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The Ballinger Effect

When one learns of another person or thing only after finding out that person or thing was involved with something bad, or some faced consequences for wrongdoing.
I didn’t know who Colleen Ballinger was until I saw her in the news because she did some crappy things.”

“I didn’t know who Logan Paul was until I heard he made a video making fun of a dead body in the Japanese suicide forest. Total Ballinger- Effect.”

“You didn’t know who that was until they got in trouble. That’s The Ballinger Effect for you.”
by Kitty V July 8, 2023
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noranb_ effect

noranb_ effect is the effect of xingyun artists becoming haikaveh artists.
person 1: did you hear that artist stopped drawing xingyun? they draw haikaveh now
person 2: noranb_ effect
by xinxincin July 15, 2023
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Jia Effect

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The "Jia effect" refers to the unfortunate occurrence of experiencing a streak of bad luck in video games whenever JiaKatt participates in the same game session, leading to unfavorable outcomes and challenges for the affected player(s).
Night was excited to join the online gaming session, but little did she know that the "Jia Effect" would strike again, causing her to encounter numerous setbacks and frustrations in the game whenever JiaKatt joined.
by JiaKatt July 28, 2023
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the kori effect

when a person is raised in chaos, and lives with chaos habitually, when there is not sufficient chaos and drama around that person, they will subconsciously/consciously create problems and chaos
“Your girlfriend lied and tried to ruin people’s lives over nothing? That’s just the kori effect man.”
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BelowNatural effect

When You try to make a tower defense game and within the next millisecond it will get copyright'ed or shut down by BelowNatural.
Person 1: Bro I just made this new Tower defense game

Person2: Oh no you have the BelowNatural Effect
Person 1: huh * looks at the screen and sees that he game was deleted by BelowNatural
Person 1:NOOOOOOOOOO
by CzechOutSlovakia11037 April 12, 2023
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The Bev effect

The Bev effect is a phenomenon that occurs when one person makes edgy jokes. And soon after everyone around them follows
Did Steve just make that homopobic joke?

Yeah, he’s got the Bev effect
by Cherryslusheelover May 9, 2023
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Foxbat Effect

The Foxbat Effect is when an autocratic country, wanting to show how threatening and virile they are, overhype the effectiveness of their weapons, prompting wealthier and more powerful liberal democracies to develop weapons designed to actually counter the hyped-up weapons, only to then find out that the perceived threat was a turd.

So named for the MiG-25 “Foxbat”, which prompted the development of the F-15.
The T-90M’s missile countermeasures not working after NATO spent millions on weapons than can counter them is a prime example of the Foxbat Effect.
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