# It Was A Good Day "It Was A Good Day" is an image macro series that pairs a smiling Ice Cube driving screencap from his 1993 music video with captions listing small everyday wins that end with the song's title phrase. The format took off on Reddit in October 2012 and spun off a viral Tumblr investigation that pinpointed the exact date of Ice Cube's original good day. ## Origin Ice Cube released "It Was a Good Day" on February 23, 1993, as a single from his album The Predator. An F. Gary Gray-directed music video followed the next month, showing Ice Cube walking through scenes from the lyrics, including the recurring driving footage the meme later pulled from[1]. A "Good Day Ice Cube" page on the Meme Generator site was set up on October 8, 2009, seeding early image macros built from a music-video screengrab[2]. - **Platform:** Meme Generator / Reddit (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2009 ## Overview The joke inflates minor everyday wins into the same triumphant register Ice Cube uses across the source song, pulled from his 1993 track "It Was a Good Day"[1]. Captions run from student-life victories like snagging a parking spot to freak luck like finding cash in an old jacket, and every version ends with the title phrase. Urban Dictionary frames the saying itself as shorthand for a stretch when something notably good happens with nothing bad to offset it, which matches how the image macros work in practice[3]. Different subvariants swap in different screen captures from the same music video, but the driving-with-a-smile shot is the visual anchor most versions return to[2]. ## How It Spread The template hit its biggest viral moment on Reddit's r/AdviceAnimals in October 2012. On October 5, user trimhunter posted "It WAS a good day" with a fresh screen capture and a caption about Emma Watson's openness to nude scenes, pulling over 8,550 upvotes and 245 comments within a month. Two days later, user Finsty followed with a version referencing Pornhub's charity donations[2]. By November 2012, Quickmeme was hosting five distinct pages for variants of the format, with the most-populated title casings including "It was a good day" (330 submissions), "today was a good day" (198), "Today was a good day" (96), and "It Was a Good Day" (86)[2]. A parallel bit of internet lore came from Donovan Strain, who on January 26, 2012, published a post to his Tumblr blog Murk Avenue arguing that the exact good day described in the song had to be January 20, 1992. He arrived at that date by eliminating any day when Yo! MTV Raps was off the air, the weather was smoggy, beepers were not yet sold commercially, the Lakers had not beaten the SuperSonics, or Ice Cube had a scheduling conflict, and the post picked up more than 15,376 notes over the next ten months. ## How to Use The typical build takes the smiling Ice Cube driving screencap and adds white top-and-bottom Impact-font captions in the classic Advice Animals style. Top text describes a lucky or unusually smooth moment (green lights all the way home, no line at the deli, exam curved), and bottom text closes with a variation on "it was a good day." Common convention keeps the good stuff low-stakes and everyday rather than genuinely huge, since the humor comes from applying Ice Cube's swaggering register to tiny wins. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is It Was A Good Day? An image macro series that overlays captions about small everyday wins on a screen capture of Ice Cube driving from his 1993 music video, always ending with the song's title phrase[2]. ### Where did It Was A Good Day come from? The source is Ice Cube's 1993 single "It Was a Good Day" from The Predator and its F. Gary Gray-directed music video, which supplied the driving screencap used in the format[1]. ### What does It Was A Good Day mean? It is a phrase used when something notably good happens with nothing bad to offset it, applied ironically to minor wins in the meme format[3]. ### How do you use It Was A Good Day? Pair the smiling Ice Cube driving screencap with a caption describing a small piece of luck or a smooth moment, then close with a variation on "it was a good day"[2]. ### Is It Was A Good Day still popular? It is a classic Advice Animals-era format that peaked on Reddit and Quickmeme in late 2012 and still gets referenced whenever people share small good-day wins online[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWfbGGZE07M]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/it-was-a-good-day]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=It%20Was%20A%20Good%20Day]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/it-was-a-good-day Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library