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You WANT to thumbs down, so you can see the funny lion, but then it's hard to thumb down awesome people. Except Brutus. Creep.
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Ignorant uneducated morons.
Thumb up is for killing (knife up into neck),
horizontal (or down) thumb is to let them live.
This what happend when you learn history form comics and cartoons ...
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It wasn't thumb's up or thumb's down in the Colosseum; the thumb represented the sword, and so a thumbs down was to cast your sword into the sand and spare them, whilst a thumbs inward towards your neck (as if saying "me") meant stab them. Down was actually live, and in was actually death. There was no up.
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Brutus wants to be your friend.
J.C. The man: Go to hell!
Lion: Rwaarr!
Thumbs up if you agree that's the funniest part!
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One of the comments mentioned that in ancient Roman times, thumbs up meant "kill" and thumbs down meant "don't kill". To that end, I think you should add an option at the start of the game, between Classic mode and "Historically Accurate" mode. (Classic mode changes nothing, "H.A." mode just reverses what thumbs-up and thumbs-down do, except for at the elevator and the statue.)