Hollywood Effect

Using a celebrity or high profile individual to add status, glamour, or recognition to a project.

Usually advertising, a charity or a religion.

If we are gonna sell this shit to the public we need to add the Hollywood Effect.

This cult must be a real religion because it has a Hollywood actor as a member.

I'm gonna buy this product because - insert name - uses it.

advertising marketing public relations voice overs celebrity endorsment religion kabbalah scientology viral politics meme propaganda anonymous Tom Cruise Madonna

by wordupsucker March 14, 2010

Pygmalion Effect

The Pygmalion Effect explains that people tend to perform up to the level that others expect of them. This effect explains why our relationships are usually self-fulfilling prophecies. Once you set expectations for somebody, that person will tend to live up to that expectation, whether it's good or bad.
But the Pygmalion Effect also applies to your personal growth. Your beliefs about yourself impact your actions towards others, which influence their beliefs about you and their actions towards you.

Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. ... In educational circles, this has been termed the Pygmalion Effect, or more colloquially, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

by Pygma November 22, 2021

after effects

Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed by Adobe Systems and used in the post-production process of film making, video games and television production. Among other things, After Effects can be used for keying, tracking, compositing, and animation. It also functions as a very basic non-linear editor, audio editor, and media transcoder. In 2019, the program won an Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement.

damn do you use after effects? that effect looks really good
-yeah thanks!

by after effects February 21, 2021

The BECA effect

When you're super awkward, but still kind of weirdly hot that people wonder the reason why you're still single. The reason is beyond your control and is called the BECA (being eventually cast away) effect.

"Man, I don't know why you can't get a boyfriend. You're hot and have a great booty and stuff, but you're awkward... Must be the BECA effect."

by TheeIndian May 14, 2015

Eurobeat Effect

The eurobeat effect is when you play eurobeat in your car. There are a variety of symptoms. Added horsepower to car, and reckless driving. Eurobeat is used in the anime initial d

Don’t listen to eurobeat while driving. This causes the eurobeat effect

by gtr_boi February 27, 2023

The Riddlerbat Effect

Named after the ship between Bruce Wayne/Batman and Edward Nygma/The Riddler from the 2022 movie “The Batman”, The Riddlerbat Effect is where ship content made by a teenager, that most commonly (but not always) involves two grown men that are greatly mischaracterized as if they were half their age; woobification. This is due to the fact that teens can’t relate to people in their 30s, nor do they have any idea what grown adults with full-time jobs do in their free time.

I can tell that The Riddlerbat Effect is kicking in with JohnJack over there. Why else would teenagers draw John Doe as a neet twink and Jack Deer as a brooding emo?

by MahouDou August 22, 2022

the hailee effect

Being “straight” but somehow making everything around you fruity.

A: She always plays LGBTQ roles
B: That’s the hailee effect

by Purple.moon_19 February 10, 2022