Some feel that we as a society are sitting in a burning room calmly drinking a cup of coffee, telling ourselves this is fine. That's not fine. On January 9th, 2013, a six-panel webcomic officially ...

Thanks to a ubiquitous meme, the ironic phrase "This is fine" means things are not really that fine at all. You've probably seen it: A smiling cartoon dog sits at a table, coffee mug on hand, as a ...

Memes rarely endure. Most explode and recede at nearly the same moment: the same month or week or day. But the meme best known as “This Is Fine”—the one with the dog sipping from a mug as a fire rages ...

If you've been on the internet at some point in the past few years, you've seen the meme: a cartoon of cute dog in a nice hat, sitting calmly as the room around him is covered in flames. Unfazed, the ...

In the beginning, he was just a cartoon dog in a burning house, apathetic about his dire predicament. “This is fine,” he said, to no one in particular. But a decade after artist K.C. Green drew the ...