The meme comes from artist KC Green’s 2013 six-panel comic, “On Fire.” In the first image, a dog sits at a table, surrounded by flames. Then, the dog smiles and says, “This is fine.” ...

On January 9th, 2013, a six-panel webcomic officially titled “On Fire ... meme’s popularity peaked in March 2020, according to Google Trends. That year, Funko released a ‘This is fine’ dog ...

The creator of the “This is fine” dog meme has confirmed he’s spinning it into a video game titled This is Fine: Maximum Cope. Question Hound, the proper name of the viral star, was created ...

But the meme best known as “This Is Fine”—the one with the dog sipping from a mug as a fire rages around him ... s cheerful inertia began to read as a proxy for a shared sense of ...

After the 2016 election, Green drew his own alternative, in which the dog screams, “This is not fine” and puts out the fire. “What I never really saw in the [original use of the] meme was ...