You don't see something until you actively keep thinking about it, and it was always there all the time but you didn't notice.
"Ever since I fell in love with the Thai girl I've been seeing Thai pomelos everywhere,"
"Nitwit, those pomelos were always there. You're just experiencing the pomelo effect"
When trying to call attention to the flaws of an opponent only to have your own flaws "outed" as a result of personal digging. Similar to the Streisand Effect in the legal community, the Germ Effect calls attention to yourself in an unwanted and unanticipated fashion. The phrase is derived from the great "2011 Yahoo Fantasy Football thread between 'Coach Germ' and 'Teddy Ruxpin.'"
Coach Germ tried to give me shit me for my 17th round pick, but upon taking a look at his team, his antics had "The Germ Effect" when it was discovered that he has 3 #4 wide receivers and 3 running backs who are time-shares.
When an individual has sparked so many controversies, that the general public has become numb towards the individual's bigotry and/or insensitivity, and only use the individual's controversies for shock value and virality. The Azealia Effect is named after popular female rapper and controversial figure, Azealia Banks, as she herself has been in various controversies over the decade.
"Why no one cancel Kendrick Lamar for saying homophobic slurs?"
"Male privilege, perhaps? A bigotted fanbase? maybe even The Azealia Effect?"
*GASP* "You Didn't"
A sentence used in any conversation that will make your friends stop talking and will do 1 of 2 things:
1. They will genuinely act surprised, like they don't know what the fuck happened
2. They will stop talking and will be weirded by the fact that you randomly just said that
Tyler: yo what's going o-
Jacob: loud and potentially surprising sound effect
Tyler: (surprised af)
When you assume something or someone is from a certain country because they have something about them which is associated with that country when in reality they are from a different country. It's called the marx effect as many people think he is russian since he invented communism, which they associate with russia even though he was actually german.
The caramelldansen effect is a sub-category of the marx effect.
Covid-19 effect is when a pandemic breaks out and a lot of people doesn't seem to understand that we need to quarantine ourselves for the pandemic to blow over and for life to get back to normal.
guy 1: do you remember 2020?
guy 2: yeah that year had such a Covid-19 effect.
guy 1: a lot of idiots didn't seem to understand we had to distance ourselves for the virus to die.
guy 2: Crazy...
An effect that happens to men in regards to only seeing ugly women for an extended period of time, in which they begin to see ugly women as attractive.
This consistently happens to men who work too much, and dont go out often. Especially in low paying, night shift jobs.
Its called the island effect because one is isolated from the attractive, outside world.
Duderbroseph: I dunno what it is about Esmeralda, but she really seems hot lately
Sane person: uhhh... when was the last time you went somewhere besides work and home?
Duderbroseph: i dunno, like a month?
Sane: Island effect.
Duderbroseph: Shit...