This Is Fine Meme Paris: 6 Moments, From KC Green's Dog to the Café Clip

TL;DR — The "This is fine" meme is KC Green's 2013 comic of a smiling cartoon dog who says "This is fine" while he sits with his coffee in a burning room. In Paris, the same joke keeps coming back as clips of people who stay calm while the street behind them burns.

A 2023 wine terrace clip went around as Paris, but a fact-check placed it in Bordeaux.

In October 2026, two Paris clips each passed 3 million views on a single X post. One shows a woman sipping espresso at a café table, and the other a woman jogging past burning bikes. One reply redrew the dog at a Paris café table saying "TOUT VA BIEN" (French for "all is well").

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You've probably seen a "This is fine" reply under a Paris clip this week, or a cartoon dog in a beret saying "TOUT VA BIEN" (French for "all is well").

Search for it and you'll get a mix of a 2013 webcomic strip, a 2023 video of "Parisians" drinking wine that was filmed in Bordeaux, and this weekend's Paris clips.

We traced each moment back to the earliest post we could find. Then we read both fact-checks on the 2023 clip and re-checked every count on October 20, 2026.

Here's what each moment shows, why it spread and where it came from, plus how you can make your own.

This is fine meme Paris moments at a glance

Six moments tie the "This is fine" meme to Paris, from KC Green's 2013 strip to a cartoon dog at a Paris café in October 2026.

Here they are in order. You'll find the source for each one further down:

View counts are X's own, read on October 20, 2026.

What makes a This is fine meme work

A "This is fine" meme works when one calm person sits right in front of something going badly wrong and carries on like it's a normal day.

Every moment on this list has the same four parts:

• The calm one: one person, or one dog, keeps going as if nothing's wrong. You'll see the dog in his chair, the wine drinkers, the couple, the jogger and the woman with her espresso.
• The fire: something's burning right behind them: a room in the 2013 strip, a street in Bordeaux in 2023, bins and rental bikes in Paris in 2026.
• The small ritual: it's the most ordinary thing they could be doing: a mug of coffee, a glass of red wine, a daily run, an espresso.
• The irony: the words say it's fine, and the picture says it isn't. That's why people use it as a reaction image (a picture you post as your reply instead of words), where someone ironically says a situation is OK.

The joke is never the fire. It's the calm person in front of it.

Want to be the calm one? You can make your own Paris riot coffee video from one photo.

Here's our café version in a phone frame, with an AI-made woman in a cream knit sweater sipping espresso beside a calm face emoji:

1. KC Green's This is fine dog started it all in 2013

KC Green's "This is fine" dog comes from "On Fire", strip 648 of his webcomic Gunshow, posted on January 9, 2013.

• Creator: KC Green drew it for his webcomic Gunshow and gave the smiling dog the name Question Hound. He wrapped up the webcomic in 2014, after drawing it for more than six years.
• What it shows: six panels show Question Hound sitting at a table with a coffee mug while the room around him burns. He keeps telling himself it's OK as the heat starts to melt him. The first two panels became the meme.
• Why it spread: about a year after the strip went up, its top two panels were posted to Reddit and the meme took off, and it also went around on Tumblr and Imgur. KC Green remembered Instagram meme accounts using it with captions like "When finals week starts" and said "It kind of snowballed from there." In a 2023 interview, he explained: "I made it vague on purpose" and added, "Like any good piece of art, people interpret it how they want to."
• Sequel: in 2016, KC Green drew a 2016 follow-up called "This Is Not Fine", where the dog finally reacts to the fire around him.
• Source: we link strip 648 on KC Green's Gunshow site instead of copying the six panels here.

2. The 2023 wine terrace: a real-life This is fine, filmed in Bordeaux

The 2023 wine terrace clip went around the world as Paris, but it wasn't Paris: it was filmed in Bordeaux on March 23, 2023.

• What it shows: you see customers on an outdoor café terrace drink red wine and chat while a fire burns in the street behind them. The upright video runs 51 seconds.
• Why it spread: the first post on X on March 25, 2023, carried the caption "C'est tellement romantique..." (French for "It's so romantic...") and picked up 382,543 views and 2,209 likes by October 20, 2026. Replies called it "Typically French" and likened it to the "This is fine" meme. An English-language news account reposted it as "Parisians enjoying a glass of wine as fires burn nearby during protest clashes tonight." That repost reached 94,455 views.
• Where it was filmed: a customer filmed it at the bar Saint-Aubin on Place de la Victoire in Bordeaux on Thursday, March 23, 2023. That was a nationwide strike day over pension reform. The bar is about 120 metres from where rubbish bins were set on fire near the University of Bordeaux, and the bar's manager told a fact-checker: "We were not affected though, and authorities came to deal with it."
• Source: the location was proven by a fact-check from March 27, 2023. It was verified again when a second fact-check in July 2023 found the Bordeaux video had resurfaced with the caption "A glass of wine at a nice café while watching Paris burning".

