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Two-panel cartoon of a dog in a hat sitting at a table drinking coffee while the room around him is engulfed in flames. In the second panel, he says 'This is fine.' despite the fire intensifying.

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What is the This Is Fine meme?

The 'This is fine' meme (also called the 'This is fine' dog) shows a cartoon dog sitting calmly at a table with coffee while flames engulf the room around him. It represents denial, coping, or pretending everything is okay when a situation is clearly falling apart.

Origin & History

The comic strip 'On Fire' was published on January 9, 2013, in KC Green's webcomic Gunshow. It depicts a dog wearing a small hat, sipping coffee at a kitchen table as fire spreads through the room, calmly repeating 'This is fine' as the flames intensify.

The panel went viral during the 2016 U.S. election cycle as a metaphor for normalized chaos, and it has since become one of the internet's most enduring reaction images. It appears in discussions about burnout, bad news cycles, broken software in production, and any scenario where someone must function despite obvious disaster.

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Coping with obvious disaster while pretending things are normal
Commentary on burnout or ignoring mounting problems
DevOps humor about bugs in production that nobody is fixing
Reacting to bad news cycles with resigned acceptance
Office jokes about chaos while insisting the team is fine

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