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Occurs when a girl thinks she has found a man that will make all her dreams come true. It doesn't matter about reality--because she views him as her 'beau'--she becomes oblivious to his shortcomings and is totally enamored with the smallest of things. Even a one-word text message becomes loaded with meaning for her.
(Girl looks at her phone and smiles, all dreamy-eyed)
Roommate: what's up? You look tooooo happy...
Girl: oh nothing, I just got the sweetest text from Cedric!
Roommate: (cynically) Really! What pearl of wonderfulness did he say, if you don't mind my asking..
Girl: (with stars in her eyes) he said "Sup!"
Roommate: (muttering quietly) It's the friggin' placebeau effect at work again...
A tendency of poor attempts at satire to backfire, inadvertently creating characters or symbols which people, often including the targets of the satirical work, find genuinely relatable or admirable.
You know, Ron Swanson is actually pretty based. Guess that's the Verhoeven effect for you.
The sudden unnoticed advancement of time when hanging out with a particular individual.
Wow, it’s 3 am already?! The damn Mulch Effect gets me every time I hang out with you!
Getting everyone at a gathering to take a shot
The Bockman effect is in full effect tonight! Everyone is drunk!
When something is horrible but you just want more of it.
Bob: Man these fritos are nasty.
Jim: I know right?
Bob: Lemme get some more.
Jim: Hell yeah! I'm getting my fritos effect on
That feeling you get while taking the Uber back from the function and realize you blew money just to take multiple Ls
Guy 1: yo why is guy 2 crying
Guy 3: the Uber effect kicked in
Guy 2: (crying) I pregamed for no game. I got zero play
The effect that causes people to become toxic and gay
“Oh she is so toxic”
“Yeah she probably just got the KC effect”