When you get caught up in the moment of an auction or online purchase and buy something you don't really need.
Person 1: Uh why do you have 14 wine bottle stoppers?
Person 2: Ugh, i was shopping online and just had to have them, it's like my brain was taken over by the computer, stupid stupid ebay effect.
where every game that came out after fortnite needed to have battlepasses and cartoonish skins regardless if it was free to play or not.
1: "did you see how the call of duty games now have battlepasses?"
2: "You can thank fortnite for that, that's the fortnite effect"
1) Game A gets popular
2) People start bashing Game A saying it sucks.
3) When the next big game (Game B) releases, everyone starts praising Game A, pretending they never hated it. Ever.
Minecraft is awesome? Weren't you calling it "cancerous" in 2016? Ladies and Gentlemen, the fortnite effect in action.
Whenever you are winning in a video game without shit talking and then when you shit talk you start losing.
"Dude I lost this game cause of the spanks effect, I was shit talking and started losing"
When the opponent is left without any other viable starting strategy, because all other options have proven ineffective.
This guy is suffering from the GuMiho effect, he doesn't even know what he should do anymore.
An Effect when an individual forgets that Text Conversations can get Screenshotted
Barry: (Slurs)
Derik: The Smeagle Effect
Barry: Kill yourself
It's the action/belief that Shuichi Saihara looks attractive with and without a hat on.
"Hey Timmie, why do I think Shuichi looks fine with and without a hat on?"
"Well Tommy, it's because of the Shuichi Effect"