Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Signal (place) 4 — Encrypted messaging app used by California billionaires to discuss tax avoidance strategies in a chat named 'Save Califo...

Medellin (place) 4 — Colombian city where a user is attempting to relocate from Peru, using marriage as a means to facilitate immigration for...

Wawa (place) 4 — Convenience store chain playfully designated as the official Red Scare convenience store after playing t.A.T.u.

Yahoo (place) 4 — An internet company whose frontpage is used as a comparison for Facebook's decline into clickbait content for retired us...

Chuck Berry (person) 4 — Legendary rock and roll musician noted for having a more balanced repertoire of loving and vitriolic songs compared to c...

Daily Show (film) 4 — A show mentioned in context of correspondents interviewing ordinary voters at political rallies, causing disheartening f...

Ancient Rome (concept) 4 — Referenced as a fantasy setting where homosexual relationships with concubines would have been socially acceptable.

Cristiano Ronaldo (person) 4 — Famous Portuguese footballer whose worship in the Middle East is theorized as an outlet for closeted gay Arabs due to hi...

MBTI (concept) 4 — Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test, referenced humorously when a woman claims to be 'very Taipei' instead of p...

Carnivore Diet (concept) 4 — A diet consisting only of meat products like steaks cooked in butter, associated with Jordan Peterson followers and caus...

Dumb and Dumber (film) 4 — 1990s comedy film discussed as an example of when movies were funny, watched as part of a triple feature.

Win Butler (person) 4 — Musician from Arcade Fire who faced severe career consequences from misconduct allegations involving emotional abuse and...

AGI (concept) 4 — Artificial General Intelligence, discussed as an unlikely outcome given the fundamental limitations discovered in curren...

Jake Paul (person) 4 — Internet celebrity and boxer whose scheduled fight with Mike Tyson sparked discussion about society forgiving rape but n...

Shrek (film) 4 — An animated film discussed as 'the cinematic end of history' that has influenced all subsequent pop cinema with its iron...

Munich (place) 4 — German city considered as more authentic alternative to Berlin, where traditional beer gardens offer more culturally dis...

Phrenology (concept) 4 — Discredited pseudoscience involving the measurement of skulls, referenced as part of the 'phrenological hokum' promoted ...

Dark Brandon (concept) 4 — Internet meme depicting Joe Biden as powerful and aggressive, discussed as having become cringe but representing accepta...

GWOT (concept) 4 — Global War on Terror, referenced as the context for Call of Duty games and gritty reboots as cultural responses to 9/11

Madison Square Garden (place) 4 — Sports arena built over Penn Station, representing the replacement of grand architecture with commercial mediocrity.

Paramore (person) 4 — Musical act referenced as an example of celebrities being pressured to make political statements on social issues.

Amadeus (film) 4 — Film depicting the experience of lacking natural talent through the character of Salieri's jealousy of Mozart, with expl...

Bangkok (place) 4 — Thai city promoted on YouTube as an affordable expat destination where one can live in a cyberpunk city for $1500 a mont...

Radical Feminism (concept) 4 — A feminist movement discussed as potentially having a resurgence following the Roe v. Wade decision, compared to the 197...

Apple Watch (concept) 4 — A smartwatch used to track fitness metrics including calories burned during activities, mentioned in the context of inap...

Uganda (place) 4 — Country mentioned in context of a gold mine discovery that sparked discussion about gold mining ethics

Groundhog Day (film) 4 — A film about being stuck in a time loop, used as metaphor for culture war discourse repeating endlessly.

Larry Ellison (person) 4 — Billionaire with nearly 400 billion dollars criticized for not building impressive infrastructure like past wealthy indu...

Obamacare (concept) 4 — Healthcare legislation that included a $750 mandate penalty for not having health insurance, which Trump eliminated with...

Atomic Habits (book) 4 — Self-help book criticized as part of superficial TikTok life optimization trend catering to neurotic tech bros

Omicron (concept) 4 — COVID-19 variant discussed in December 2021 as having decoupled cases from hospitalizations and deaths, signaling a pote...

IMDB (concept) 4 — Movie database and rating platform used as a reliable metric for film quality, with scores below 6.2 considered indicato...

Britpop (concept) 4 — British pop music genre questioned by a poster as to whether it counts as a special interest in relation to autism diagn...

The Met (place) 4 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, workplace where subreddit users encountered each other near the Mary Shelley...

Work from Home (concept) 4 — Remote work arrangement discussed as enabling extreme underperformance, with one person claiming to do only one or two h...

Jeb Bush (person) 4 — Former presidential candidate from Bush family whose 2016 campaign collapsed under Donald Trump's attacks, described as ...

Jean Paul Gaultier (person) 4 — French fashion designer referenced as an example of expensive fashion purchases that become less appealing with age

Civil Rights Movement (concept) 4 — Referenced as an example of successful social change that required boring planning and organization rather than spontane...

Marine Le Pen (person) 4 — French far-right politician referenced as a model for rebranding far-right politics as respectable and moderate.

Honor Levy (person) 4 — A person mentioned as the ex-girlfriend of Dasha Nekrasova's boyfriend, who is a zoomer convert from Judaism to sedevaca...

2001: A Space Odyssey (film) 4 — Science fiction film mentioned as formative childhood media that the poster still loves despite losing interest in new s...

Bianca Censori (person) 4 — Kanye West's wife who was described as friendly and sociable when encountered shopping for vintage couture in Los Angele...

Eritrea (place) 4 — A nation that an Ethiopian Uber driver claimed is made up and shouldn't exist if Ethiopia needs its land

Doctor Who (film) 4 — British science fiction television show that was a cultural juggernaut for 50 years among autistic boys but briefly attr...

Enlightenment (concept) 4 — Historical and philosophical period critiqued as having failed its promise to elevate humanity, leaving permanent anhedo...

Tchaikovsky (person) 4 — Classical composer who employed a battery of cannons and a full brass band for the finale of the 1812 Overture, cited as...

Love on the Spectrum (film) 4 — A Netflix show framed as helping autistic people date that is critiqued for subtly exploiting and making fun of low-func...

Q Anon (concept) 4 — Conspiracy theory movement that someone's father became obsessed with, violating his own advice never to talk about reli...

GTA (film) 4 — Grand Theft Auto video game series, mentioned in a post questioning why the subreddit was suddenly filled with posts abo...

Billy Corgan (person) 4 — Smashing Pumpkins frontman used as counterexample to Kurt Cobain, discussed as having diminished his legacy through long...