Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Yughs (concept) 1 — An ethnic group related to the Ket people with an extremely small population of only 7 people as of 2020

Ratatouille (film) 1 — An animated film set in France, referenced as evidence of French culinary excellence and the reason for its French setti...

Iron and Wine (person) 1 — Musical artist mentioned in a generational communication gap between poster and their mother.

Sneed's Feed and Seed (concept) 1 — Internet copypasta/meme from The Simpsons used to demonstrate AI voice generation capabilities with deepfake Biden audio...

Mark Hollis (person) 1 — Musician referenced as comfort listening for dealing with loneliness and emotional isolation.

East Atlanta (place) 1 — Atlanta neighborhood mentioned as previously lived in before gentrification, characterized by crime and gang activity.

West Midtown (place) 1 — Atlanta neighborhood where poster experienced being chased with a gun before area was gentrified.

Western civilisation (concept) 1 — Cultural concept questioned in light of World War I's senseless destruction and waste of human life.

Conestoga College (place) 1 — Ontario community college criticized for over-enrolling international students, going from less than 20% international i...

Lambton College (place) 1 — Ontario community college criticized alongside Conestoga for dramatically increasing international student enrollment.

Kitchener-Waterloo (place) 1 — Canadian region where employers are reportedly refusing to hire recent Punjabi international students due to workplace b...

J.S. Bach (person) 1 — Classical composer whose music the poster came to appreciate as beyond genius after initially dismissing it as stuffy an...

Gustav Holst (person) 1 — Classical composer referenced as someone the poster tried to get friends into during middle school.

Tottenham Court Road (place) 1 — London location where a poster had a negative experience at a Chipotle restaurant.

John Donne (person) 1 — Early Modern English poet whose syntactically complex prose is cited as a model for avoiding ChatGPT-like writing.

Early Modern English (concept) 1 — Historical English syntactic idiom characterized by long, architecturally sound sentences that maintain steady lines of ...

Raya (place) 1 — Dating app for wealthy and famous people, contrasted with a proposed app for hot but broke people.

Roseanne Barr (person) 1 — Comedian who was vilified for claiming Ambien makes you racist, which the poster argues she was right about.

Sanofi (place) 1 — Pharmaceutical company that manufactures Ambien and denied that racism is a side effect of their medication.

Cagots (concept) 1 — Discriminated class along the Franco-Spanish border for hundreds of years with no defining characteristics beyond their ...

Basque country (place) 1 — Region along the Franco-Spanish border where the Cagots, a mysteriously discriminated class, existed for centuries.

r/sino (place) 1 — A subreddit mentioned as being populated by users who defend China against criticism while living in the United States.

The Knot (place) 1 — A wedding planning website criticized for being 'cheugy' and for selling user data.

Kathleen Kennedy (person) 1 — Film producer blamed by some for ruining Star Wars with feminist themes, though also produced The Mandalorian.

Library Genesis (libgen) (place) 1 — Online repository for free access to books and academic materials that users worry is being over-exposed on TikTok.

Jordan Peterson (JBP) (person) 1 — Canadian psychologist and public intellectual referenced for his advice about not doing things you know you shouldn't do...

Corn Pop (person) 1 — Figure from Joe Biden's anecdotes that he would ramble about

chopped n' screwed rap (concept) 1 — Houston hip-hop music style from 30 years ago, cited as the city's last cultural contribution

Sufis (concept) 1 — Islamic mystics who achieve union with God through dancing

Alicia Silverstone (person) 1 — Actress whose image saying 'retard' is frequently posted on the subreddit

true name (concept) 1 — Magical concept where speaking someone's true name gives complete control over their soul

Yakov Dzhugashvili (person) 1 — Stalin's eldest son who longed for his father's approval but died in a Nazi POW camp in 1943.

Konstantin Kuzakov (person) 1 — Stalin's illegitimate son born in 1911 who lived cautiously, became a successful Soviet official in radio and television...

Alexander Davydov (person) 1 — Stalin's illegitimate son born in 1917 to a Siberian villager who served in WWII and worked as a construction supervisor...

Vasily Stalin (person) 1 — Stalin's youngest son born to his second wife who lived recklessly, fell into alcoholism, was imprisoned after Stalin's ...

NKVD (place) 1 — Soviet secret police that summoned Stalin's illegitimate sons in the late 1930s to sign non-disclosure agreements about ...

CANZUK (concept) 1 — A political alliance concept involving Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, referenced in relation to its subredd...

PFAS (concept) 1 — Chemicals in water supply discussed as potentially contributing to social and reproductive issues

Consensual Relationship Agreement (concept) 1 — HR document required for workplace relationships, discussed in context of power dynamics and corporate bureaucracy

Ash Ketchum (person) 1 — Pokemon character referenced as metaphor for being oblivious to obvious romantic interest

Digital Payments (concept) 1 — Cashless payment systems theorized as contributing to increased homelessness aggression due to reduced begging income

Detached Cynicism (concept) 1 — Cultural attitude characterized by ironic detachment and lack of sincerity, criticized as damaging to society in contras...

Nbacirclejerk (place) 1 — Reddit community mentioned as one of several sources of transplant users that have degraded the quality of the subreddit...

Moreplatesmoredates (place) 1 — Online community mentioned as a source of low-quality transplant users who have negatively impacted the subreddit.

Marty Feldman (person) 1 — Actor cited as an example of unconventionally attractive men that women claim to have crushes on.

Linda Fiorentino (person) 1 — Actress mentioned as someone's supposed 'weird crush' that is actually conventionally attractive.

Kristin Schaal (person) 1 — Comedian and actress mentioned as a genuinely unconventional celebrity crush that someone found charming.

Opioid Epidemic (concept) 1 — Public health crisis discussed in terms of doctors' culpability for believing pharmaceutical sales representatives about...

Blackout Tuesday (concept) 1 — Social media activism phenomenon from June 2020 where people posted black squares on Instagram in response to racial jus...

Sea shanties (concept) 1 — Traditional maritime work songs that briefly became popular on social media at the start of COVID, discussed as neofolk'...