It's January 3rd 2019. The chapos are having a plesant struggle session about whether or not the "squad" entering congress is actually going to change anything. This breeds the infamous "Socialist Caucus Looks Good" post, ah but that's a story for another time.
Unbeknownst to the community except for a few instigators, (and whoever looks at the sub count), something incredible was about to happen: The 69,420th account joins and the mods close the sub for a joke. They leave only the message: We hit 69420 along with a link to a countdown clock timer that lasted 69 hours (get it?).

Once the agonizing wait is up, a massive struggle session began. Closing This Sub for a Joke was Not Okay was one of the more popular "Fuck you mods" posts, amassing nearly 1,000 updoots, but little did the brave poster know that it would be one of the most infamous memes in chapo history: The first point of contention was the extreme copypasta-like nature of the post, making it memed into oblivion almost immediately. Then, there was OP making multiple posts and doing heavy debating in the comments section. Third, there was the debate over whether the sub actually contributed to anything meaningful, or if it was just a place for shitposting and memes.

Many other posters were annoyed at the mods for making them browse normal reddit, making a joke about "le funni sex number," and by shitposting while the sub was private. The splinter subs like r/cth2 boomed in popularity and all of chapo was on the brink of a civil war.

Like most struggle sessions, it all fizzled out over time. Soon we were back to posting AOC tweets and talking about how based Teen Vogue was, as well as a post about a german far-right MP getting beaten up that totally did NOT violate reddit TOS.
So what did we learn? Sincere posting is cringe, jokes about 69 are cringe, but the real cringe was inside us all along.

This has been great moments in chapo history.