Webcomic artist KC Green celebrated the tenth anniversary of his Gunshow comic "On Fire," which eventually turned into the popular "this is fine" meme.

On Twitter, Green reflected on how "On Fire" and its optimistic, burning dog have impacted his life over the past ten years. Originally published in early 2013 on his long-running Gunshow website, the comic's top two panels were posted on Reddit a year later and exploded in popularity across the internet and beyond. "We passed it a couple days ago, but it has been 10 years since 'On Fire,' the strip I did that became the meme 'this is fine,'" Green said.

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"My thoughts on it change, depending on how annoyed I am that day," Green continued. "I should be so lucky to get to do all this for a living thanks to what it has become and helped me do, but it's hard to see the forest through the trees and it feels like I'm constantly lost in the woods anyway."

The Rise of a Meme

"On Fire" depicts a dog in a hat pleasantly smiling inside a burning house. The character ignores the raging fire and instead drinks his coffee and insists that there's no problem, only to melt in the gruesome final panel. The comic's first two panels, where the dog says "this is fine" amid the flames, became a popular image to express unease about ignoring severe problems. The meme grew so widespread that Green released a plushie of the dog a few years later, and eventually, a vinyl Funko Pop of the dog came out.

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Adult Swim animated the comic into an interstitial short in 2016, and later that year Green published a sequel called "This Is Not Fine" on The Nib. This time around, the dog finally admits he has a giant problem, and successfully puts out the fire before he burns to death. He then sits in his charred house and laments how he let the fire spread in the first place. Green has said that the unstable political climate played a big role in his decision to create an alternate version, alongside an incident where the official GOP Twitter account used his artwork without permission. He's also used the "On Fire" dog to criticize NFTs.

Alongside the Gunshow webcomic which spawned the meme, many other drawings by Green have gone viral. His other biggest hits include a black-and-white face exclaiming "Mother of God" which became popular in rage comics (traced from a face drawn by Green in 2008) and the infamously vulgar "Dickbutt" meme. Outside the internet, Green wrote an officially licensed Regular Show comic for Boom! Studios in 2016.

Source: Twitter