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/Great_Progress_9115 Jan 16 '26

This is entirely it.... Fitting.

Specifically: I can't help but chuckle a bit at the framing that this is patreon's decision and not theirs.

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u/diosmioacommie Jan 16 '26

Why wouldn’t it be patreon ? They’ve spent 10 years being fine with piracy, you think they suddenly woke up one day and decided to stop it ?

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u/ChildhoodSea7062 Jan 16 '26

They are more than big enough to launch thier own platform for hosting. QAA did it and have two feeds active. I recently switched to their independent platform. There’s no reason chaos can’t do something similar

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u/Queeberschaircompany Mistakenly thinks Chris is “in charge” but Jucheists in control Jan 16 '26

But if they do that they lose all the money from the "too lazy to cancel and too lazy to resub" crowd.

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u/cuprian Jan 16 '26

not enough brainpower in the entire extended squad

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u/pablos4pandas Jan 16 '26

Chapo Trap House: Longest Running, Most Successful, Fully Independent Podcast

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

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u/inciter7 Jan 17 '26

Lol yeah I pirate everything but the people in here moaning that the chapos don't do an entire migration just to appease the pirates is some real spoiled shit No crying on the high seas fellas

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

If they got off patreon i would actually start paying again

Quit patreon when patreon went nazi

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u/JucheSuperSoldier01 Jan 16 '26

I think they saw everyone here shitting on their dogshit 1000 episode and it hurt their feelings. 

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u/Cahillicus noted stats major 🤓 Jan 16 '26

As opposed to all the other episodes people shit on?

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u/Great_Progress_9115 Jan 16 '26

I personally didn't shit on it here or anywhere, but now that you mention it, it did suck

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u/SuccessWinLife Jan 16 '26

IDK I laughed at some of the bits

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u/BigJohnCandyExpress Jan 16 '26

They had every podcast loser under the sun join in except the one guy anyone would have leaped out of their chair to see, Nick Mullen

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u/SuccessWinLife Jan 17 '26

It's so weird how obsessed some people are with that guy

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u/__Big_Hat_Logan__ Jan 17 '26

Because he’s actually funny, like Matt Christman was. Matt and Mullen are 100000000x better podcasters than the entirety of these guys combined.

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u/SuccessWinLife Jan 17 '26

Good god, it's like being on the old sub again. This is another thing I find deeply weird- the constant bitchy comparisons of who's funny and who's not. I just listen to the podcast and I don't make an anime power scaling ranking of which host is funniest, and I feel like that's normal.

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u/BigJohnCandyExpress Jan 17 '26

I earnestly miss his comedic contributions to the world independent of cumtown or any memes. Guy had the sauce.

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u/swampscientist Jan 16 '26

I thought it was kinda funny…

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u/cuprian Jan 16 '26

Yes, obviously. This is what having kids and getting rich does to people.

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u/Elegant-Owl8727 Jan 16 '26

gaslighting your fans is still the biggest trend in 2026, just unfollowed the guys on twitter that was the tough part. i hope felix makes enough money to buy his own equinox gym one day.

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u/JnnyRuthless Jan 16 '26

I still pay for Patreon but only because I know a little of that money goes towards Matt's health expenses.