Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Ultraprocessed Food (concept) 1 — Food made from bulk isolated ingredients combined with chemicals, designed through testing to maximize consumption and p...

Happy Merchant (concept) 1 — An antisemitic wojak meme depicting a stereotypical Jewish person rubbing hands together, referenced in connection to le...

Western Imperialism (concept) 1 — Concept invoked in left-wing anti-vegan arguments claiming that forcing veganism on indigenous peoples erases their cult...

Hewlett-Packard (place) 1 — Corporation that purchased a company for 8 billion dollars, discovered fraud, and is implicated in a conspiracy theory a...

Mafia-Corporatism (concept) 1 — A proposed new era where American corporations openly murder their enemies, as evidenced by suspicious deaths of tech ex...

HIIT (concept) 1 — High-Intensity Interval Training, referenced as part of commercialized fitness culture with booty-building workout class...

L-Theanine (concept) 1 — Supplement referenced as part of American fitness supplement culture consumed as chemical slop

Creatine (concept) 1 — Fitness supplement mixed into protein shakes as part of American exercise culture

Aspartame (concept) 1 — Artificial sweetener in hydration mixes criticized as part of American supplement culture

Dawn Dish Soap (concept) 1 — Household cleaning product used by someone working 80-hour weeks as body wash in self-described Industrial Peasant lifes...

Tems (person) 1 — Nigerian R&B singer performing at a concert that exemplified generational coolness divide for a 32-year-old

Miracle on Ice (film) 1 — Sports film referenced for its motivational speech about great moments being born from great opportunity

Ashley Fike (person) 1 — Alleged journalist at Vice accused of being a fictional AI-generated persona with an impossibly high article output of o...

Dax Shepard (person) 1 — Celebrity who hosts a podcast and discusses his past drug and alcohol addiction in a bragging manner

Girl Meets World (film) 1 — TV show that featured Sabrina Carpenter, referenced by someone who was obsessed with her performance in it

Karl Malone (person) 1 — Famous basketball player whose nephew was the man who shot himself after being caught masturbating at a bikini coffee dr...

Tempe (place) 1 — Arizona city where a bikini coffee drive-thru incident occurred involving a man who subsequently committed suicide

Amblin' (film) 1 — 26-minute short film that was Steven Spielberg's first theatrical release directed for Universal Studios

January Jones (person) 1 — Actress mentioned as an example of a more respectable celebrity to follow on Instagram compared to random Instagram mode...

r/psychology (place) 1 — Reddit subreddit characterized as inconsistently applying scientific standards, accepting studies only when they confirm...

Porn brain (concept) 1 — Concept describing how pornography consumption makes men hyposexual and disinterested in real women, contrary to the bel...

Habonim Dror (concept) 1 — Socialist Zionist association that sought an ethnically pluralistic, socialist Jewish-Arab state of Israel.

Barry Sisters (person) 1 — Yiddish music performers whose songs evoke emotional memories of traditional Jewish family gatherings.

World War I poets (concept) 1 — Writers who documented the horror and unwillingness of soldiers experiencing war, contrary to romanticized masculine ide...

Limitless (film) 1 — Film starring Bradley Cooper about enhanced capabilities, used sarcastically to describe an idealized youth.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) (film) 1 — Keanu Reeves remake considered a masterpiece by non-cinephile normal people, to the offense of those who prefer the orig...

Fordham Road (place) 1 — Bronx street the author would wander during three-day methamphetamine benders while skipping class

Hilton Hotel (place) 1 — Hotel chain referenced in an awkward workplace incident involving flirtation and drug use

Mette-Marit (person) 1 — Norway's Crown Princess, former Oslo party girl with connections to Epstein and mother of an alleged serial rapist

Celina Midelfart (person) 1 — Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend who dated Norway's Crown Prince before he met Mette-Marit, later dated Trump

Cop City (concept) 1 — Controversial police training facility that sparked protests cited as ineffective

Dan Quayle (person) 1 — Former Vice President referenced as a comparison point for Kamala Harris as an ineffectual and do-nothing VP

Lawrence Krauss (person) 1 — Astrophysicist who appears on Epstein's flight logs, has a podcast with Richard Dawkins, and lives on Prince Edward Isla...

Prince Edward Island (place) 1 — Small Canadian island where astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss lives without much local acknowledgment

Wehrmacht (concept) 1 — Nazi German armed forces invoked as a comparison for people who participated in the NFT craze and continue living normal...

Vulnerable Narcissism (concept) 1 — Psychological concept where delusions of inferiority are as narcissistic as delusions of grandeur, with sufferers seekin...

Barefoot (wine) (concept) 1 — A low-quality wine brand mentioned as a deliberately bad gift recommendation in retail psychological warfare tactics.

Yellowtail (wine) (concept) 1 — A low-quality wine brand mentioned as a deliberately bad gift recommendation in retail psychological warfare tactics.

Roosh V (person) 1 — Creator of Return of Kings and OG redpill forum, of Iranian descent, who wrote books ranting about not getting laid with...

Return of Kings (concept) 1 — OG redpill forum created by Roosh V that served as an early hub for manosphere ideology.

Redpill movement (concept) 1 — Manosphere ideology discussed as being at least as much about racial grievances as male loneliness, with predominantly m...

Haley Welch (person) 1 — Proletariat Southerner who became famous for the Hawk Tuah comment, transitioning from factory work to podcasting and fi...

The Anasazi Group (place) 1 — Private equity firm that bought out a historic luxury hotel in DC and degraded it with cheap, poorly installed fixtures ...

Days Inn (place) 1 — Budget hotel chain used as comparison for a historic luxury hotel degraded by private equity ownership.

Half your age plus seven (concept) 1 — Traditional rule for acceptable age gaps in dating that was the golden standard until 2019, mentioned as having gone ext...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (person) 1 — Author who has been 'boorishly proselytizing' about fragility in economic systems for a decade, referenced in discussion...

Anti-fragility (concept) 1 — Concept discussed in relation to supply chain vulnerabilities, where economic systems lack resilience and everything is ...

First Corinthians (book) 1 — Biblical text referenced for its metaphor about the body and how each part makes up the whole, used to discuss supply ch...

Artsakh (place) 1 — Disputed region where a traveler got lost in a canyon at night and unknowingly walked through a minefield

Niagara University (place) 1 — Campus where a high school hospitality and tourism class attended seminars, site of a homophobic incident at a hotel