# Giant Thumb Guy 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-up[5]. 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 proportions[1]. By late summer that year, Facebook pages were pasting the new version into Dark Souls and Kanye West Donda jokes[10]. ## Origin 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 online[5]. 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, 2010[4]. The comic stayed inside Portuguese and Spanish-speaking blog communities for years before migrating to the wider internet. - **Platform:** Blogspot (origin) / Twitter (viral remake) - **Creator:** Caio "Furfles" Slikta - **Date:** 2010 ## 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 happened[4]. People post it as a visual "noted, now please leave," usually under tweets or comments that criticize something fans like[3]. @NekoHappix's July 2021 redraw exaggerated the thumb into an oversized, lumpy shape that nearly fills the second panel[1]. That cartoonish version spread faster than the original and largely replaced it as the go-to reaction on Twitter and Facebook[2]. Captions on the hater's dialogue often get edited so the meme answers a specific hot take, from console-war posts to music discourse[10]. ## How to Use 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 off[1]. For single-panel reactions, people post just the thumbs-up frame under a reply, often using the giant-thumb version for extra absurdity[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### 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[5]. A July 2021 remake featuring a cartoonishly oversized thumb became the dominant version online[1]. ### 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[4]. ### 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[1]. ### 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[2]. The giant-thumb variant is common for reactions needing extra emphasis[1]. ### 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[10]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/NekoHappix/status/1417142377731354628]() 2. [https://mobile.twitter.com/M0nkena/status/1417456506728030210]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/liluzivert/comments/n3vqbz/uzi_fell_off_2016_uzi_needs_to_come_back/]() 4. [https://bloganguangu.blogspot.com/2010/11/show.html]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/giant-thumb-guy]() 6. [https://desmotivaciones.es/6362162/Ateismo]() 7. [https://imgur.com/LhP7uJB]() 8. [https://www.facebook.com/225874137447967/posts/2606126266089397]() 9. [https://www.facebook.com/GiantDaddio/posts/835484184025662]() 10. [https://www.facebook.com/YTLaMeme2/posts/399160248236728]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/giant-thumb-guy Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library