R/redscarepod

`**r/redscarepod**` is ostensibly a Reddit community for the Red Scare podcast. In reality, due to an influx of posters from other sites, it has grown largely independently of the podcast, and has developed its own complex set of in-jokes and sense of community.

The stereotypical `r/redscarepod` user is a struggling American yuppie with extremist political views who desperately wants to be "cool and hot" despite being a massive nerd who spends way too much time reading books and browsing social media. Because of these insecurities, `r/redscarepod` users regard the rest of Reddit, and "nerd" culture in general (e.g. video games, anime, and STEM), with disdain.

## Influences

`r/redscarepod` is often described as "the 4chan retirement home" due to its content and style strongly resembling a combination of the 4chan advice, literature, fashion, fitness, music, and humanities boards, but without the hate speech and pornography.

Besides 4chan and the Red Scare podcast itself, `r/redscarepod` also derives significant parts of its heritage from a variety of female-dominated terminally online communities like the Femcel boards and The Farms, as well as the "politically incorrect" communist subreddit `r/stupidpol`, which considers `r/redscarepod` to be a "sister sub."

Finally, `r/redscarepod` absorbed a significant number of members from "politically incorrect" subreddits that were banned for "hate speech." These people are referred to as "refugees." The banned subreddits include `r/chapotraphouse`, devoted to the "dirtbag" socialist podcast Chapo Trap House, `r/cumtown`, devoted to the vulgar comedy podcast Cum Town, and `r/fatpeoplehate`, devoted to mocking fat people.

## Power users

Users who spend a significant amount of time and/or effort on `r/redscarepod` (and typically have a distinctive niche or style of posting) are referred to as "power users." The most notable power users include:

* misrolu123
* MaryShelleyStepOnMe
* JollyWumper
* redscaregod (no longer active)

## Memes

### Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere "But it is the most (inaudible)y god damned board you could ever imagine." cross to comply, still in control, understand a hand, a hand moved me, just like a station on the radio

The subreddit description.

* "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" is an album by Neil Young.
* "But it is the most (inaudible)y god damned board you could ever imagine" is a parody of Richard Nixon's famous comment on the Bohemian Grove (an elite club for American politicians): "it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine."
* "cross to comply, still in control, understand a hand, a hand moved me, just like a station on the radio" is the lyrics of the song "Dot Dash" by Wire.

### Lana Del Rey

For some reason, the pop musician Lana Del Rey is the subject of an intense, almost obsessive fandom on `r/redscarepod`. It is often joked that admiration for Lana Del Rey is the only thing everyone agrees on on `r/redscarepod`, or that the subreddit is actually just an advertising campaign for Lana Del Rey.

### Phoebe Bridgers

Perhaps due to her being an outspoken liberal and feminist, Phoebe Bridgers is universally hated by `r/redscarepod` users, who describe her as "phony," "annoying," and "ugly."

### State of the sub

Refers to posts complaining that the community "is not what it used to be" and is soon to die, which in itself has become a tradition and in-joke since these posts have been regularly made for years.

### Regarded

Anyone who uses the word "retarded" on Reddit is automatically banned, so `r/redscarepod` users get past this restriction by writing "regarded" instead.