Bang's crisis became known in October 2018 when the magazine launched a rescue campaign in which 700 new subscribers were recruited.

But the rescue failed.

The newspaper, which has been run as a non-profit economic association, filed for bankruptcy in early December.

On December 14, the bankruptcy decision came.

Bang was founded in 1991 by a group of students at Stockholm University and is named after the journalist Barbro "Bang" Alving.