaction8.

Spring 2021 brought the format to English-speaking Twitter and Reddit. Redditor mahoney4321 posted it to r/liluzivert on May 3, 2021, drawing more than 1,800 upvotes3. Twitter user @NekoHappix then redrew the second panel on July 19, 2021, replacing the thumb with an absurdly oversized blob and asking followers to post the original; the tweet collected over 5,300 retweets and 45,200 likes1.

The remake spread fast. @M0nkena posted the first documented reaction use on July 20, 20212. Chaos Zweihander +10 slotted it into a Dark Souls meme on July 309, and Young Thugga La Meme Season 2 used it for a Kanye West Donda joke on August 30 that drew more than 2,800 reactions10.

Timeline

2010-11-12

Blogspot user bloganguangu made the earliest archived repost of Caio "Furfles" Slikta's three-panel cartoon.

2013-01-17

Desmotivaciones user NeltharionVastoLorde adapted the comic into a demotivational poster about atheism.

2016-03-24

An edited version of the comic was uploaded to Imgur with new dialogue.

2019

A cropped single-panel edit captioned "Ah, ya, en qué estábamos" caught on as a Spanish-language Facebook reaction.

How to Use This Meme

In the three-panel format, the group ignores an unwanted opinion. The usual edit keeps the first and third panels untouched and replaces the off-panel insult with whatever criticism the poster wants to brush off1. For single-panel reactions, people post just the thumbs-up frame under a reply, often using the giant-thumb version for extra absurdity2.