The Conspiracy Theories About Desus and Mero’s Breakup Are Getting Out of Control

The brand is … well, not doing so great. By June 16 of this year, one Redditor had surmised that Desus and Mero’s separate gigs plus the unofficial Bodega Boys hiatus meant that “it’s over.” It took only a month for another online fan to help break the news, spurred by desperate messages from the Desus and Mero community asking what happened to the podcast. On July 17, the admin of the Bodega Boys Daily Twitter and Instagram accounts posted their supposition that the duo was done for, putting together a June 19 tweet from Desus claiming the podcast would return, a July 12 Reddit comment by Mero directly countering that “ITS A WRAP,” and subsequent tweets by Desus three days later in part stating that the fans “deserved better than this ending.” Shortly after, that guess was confirmed and, as the woman behind the accounts told Gothamist, Desus himself messaged the accounts to apologize about the abrupt conclusion to the brand. One poster took Mero’s side and wrote that the Puck report “seems kinda scapegoatish.” But as other fans dug up alleged confirmations from other Desus & Mero insiders regarding Lopez’s behavior, the subreddit strayed from the initial Desus theories, kickstarting separate apology threads for both him and Anna Kendrick. Last month, Mero had cryptically implied Desus “CANT TAKE A JOKE WITHOUT THINKIN ITS SHADE” and made a dig regarding Desus’ investments, though he later claimed that actually was “NO SHADE.” And in more recent days, Mero has liked tweets implying Victor Lopez was the hero in the fight against a villainous Showtime and responded to Reddit comments theorizing that the Puck stories were “leaked by people with a vested interest in Desus looking better in this whole thing.” We may not know the whole story for a while, even as Desus would advise us that we “gotta hear both sides,” but if there’s one thing we can gauge for sure, it’s that Desus and Mero are undergoing an especially messy divorce and asking the kids to pick a side.