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Its fine meme background5/2/2023 The figure was initially named Question Hound but has since been dubbed the This Is Fine Dog. Another cartoonist, KC Green, similarly saw one of his characters meme-ified for political purposes. Pepe is infamous, Furie is obscure, and the connection between the two has largely been severed.Īnd yet, there’s a counterexample that should inspire hope for anyone whose content has been ganked for the lulz. Furie has made noble efforts to stem the tide, from symbolically killing the character off to suing Alex Jones (they settled), but the damage is mostly done. The character was first conceived by cartoonist Matt Furie for his ongoing comics series Boy’s Club, but its visage, for whatever reason, started being used by members of various online forums, then became popular on 4chan, then became a leading icon of the alt-right and an Anti-Defamation League–identified hate symbol. You make something, it gets popular without credit, and you watch it slip through your grasp. It’s taken for granted that a meme, once set free, will never return to the cage of copyright and creator control.
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