Red Scare Canon

Cultural References from the Subreddit

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• The Guess Who (person) 1 — Canadian rock band criticized as shitty state-mandated radio dadrock.
• Podcast leftism (concept) 1 — A form of political engagement through leftist podcasts that emerged as a cultural phenomenon.
• Ray Davies (person) 1 — Musician mentioned as attractive when young.
• Kim Possible (film) 1 — Animated TV series featuring a cool female protagonist with powers, friends, fashion, and money.
• Totally Spies (film) 1 — Animated TV series featuring cool female protagonists that served as aspirational figures for young girls.
• Wizards of Waverly Place (film) 1 — TV series featuring empowered young female characters with powers and agency.
• Bratz (film) 1 — Media franchise featuring fashionable female characters that girls aspired to be like.
• Monster High (film) 1 — Media franchise with supernatural female characters that served as aspirational figures for young girls.
• Winx Club (film) 1 — Animated series featuring young female characters with powers that girls wanted to emulate.
• David Schwimmer (person) 1 — Actor who played Ross on Friends, referenced in a pun about swimming related to Matthew Perry's death.
• Paul Robeson (person) 1 — A performer known for his rendition of the Welsh national anthem, referenced in discussion of Welsh culture.
• Romanian orphanage cases (concept) 1 — Cases of severe neglect and abuse that caused autism-like symptoms in children which could be quickly recovered in diffe...
• Drizzt Do'Urden (book) 1 — Fantasy character referenced as an example of low-brow literature that should be separated from higher quality book reco...
• German existentialism (concept) 1 — Philosophical movement embodied by Werner Herzog that allegedly cannot be handled in contemporary culture.
• Phranc (person) 1 — 1990s musician listed as a representative of lesbiancore music culture.
• Ferron (person) 1 — 1990s musician listed as a representative of lesbiancore music culture.
• The Butchies (person) 1 — 1990s band listed as a representative of lesbiancore music culture.
• Zero Fucks Given (film) 1 — French film described as the best modern depiction of depression since 'Her' by Spike Jonze.
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (person) 1 — Turkish leader referenced in context of secularization reforms in Turkey, particularly regarding women's dress and the h...
• Hail Caesar (film) 1 — Coen Brothers film mentioned in context of an actor's performance, with confusion about whether the actor engaged in mis...
• Solo (film) 1 — Star Wars film referenced as potentially career-damaging for its lead actor.
• Sex Addiction Anonymous (place) 1 — A support group that helped a sexual abuse survivor address his sex addiction developed as a coping mechanism.
• Max Kurzweil (person) 1 — Austrian artist and professor at the Frauenkunstschule in Vienna who committed suicide in 1916 after shooting a female s...
• Frauenkunstschule (place) 1 — An academy in Vienna for female artists where Max Kurzweil served as professor before his suicide.
• Dramamine (album) 1 — A song by Modest Mouse described as one of their prettiest, associated with memories of driving through rural North Caro...
• Frederic Edwin Church (person) 1 — Landscape painter whose work "Twilight in the Wilderness" is featured in a collection of nice landscape paintings.
• Alfred Thompson Bricher (person) 1 — Landscape painter whose work "Twilight in the Wilderness" is featured in a collection of nice landscape paintings.
• Isaac Levitan (person) 1 — Landscape painter whose work "Over Eternal Peace" is featured in a collection of nice landscape paintings.
• Jūlijs Feders (person) 1 — Landscape painter whose work "The Gauja Valley" is featured in a collection of nice landscape paintings.
• Sanford Robinson Gifford (person) 1 — Landscape painter whose work "Wilderness" is featured in a collection of nice landscape paintings.
• Paralympics (concept) 1 — Athletic competition for disabled athletes, discussed in terms of how physical variations create unequal advantages
• RN (concept) 1 — Rassemblement National, French political party mentioned as example of anti-immigration sentiment in Europe
• Dubna (place) 1 — A Russian city near which a mysterious fiberglass sphere with unique acoustic properties appeared in the forest, possibl...
• Tver Oblast (place) 1 — A Russian oblast where a mysterious acoustic sphere was discovered in a forest near Dubna.
• Hillbilly Elegy (book) 1 — A memoir used as a reference point for predicting a similar Latino-focused political memoir explaining Latino voting pat...
• Susan Boyle (person) 1 — A Scottish singer whose rise to fame was framed as based on the shock that an unattractive person could sing well.
• Sandmännchen (film) 1 — One of the longest running TV shows of all time (since 1959) and the only remaining cultural export of East Germany.
• Lionel Shriver (person) 1 — A wildly successful mainstream author criticized for using anachronistic slang in her novel 'Mania' that shows a horrend...
• Mania (book) 1 — A novel by Lionel Shriver criticized for using wildly outdated youth slang from 1978 in a 2011 setting, suggesting it's ...
• KoBold Metals (place) 1 — A California-based startup that uses AI to mine raw materials like cobalt, lithium, copper, and nickel in Greenland and ...
• Kier Starmer (person) 1 — UK political figure discussed in context of gender critical views expressed using imageboard terminology.
• CDAN (place) 1 — Celebrity blind items website popular in the 2010s before TikTok co-opted the format.
• Heteropessimism (concept) 1 — Theoretical concept mentioned as an example of how people enjoy categorizing and naming cultural phenomena.
• Afrofuturism (concept) 1 — Cultural aesthetic and philosophy combining African diaspora culture with technology and science fiction, mentioned as e...
• New French Extremity (concept) 1 — Film movement characterized by transgressive and graphic content, mentioned as example of cultural categorization.
• Post-Irony (concept) 1 — Cultural and aesthetic concept regarding sincerity after ironic detachment, mentioned as example of popular theoretical ...
• Cuenca (place) 1 — City in Ecuador discussed as travel destination in conversation with Ecuadorian barber.
• Sweet Tooth (film) 1 — Netflix series about a half-deer half-boy creature mentioned as odd TV choice at an Ecuadorian barbershop.
• The Day Today (film) 1 — British satirical news show by Chris Morris praised as possibly the funniest piece of media ever produced for its absurd...
• Chris Morris (person) 1 — British comedian and director praised for his work on The Day Today and ability to switch between straight man and unhin...