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.
Yeah people are really sleeping on the fact that the sub did OK boomer before it was cool and almost immediately stopped doing it after it became cool.
IMO it's the coolest thing this community has accomplished. It felt like only a few months between me first seeing it on /r/cth and my fucking actual boomer parents saying it.
I'll give it the best I got, sadly you can't see wayback posts after the sub was quarantined. The redditsearch.io archive is OK but not very well formatted
There is an archive for chapo specifically but I can't seem to find it now
There was some r/dataisbeautiful graph about subreddit usage of ok boomer over time that was pretty cool. It showed cth using it a lot, then it dying out as meirl started using it, and then it going mainstream as memes and pewdiepiesubmissions took it over. I've tried to find it, but have been unsuccessful.
I remember exactly the graph you're talking about, it's this one isn't it
Please do 30-50 feral hogs at some point, that is the sole reason I became a communist
IIRC their argument was that people used the sub to self-medicate for mental illness and emotional instability.
They were rightfully dunked on in hindsight because you should absolutely not use these communities to self-medicate for mental illness and emotional instability. It will literally only make your problems worse.
I was on vacation with my family that week and there was no escape from their dumb shit
Oh fuck I remember socialist caucus looks good. It was a good meme and also a good struggle session.
i was there, 2-7 days before the event people were making jokes about closing the sub at 69,420 because the sub was getting filled by libs because of the electoralism of the socialism causus, so thats where the idea came from
It was at this moment that I found r/MoreTankieChapo, and shortly after I learned I was home.
i'm pretty sure that was the first time i heard about the sub.
