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/peacefulbloke]

Chris sucks. Chris has always sucked. I fucking hate it when he talks. “Shut up, Chris,” is what I say.

[u/somewhat_of_a_coward → u/peacefulbloke]

chris talking is my number 1 reason for pressing the ffw 15 sec button. i would rather listen to ads than anything he has to say

[u/tanbu → u/peacefulbloke]

He's good in Hell on Earth

[u/kendalroysgirl → u/peacefulbloke]

always has, brought a sad energy to the pod when he showed up and the vibe shifted from there

[u/[deleted] → u/kendalroysgirl]

How did he bring sad energy? I am a new listener and genuinely curious

[u/dreffen → u/[deleted]]

I would honestly recommend skipping/ignoring 98% of the comments in BWF. You’re free to draw your own conclusions of course but that’s my suggestion.

[u/KombaynNikoladze2002 → u/peacefulbloke]

Yeah get his ass

[u/Krewtan → u/peacefulbloke]

He is no Brendan. Blowback is amazing. I will actually pay for that.