Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Pat McAfee (person) 1 — Sports media personality criticized as representative of the decline in American sports journalism.

JonBenét Ramsey (person) 1 — Child beauty pageant contestant whose murder case remains unsolved, with theories including accidental death by her brot...

Harper's Bazaar (place) 1 — Fashion magazine that published Pamela Anderson's op-ed about pornography addiction.

Art Gallery of NSW (place) 1 — Sydney art museum visited by the Red Scare book club community.

Sydney Film Festival (place) 1 — Film festival in Sydney that the Red Scare book club community plans to attend together.

Capri-Sun (concept) 1 — Juice drink exclusively consumed by a gym receptionist who attempts to conceal his consumption habits.

Skyler (person) 1 — Character from Breaking Bad whose haters are labeled misogynists despite the show's poor writing of family dynamics.

CBGT (Cognitive Behavioral Goy Therapy) (concept) 1 — Satirical self-invented therapy technique using anti-consumerist rhetoric to motivate behavioral change.

MTA (place) 1 — New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority criticized for high worker pay and poor service delivery.

Bloods (concept) 1 — Gang mentioned alongside the Crips as no longer being prominently discussed in relation to drive-by shootings.

Crips (concept) 1 — Gang mentioned alongside the Bloods as no longer being prominently discussed in relation to drive-by shootings.

Australian surf rock (album) 1 — Music genre from Australia that became subject of obsessive interest.

Five Nights at Freddy's (film) 1 — Video game franchise whose lore became obsessively studied despite never having played the games.

Georgist theory (concept) 1 — Economic philosophy that became subject of temporary obsessive study.

QGIS (concept) 1 — Geographic information system software used to trace roads for an imaginary video game mapping project.

American Truck Simulator (film) 1 — Video game for which a user spent a summer creating detailed road maps in QGIS.

JetBlue (place) 1 — American airline that a child believed consisted of only one plane traveling to all airports.

r/redscare4cishetmen (place) 1 — Subreddit suggested as appropriate destination for horny posting and Chapo Trap House refugees.

Nesquik (concept) 1 — Chocolate milk powder used as analogy for childhood misunderstanding of how gay surrogacy works.

R4R (place) 1 — Reddit connections subreddit described as cringe where people post seeking relationships

Dilaudid (concept) 1 — Opioid pain medication administered via patient-controlled button during hospital recovery

Henry Ford (person) 1 — American industrialist and founder of Ford Motor Company, discussed in the context of his extreme antisemitism which the...

Tyranny of Structurelessness (concept) 1 — Concept applied to work-from-home culture, suggesting that unlimited freedom in work location and hours creates its own ...

Umarell (concept) 1 — Italian term for older retirement-age men who spend their time observing construction with hands clasped behind their ba...

Ginuwine (person) 1 — R&B singer whose song 'Pony' was produced by Timbaland and cited as an example of the producer's influential work.

Omarion (person) 1 — R&B artist whose song 'Ice Box' was produced by Timbaland and cited as an example of the producer's work.

Swizz Beatz (person) 1 — Music producer mentioned as having worked on Kanye West's 'Stronger' before Timbaland was brought in to fix the track.

Roddy Ricch (person) 1 — Young rapper who was positioned to become a superstar but fell off before taking over mainstream rap

Lil Baby (person) 1 — Young rapper who was positioned to become a superstar but fell off before taking over mainstream rap

Women's March (concept) 1 — Large protest movement dismissed as ineffective and laughable in accomplishing any substantive change

Fozzie Bear (person) 1 — Muppet character from The Muppets imagined as a living independent being performing as a conservative comedian

Suno AI (concept) 1 — An AI music generation tool that produces songs with unnatural vocals and ChatGPT-style lyrics, described as creating sc...

Naksa (concept) 1 — A term referenced in discussion of potential logical endpoints for the destruction in Gaza following Israeli retaliation...

Newcastle-upon-Tyne (place) 1 — A coastal town in Northumbria where a lord went on pilgrimage to fortify his humors, mentioned in a medieval-style satir...

Nathaniel Jasper (person) 1 — American journalist who was escorted to a Palestinian village in the West Bank under false pretenses and attacked by set...

Bavaria (place) 1 — A German region that German-Americans are unfamiliar with despite German heritage being the most common ethnic backgroun...

Are We Dating the Same Guy (concept) 1 — Facebook groups where women share information about men they're dating, which a poster fears they may be featured in for...

Miami Herald (place) 1 — Newspaper that published the article in 2018 that launched the ongoing Epstein scandal.

Reservoir Dogs (film) 1 — Quentin Tarantino film cited as example of gratuitous violence in 90s Gen X media culture

Old Boy (film) 1 — Film cited as example of gratuitous violence in 90s/early 00s media culture

IDW (concept) 1 — Intellectual Dark Web, group that Joe Rogan and Eric Weinstein consider themselves part of

Adam Neumann (person) 1 — Business figure predicted to be considered a Vanderbilt-like villain of this era within 100 years.

Tokyo Drift (film) 1 — Film praised for its cool aesthetics and depiction of Tokyo, contrasted favorably against Lost in Translation.

Chadwick Boseman (person) 1 — Actor who played Black Panther in Marvel films, subject of a conspiracy theory that Disney killed him to make Black Pant...

Love After Lockup (film) 1 — Reality TV show featuring people having babies, watched by someone experiencing baby fever.

Nickelodeon Magazine (place) 1 — Magazine from 1999-2009 described as a Red Scare-aligned publication.

Urbit (concept) 1 — Crypto/tech platform described as an Israeli crypto landlord app that Dasha allegedly promotes.

RSPCA (place) 1 — The UK animal welfare organization that could be called to report inadequate pet care.

Big Five (concept) 1 — A psychological personality trait model referenced as something MBTI enthusiasts might obsess over.

Retromania (concept) 1 — A cultural concept about society's obsession with past aesthetics and the slow cancellation of the future.