The Ballinger Effect

When one learns of another person or thing only after finding out that person or thing was involved with something bad, or some faced consequences for wrongdoing.

“I didn’t know who Colleen Ballinger was until I saw her in the news because she did some crappy things.”

“I didn’t know who Logan Paul was until I heard he made a video making fun of a dead body in the Japanese suicide forest. Total Ballinger- Effect.”

“You didn’t know who that was until they got in trouble. That’s The Ballinger Effect for you.”