Most news outlets make their money through advertising or subscriptions. Will you support Vox’s explanatory journalism? But where Green’s first cartoon captured the spirit of simmering anxiety that so many of us feel from time to time, the new one perfectly encapsulates the moment when that feeling boils over into a full-on panic attack - a feeling that seems about right for the unpredictable and often terrifying state of the world today. "There was no reason to let it last this long and get this bad!"ĭire? Sure. "Oh my god, everything’s on fire! What the hell’s my problem…" he wails, desperately trying to put out the flames. "THIS IS NOT FINE!" he screams, tearing at his face in agony. This time around, the dog begins to say his famous line, only to stop short, look around at his burning house, and freak the fuck out. (You can read the full comic at the Nib.) "Actually, you know what," Green tweeted when he released the new version, "this is not fine." Things have taken a turn for the "this is fine" dog.
#DOG IM FINE MEME UPDATE#
Green couldn’t have predicted what would come of his cartoon - or the way some would ultimately use it against his wishes and beliefs - but he recognizes its power to express a feeling that’s hard to express in words (see above).īut as the world events and resulting headlines of this year have served up an unspeakable abundance of worldwide terror and one of the weirdest, ugliest US presidential election cycles in recent memory, "this is fine" as a reaction has started to feel a little less like witty commiseration and a little more like willfully ignoring an actual problem.Īnd so Green has gifted us with a new update to the comic, commissioned by the satire website the Nib - and it has a decidedly different outcome. Related Why the GOP Twitter couldn't pull off the "This is fine" meme
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