Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Talking Heads (album) 6 — Band that brought in experimentalists and had a circus of supporting musicians on stage for the Stop Making Sense tour, ...

Redpill (concept) 6 — Misogynistic philosophy referenced alongside blackpill as contributing to men's distrust and hatred of women while still...

Bipolar disorder (concept) 6 — Mental health condition mentioned alongside BPD as a previous trendy self-diagnosis before autism became the fashionable...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (person) 6 — Philosopher whose private language argument is cited as a way to understand social constructs and calm down debates abou...

Noah Baumbach (person) 6 — A filmmaker mentioned as director of The Squid and the Whale, noted for depicting edgy young characters.

John Singer Sargent (person) 6 — An artist whose painting Repose (Nonchaloire) from 1911 is featured in a collection of favorite paintings of people slee...

Justin Timberlake (person) 6 — Pop star whose career arc from NSYNC to solo success to current lackluster performances represents cultural decline and ...

Albert Einstein (person) 6 — Physicist whose work is referenced as one of the mind-blowing scientific discoveries about how the universe works

Mumford and Sons (person) 6 — Band categorized with 'stomp clap millennial anthem stuff' that 'really does suck' alongside The National and The Lumine...

Tradcath (concept) 6 — Traditional Catholicism used by leftists as aesthetic window dressing for rejection of neoliberalism, compared to right-...

Burial (person) 6 — Electronic music artist whose atmospheric music is traditionally listened to during cold, rainy autumn night walks, used...

Thom Yorke (person) 6 — Radiohead frontman referenced in discussion of Asian women dating white men with specific physical characteristics

Brandon Sanderson (person) 6 — Best-selling fantasy author of Mistborn whose book was at the center of a confrontation at Chipotle over whether high fa...

Bechdel Test (concept) 6 — A measure of female representation in media based on whether female characters talk about something other than men, inve...

SSRI (concept) 6 — Class of antidepressant medications criticized for their side effects and difficulty of discontinuation, which doctors a...

WAP (album) 6 — A song referenced as being on repeat among lower-class Black women in a discussion about musical preferences across econ...

Dior (place) 6 — Fashion house praised for their early 2000s maximalist and Y2K-aesthetic advertising campaigns

Alex Turner (person) 6 — Lead singer of Arctic Monkeys described as a lyrical genius and awkward rock star who mastered being non-threatening yet...

Jackie Chan (person) 6 — Hong Kong martial arts actor and filmmaker presented as an ideal male role model who is self-made, does his own stunts, ...

Ryan Murphy (person) 6 — Television producer whose new show about Ed Gein contains explicit mentions of autogynephilia versus HSTS and implicatio...

FKA twigs (person) 6 — Musical artist described as 'an actual freak of beauty' whose song 'Two Weeks' inspired a desire to build a temple for h...

Serge Gainsbourg (person) 6 — French musician mentioned as a favorite artist during an uncomfortable hairdresser appointment, which the hairdresser sc...

Demi Lovato (person) 6 — Celebrity whose WikiFeet page was the subject of a Guardian headline about someone realizing they're pansexual.

Ween (album) 6 — American band/songwriters discussed as fascination for combining great songwriting with absurdist humor

Nick Cave (person) 6 — Australian musician and songwriter discussed in the context of his conservative temperament and critique of systemic thi...

Toy Story (film) 6 — Pixar animated film referenced in relation to NFL's virtual game reskinning technology that makes football look like it'...

Generation X (book) 6 — Generational cohort praised for producing great 1990s music including grunge, stoner rock, and indie alt, but considered...

Hipster Runoff (place) 6 — A cultural blog described as the most culturally important writing of the past 20 years that should have been preserved ...

John McAfee (person) 6 — Founder of McAfee antivirus software who became a fugitive, lived on a yacht doing drugs, and died in prison, discussed ...

Zillow (concept) 6 — Real estate website where users can browse property listings, referenced in context of sharing horrible property example...

Belgrade (place) 6 — Serbian city where someone spotted a girl in a Slayer shirt with prominent whale tail, evoking Red Scare podcast aesthet...

Federico Fellini (person) 6 — Italian filmmaker referenced in contrast to Harry Potter as an example of highbrow artistic taste that younger generatio...

AirPods (concept) 6 — Apple wireless earbuds discussed as symbol of new antisocial behavior where people keep one earbud in even when with fam...

r/destiny (place) 6 — Subreddit compared to r/redscarepod through a test designed to determine if posts from both communities can be distingui...

Industrial Society and Its Future (book) 6 — Manifesto by Ted Kaczynski that a graduate student has been citing in academic papers, discussing the power process and ...

Tom Hanks (person) 6 — Actor criticized for his performance in an airport-themed film where he plays a character from a fictional Eastern Europ...

Gnosticism (concept) 6 — Religious and philosophical movement discussed for its Sethian idea that the Old Testament God is a different and lesser...

Licorice Pizza (film) 6 — Film by Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) about a relationship between a 25-year-old woman and 15-year-old boy that sparked con...

Die Hard (film) 6 — Action film referenced as the archetypal male fantasy scenario of being in a life-or-death situation requiring resourcef...

Neutral Milk Hotel (album) 6 — Indie rock band whose song 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' triggered an existential awakening experience for a listener ...

The Sims (film) 6 — A video game franchise whose subreddit features users claiming that skinny blonde sims damage their self-worth, represen...

Olivia Wilde (person) 6 — Film director criticized for making Don't Worry Darling with themes about male pleasure in sex scenes and outdated femin...

Deuxmoi (place) 6 — Celebrity gossip Instagram account and subreddit compared to the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders subreddit for its intense s...

My Bloody Valentine (person) 6 — Shoegaze band discussed as a favorite but criticized for spawning numerous derivative post-millennial 'nugaze' bands tha...

Troy (place) 6 — American town referenced as example of European place names transplanted to America, specifically in context of being ab...

Shelby Foote (person) 6 — Historian featured in Ken Burns' Civil War documentary who provided human grounding without yearning for the antebellum ...

YMCA (place) 6 — Organization where poster practices swimming laps, holding their breath, and free diving to prepare for their calling re...

Conan O'Brien (person) 6 — Actor in A24 film If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, whose presence contributes to misleading quirky comedy expectations

Gordon Ramsay (person) 6 — Celebrity chef and former protégé of Marco Pierre White, described unfavorably as looking like a 'potato-faced, geriatri...

Fran Lebowitz (person) 6 — Writer and cultural critic criticized for being incapable of building anything, having had writer's block since the earl...