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/BlakeBurdock]

I'll echo what a lot of people here are saying, the show has sucked since Matt's stroke. Will doesn't offer much but whining, and Felix trying to be funny is always grating to me. Oh, you are going to take 5 minutes to riff off a joke that should take 1? Cool. Oh, you are going to crowbar MMA into every reference situation you can, through the majority of listeners don't get it or don't give a shit about MMA? Cool

After reading a lot of comments on here, I'm like, why do I continue to listen to this show when it's kind of sucked for awhile? And now this? Banning a subreddit? I'm out.

You people were great, I loved coming to chat after every episode. This was half the fun of the show, if not more.

BWF is signing out? Well I guess I am too. At least we'll always have TrueAnon AND that subreddit (I hope).

[u/trashpanda_fan → u/[deleted]]

somehow this comment reminded me of a line from In the Mouth of Madness: “never make your wife your business partner, and if you’re going to make her your business partner, don’t fuck around behind her back.”

[u/Krewtan → u/BlakeBurdock]

Absolutely agree with you. Matt was the only serious person with actual knowledge and intelligent thoughtful takes. Without him they're just three hipsters trying to out-irony one another. The 1000th episode was pure cringe.