The Fog is Coming first appeared on the internet on November 22nd, 2021 on Twitter by user @Senn_Spud, who posted a joke about some ominous all-consuming fog. The tweet read, “So funny when ...

But the original “Winter is Coming” post doesn’t actually feature Ned Stark. According to Know Your Meme, it featured an owl, which was posted to Quickmeme in July of 2011.