When there is a character in a movie that is forced into a position where the audience can say “it’s not his fault, it’s society’s fault for making him like this”
Person 1: I feel like he deserves to get away scot free as society made him into that way
Person 2: Dude he literally killed a celebrity on National Television. I think you fell victim to the Joker Effect
The otherworldly phenomenon that occurs when a girl wears a tight sweater that enhances the apparent size of her boobs.
Winter is super rad because of the abundance of Sweater Effect.
When a pure and innocent streamer moves to Austin, TX and is corrupted to behave in deviant ways.
What happened to Michael, he used to be so pure an innocent before moving to Austin?
I guess it's just the Roflgator Effect.
When your mood sinks into negativity, could be because of a reason, or out of the blue.
Boy: What's wrong?
Girl: Just another Titanic Effect.
The word Hindenburg being derived from the airship "Hindenburg"; To categorize a subject/object through a Hindenburg Effect is to say that the mentioned subject/object once had a high reputation or a prestige record in something, say what happened to Pewdiepie with the whole Fiverr thing, and then in one fell swoop, destroys their own standing/popularity by their own doing and ruins the state of other objects around them, also like how the Fiverr incident made advertisers pull out from YouTube, and WSJ milking the words "pewdiepie" and "nazi".
TL;DR: To take something's high reputation and have them ruin it themselves and their surrounding state.
(To use an outdated but relevant example)
Guy1: You heard what happened to that Pewdiepie dude? I heard he's a nazi!
Guy2: No, you've got it wrong, he's not a nazi, that's just another claim from his own Hindenburg Effect.
The tendency to encounter situations in which the opposing entity displays an unreasonable and unusual level of incompetence.
Person 1: Wow, how in the world does Quinn have such a high k/d this game? He is trash at the game normally, seems kinda sus to me.
Person 2: Nah dude it's not him, it's just the Quinn Effect in action.
Parson 1: Ohhhhh, that makes much more sense.
When a word/phrase/symbol/meme etc. is wrongly labeled by mass media, and then becomes that thing due to the attention i.e. Pepe becoming white nationalist symbol after media calling it such and then white nationalist picking it up as an actual symbol.
Bro! Don’t do the ok sign, that’s a white nationalist symbol!
Relax man, it’s judt a victim of the Pepe effect!