Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

FDS (Female Dating Strategy) (concept) 3 — Online dating philosophy characterized by high standards for male partners and rejection of 'low value men,' depicted as...

Django Reinhardt (person) 3 — A jazz guitarist whose music was used as atmospheric background in pretentious neo-speakeasy bars of the mid-2010s

Apartheid (concept) 3 — South Africa's historical system of racial segregation that continues to distort international perceptions of the countr...

Materialists (film) 3 — Film by Celine Song that sparked discourse about inherited wealth and the economic realities of partnering with people f...

Parks and Recreation (film) 3 — NBC sitcom that one viewer now finds spiritually hollow and cynical, associating its characters Leslie Knope and Ben Wya...

Africa (place) 3 — Continent where wildlife researcher claims all elephants and animals are fleeing to higher ground, suggesting impending ...

Charlottesville (place) 3 — Virginia city referenced as comparison point for organized political white nationalist violence versus UK riots describe...

Keurig (concept) 3 — Single-cup coffee machine brand criticized as an environmental disaster that produces mediocre coffee while exporting cl...

Colorado River (place) 3 — Major river system cited as drying up due to wasteful water practices like maintaining grass lawns in desert environment...

Fat Acceptance Movement (concept) 3 — Social movement discussed as the closest thing to an anti-beauty movement, focused on shifting beauty standards in favor...

Calvinism (concept) 3 — Protestant theological tradition referenced as the spiritual predecessor to modern woke ideology, described as having si...

Supernanny (film) 3 — Reality TV show where British nanny Jo Frost helps struggling families with parenting, analyzed in detail for its portra...

TTC (place) 3 — Toronto public transit system cited as example of public transportation made unsafe by unwillingness to remove problemat...

SOHO (place) 3 — Manhattan neighborhood discussed as being dominated by women on weekend nights, with expensive, Instagram-focused bars a...

Heroin chic (concept) 3 — An aesthetic movement associated with extreme thinness that surprisingly hasn't emerged as a counter-cultural response t...

Serena Williams (person) 3 — A tennis player whose cameo in Glass Onion is described as pointless and feeling like it was written for a commercial.

Sexual Revolution (concept) 3 — The cultural and social movement of the 1960s cited as having overcorrected toward sexual liberalism and commodification...

Madison (place) 3 — Midwest city identified as having powerful energy shifts between urban and suburban areas

David Harbour (person) 3 — Actor who plays Hopper in Stranger Things, used as an unflattering comparison for a 22-year-old poster

Toyota (concept) 3 — Factory mentioned as a significant upward mobility milestone for a working-class family when the poster's father got a $...

Jussie Smollett (person) 3 — Singer/actor who staged a fake hate crime in Chicago during a polar vortex, discussed as an example of extreme human stu...

Doreen (person) 3 — Referenced as an example of the kind of person filling communist parties, likely referring to a notable Reddit moderator...

Pinocchio (film) 3 — Guillermo del Toro film where Cate Blanchett made monkey noises in a performance considered her second best of the year.

Blue Mountains (place) 3 — Location where a woman set up camp and grieved for 147 days after her husband's mental decline.

US Steel (place) 3 — Historic American steel company acquired by Nippon Steel, once the most valuable corporation on the planet and deeply ti...

Queer Theory (concept) 3 — Academic framework for LGBT studies that a user seeks critical perspectives on, analogous to Red Scare's relationship wi...

Vatican II (concept) 3 — Catholic Church council criticized in the book 'Ares Le Mandat' which was written as apologetics against its reforms.

Khan Academy (place) 3 — Educational video platform used as primary classroom instruction method in modern high schools where teachers have stude...

Tyra Banks (person) 3 — Supermodel and TV personality described in satirical gossip as kind and bullied by other models in Paris

Gigi Hadid (person) 3 — Model and member of the Hadid sisters, discussed as being more attractive than her sister because she retained facial fa...

Condé Nast (place) 3 — Publishing company that allegedly used a cultural knowledge quiz to screen job applicants, weeding out those deemed uncu...

Martin Luther King (person) 3 — Civil rights leader who believed in peaceful resistance and is invoked as an example of how Black people were met with v...

WikiFeet (place) 3 — Website that compiles photos of people's feet, where someone catalogued photos of the poster's girlfriend who did acting...

Zyzz (person) 3 — A bodybuilder and internet personality remembered as striking a good balance between gymming up and having fun without t...

Colin Powell (person) 3 — U.S. Secretary of State who famously covered up the UN's Guernica reproduction while making the case for the Iraq War du...

Nickelback (person) 3 — Canadian post-grunge band discussed as part of the 'butt rock' genre that was hugely popular in 2004 but is now universa...

r/oldschoolcool (place) 3 — Reddit subreddit criticized for being a place where people post vintage photos of attractive relatives for strangers to ...

New Hampshire (place) 3 — State where people who make less than six figures live while working in Boston due to high housing costs.

Diogenes (person) 3 — Ancient Greek philosopher invoked as a comparison for Slavoj Žižek's supposedly ascetic lifestyle, which turned out to r...

Paul Rudd (person) 3 — Actor whose aging well is discussed in relation to online discourse conflating beauty with moral goodness.

Chris McCandless (person) 3 — Young man who walked into the Alaskan wilderness and died, defended in the subreddit as someone who lived life on his ow...

Eraserhead (film) 3 — David Lynch film referenced as inspiration for a lifestyle of reduced technology use and urban wandering

Arab Spring (concept) 3 — A political movement cited as an example of failed rhizomatic organization via social networks

György Ligeti (person) 3 — Composer whose 100th birthday was commemorated with recommendations of recent recordings of his choral and other works.

Manhattan Project (concept) 3 — The American nuclear weapons program during WWII, where scientists debated how the atomic bomb should be used, with most...

Kama Sutra (book) 3 — Ancient Sanskrit text on sexuality and eroticism, referenced as representing excessive position variation in sex

Post-modernism (concept) 3 — Ideology blamed for creating an immaterial concept of womanhood divorced from material reality, leading to extreme beaut...

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (film) 3 — Horror film cited as a response to the Vietnam War in a discussion about how pop culture trends react to actual incident...

Slate (place) 3 — Online magazine criticized for publishing hackneyed Democratic talking points and predictable opinions in a bland, hecto...

George Lucas (person) 3 — Filmmaker whose sci-fi formulas are criticized as being endlessly replicated in conventional fantasy genres.