Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

FanDuel (place) 2 — Sports betting platform discussed as being heavily promoted and contributing to gambling addiction among men

Pacific Crest Trail (place) 2 — 2,650-mile hiking trail from Mexico to Canada where parents attempted to hike with seven children in what is described a...

Squarespace (place) 2 — Website platform mentioned as contributing to the degradation of high-resolution images available on the internet.

WordPress (place) 2 — Website platform mentioned as contributing to the degradation of high-resolution images available on the internet.

Jack Reacher (film) 2 — TV series mentioned as one of the rare examples of television programming directed at male audiences

Kim Foxx (person) 2 — Chicago prosecutor criticized for progressive policies that allegedly allowed dangerous individuals to avoid jail time a...

Impostor Syndrome (concept) 2 — Psychological phenomenon satirically discussed as being misappropriated by media professionals who are actually correctl...

Andrew Carnegie (person) 2 — Industrial titan who sold US Steel and became the richest man in history, deeply tied to Pittsburgh's industrial history...

Nippon Steel (place) 2 — Japanese steel company that acquired US Steel for almost 15 billion dollars, marking a symbolic end to American industri...

Roxane Gay (person) 2 — Writer criticized for having dull and bad writing with no interesting thoughts, particularly after an embarrassing debat...

Anti-natalism (concept) 2 — Decades-long propaganda encouraging people to have fewer children due to overpopulation concerns, now reversed in discou...

Isabelle Huppert (person) 2 — Actress featured in Hal Hartley films discussed as one of his notable female collaborators.

Surrogacy (concept) 2 — Practice that Pope Francis called for a universal ban on, describing it as the commercialization of pregnancy and exploi...

Edmonton (place) 2 — Canadian city experiencing increased confrontations and violence from new influx of people, with residents being confron...

Joshua Block (person) 2 — Mentally challenged, heavily autistic individual with alcohol problem known as worldoftshirts who is exploited as online...

Sharp Stick (film) 2 — Most recent film by Lena Dunham described as very Red Scare pod coded and appealing to sexually deranged people with foo...

Contempt (film) 2 — Film that created a strong sense of character connection for the viewer, comparable to Happy Together.

r/mademesmile (place) 2 — Reddit subreddit that became an activism hub with politically charged content reaching the front page, part of a pattern...

Curtis Sliwa (person) 2 — New York political figure and high school dropout contrasted with elite-educated politicians

The Ramones (album) 2 — Punk rock band cited as foundational to the genre that contemporary Gen Z youth reportedly no longer know about.

r/WitchesvsPatriarchy (place) 2 — A Reddit community combining feminist and occult themes, mentioned as a people-watching subreddit.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (book) 2 — A philosophical novel referenced in relation to finding meaning in the journey rather than achieving milestones, particu...

Drake Bell (person) 2 — Former Nickelodeon child star who shared his story of being molested for a Netflix documentary about Dan Schneider.

Smithsonian Magazine (place) 2 — A publication that published an article about Cormac McCarthy's personal library two years after his death, revealing de...

Temple University (place) 2 — Philadelphia university that announced a new course on Kendrick Lamar with an 'Africological analysis' of his life.

Perez Hilton (person) 2 — Celebrity gossip blogger whose style of celebrity coverage is referenced as an interest among subreddit users

Violent Femmes (person) 2 — Band whose first album is cited as example of great music written by men desperate for sex

Descendants (person) 2 — Punk band whose first couple albums are cited as examples of great music written from sexual desperation

Passion Pit (album) 2 — Mid to late 2000s band representing white boy dance music influenced by funk, disco, and synth-pop

James Charles (person) 2 — Beauty influencer whose intro music is used in a morbid TikTok trend about drunk driving accident victims

Not Like Us (album) 2 — Kendrick Lamar song accusing Drake of pedophilia that people party and twerk to, criticized for trivializing child sexua...

Herman Miller (concept) 2 — Designer furniture brand referenced as cultural knowledge that older boomer parents wouldn't possess

Austerlitz (place) 2 — A novel that reminded a poster of their lonely childhood and youth, evoking feelings of nostalgia for past solitude.

Rockies (place) 2 — Mountain range referenced as part of beautiful landscape visible from plane flights across the United States

Burma (place) 2 — A country (now called Myanmar) experiencing a civil war with 50,000 deaths and millions displaced that receives little m...

Astroworld (concept) 2 — Travis Scott album that became controversial after the Astroworld festival tragedy, with posters put up the day after th...

Birds of Prey (film) 2 — Hollywood movie with a majority-female cast that was framed in a tweet as a political act for leftists to support by wat...

Bros (film) 2 — A progressive rom-com film criticized for aggressive adherence to gay stereotyping despite being positioned as progressi...

Lean Six Sigma (concept) 2 — Corporate management methodology satirically referenced as part of ineffective quality improvement initiatives at manufa...

NIMBYism (concept) 2 — Political phenomenon of 'Not In My Back Yard' opposition to development, blamed for housing affordability crisis across ...

Franz Liszt (person) 2 — Composer and pianist who told George Sand that only God deserved to be loved and that no earthly love would ever possess...

Edward Teller (person) 2 — Manhattan Project scientist who believed the atomic bomb should have been demonstrated over Tokyo Bay rather than used d...

Rebel Wilson (person) 2 — Celebrity who was given a two-day ultimatum by Sydney Morning Herald to come out about her lesbian relationship or be fo...

Timothy Treadwell (person) 2 — Bear enthusiast who, along with his girlfriend, was killed and eaten by bears, with audio of their deaths referenced in ...

PlayStation 2 (concept) 2 — Video game console whose era is described as the last period when games were at a peak of artistic creativity.

Food Network (place) 2 — Television network whose portrayal of the culinary industry is discussed as potentially mythical or concentrated only in...

Teamsters (concept) 2 — Labor union referenced in discussion of generational changes in conservative attitudes toward unions.

Ibrahim Traoré (person) 2 — President of Burkina Faso who rose to power at 34, known for expelling French troops and implementing socialist economic...

Thomas Sankara (person) 2 — Former president of Burkina Faso to whom Ibrahim Traoré is compared for dynamic popular leadership

Pan-Africanism (concept) 2 — Political movement that Ibrahim Traoré is credited with repopularizing through his leadership in Burkina Faso