JO, or ThumbsUpMaster, started the Thumbs Up Club back in 2005 as a joke from a funny company acronyms discussion in his history class. This was brought up when JO's history teacher disguised an acronym with the word "ass" in it by saying "double s." Everyone else didn't seem to notice this so JO told his friend, Dolis, next to him, about the acronym their teacher disguised. Finding that humorous, they tried to think up of other funny acronyms for company names. JO, who's signature gesture was a "thumbs up", which was borrowed from his friend who moved away, brought up "The Thumbs Up Club" with it's acronym "T.T.U.C." as a joke for "tities you see." Later, they tried to enlist all of their other friends into TTUC by signing them up as club members. We assigned everyone with ranks, so JO, being a co-founder, ranked himself "The Master of Thumbs Ups." When JO finally got a computer with internet access, he created a website for The Thumbs Up Club at MSN Groups and signed up with the name "The Master of Thumbs Ups." That name, unfortunetly, was too long for character restrictions in several other websites, like Yahoo, so he shortened his alias to "ThumbsUpMaster." The Thumbs Up Club was then created at websites like GameSpot, Frappr, and it even became a fake company name for his videos. Twisted story, eh? I was bored in class so I started doodling. I came up with this: When I first started YouTube, I needed some sort of watermark for my videos to prove they were mine. So I thought, what the hell, my videos are going to be sanctioned by The Thumbs Up Club and a fake company called TTUC Productions. I searched the internet for a font that matched the logo I drew at school and was successful. Later, I found software called Vidlogo. With it, I added a TTUC logo at the bottom right corner of my videos. This was after I uploaded my early videos at YouTube so the only place you'll find the watermarks on my early videos are at GameSpot. They're the same videos but with a watermark, intro, and credits. I guess you can call them director's cut edition. Here's an example. The early The Thumbs Up Club logo was made in paint. It was going to be yellow+black+white at first but I liked the blue+black+white look better.