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Understandable, have a nice day refers to a catchphrase found in a series of image macros in which one person asks for something, the other person denies it to them, and therefore, the initial person responds, "Understandable, have a nice day."

Origin

The first instance of "understandable, have a nice day" comes from a variation on the Whoppy Machine Broke meme. On February 26th, 2017, Twitter user @liltusk^[8] posted a three-panel, deep fried image macro (shown below), in which former professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal drives up to a drive thru window and says, "Hello, food?" The drive thru attendant responds, "Food broke." The final panel shows Shaq relaxing behind the wheel of his car with the text, "Understandable. Have a great day."

Spread

While the inital post received 10 retweets and 25 likes, two days later, on February 28th, 2017, Tumblr user Etica^[1] shared the post on Tumblr and received more than 32,700 notes.

On April 7th, Filthy Frank shared the meme on his Instagram account, garnering more than 26,400 likes.^[2]

On May 2nd, the Facebook account It was just a meme bro^[3] posted a popular variation on "have a nice day," a conversation between a Facebook user and the group "Online Shopping." Essentially, the post (shown below) moved an interaction that would typically take place in person (browsing merchandise in a store) and moved it into an online chat window. The post received more than 7,500 reactions and 2,100 shares.

The following day, the Instagram account @hoodshiet^[4] shared the image and received more than 12,300 likes.

Over the next few days, the two variations of the meme, both the three-panel and the chat window, were shared throughout the internet, with the common ending of "Understandable, have a nice day.^[5][6][7]

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