Matei Effect

The "Matei Effect" is a term used to describe whenever a joke or meme based on another piece of media becomes more recognised and widespread than the original media itself. Often common within the younger crowd.

The term "Matei Effect" was coined when Mike Matei's video of "Minecraft with Gadget" became an immensely popular meme which has now overshadowed the original "Inspector Gadget" show itself.

As a result, younger generations may only know of Inspector Gadget because of Mike's video and have likely never seen any other official Inspector Gadget media ever beforehand. Causing what's called the "Matei Effect".

big chungus (Bugs Bunny), garfielf (Garfield), we live in a society (Joker), Grand Dad (Flintstones) are all victims of the Matei Effect!

by Kippykip June 10, 2021

The GD Effect

whenever something popular references about something niche, that niche thing will be overridden by fans of the popular thing, this happened most in Geometry Dash where you can choose songs from Newgrounds. Usually when a level got popular the comments of the Newgrounds song would be flooded with "Anyone here from ____??"

"Many people started to flood madness combat videos because of the fnf vs tricky mod."
"That sounds like The GD Effect"
"What?"

by Mayo78 June 10, 2021

The Lockdown Effect

When you recall an event to have happened a year ago, when in actual fact it happened two years ago

“remember our trip to spain last year”
“that was two years ago, we were in lockdown last year”
“must be the lockdown effect”

by Addiscum June 13, 2021

Titanino Effect

when your perception of someone makes their actions have worse or better reactions

"your sentence is way funnier because of your profile picture"
"that's the Titanino Effect"

by MyStaump June 16, 2021

G-Effect

G-effect is a psychological and anabolic observed characteristic of the Guilhermipicus sapien, the least intelligent of all homo sapien descended species. Typical signs of the effect include reposting memes more than one time, usually due to the fact most members of the native Group Chat Island do not respond with laughter. This includes memes that are humorous and nonhumourous.

Typical Guilhermipicus sapien : (unfunny ass poo poo ass meme)
Group Chat Island Activity : (usual commentaries)
Typical Guilhermipicus sapien : (unfunny ass poo poo ass meme)
During this time the Group Chat usually reinforces it's genetic disdain for the G-effect by calling it out and castrating the Guilhermipicus sapien further from reality due to severe hereditary schizo-depressive-ebola disorder

by Gabbobler did nothing wrong May 22, 2021

the vtec effect

the effect in which the team 'vtec' get various reactions from the server they are playing on, such as anger and hatred all by playing the game and being good. sometimes even making the others cry or quit due to being overall better.

why do all these people dislike you on here? 'the vtec effect'

by rusthenny May 3, 2021

Tilde Effect

The tilde effect is a term coined by Samuel Booton, which states that once you discover something and what it does, it will be more featured within your life. Example, if you discover an obscure song on Youtube but the next day you hear it on the radio. The tilde effect is named what it is, due to Samuel not previously not knowing the name of a tilde (~). But soon after his friend told him what it was called, he heard people no longer call it a squiggly, but a tilde.

Guy: *hears song
Guy: huh, this is catchy!

*five years later*
Guy: *finds song
Guy: Oh! That's what it's called!
*song becomes a hit*
Guy: Weird, I guess that's the tilde effect.

by TheArchivist May 5, 2021