Meme history & origin - Brent Rambo, also known as Kid Giving Thumbs Up, is a child model featured in a promotional video for Apple's desktop products in the early 1990s. On Reddit beginning in the early 2010s, the animated GIF of Rambo giving a thumbs-up gesture in the video has been paired with humorous and suggestive clips as a seal of approval, in a similar vein to the use of Approval Guy on 4chan. 134Brent Rambo thumbs up meme. In the early 1990s, Apple Inc. released a promotional video for