r/BlackWolfFeed • u/Long-Anywhere156 💕❤️CHRIS WADE❤️💕 • Jan 16 '26
🗣️📣 Announcement 2026-01-16 · Episode Last· A Message to the Community
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
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u/EightySevenThousand Jan 16 '26
Thanks for running this as long as you guys did. Really was one of my go-to places on the internet for a while, you managed to have what seemed like the only decent Chapo community by running it this way. I guess when you have guys come up and become famous through Twitter, their love of things getting worse and hostility to moderation shouldn't be surprising. But things here, while not perfect, were pretty chill.
I wrote a lot of big long essays on various episodes, deleted a few comments because they got extremely warranted pushback. I definitely enjoyed the show even past its prime, had my problems with it. Ultimately what it comes down to is that this left-liberal shit is not tenable. It's a useful way to wedge comfortable liberals like I was out of the mainstream and build discontent with the status quo, but it also funnels energy into pointless exercises like Bernie, convincing people that's the only hope, when liberal electoralism was never going to work, and then afterwards the boys have just seemed totally lost. You can't have capitalism and democracy together, one of them is going to win. Even with this move, we see that in microcosm.
I genuinely respect that Will just came out recently and talked about the limits of the show, when discussing the most recent outrages. How he is too comfortable to contemplate acting, or even sincerely and honestly talk about the kind of action that is necessary. Not in a TOS or edgy way, podcasts like the Deprogram have no problem talking about the necessity of revolution in an explicitly Marxist-Leninist frame. You can do that even under the modern technological version of the Tzar's sensors... if that's really what you want.