Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

MAC VAL (place) 1 — Art museum quoted describing Christian Boltanski's work

Smolensk (place) 1 — Russian city that is the subject of a photographic post.

Mesa, AZ (place) 1 — Arizona city mentioned in satirical millennial dentist biography.

Rio (place) 1 — Brazilian city mentioned alongside São Paulo in vegan food documentation.

Airbus (place) 1 — European aircraft manufacturer discussed as producing twice as many jetliners as Boeing, representing European engineeri...

Por Una Cabeza (album) 1 — Tango song referenced in connection with street dancing in Buenos Aires

Legal Eagle (person) 1 — YouTube legal commentator criticized as providing functionally useless information about American law to non-American au...

Gino D'Acampo (person) 1 — Italian chef whose 'if my grandma had wheels' clip became an overused internet phrase for dismissing hypotheticals

Kingdom of Jerusalem (place) 1 — Crusader kingdom discussed in connection with a calculation of the squared date of Christ's crucifixion landing on Novem...

Baldwin I (person) 1 — King of Jerusalem in 1105 who led crusaders to victory at the Battle of Ramla

Battle of Ramla (concept) 1 — 1105 battle where Crusaders defeated a Fatimid force, marking the last large-scale attempt to reconquer Palestine

Generational Determinism (concept) 1 — A belief system critiqued as a neoliberal affliction of the atomized PMC that perpetuates cruel social practices

That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore (album) 1 — A song that Dasha Nekrasova allegedly sang in a demented manner while reverse crab walking in a video

Kardashians (person) 1 — Armenian-American celebrities that Anna Khachiyan extols as 'dark Semitic beauties' despite Armenians not being Semites

Pac-Man (film) 1 — An arcade game referenced as something played at exposed brick barcades in gentrified neighborhoods by atomized PMC memb...

BAP (Bronze Age Pervert) (person) 1 — Controversial online figure described as a clout-seeking white supremacist compared to Milo Yiannopoulos.

KHive (concept) 1 — Online supporter group for Kamala Harris discussed in context of social media astroturfing and bot accusations.

The Portal (film) 1 — Podcast where Anna Khachiyan appeared, cited as an introduction point for a listener to Red Scare.

Day After The Revolution (concept) 1 — Žižekian concept about the anticlimax following revolutionary triumph when bureaucratic work begins.

Georges Delerue (person) 1 — French composer whose theme from Contempt was used in Adam Curtis's 'It Felt Like A Kiss'.

Raymond Scott (person) 1 — American composer whose 'Portofino 2' appeared in Adam Curtis's 'Century of The Self'.

Pizzicato Five (person) 1 — Japanese pop band whose 'Baby Love Child' was featured in Adam Curtis's 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'.

Gene Austin (person) 1 — American singer whose 'My Blue Heaven' was used in Adam Curtis's 'Century of The Self'.

It Felt Like A Kiss (film) 1 — Adam Curtis documentary described as his best film that is basically just music throughout.

Century of The Self (film) 1 — Adam Curtis documentary featuring classical music by Brahms, Shostakovich, and Raymond Scott.

r/museum (place) 1 — Art subreddit mentioned as a source for discovering interesting art pieces that lack information online.

Essex Market (place) 1 — New York City market mentioned as likely carrying local honey for allergies.

Queen's Park (place) 1 — Park in Glasgow, Scotland proposed as meetup location for Red Scare subreddit members

Flo Rida (person) 1 — Artist behind 'Whistle', a song about oral sex that played extensively on radio

Far East Movement (person) 1 — Group behind 'Like a G6', a late 2000s party song referenced for its slang

Hot Chelle Rae (person) 1 — Pop band behind 'Tonight Tonight', a late 2000s party song

Alexandra Stan (person) 1 — Romanian pop artist behind 'Mr. Saxobeat'

Soulja Boy (person) 1 — Hip hop artist behind 'Pretty Boy Swag'

T-Pain (person) 1 — R&B artist behind 'Buy U a Drank'

J Dash (person) 1 — Hip hop artist behind 'WOP'

Dewey Decimal System (concept) 1 — Library classification system that confused someone trying to locate Chomsky's books

Hurricane Ida (concept) 1 — Major hurricane that hit in 2021, threatening those too poor to evacuate

Leia Jospe (person) 1 — Photographer referenced in a satirical rap about the downtown New York scene

Grizzly Man (film) 1 — 2005 documentary praised for its interesting characters including a pilot and a coroner

Socialist Realism (concept) 1 — Soviet art movement that a museum collection of paintings represented, which failed to inspire the viewer despite theore...

David Copperfield (person) 1 — Magician whose popularity peaked during the George W. Bush years according to the poster

Il Divo (album) 1 — Musical group that had a sincere fanbase during the George W. Bush years

Siegfried and Roy (person) 1 — Magician duo with lions who had a Roseanne knockoff cartoon made about them

Nelson Sullivan (person) 1 — Gay videographer from 1980s NYC who documented social life with RuPaul and other pre-fame figures, died of heart attack ...

5 9th Avenue Project (place) 1 — YouTube channel collecting all of Nelson Sullivan's videos from 1980s NYC.

Because I could not stop for death (book) 1 — Somber, introspective Emily Dickinson poem about mortality, adapted into an episode of Dickinson featuring Wiz Khalifa a...

Kunduz Hospital Airstrike (concept) 1 — U.S. military airstrike used hyperbolically as comparison point for how bad the TV show Dickinson is.

Protestant Reformation (concept) 1 — Religious revolution described as trending toward autism through its focus on literal scripture interpretations with no ...

Chrissy Teigan (person) 1 — Public figure compared to Lily Rose Depp in appearance

Bodleian (place) 1 — Institution housing one of the four confirmed pieces of art depicting Mary Shelley