Red Scare Canon — Cultural References from the Subreddit

Miu Miu (place) 2 — Fashion brand associated with the aesthetic of coastal art girls who have shifted toward ironic intellectualism and Cath...

The Vagina Monologues (film) 2 — Performance piece that prompted reflection about how some women never see what their vaginas look like, contrasted with ...

Luke Combs (person) 2 — Country artist whose cover of 'Fast Car' sparked discourse about gatekeeping and race in country music.

Try That in a Small Town (album) 2 — A country song cited as an example of culturally polarizing music that represents one obnoxious side of the culture war.

Alexa Demie (person) 2 — Actress who plays Maddy in Euphoria, praised for allegedly lying about her age to get cast in the show.

Union Square (place) 2 — New York City location where comedian Stav was spotted multiple times, possibly living or working in the area.

Herodotus (person) 2 — Ancient Greek historian referenced for his chiasmus style of composition, compared to Nick Mullen's nested tangents.

Physiognomy (concept) 2 — The study of facial features and bone structure to identify ethnic or national origins, discussed as an observable pheno...

Gregor Samsa (person) 2 — Protagonist of Kafka's Metamorphosis, referenced ironically in a list of cultural references a date failed to understand...

Das Kapital (book) 2 — Karl Marx's foundational work of political economy that Stalin reportedly read as a hand-transcribed version at age 13 i...

Crypto (concept) 2 — Cryptocurrency technology compared to AI, NFTs, and the Metaverse as another Silicon Valley pyramid scheme to maintain i...

Raytheon (place) 2 — Defense contractor referenced as contemporary shorthand for corporate evil, similar to how Twinkies represented unhealth...

A-Levels (concept) 2 — British post-GCSE qualifications where students study three to four subjects full-time for two years to gain university ...

r/Singularity (place) 2 — A subreddit focused on AI and technological singularity, criticized for techno-utopianism and worship of tech billionair...

r/art (place) 2 — A Reddit art community that only reaches the front page when posts follow Reddit-approved characteristics.

Sugar Ray (person) 2 — Late 90s alt-rock band whose song 'Fly' is discussed as a guilty pleasure excluded from poptimist re-evaluation.

Celine Dion (person) 2 — Pop singer whose work receives poptimist re-evaluation as profound despite being silly pop songs.

Be Here Now (book) 2 — Book referenced in context of a self-proclaimed healer's aesthetic choices, specifically mentioned as having a stick-and...

Samuel Alito (person) 2 — Supreme Court justice who compared Roe v. Wade to Plessy v. Ferguson in his opinion overturning abortion rights.

Lea Seydoux (person) 2 — Actress mentioned as appropriate content for the subreddit to post hot photos of

CashApp (concept) 2 — A digital payment platform mentioned alongside Venmo as facilitating online panhandling behavior among people who don't ...

Simon and Garfunkel (album) 2 — Musical duo that released progressively better albums culminating in Bridge Over Troubled Water before splitting up.

City of London (place) 2 — A district in London described as having dark, sickening black aura and bad mojo, accidentally visited when getting off ...

Pam Grier (person) 2 — Actress referenced as a physical comparison point for a Fijian woman.

Madagascar (place) 2 — Country mentioned as location of dwindling vanilla bean farms facing extinction.

Lady Macbeth (person) 2 — Shakespeare character referenced sarcastically as 'Dr. Lady Macbeth' in connection to Biden's wife and the 2024 politica...

Richard Pryor (person) 2 — Legendary comedian referenced by the author claiming his stand-up performance made him feel like "Richard Pryor risen fr...

Cake (album) 2 — Band whose singer has a flat delivery within a limited range, but is still competent unlike the polyamorous party perfor...

University of Toronto (place) 2 — Canadian university where international students are reportedly upset about lack of bidets in washrooms

Louise Perry (person) 2 — Public figure known for anti-sex beliefs, discussed as attractive in context of those beliefs.

BAM (person) 2 — Twitter figure referenced by Anna Khachiyan during a debate on the sexual revolution (possibly related to Bronze Age Min...

Valium (concept) 2 — Benzodiazepine medication stolen from a prison medical unit, with the author using it recreationally on their way home f...

Nobuhiko Obayashi (person) 2 — Japanese filmmaker whose Kenya Boy is described as the most insane entry in his filmography.

HAUSU (film) 2 — Japanese film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi referenced in discussion of his later work Tenkôsei.

Bridge over Troubled Water (album) 2 — Simon and Garfunkel's final and most iconic album, after which they stopped making music together.

Barnum effect (concept) 2 — The psychological tendency for someone to interpret vague, general statements as accurate to them specifically and uniqu...

Apple TV (place) 2 — Streaming service criticized for making A Charlie Brown Christmas an exclusive, removing it from broadcast television.

Pornography (book) 2 — A work by Andrea Dworkin in which she criticizes Anaïs Nin, read by the poster as expressing envy rather than moral cond...

Andrew Schulz (person) 2 — Comedian with a 'stupid Nazi haircut' whose content is shown at the poster's workplace as part of coworker humor culture...

Avoidant attachment (concept) 2 — An attachment style in which people actively do not want to be loved and get more turned off the deeper a connection bec...

Shabbat (concept) 2 — The Jewish day of rest observed from Friday evening to Saturday evening, discussed as a model for unplugging from techno...

Julianne Moore (person) 2 — Actress whose role in the film Safe is referenced to describe feeling helpless and confused in the face of medical uncer...

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon (book) 2 — A book about the CIA infiltrating the LA hippie movement in the 1960s, written by a journalist who also wrote about the ...

Laurel Canyon (place) 2 — Los Angeles neighborhood that was home to a hippie music scene in the 1960s-70s, subject of conspiracy theories about in...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (film) 2 — Luis Buñuel film described as one of his most accessible works, used in a satirical post about trying to introduce a chi...

Luis Buñuel (person) 2 — Spanish-Mexican filmmaker referenced as creator of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in a satirical post about intro...

Washington, DC (place) 2 — U.S. capital city that serves as the final destination in Civil War during the last 15 minutes of the film.

Jenny Nicholson (person) 2 — YouTuber praised for making high-quality, researched video essays including a six-hour review of a theme park with sourc...

Cody Ko (person) 2 — YouTuber whose merchandise is sold by fans on Reddit, highlighting the cringe of grown adults buying and reselling influ...

Stargate Project (concept) 2 — A CIA program from 1977 to 1995 that studied astral projection, shifting, and clairvoyance