Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Miami Dolphins (concept) 1 — NFL team mentioned as an alternative 'up and coming' team Taylor Swift could have chosen instead of the Chiefs.

Pittsburgh Steelers (concept) 1 — NFL team mentioned as an alternative 'up and coming' team Taylor Swift could have chosen instead of the Chiefs.

Spanish flu (concept) 1 — Historical pandemic referenced in comparison to COVID-19, about which the poster had read a book that heightened their i...

Take Five (album) 1 — A jazz song praised for its smoothness and ability to evoke sophisticated cafe imagery and mood.

IFS (concept) 1 — Internal Family Systems therapy, mentioned alongside other therapeutic modalities that failed to help the poster.

Schema (concept) 1 — Schema therapy, mentioned as one of multiple therapeutic approaches that did not work for the poster's anxiety.

John Henry (person) 1 — American folk hero referenced sarcastically to mock a soft-handed New York wedding planner who claimed to do hard labor.

Tzusing (person) 1 — Electronic artist who performed at the PAN15 party at Berghain nightclub.

We're Not Gonna Take It (album) 1 — A song that the poster compulsively changes the lyrics of to be about gay sex, describing it as a Tourette's-like tic.

Stern (place) 1 — NYU's business school where a former troubled private school classmate ended up before becoming a real estate broker.

Jude Doyle (person) 1 — A writer called 'a psycho' by Dasha, who wrote an article about Lana Del Rey and Red Scare.

Alright, Still (album) 1 — Lily Allen's album from the early 2000s, cited as an example of mainstream pop music that used actual instruments in pro...

Emile Riche (person) 1 — Louisiana farmer who protested on his property by writing messages on his barns and fences regarding damages from the 19...

r/gooncaves (place) 1 — Reddit community referenced in a parody of R.E.M.'s 'Losing My Religion' about pornography addiction.

Hitachi (concept) 1 — Back massager brand referenced as a sex toy that desensitizes users

r/decadeology (place) 1 — Reddit subreddit focused on analyzing and categorizing cultural moments by decade, criticized for detachment from realit...

Tenacious D (album) 1 — Comedy rock band put on hold after bandmate's controversial comment about Trump shooting

Respectability Politics (concept) 1 — Political strategy of gaining acceptance through conformity and self-deprecation, discussed in context of LGBTQ social a...

A House for Mr. Biswas (book) 1 — Novel listed as a favorite book by a user seeking reading recommendations while in a psychiatric ward

Lorazepam (concept) 1 — Benzodiazepine drug that a user was drugged out on during a previous psychiatric ward stay

Delta Gamma (place) 1 — Sorority that a girl quit and wrote an open letter about describing bullying and personality conflicts

Highly Sensitive People (concept) 1 — A trait described by Elaine Aron affecting around 20% of humans who are easily overwhelmed by sensory experiences and ha...

Leslie Nielsen (person) 1 — Actor cited as exemplar of comedy through playing characters completely straight, compared to Verhoeven's satirical appr...

Charly García (person) 1 — Argentine rock musician from the 70s/80s predicted to become influential to contemporary musicians like Can was to Radio...

Kayfabe (concept) 1 — Wrestling concept of maintaining fictional narratives as reality, proposed as better framework for understanding Trump t...

Mersenne prime (concept) 1 — Mathematical concept, a prime number of the form 2^p - 1, discussed with excitement about discovery of new largest known...

Hollywood Demons (film) 1 — HBO documentary series with an episode about Stephen Collins admitting to child abuse.

20/20 (film) 1 — Television news program on which Stephen Collins was interviewed about his child abuse admissions.

Slovakia (place) 1 — Country contrasted favorably with Israel in a comment about nation states.

Ventoux (place) 1 — Online literary magazine launched by petrarchan.com seeking submissions in various categories

& magazine (place) 1 — Late /lit/ periodical referenced as inspiration for liberal editorial standards of Ventoux magazine

Lotus Eaters (person) 1 — Anti-SJW gamergate grifter content consumed by a temp worker

das Man (concept) 1 — Heideggerian concept of conventional social norms that Kanye is breaking down in pursuit of authenticity

Existential Phenomenology (concept) 1 — 20th century philosophical movement that Kanye's aesthetic work is interpreted as being inspired by

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.