That's wild that a podcast as popular as CTH doesn't already have a fan subreddit, wonder why there isn't one already 
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Subscription count isnt growing so its time to squeeze the existing subs.
The creative class owes me their labor for free.
Anybody ever look at all the podcasts and YouTube creators and other people and consider that basically every creative on the internet is owned by only a couple companies? (Basically YouTube, Patreon, or Kickstarter.)
A few companies have their own media platform, well, Dropout.tv and Nebula specifically. We need a non-corporate owned money distribution system for these creatives, too.
Stroke treatments ain’t cheap
The pod's pretty boring and forgettable nowadays anyways
if I had a low effort money hose lying around I might also take steps to protect the hose from time to time
The speculation on the reddit thread is that the Chapo hosts got upset at the subreddit dunking on their 1000th episode.
i find that unlikely because they've shit on many many episodes before lol
I wonder if that's actually true. In any case - it's funny to think about. They started a podcast that skewers people for such stuff as being petty, ridiculous, and vain. And by the 1,000th episode they've become what they've made their money making fun of.
Nietzsche has something to say about that -
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.
I know it's usually a different quote
It's pretty lame. Stopped it after 15 minutes.
Patreon go on Chapo
They shouldn't have closed the sub. They could at least force Patreon/Reddit to go through the effort of closing the sub. Doing the work for them is a bit rubbish.
I'm guessing they were spooked by the phrase "legal remedies", unfortunately
Their pretentious gloating over the shut down of their own sub and dunking on their own fans was such try hard lameness.
it soured me on them ever since. Will in particular was jubilant and sadistic (and kept bringing it up for months to gloat)
So, so weird, I didn’t understand it at all. The only possible explanation is that some people criticised/made of fun of him and he got butthurt
Yeah, I can see wanting to call the bluff. The timing on this, with Chris suddenly getting them proper social media accounts elsewhere, strikes me more as Chapo wanting control of the biggest fan presence on Reddit (maybe on the internet?) than anything the Patreon overlords had to say.
But I get as just some unpaid reddit mod not wanting to tempt fate with legal actions directed toward you and just saying "fuck you I quit."
Oh no, how will I now access the Matt Christman Show Without Matt Christman?
class analysis was the secret ingredient. on a recent episode Will and Felix fumbled around in the metaphorical dark for five minutes without it. It's kind of shocking that the other hosts could listen to Matt for almost a decade and learn nothing. I guess they just wait for their turns to talk.
a beautiful patron has conveyed the following: https://jumble.top/
I don't understand how to use this.
Copy the .xml links into a podcast app to get the listed podcast's premium feed. There's also https://piratefeeds.net/ for a few more links. These are pinned to the top of /c/podcasts.
can you recommend one? I really only used Podbean and Patreon
Antennapod on android
Might as well listen to episode 1000 and find out what they deleted the sub over.
Ah shit it's a Westwing bit.
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Why would Chapo suddenly want a fan subreddit? They hated the fan subreddit.
Felix Biederman has been a repeated guest on Hasan's stream. Felix is actually one of the main people who convinced Hasan to start streaming on twitch around 2018, prior to that, Hasan was a facebook streamer. Hasan and Felix played Fortnite together.
Felix has talked about the chapo subreddits multiple times on Hasan's stream. On multiple occasions, Felix said that he hated /r/chapotraphouse and he was glad that it got banned. Felix has said that he was fine with /r/blackwolffeed as long as they only shared the premium chapo episodes and not the spinoff shows.
Why would Chapo suddenly want a fan subreddit? They hated the fan subreddit.
It generated more growth than anything else in the show's history and they probably had to learn the hard lesson that it was good for them rather than bad for them whether they liked it or not.
In the early stages of the show. Now that these pioneering wave of podcasters have made it and accepted in mainstream, it’s time to pull the ladder up.
Virgil's pension account was too light this month, time to cull the leeches.
Virgil is in a heavily wooden paneled room. He's sitting in a 1800s easy chair. He's in a morning coat with a cigar in his mouth, a monocle in one eye, and he's on one of those old-timey phones from ~100 years ago that has two parts. He's talking to his broker through his cigar and he proclaims "I say - good man - I am calling to check on my portfolio..."
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I don't know why I immediately had that mental image but I did. A morning coat...
I heard a rumor hes living in Berlin now
Maybe he should move to Israel
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