“This is fine,” he said, to no one in particular. But a decade after artist K.C. Green drew the scene, that defeatist dog lives on as a viral meme — one that has, in a way, spoken to all of u ...

This is fine does not mean this is fine — not on social media. The three-word phrase now doubles as shorthand for when a situation becomes so terrible our brains refuse to grapple with its severity.