When something that happens to you in real life can be compared to an outlandish movie that you have seen
Guy 1:Man, a brick flew off a semi on the freeway and struck my windshield basically knocking the whole windshield into my lap!
Guy 2:That’s that special effects shit dude, FUCK THAT!
Guy 1:I know man, like my eyes flashed right before my eyes
Guy 2:*Looks at car* Holy Shit dude!, yeah I would have crapped my pants. Glad I wasn’t in the car.
When faced with this lethal effect, one might experience one or many of the following symptoms:
Loss of breath
Fatigue
Boredom
Nausea
Vommitting
Depression
Diabetes
Confusion
Not knowing if you should feel insulted or not
Sudden mental retardation
Random girl: "I don't know if he likes me or not, he's sending a lot of signals."
Random girl's friend: "Oh no, you're just suffering from The Jesse Effect."
The effect where everything you own seems to break or become ruined.
A: Dang dude my air fryer is broken and it’s very dirty
B: That’s the Justin Hamill effect for you
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A character who appears for a short amount of time, yet leaves a great impact onto the story/characters.
When you’ve dealt with so many fuck boys named Ian, that you will swear to never date anyone named Ian again.
He’s really hot, but it’s The Ian Effect. I’m guessing we will just hook up - he’s not marriage material AT ALL.
When a heterosexual, cisgender male is incorporated into a gender-queer, queer, female friend group burdened with the patriarchal wrongdoings experience by the other members of the friend group despite not being associated with the male majority. For a man to fall under the displacement effect, he can only be incorporated into a singular group.
Andie (she/they): I hate men
Max (they/them): speak your truth Andie!
Matt (he/him): guys I'm right here
Andie (she/they): it's ok Matt, you're part of the displacement effect.
The Coldplay effect is named for the band Coldplay, and is used to describe something that is iconic and respected, but generic and only the favourite thing of a small number of people.
"Spaghetti bolognese is a pretty average meal when you think about it, but so many people enjoy it."
"You could say it's affected by the Coldplay effect."