Jack Massey Welsh's ravioli

Jack Massey Welsh's ravioli is a meme in the jacksucksatlife subreddit community. It is also a lovely dish in one part of the world only being sold in my kitchen.

Every time Jack Massey Welsh hears the word RAVIOLI he gets Vietnam flashbacks of that time he spent on Reddit instead of tryna get a real job.

Jack Massey Welsh's ravioli is a beautiful dish.
I like the smell of jack Massey Welsh's ravioli coming from the oven.
ack Massey Welsh's ravioli is really good.

Jack Massey Welsh's ravioli by Jack Massey Welsh's ravioli June 16, 2019

Massey Style 

The addition of pepperoni to anything edible, is in fact, Massey Style.

I would like my submarine sandwich, Massey Style. Okay, here is your sandwich, with pepperoni!

Massey Style by Brian Easley June 21, 2006

Stupidity of the Masses 

People who add words to the dictionary such as 'Stupidity of the Masses'.

The Stupidity of the Masses is killing me. Literally.

Stupidity of the Masses by Mystery Man January 28, 2003

Stupidity of the Masses 

People with more bad taste than brains, commonly fans of Dragonball Z.

Anyone who likes Windows contributes to the Stupidity of the Masses.

Stupidity of the Masses by Parasyte January 28, 2003

Social Sciences of the Masses

An interdisciplinary field that studies “the masses” as a social and political category—how publics, crowds, audiences, and populations are conceptualized, measured, and managed. It draws on sociology, history, political theory, and communication studies to examine how elites have historically feared, manipulated, or celebrated mass behavior; how technologies (print, radio, TV, social media) have shaped mass communication; and how social movements emerge from and relate to “the masses.” The field critiques the very idea of a unified “mass,” revealing it as a construct that often obscures internal diversity and agency.

Example: “Social sciences of the masses research traced how 19th‑century elites invented ‘mass society’ theory to pathologize working‑class collective action, a framing that still infects contemporary discourse about populism.”

Sociology of the Masses

A subfield that focuses on the empirical study of mass phenomena—crowds, social movements, fads, panics, and public opinion—as social processes. It examines how masses are formed, how they behave, how they are influenced by leaders and media, and how they in turn influence institutions. The sociology of the masses draws on classic crowd theory (Le Bon, Tarde), symbolic interactionism, and contemporary network analysis to understand everything from protest marches to viral trends. It rejects the elitist assumption that masses are irrational, showing instead that mass behavior follows its own social logic.

Example: “The sociology of the masses demonstrated that the ‘panic’ during a disaster often reflected official mismanagement more than crowd irrationality—people coordinated, shared resources, and acted rationally given the information they had.”

Social Sciences of the Masses by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal April 16, 2026

Psychology of Social Masses

The study of how large populations behave as social entities—not just as collections of individuals but as emergent phenomena with their own dynamics, moods, and logics. Social masses develop their own culture (memes, language, values), their own history (shared memories, founding myths), and their own psychology (collective emotions, shared traumas). Understanding social masses means understanding that the whole is different from the sum of its parts—that a crowd can be angry even if most individuals aren't, that a nation can be hopeful even if most citizens are anxious. The psychology of social masses is the foundation of politics, marketing, and any endeavor that involves moving large groups of people in roughly the same direction.

Example: "She studied the psychology of social masses to understand why her country had become so polarized. It wasn't just individuals with different opinions; it was two masses with different emotions, different memories, different truths. Each mass reinforced itself, excluded the other, and treated the other's existence as a threat. Understanding this didn't bridge the divide, but it explained why bridge-building was so hard."

Psychology of Social Masses by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026

Sociology of the Masses

The study of how large populations behave as social entities—how they form, how they're influenced, how they act collectively. Masses are not just collections of individuals; they're social phenomena with their own dynamics, their own psychology, their own history. The sociology of the masses examines how masses are created (through media, leadership, shared experience), how they're controlled (through institutions, force, manipulation), and how they sometimes break free (through revolution, protest, collective action). It also examines the fear of masses that has haunted elite thought for centuries—the terror of the crowd, the panic about democracy, the anxiety that ordinary people, together, might do something extraordinary. Masses are both the foundation of society and its greatest threat, depending on who's looking.

Example: "He studied the sociology of the masses to understand populism, watching how ordinary people, ignored by elites, found each other online, created their own media, built their own movements. The masses weren't irrational; they were responding to real conditions. The elite dismissal of them as 'the mob' was itself a symptom—of not listening, not seeing, not understanding."

Sociology of the Masses by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026