Culture

Nyan Cat

"a YouTube video uploaded in April 2011, which became an internet meme. The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon cat with a Pop-Tart for a torso flying through space and leaving a rainbow trail behind." --wikipedia

Kyle Hill YouTube channel

Pop culture commentator with 958K subscribers, by request.

thought police

"a group of people who aim or are seen as aiming to suppress ideas that deviate from the way of thinking that they believe to be correct" --google

YouTube Covid-19 censorship policy

"YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19." --youtube.com

Jinn/Genie

by request: "A supernatural being in pre-Islamic Arabic culture, popularized in western culture as mischievous, granting wishes that ultimately victimize those who make them."

PewDiePie

110 million subscribers on YouTube. "In 2016, Time magazine named him as one of the world's 100 most influential people." --wikipedia

Eurovision Song Contest

"held annually (apart from 2020) since 1956, making it the longest-running annual international televised music competition and one of the world's longest-running television programmes." --wikipedia

Internet memes

"an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media" --merriam-webster.com

Grimms' Fairy Tales

"The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called 'Children's Tales', they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter." --wikipedia

the nuclear family

"a married couple which may have any number of children" --wikipedia

Robert Anton Wilson

by request. "self-described agnostic mystic... emerged as a major countercultural figure in the mid-1970s, comparable to one of his coauthors, Timothy Leary." --wikipedia

Timothy Leary

"He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as 'turn on, tune in, drop out', 'set and setting', and 'think for yourself and question authority'." --wikipedia. Social impact (public) and personal LoC (paid-subscriber access).

Sen no Rikyu, tea master

1522-1591, "considered the... most profound influence on chanoyu, the Japanese 'Way of Tea'.... He was also the first to emphasize several key aspects of the ceremony, including rustic simplicity, directness of approach and honesty of self." --wikipedia

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Aruna Khilanani

Lecturing at Yale: "I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a f------ favor,"