Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Eurostar (place) 1 — High-speed rail service connecting Paris and London, mentioned in context of annoying American tourists.

Albert Hall (place) 1 — Concert venue in London discussed by American tourists as being smaller than expected.

Kalamazoo (place) 1 — Michigan city mentioned by annoying American tourists in Europe.

Great Man Theory (concept) 1 — Childhood fantasy of becoming a historically significant figure before and after whom history divides

Bob Hawke (person) 1 — Former Prime Minister of Australia mentioned as an example of a genuinely popular PM in contrast to American presidentia...

Flavio Briatore (person) 1 — Former F1 figure and father of Leni Klum who famously described F1 as an excuse to philander around the world with model...

Leni Klum (person) 1 — Daughter of Flavio Briatore mentioned in discussion of F1 figures

CART (concept) 1 — American open-wheel racing series mentioned alongside F1 as a childhood interest

B-29 (concept) 1 — World War II bomber aircraft that someone is considering paying $600 for a 30-minute flight experience in

Fiona Barnett (person) 1 — Person who accused Nicole Kidman's father of involvement in a child sex ring, with allegations surfacing 30 days before ...

Life After Death (album) 1 — Posthumous Biggie album cited as an example of a posthumous release done respectfully.

Ellen DeGeneres (person) 1 — Television host whose YouTube interview with Nicole Kidman features hundreds of comments about allegations against Kidma...

Heavy Rain (film) 1 — Video game referenced for its character's short hairstyle that becomes point of relationship conflict

DILF (concept) 1 — Sexual slang term discussed in context of unwanted attention received after aging into middle-aged attractiveness

Wahhabi Islam (concept) 1 — Conservative Islamic movement referenced by poster critiquing Western embrace of traditional religion

MREs (concept) 1 — Military rations (Meals Ready to Eat) fondly remembered by child receiving them from deployed servicemember

Office fanfiction (concept) 1 — Fan-written stories based on The Office TV show, referenced in disturbing discovery involving violent torture content

Jim and Pam (concept) 1 — Central romantic couple from The Office TV show referenced in context of disturbing fanfiction

Dave Matthews Band (person) 1 — Band whose album 'Crash' is considered fantastic despite hating the college hype around them

Libfem (concept) 1 — Liberal feminism characterized by emphasis on sexual liberation with an underlying notion that 'every woman secretly yea...

Slut-shaming (concept) 1 — Feminist concept that was heavily discussed in Tumblr feminism circles, with the poster arguing that prude-shaming has b...

Prude-shaming (concept) 1 — Social pressure on women to be sexually liberated, argued to be a bigger problem than slut-shaming in contemporary cultu...

Ross Ulbricht (person) 1 — Founder of Silk Road who was pardoned by Trump and freed after imprisonment

Tumblr collapse (concept) 1 — Reference to a major event on Tumblr used as analogy for 4chan facing a similar exodus event that could result in an inf...

Page 3 (concept) 1 — British newspaper feature that ran until 2015 featuring a topless woman on page 3 daily, described as 'utterly sexless' ...

Maduro (person) 1 — Referenced in context of the Trump administration's successful extraction operation that emboldened further aggressive f...

John Gotti (person) 1 — Famous mob boss who was betrayed and sent to jail by Sammy the Bull Gravano.

Sammy the Bull (person) 1 — Sammy Gravano, former mafia underboss who betrayed John Gotti and participated in 19 murders, now makes YouTube videos.

Michael Franzese (person) 1 — Former mobster who made 10 million dollars a week and was mentioned in Goodfellas, now makes YouTube videos about Trump ...

Donnie Brasco (person) 1 — FBI agent Joseph Pistone who infiltrated the mob and sent many of his friends to prison, interviewed by Michael Franzese...

Jessica Simpson (person) 1 — Singer whose public opinion suffered after dating Tony Romo, used as comparison for Taylor Swift's NFL exposure.

Tony Romo (person) 1 — NFL quarterback whose relationships with Jessica Simpson and Carrie Underwood damaged their public opinions.

Evermore (album) 1 — Taylor Swift album that won over a straight male fan a few years before her predicted overexposure backlash.

Hayden Christensen (person) 1 — Actor whose lifeless romantic chemistry with Natalie Portman in Star Wars is compared to Chalamet and Zendaya's in Dune.

Alexander Lukashenko (person) 1 — President of Belarus re-elected for sixth term amid protests, referred to as strong-armed dictator

Willie Brown (person) 1 — Former San Francisco mayor who groomed Kamala Harris according to satirical news summary

Kibbe (concept) 1 — Body typing system that users obsess over on dedicated subreddits, treating as pseudoscience

Xanga (place) 1 — Early blogging platform from the 2000s that represented long-form content before the shift to microblogging.

Geocities (place) 1 — Early internet web hosting service known for quirky personal sites and web rings representing the weirdness of the early...

Solomon Butcher (person) 1 — Late 19th century photographer who documented early plains settlers in Nebraska, considered a great forgotten American a...

Riley June Williams (person) 1 — January 6th Capitol rioter who became the object of someone's romantic interest despite her participation in the event.

Northwestern (place) 1 — Elite university that the poster applied to despite being told only lower-tier schools would accept them for PhD studies...

HandShake (place) 1 — Job platform where low-paying teaching positions at high-needs schools are advertised.

Chesapeake Bay (place) 1 — Body of water suffering from environmental problems including oxygen depletion due to fertilizer runoff.

Spirit Halloween (place) 1 — Seasonal Halloween retail store described as a workplace with no complex tasks

18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (book) 1 — Marx's work about historical repetition as farce, referenced when discussing a failed coup attempt

Louis Bonaparte (person) 1 — Historical figure whose coup was analyzed by Marx and referenced in discussion of a modern failed coup

Flower Boy (album) 1 — Tyler, the Creator album that is the only one the poster likes from the artist

Postman Pat (person) 1 — Figure referenced as cleansing a subreddit of anti-multiculturalism discourse, described as a really happy man

Hot Tub Time Machine (film) 1 — Comedy film about middle-aged men time traveling to the 80s for pure idiotic wish fulfillment without life lessons or ch...