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by lampington 1312 days ago
The original 420 joke was about Tesla: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1026872652290379776. It got him into trouble with the SEC.

He did set the share price for his Twitter offer to 54.20 as a reference to that, but it wasn't the cause for his offer for the company. I think quite a lot of people are conflating the two events.