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This is fine

A two-panel Gunshow comic featuring an anthropomorphic character in a burning room who calmly says, “This is fine.” The image became a meme, emerging around 2016.

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Where it started

Gunshow is a 2008 webcomic created by KC Green. The webcomic is gag-a-day, having little overarching story and covering a large variation of topics with strong tonal shifts. Gunshow is well known for spawning the "This is fine" internet meme in 2013. The webcomic concluded in 2014, as Green moved on to other creative work.

The use timeline

  1. A two-panel comic drawn in 2013 by KC Green as part of the Gunshow webcomic, showing an anthropomorphic dog sitting in a room on fire, and saying "This is fine". The comic emerged as a meme in 2016, used in situations, as described by The New York Times, "halfway between a shrug and complete denial of reality". Numerous derivatives of the "This is fine" comic have been made.

  2. Wikidata Q28451621: Gunshow — 2008 American webcomic. First recorded: 2008-09-04T00:00:00Z.

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