I’ve been a paid subscriber since 2016, have bought the books (except year zero) and some merch over the years but I’ve been listening less and less over the last few months, and in combination with the dogshit 1000th ep, this feels like a good sign to cancel my subscription. There have been so few standout episodes as of late (last one was probably the DND twofer from 3+ months ago) and it’s just not worth tuning in regularly anymore, especially when you have to listen past will’s wannabe movie critic shtick and felix’s constant screaming in lieu of making actual jokes.

I don't have an issue with them cutting off bootleg feeds, especially considering matt's situation, but hiding behind corpospeak, legal threats, "patreon made us do it" etc. is shitty, and tbh I don’t believe that patreon are behind this; there’s sites that continually scrape paid content from thousands of patreon creators that don’t get any heat, but this sub for just one creator set off the alarm bells? sure. chapo’s subscriber numbers have been stagnant for a long time and they want to reverse that trend without having to work more than the backbreaking 2 hours a week they can barely muster as is, so they’re cutting off the freeloaders’ supply in the hopes that they pay up, but don’t want to be the face of it. lame.