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This is fine

You might remember it as Question Hound, This is fine dog

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2013·The social era

Two panels of a cartoon dog sitting in a burning room, saying that this is fine.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
Question Hound
Spread in
2013
Began as
A web page
Format
Meme
Era
The social era
Made by
KC Green
Taken from
On Fire, a six-panel strip from his webcomic Gunshow, 2013
Who or what it shows
A dog called Question Hound
Used to say
Carrying on as though nothing is wrong while everything is
Origin
Not an upload originally
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

KC Green drew a strip called On Fire for his webcomic Gunshow in 2013, in which a dog sits in a burning room saying it is fine and then burns. The first two panels spread on their own from September 2014, cropped away from the ending, and became the standard image for calm in the middle of catastrophe. The New York Times called it the meme 2016 deserved.

Why it matteredWhat changed

It became the standard picture of pretending not to notice a disaster, used by a political party against its rivals and kept as a mascot in a NASA mission control room. The joke people share is the first third of a comic that ends differently.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    KC Green publishes the six-panel strip On Fire in his webcomic Gunshow.1

  2. Took off

    The first two panels appear, uncredited, on Reddit and Imgur under the caption “Basically how I’m handling life right now”.1

  3. Mainstream

    Adult Swim announces an animated series based on the comic and releases an animated version of the strip.1

  4. Picked up

    The Republican Party tweets the image during the Democratic National Convention, and is criticised for it.1

  5. Remixed

    Green publishes a sequel, This is Not Fine, in The Nib. The dog panics and puts the fire out.1

  6. Later

    The dog is added to Fortnite as an emote.1

  7. Later

    A video game based on the strip, This is Fine: Maximum Cope, is released.1

The version you rememberNot the same thing

The version people rememberTwo panels

The dog sits in the fire and says it is fine. That is the whole of the meme.1

The originalOn Fire, six panels

The strip carries on. Green has said it is easier to sell the first two panels than the entire comic, in which the dog melts into nothingness.1

What people misrememberSet straight

Commonly remembered asA two-panel cartoon about staying calm.

ActuallyThe first two panels of six. In the rest, the dog melts into nothingness.1

LegacyWhat it left behind

More from hereIn this collection

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · a moment that changed what the internet did next · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

This began as a web page, not as a video.

Where it came fromWhat we know

There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This began as a web page, not as a video.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

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SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Gunshow (webcomic)

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