The manager also told French TV, as quoted in the fact-check: "Life goes on, it's the French paradox".

3. The couple near the Arc de Triomphe: This is fine on a Paris café terrace

The couple near the Arc de Triomphe were filmed on Saturday, October 17, 2026. They were drinking and chatting calmly at a café terrace table while a rubbish bin burned behind them.

• What it shows: in the news-agency footage, you see a man and a woman sitting calmly at an outdoor café table near the landmark, with their drinks. They carry on their conversation beside the flames.
• Why it spread: news pages and video channels ran the scene. So when we searched "paris riot coffee" on October 19, 2026, 6 of the top 9 Google results were about this couple.
• Source: the footage was covered in a report from October 19, 2026. It noted that "Scenes like this are not rare in France." and pointed back to the 2023 Bordeaux clip.

We've explained what happened in Paris that weekend in our news explainer.

4. The Paris riot jogger kept her pace past the burning bikes

The Paris riot jogger is real phone footage from Saturday, October 17, 2026, of a woman running past a burning heap of rental bikes without slowing down.

• What it shows: one upright 13-second take, filmed on a Paris boulevard, shows a woman in a black sports bra and running skirt. She keeps a steady pace past burning green rental e-bikes and thick smoke, on into the crowd.
• Why it spread: an X post shared it on October 18, 2026, and drew over 3.2 million views. Its line: "The most dystopian fitness video on the internet just dropped." A comment on a TikTok runner's re-cut added "The training plan is a training plan", with 280 likes.
• Source: you can watch the street footage, stamped October 17, 2026. One X post sharing the clip had 3.3 million views and 10,533 likes by October 20, 2026.

It's the "This is fine" idea in running shoes. The run goes on while everything around her goes wild.

Here's a frame of the street clip next to the same frame with an AI-made man taking the run:

We've written up the Paris riot jogger clip, beat by beat.

Want the same run with you in it? A Paris riot jogger AI video puts you there from one photo.

5. The Paris riot coffee clip turned This is fine into a visa joke

The Paris riot coffee clip is a 10-second upright video of a woman calmly sipping espresso at a round café table. Behind her, pink smoke rolls over the buildings, small fires burn and a line of riot police stands across the square.

• What it shows: from a camera that never moves, a woman in a black coat and dark sunglasses sips from a small white espresso cup. At about six and a half seconds, she sets it on its saucer and looks aside while pink smoke drifts past. Nobody has shown how the clip was made, and we don't guess.
• Why it spread: it was first posted on October 18, 2026, as a Facebook Reel captioned «Когда дали шенген всего на неделю» (Russian for "when they gave [me] Schengen for only a week"). It means she won't waste any of her short trip. It was reposted to X in English as "They only gave me the visa for one week", X made it an October 19 trending story titled "Woman Sips Coffee Calmly Amid Paris Protests and Red Smoke", and TikTok suggested "this is fine paris" in its search bar.
• Source: you can see the English version that reached 3.8 million views and 60,065 likes on X by October 20, 2026.

Here's a frame of the café clip with the face of the woman in the black coat blurred. Next to it is the same frame in our version, with an AI-made woman in a cream knit sweater:

We've traced the full story of the Paris riot coffee meme, second by second.

Our guide unpacks what the one-week visa caption means, line by line.

The sound under it is «Франсе» by Voskresenskii, and we've covered the Russian rap track under the café clip too.

6. The TOUT VA BIEN dog brought This is fine to a Paris café

The "TOUT VA BIEN" dog is the "This is fine" dog redrawn as a Parisian. It went up as a reply under the café clip's English repost on October 18, 2026.

