Disaster Girl (2008)

When Zoë Roth was four years old her family went to see a burning house that had been subject to a controlled burn in Mebane, North Carolina, United States in 2005. Roth's father, an amateur photographer, took her picture. The photo became famous in 2008 when it won an Emotion Capture contest in JPG magazine.

People edited the photo to depict Roth overlooking historic disasters such as the extinction of the dinosaurs or the sinking of the Titanic, making Disaster Girl an Internet meme.

In 2019, CNet included Disaster Girl as one of the top 15 memes of the decade. In 2021 Zoë Roth sold the meme as a NFT for $500,000 at a Foundation auction The Roths retained the copyright and will receive 10 percent of future sales.