144 comments. About 13 inches tall and hefty enough to hug if you need that. SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. This is fine. The good thing that they don't need a lighter for the new year rockets, Some one took the "burn these spiders" a bit too serious, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 98% Upvoted. This is Not Fine | The Nib. Memes! Anti- Stressol Ständig neue Videos gefällig? Well, that’s the whole idea of a meme. Article by Nancy Tomasheski. !”, it seemed like something had shifted in the fabric of reality. Comments 32. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Take, for instance, the origin of the 2013 comic that spawned the “This Is Fine” meme. This is not fine. Why did it seem like the right time for that? Things were kind of slow for me financially. Have you come up with a complex backstory and set of motivations for Question Hound? A longtime arts reporter in Los Angeles who has contributed to the New York Times, he runs the blog Culture Crash. A way of describing cultural information being shared. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Either whimsical or satirical, cute or frightening, K.C. Why do you think your “This is fine” dog has become so widely known and loved? Memes! Green’s comic of a, Salon tracked down the comics artist to get at the meaning of his new cartoon, and to discuss the announcement that he’s Kickstarting a plush-toy version of Question Hound, which at press time, ------------------------------------------. The plush is a good tall little boy. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Why this this happen tho? Memes! 21.3k. It became a kind of digital-world version of “Keep Calm and Carry On,” even though it portrayed a cartoon dog in a burning house. Please don’t try to set him on actual fire, he is made out of fire-resistant material, I am told. Copyright © 2019 Salon.com, LLC. 715x349px 615.2 KB. Meme: This is NOT FINE! Green corresponded with us from his Massachusetts office; the interview has been lightly edited for clarity. Maybe later, but I’d rather focus on what we have now. This is so true though, australia is burning alive, koalas are going extinct and our politicians be sitting doing nothing. The other day, his message changed to “This is not fine.” What motivated it? 2. Show More. Is there a scientific evidence as to why Australia gets way so hot during this time? People like it, reblog it, etcetera. It was definitely a response to how weird and bad 2016 has made me feel and most definitely a lot of others. He's the author of the book, "Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class.". This is Not Fine | The Nib. Posted by 7 months ago. User account menu. Good luck with your plugs. An element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation. We, as humans, clearly need to change the way we are living and stop climate change. What are you hoping for? He was based on an old cartoon character I would draw in junior high. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. On Twitter, for … I think it's Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It gets around. If anything, Question Hound became sort of a surrogate for myself whenever I would draw him in comics. I remember first seeing someone on Instagram post those two images and talking about “finals got me like” or something. I also think that’s just how it started as a meme. We wanted to do this a couple months ago, then I got the call from The Nib to do a comic of some kind, which led to “This is NOT fine” and the planets aligned just perfectly as the two things dropped on the same day. I am offering what I call a “Play pak,” which comes with a stand of his burning house that he can sit in, a magnet with all our favorite phrase on it, and some stickers based on the comic. It feels pointless and dumb for me to say that, because I am not personally effected by a lot of the strange and awful events, shootings, and the like. It just happened to be the right time. There’s a breaking point in our society that seems to be tested on a near-constant basis. Weird nose and overlapping Garfield eyes. Press J to jump to the feed. I don’t want to complicate the Kickstarter any more than that, no big ones, no little ones. I hope that’s not too crass, an artist gotta get paid for their work, always. It is better than the situation I am in, when the garbage starts the fire. . Green’s comic of a coffee-loving hound with the words “This is fine” became a ubiquitous meme beginning in 2013. They’re fucking off to countries when their home needs them most, that’s not “nothing”. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Green’s comic of a coffee-loving hound with the words “This is fine” became a ubiquitous meme beginning in 2013. And yeah, 2016 has seemed like a tough year, following a lot of shit in 2015 even. 13.4m members in the memes community. Or is it mock-optimistic? Jokes aside, serious F for everyone who’s suffered because of the fires and massive props to the firies working their hardest day and night to put out the flames. /s. Can people get the burning house as well? This thread is archived. 11.5m members in the memes community. Plus I have a good fan base of people pointing others in the right direction on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and anywhere else it’s seen. I’m a freelancer mainly, so I gotta take what I get. Salon tracked down the comics artist to get at the meaning of his new cartoon, and to discuss the announcement that he’s Kickstarting a plush-toy version of Question Hound, which at press time had already raised almost $200,000 more than its initial $35,000 goal, with 28 days left to go. Think of the Koalas. He may not think that he is doing fine, but anyone who can joke about feeling fine and make a meme this funny sure seems to be doing better than the majority of people in the world. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Maybe he should get a job as a bus driver and then he can have his own ride and own that bus. How about the dog — does he follow current events? There’s a part of me that keeps thinking that I don’t want to NOT know this stuff. I want to see and know what the heck is happening, but it’s a lot at once sometimes. Close. No other game has art like Ori games. Yes, it’s easier on the eyes than watching his skin melt off! Article by Michi Reyes. One, while sometimes modified, it's most commonly used in an unaltered state. Archived. Had the chaos of 2016, and the shouting behind the political race, finally gotten to Green and his famously chilled-out dog? An element of a culture or system of behavior … You’ve done numerous cartoons over the years. country literally burning down Prime minister: aight imma head out, Ishkanah, grafwidow from shadows over innistrad.