Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

House MD (film) 5 — Middlebrow medical drama praised for its detective serial format and acting despite fedora atheist moments.

Whit Stillman (person) 5 — Film director who attended a Chicago screening of his film Metropolitan and referred to it as his 'goody-goody magnum op...

Nine Inch Nails (album) 5 — Industrial rock band whose albums The Downward Spiral and Pretty Hate Machine are compared between two people in a relat...

Odd Future (album) 5 — Hip-hop collective led by Tyler, the Creator, known for their early controversial work during the Bastard and Goblin era...

Juice WRLD (person) 5 — Rapper criticized for having his posthumous catalog milked for the better part of a decade, cited as an example of disre...

Catch Me If You Can (film) 5 — Film referenced as example of past era when people could successfully impersonate professionals like doctors and lawyers

Michael Mann (person) 5 — Director whose film Heat inspired the perpetrators of the 1997 North Hollywood shootout.

Ukraine War (concept) 5 — The ongoing military conflict between Russia and Ukraine that began in 2022, discussed here in terms of Ukrainian cultur...

Gone With the Wind (book) 5 — A novel described as one of the most beautiful and significant works of American literature, featuring the complex chara...

The Civil War (concept) 5 — Ken Burns documentary described as the greatest documentary ever made, featuring historian Shelby Foote and ending with ...

Goodwill (place) 5 — Thrift store chain described as becoming increasingly crowded and expensive, with five items rising from fifteen to fort...

TDS (concept) 5 — Trump Derangement Syndrome, satirical term for obsessive anti-Trump behavior exhibited by a father watching low-view You...

Latin America (place) 5 — Region of origin for many immigrants recruited by Neo-Pentecostal churches in Spain, who seek economic and social advanc...

Picasso (person) 5 — Artist praised for mastering traditional art at a young age before choosing to work in an abstract style, used as a cont...

Mattel (place) 5 — Toy company partnering with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT into children's toys, raising child welfare concerns.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (person) 5 — Artist whose painting "In Bed, The Kiss" is featured in a collection of romantic art alongside works by Dicksee, Hayez, ...

Yemen (place) 5 — A Middle Eastern country from which a refugee tenant originates who was mistakenly thought to speak Spanish

Megan Fox (person) 5 — Actress discussed as part of a hot, vacuous celebrity couple with MGK, representing a return to pre-2010s celebrity auth...

Back to the Future (film) 5 — Classic 1980s film with a great script that has been so thoroughly parodied and referenced by Gen X that it lost potency...

Dwight D. Eisenhower (person) 5 — Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force who issued the famous D-Day order quoted in a post commemorating the...

SOPHIE (person) 5 — Electronic music artist whose self-titled posthumous album is cited as an example of a posthumous release done right.

Austin Butler (person) 5 — An actor who didn't see his family for three years while preparing for his role as Elvis Presley, demonstrating extreme ...

United Arab Emirates (place) 5 — Country that has undergone massive transformation from a sleepy oil boom town to a modern, densely developed, Russian-po...

Tyler, the Creator (person) 5 — Rapper accused of pretending to be gay to avoid criticism for problematic past behavior and offensive language.

The X-Files (film) 5 — TV series referenced through a post celebrating Scully Sunday with images from the first three seasons

Lost in Translation (film) 5 — Film whose narrative perspective is challenged, with Giovanni Ribisi's character defended as being in the right

Mission Impossible (film) 5 — Action film franchise criticized for nauseating modern editing with cuts under a second and excessive close-up shots.

Frances Ha (film) 5 — Film described as documentary-like portrayal of insufferable twenty-somethings in the early 2010s that captures millenni...

Homer (person) 5 — Ancient Greek poet whose invocation of the Muse in the Iliad is cited as having opening lines as raw as The Waste Land.

Gore Vidal (person) 5 — American writer who was the subject of a cancelled Netflix biopic directed by Kevin Spacey, with implications of miscond...

George Clooney (person) 5 — Actor whose early 2010s mid-budget film career exemplifies the type of movie that no longer exists in Hollywood

The Cranberries (person) 5 — Irish band whose song 'Dreams' was covered by 40 Irish female artists, cited as example of Ireland's cultural output

British Columbia (place) 5 — Canadian province mentioned as home of a woman who had to return after her brother was attacked by a bobcat

Slint (album) 5 — Band whose song "Don Aman" is considered a poor karaoke choice because it's too obscure and involves just muttering into...

Future (person) 5 — Hip hop artist whose recent collaborative album with Metro Boomin is cited as example of stylistic stagnation in hip hop...

Hypergamy (concept) 5 — A term from evolutionary psychology referring to the tendency to marry or date up in social status, critiqued here as pa...

Megalopolis (film) 5 — Francis Ford Coppola's upcoming film that he's wanted to make for 40 years and funded by selling half his wine company s...

Avoidant Personality Disorder (concept) 5 — Mental health disorder characterized by running away from all situations and reading social connections as danger, with ...

Workaholics (film) 5 — TV comedy show referenced for its devilish sense of humor similar to a successful PUA's personality.

MK Ultra (concept) 5 — CIA mind control program from the 1950s-70s discussed in speculation about whether similar programs continue today

Daniel Craig (person) 5 — Actor praised as one of the best James Bond actors for balancing suaveness with an undercurrent of real anger

Hannah Arendt (person) 5 — Political theorist referenced as a serious female intellectual who would not engage in self-commodification or call hers...

WASP (concept) 5 — White Anglo-Saxon Protestant cultural identity compared to wealthy Indian-Americans in Manhattan who are described as cu...

Copenhagen (place) 5 — Danish capital mentioned as a city where gender attractiveness disparities are less pronounced than in Germany

Ziwe (person) 5 — Television host and comedian criticized in the subreddit for being untalented despite having attended Northwestern Unive...

Bladee (person) 5 — Musician whose taste alongside classic singer-songwriters indicates a specific type of sensitive yet masculine personali...

Martyrs (film) 5 — Film referenced in a comparison to another horror movie that the poster enjoyed

Ringo Starr (person) 5 — The Beatles drummer theorized to potentially experience a cultural renaissance among Gen Alpha as part of a contrarian c...

Sinéad O'Connor (person) 5 — Irish singer who converted to Islam, cited as an example of extreme contrarianism

Yung Lean (person) 5 — A musician whose music was listened to alongside reading Ottessa Moshfegh, creating a mood of aimlessness and desire to ...