• What it shows: Question Hound sits on a red chair at a café table in a black beret, striped shirt and red neckerchief, with coffee and a croissant. He's surrounded by flames, with a speech bubble saying "TOUT VA BIEN" (French for "all is well").
• Why it spread: it quickly became the most-liked picture reply under the English repost, with 1,642 likes and 84,737 views by October 20, 2026. Another reply, with "THIS IS FINE" across flaming café footage, drew 891 likes and 53,260 views.
• Source: you can view the artwork in a picture reply on X from October 18, 2026.

The strip went up on Gunshow in 2013. So 13 years later, the dog finally got his table at a Paris café.

Make your own This is fine meme Paris clip from one photo

You can make your own "This is fine" meme in Paris from one photo on Paris Riot AI. You take the seat in the café clip or the run in the jogger clip.

• The café clip: Paris Riot Coffee AI for TikTok and Reels puts you at the round table with the small espresso cup, the pink smoke and the police line. You get the original sound in a 10-second 9:16 MP4 (an upright frame, the shape of a phone screen).
• The jogger clip: the 13-second Paris riot jogger video maker dresses you in running gear and sends you past the burning bikes and the crowd. You get an upright 9:16 MP4 with the street sound.

Here's our café sample video showing an AI-made man with short dark hair in a white T-shirt and grey trousers:

Here's an AI-made man in a photo and the same man on the run, dressed for running:

Here's our jogger sample showing an AI-made woman with a blonde ponytail in a grey running top on the street:

Here's how it works on either page:

• One photo: you add one photo of yourself, a character or an adult friend who consents, tick the box, and that's all.
• Quality: choose 480p for 375 credits, 720p for 500 credits, or 1080p for 1,480 credits. 480p is already picked when the page opens, and you'll see the price on the Create button before you pay.
• No account: you don't need an account: you pay once ($9.90 shows on the Create button) and your video starts.

You can pick from four credit packs:

• $9.90: gives you 500 credits, which makes one 720p video, or one 480p video with 125 credits left.
• $19.90: gives you 1,100 credits.
• $39.90: gives you 2,400 credits, which covers a 1080p video (1,480 credits) with the rest left in your balance.
• $69.90: gives you 4,400 credits.

Your credits last for 365 days. If a video fails, you get its credits back automatically.

You'll find every pack on our Paris Riot AI pricing page.

Want every click spelled out? Here's our step-by-step guide to the café video.

If you're making the jogger version, it has its own step-by-step guide.

Would you rather edit it yourself? We've checked the CapCut template options for the café clip.

This is fine meme Paris: questions people ask

What is the This is fine meme from?

It's from "On Fire", strip 648 of KC Green's webcomic Gunshow, posted January 9, 2013. Its first two panels became the famous image of Question Hound with his coffee.

What does "This is fine" mean?

It means things aren't fine at all. You share it when someone acts calm while chaos erupts around them, or to laugh at yourself doing the same thing.

How old is the This is fine meme?

The strip went up on January 9, 2013, so it turned 13 in January 2026. It became a popular meme by 2014 after its top two panels spread across Reddit.

Was the wine terrace video filmed in Paris?

No, the video wasn't filmed in Paris. A customer filmed it at the Saint-Aubin bar on Place de la Victoire in Bordeaux on the evening of Thursday, March 23, 2023.

Can I make my own This is fine meme in Paris?

Yes, you can make your own calm-in-chaos clip with one photo. Use our Paris riot coffee generator to take the café seat, or the Paris riot jogger maker to run past the burning bikes. Either one costs $9.90 in 720p, with no account.

How we picked these This is fine moments

We put a moment on our list if it featured the cartoon dog itself, or if viewers compared it to the dog in captions, comments and fact-checks. We picked clips filmed in Paris or shared as Paris.

We traced each one to its earliest post, read both 2023 fact-checks, and checked every number again on October 20, 2026. Every entry links straight to its source, so you can see each one for yourself.

The This is fine meme in Paris, in short

KC Green's 2013 cartoon dog sitting in a burning room keeps finding new life on the streets of Paris. It's a woman sipping espresso in pink smoke, or a jogger running past blazing bikes. Either way, staying calm amid street chaos remains an unbeatable visual punchline.

Here's our tip: keep your caption short and deadpan, like "TOUT VA BIEN" or the one-week visa line. Let the calm face do the rest, and make a Paris riot coffee clip of your own.

Written by the Paris Riot AI team. We traced each moment back to the earliest post we could find, read both fact-checks on the 2023 clip and re-checked every count on October 20, 2026. We make our own calm-in-chaos clips with Paris Riot Coffee AI and Paris Riot Jogger AI.

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