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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."
The feeling of disgust after climax when watching porn. Dubbed "The Shyamalan Effect" because, like M. Knight Shyamalan's movies, masturbation has a mediocre twist ending that makes you question why you wasted time on it.
Some Guy: Yo y'know that feeling when you splooge and like immediately feel gross?
Me, an Intellectual: Ahhh yes.. The Shyamalan Effect.
When your workplace fucks you harder than the town bike but you think you're still in front
He thought he deserved that promotion but we all knew he was being absolutely raped. The Townley Effect had him by the ballbag
The observation that one can’t be right without some degree of completely contradictory stupidity involved.
A: What the hell put Trump into power?
B: Fuck, if I know...
A: It’s so stupid. His whole campaign was the dumbest shit ever.
B: Maybe that’s how he won.
C: *raises nerd glasses* Umm, actually, you’re merely noting a common correlation: The Stupid Effect. Please get back to me when someone(s) finds a proper causal link.