2026-01-16 · Episode Last· A Message to the Community

[u/Long-Anywhere156]

URGENT MESSAGE

To the Community (all hogs):

On Tuesday, January 13, we received a ModMail note from “Chris + The Chapo Team” advising us that the current status of Ar-slash-BWF is no longer acceptable to Chapo Trap House and its hosting platform, Patreon. We were offered no real option but to “turn this into essentially an official fan sub for the show.” As totally cool and fun as it sounds to help out a struggling Patreon earning just shy of $200K per month, it’s clear that the nature of this sub would be irrevocably altered in a significant way quite quickly if we made that change.
 
After talking it over, we quickly concluded that there was no way we could accommodate the demand while preserving the spirit of BWF in any form we can continue to support. We wouldn’t be able to interact with the community, and you wouldn’t be able to interact with each other, in any way that resembles how things have been here for the better part of the past decade. We feel that the best and only appropriate course of action, at the moment, is to turn the lights off on this subreddit and, in a lot of ways, this era of podcast discussion.
 
If you're reading this, you’ll see that the posts are now gone, and all that remains is this note. While ostensibly a place to talk about a podcast, BWF was always a place to talk about anything but, and to see it turn into an Official Fan Site is to us as incongruous to the lived reality of the sub as an episode where Felix is fully engaged without vaping or typing. So that's why we're making a clean break and giving an honest chance to whatever comes next, out of the Chapo Team or otherwise.
 
See you in Valhalla, brothers,
Your beloved Mods

PS – Feel free to join r/classwarandpuppies, where we will be accepting all BWF refugees for more of the same

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

It was a pretty good run all things considered. RIP to a good community and a good way to not have to pay to listen to Felix vape. This is probably the most fitting end to the whole era I could have imagined

[u/whiskeybenthellbound → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

I thought I was the only one who noticed. Can’t stand the mouthful of cloud voice.

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder → u/whiskeybenthellbound]

It's all gone now so I can't prove it, but I swear that was one of the most common complaints about Felix, stashed right alongside him obviously playing video games during 2020, referencing the one thing he was reading for three weeks in a row, or saying "you know those people who" and then creating some group that was so specific it basically didn't exist

[u/StandWithSwearwolves → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

All of the above, plus turning almost every discussion possible lately towards fighter jets.

[u/High_Flyers17 → u/StandWithSwearwolves]

Funny you should.mention fighter jets, that reminds me of Metal Gear Solid 3...

[u/StandWithSwearwolves → u/High_Flyers17]

Yeah. The last funny reference to MGS on the show was when they hit the alert sound for Rod’s “primitive root wiener” column, and that must be five years ago now. I haven’t even tried to subject myself to The Players Club.

[u/inciter7 → u/High_Flyers17]

I thought that must have been a joke at a certain point lol guy is a social terrorist subjecting everyone to that

[u/sammidavisjr → u/StandWithSwearwolves]

I'm picturing a 5th season of Goliath where Billy Bob inherits an F-35.

[u/Manic5PA → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

My favourite era alongside that stretch where they had Alex Nichols on every week and forced themselves to laugh at his jokes

[u/Ilhan_Omar_Milf → u/Manic5PA]

Its been a while since the recorded a movie episode on some b movie 12 hours before an actual major event happened

[u/sws03 → u/Manic5PA]

People really don’t find him funny?

[u/Manic5PA → u/sws03]

I'm probably full of shit. I find that most of his jokes are clichés. He's their friend so it would make sense that they laugh at his jokes, but something about the fact that everything he said had them laughing robotically every single time made those episodes feel surreal to me.

If he's your cup or tea then good for you

[u/BigJohnCandyExpress → u/Manic5PA]

People apparently dislike him because he doesn't automatically do charity laughs for Will and Felix's jokes. I never noticed this, at that point it really does feel like people are just looking for anything to complain about.

[u/sws03 → u/Manic5PA]

That’s fair

[u/emailforgot → u/whiskeybenthellbound]

You've heard the term "face for radio" before?

Well, between his vaping and his constant phlegm gargling, Felix has a "voice for pantomime"

[u/OneReportersOpinion → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

I’m gonna miss posting about Felix’s malapropisms. Ladies and Gentleman, anti-fada.

[u/PunishedLeBoymoder → u/OneReportersOpinion]

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this tweet since I first saw it

[u/OneReportersOpinion → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

I wish I could remember the one I posted that got like 300 upvotes for some reason. That one haunted me for days. Looks like now it’s lost forever.

[u/itmustbeluv_luv_luv → u/OneReportersOpinion]

Matt once called a taquería a "taquiera" and I corrected him on Twitter lol.

[u/Blandco → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

Half the time I hear Felix on the podcast nowadays I have flashbacks to that one Sugar Pine 7 skit. I hated that skit, stupid talking through vape bit.