4/20 (the holiday)
April 20 ("4/20") is the chat's most-observed annual holiday, with **at least 1,073 messages** mentioning some form of *420* across all six years of the corpus, and a stable late-night countdown ritual ("420 blaze it" at 23:20 local time) attested in every year from 2021 onward.
4/20 (the holiday)
April 20 ("4/20") is the chat's most-observed annual holiday, with at least 1,073 messages mentioning some form of 420 across all six years of the corpus, and a stable late-night countdown ritual ("420 blaze it" at 23:20 local time) attested in every year from 2021 onward.
4/20 in the Newfound Glory Hole is the calendar holiday on which the chat's longest-running joke axis — the prefix 420 — is most-densely deployed. The full-year corpus contains 1,073 messages mentioning 420 in some form; roughly half of all April-19-to-April-21 messages every year contain the phrase. The annual observance is distinct from, but historically intertwined with, the 420 Blaze It Leaderboard (which counts only the bare "420 blaze it" utterance and is reset against by Evan Bbbender's leaderboard publications).
Annual cadence
| Year | April 19-21 messages | Of which mention 4/20 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | ~331 | ~238 | First documented chat-wide observance. Cullen: "Anyone getting litty for 420 blaze it tomorrow?" (2021-04-20). |
| 2022 | ~97 | ~63 | Kyle's "Can we get a 4/20 eve score update?" (2022-04-19) is the first formal use of the leaderboard as a 4/20 observance. |
| 2023 | ~218 | ~106 | Kyle's "420 cum tits" (2023-04-19) is the most-quoted single 4/20 message of the year. |
| 2024 | ~162 | ~83 | Kyle, 2024-04-19: "4/19 is lsd day, 4/20 is weed day, 4/21…?, 4/22 earth day" — the corpus's only documented attempt to formalize the surrounding calendar. |
| 2025 | ~38 | ~7 | The He is rizzen / Rizzler arc (Evan: "He is rizzen"; Matt: "He is the rizzler") replaces the leaderboard-style cadence. See The Rizzler. |
| 2026 | ~68 | ~41 | Buffalo Sabres / Felix-RiZler birthday collab proposal (Kyle, 2026-04-19). |
The 23:20 ritual
The chat's stable annual ritual is the posting of bare "420 blaze it" at exactly 23:20 local time on the eve of (and on) 4/20:
- 2022-04-19 23:20 — Kyle Derrick: "420 blaze it"
- 2022-04-20 23:20 — Cullen Conway: "420 blaze it"
- 2022-04-20 23:20 — Kyle Derrick: "420 blaze it"
- 2023-04-20 13:50 — Kyle: "420 blaze it" (single canonical morning post)
- 2024-04-20 23:20 — Cullen Conway: "420 blaze it"
- 2024-04-20 23:20 — Evan Bbbender: "420 BLAZE IT" (the canonical all-caps form)
The 23:20 timestamp encodes 4:20 PM in a 12-hour mental calendar; that the chat collectively observes the timestamp without ever discussing it is among the encyclopedia's preferred examples of in-group ritual without coordination.
"Felix is a 420 baby"
Kyle Derrick discloses on 2023-04-20 that:
"Also felix is a 420 baby" — Kyle Derrick, 2023-04-20
Felix — context elsewhere in the corpus suggests Kyle's son or godson — has therefore had four 4/20 birthdays observed in the chat. By 2024-04-18 Matt is acknowledging the difficulty ("Don't ruin Felix's birthday present please") and by 2026-04-19 Kyle is proposing a synergy:
"We need a Felix/RiZler 420 birthday collab" — Kyle Derrick, 2026-04-19
The proposed collab has not been documented as having occurred.
Other 4/20 forms
The chat extends 420 freely as a prefix:
- 420 fart (Kyle Derrick, 2024-07-10)
- 420 shidding and farding (Cullen Conway, 2024-07-11)
- 420 Lardo (Cullen, 2022-12-01) — applied to a Portland sandwich shop on a non-4/20 day.
- 420 beef (Kyle, 2022-12-01)
- 420 creamer (Evan Bbbender, 2022-12-01)
- 420 Halloween cunt (Evan, 2023-10-31)
- 420 rizzler (Evan, 2024-10-29)
- 420 Druski made the rizzler cry on Kai Cenats live stream (Cullen, 2025-01-31)
The bare prefix 420 is, after hoen, the chat's most productive single morpheme.