artificial complexity

The purposeful complication of a process, policy, or offer in order to substantially reduce clarity, usually in hope that consumers of such will overlook a portion to their detriment.

The lawyers who drafted my latest auto insurance policy found a way to fill it with 127 pages of legalese. This is definitely artificial complexity, as it could've easily been conveyed in 10 pages.

by megaelk December 11, 2023

Kirby Complex

Having the appearance of something weak and small, but, in fact, holds incredible god-like powers.

Sonic has a major Kirby Complex.

by Spook Lass January 26, 2023

The Christian Persecution Complex

That meme is like... Literally the exact thing they're doing to me.

Hym "I had a woman come in to my job to tell me that I can't poison God and it's like... Yes I fucking can bitch! This has nothing to do with the Christian persecution complex but yeah... Exact same thing they're doing to me."

by Hym Iam August 7, 2024

Canning Complex

The Canning Complex (Founded by Hanna Canning) states that any person, place, or thing can be connected to 9/11 through multiple or one person, place, or thing, no matter what it is.

“Can you use the Canning Complex to link Jeff Buckley to 9/11?”

by reallycoolperson June 5, 2025

Swirl Industrial Complex

when two people of different races get together and it is seen as a bridge to end discrimination. Usually, between a white person and a black person or another person of color.

See also interracial love

All of Amma Assante's films center around the swirl industrial complex ending all the prejuidice in the world.

by Toni Knowles January 19, 2019

Baby momma complex

Where the baby momma refuses to let the dad interfere with his child’s life regardless of custody agreements, and then complains to social media and friends that the baby’s dad “ain’t shit” and that she’s all alone as a parent.

I keep trying to get more time with my son but Amber has a baby momma complex and thinks I’m the worst.

by MasqueradeQueen April 21, 2020

Michelangelo Complex

A complex where the creator of any representation of something else (Statue, drawing, etc.) believes one of their specific creations, or all of them, are so realistic that it must fulfill the role of the object it is representing. This is in reference to Michelangelo's famous episode where he carvead a statue so similar to a real person he god mad when it didn't answer him, he punched it and broke part of its knee.

That idiot got Michelangelo Complex after writing that Urban Dictionary defenition, and really expected it would become widely adopted piece of slang

by Seack May 3, 2023