this is fine

A dog in a bowler hat drinking coffee in a burning room. Drawn in 2013, adopted by 2016, and now the default response to the news, which the cartoonist has said he would rather it were not.

Finished, doomed, beyond help. Applies to a person, a country or a group project with equal ease, which is why it stuck.

A gas inhaled to cope with losing. The first emotion-management vocabulary invented by people watching other people play games.

A Shiba Inu annotated in coloured Comic Sans. Outlived its own irony, then outlived its own death, and is now legal tender in the loosest possible sense.

A wojak in a black hoodie smoking, with a playlist of sad songs and no hope: the doomer, one of the 2018 wojak types, for the young man who has read too much and gone outside too little. The record's entry for the mood that became a character.

Continuing to read bad news past the point of information. The rare coinage that named a behaviour people already recognised in themselves.

Emotions, as a plural noun — 'the feels', 'right in the feels' — from the board that invented the wojak to describe them. The record's entry for the feeling that became a countable thing, and the reason 'I have all the feels' is a sentence.

A sad Pepe, and the phrase — 'feels bad, man' — from the Boy's Club comic into a Twitch emote and the internet's most-used expression of mild disappointment. FeelsGoodMan is the smile. The record's entry for the frog's two moods.