In “The Woman in the Hat,” Stan, Kyle and Kenny declare that they are fed up with the way their town has been taken over by politics and pushed the personal dynamic of their friend group into the background, and they launch subreddit called /r/SouthParkSucksNow to find like-minded complainers to commiserate over the state of South Park.  
 
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Users in the post-episode thread for “The Woman in the Hat” on the South Park subreddit celebrated “The Woman in the Hat” as a tastefully meta takedown of their own community, with the top commenter writing, “Brilliant episode. Addresses all the people who think the show sucks now and just says deal with it cause that's how things are now but they won't be this way forever.”
 
"Love how this episode was a big fuck you to the complainers on this subreddit lmao," another fan added.

“It’s not that we got all political,” Mr. Parker said in an interview. “It’s that politics became pop culture.”
 
On top of that, they sensed a fear of speaking out against the administration and that “new taboos” had emerged, Mr. Stone said.
 
“Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey,” Mr. Stone said. “Oh, that’s where the taboo is? Over there? OK, then we’re over there.”
 
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Ratings for the Comedy Central show have surged. Viewership over the past four months is more than double 2023, the last year the show had a new season, according to Nielsen.