When followers of a particular belief or idea split off into a fringe group that creates a spin-off idea of the original idea. Over time, the followers of the fringe group convince themselves that the original idea was never real or had never existed. Many conspiracy theories that began on 4chan as memes, spiraled into these fallacies
The Flat Earth movement picked up steam after many users of meme discussion board experienced the Fight Club Effect and lost their sense of reality within the joke
Replaces Dunning-Kruger Effect
- a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.
More specifically, The Tezyln Figaro Effect covers the behaviour, attitude, and mannerisms of its namesake. Those inflicted with this mental disorder often exhibit delusions of moral superiority, an insufferable attitude due their self righteous nature, and unjustifiably smug demeanor because of their own overestimation of their knowledge and abilities.
the obsession or phobia of a 2012 apocolypse, and or someone who constantly warns of the apocolypse or the show "the nostrodomus effect".
manguy1 : dude why do you look so jittery
manguy2: YOU DIDNT KNOW! I have the nostrodomus effect syndrome.
The overwhelming sensation to consume bacon when the body witnesses something so utterly bland, tasteless, or otherwise unappealing.
I was walking past a vegan restaurant one day when I was suddenly overcome by the Absentia Lardum Effect. I immediately proceeded to the nearest fast food chain for a double bacon cheeseburger.
Where one's karma builds up and causes one's cousins to receive a dose of energy and triples their annoyance factor causing them to make the family reunion shit. This natural phenomenon is known was The Little Shit Effect wherein both the parties have been a little shit at one point or another.
I'm trying to be a good person for the rest of the week to avoid the Little Shit Effect. I got a family reunion coming up.
What's the Little Shit Effect?
Glad you asked. Its when your bad karma builds up and causes your cousins to become even more annoying than usually.
a phenomenon in which someone laughs at an image for an extended period of time, ranging from 5 minutes to even above an hour. only on a few occasions this has occurred in the real world, but scientists suspect it happens way more than we are led to believe.
friend 1: wow that guys been laughing at that image for forever
friend 2: that must be the the-imposter-is-sus effect
The effect that the Spirit Storm discord server has by magically influencing most members to be either gay or trans. this effect also appears in other servers.
I invited my friend to the the server 2 months ago, and he came out as gay after the Spirit Storm effect washed over him.