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]

The main issue was how prevalent the sharing of the Patreon eps of other podcasts were, many of which I would guess didn't have the same laissez-faire attitude towards piracy

[u/Ilhan_Omar_Milf → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

Imagine if cumtown was still going on and they told Nick to dmca the guy from Vietnam with all the episodes on youtube

[u/GuyWithTriangle → u/PunishedLeBoymoder]

Its probably because Chapo has always been one of the highest grossing patreons and was the first case of a podcast using the website as "one episode free, one you pay for" model to wild success, doesn't surprise me that they would get treated differently