the obsession or phobia of a 2012 apocolypse, and or someone who constantly warns of the apocolypse or the show "the nostrodomus effect".
manguy1 : dude why do you look so jittery
manguy2: YOU DIDNT KNOW! I have the nostrodomus effect syndrome.
manguy2: YOU DIDNT KNOW! I have the nostrodomus effect syndrome.
by mamaumpapa February 25, 2011
Get the nostrodomus effect syndrome mug.The Keith (Lee) Effect is the sudden financial improvement of small food chains. This effect has been named after a Tik-Tok legend named Keith Lee, who has taken over 2022 and 2023 and helps/promotes small businesses by rating their food on his page.
by ScientistFromFinland March 11, 2023
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“nah she’s just doing the Look Up Effect”- person 2
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by pendango April 23, 2023
Get the Look Up Effect mug.Coined by Twitter user @buggy_con, the John Walker Effect is when in any form of media, the writers unintentionally make the antagonist characters
-Far more entertaining
-Far more believable as characters
-More sympathetic
-More heroic than the stale and downright evil protagonists/heroes
Typically you will see the writers project all the attributes they view as evil onto these characters in order to make a straw man to pit against their oh so perfect heroes. However, this unintentionally causes these characters to be beloved by the audience (or at least a section of the audience who believe that the ideas they embody are good), for they are the only ones who
-Call out the protagonists' bullshit for what it is
-Have actual ideas and motivations that aren't selfish
-In some way or other represent the ideal of the ideology they embody (since a writer cannot tear down an idea without first building it up)
Oftentimes these characters have to be amped up to cartoonish levels of evil in order to try and make the audience root against them, which usually does not end up working and in some cases just makes the audience love them more.
-Far more entertaining
-Far more believable as characters
-More sympathetic
-More heroic than the stale and downright evil protagonists/heroes
Typically you will see the writers project all the attributes they view as evil onto these characters in order to make a straw man to pit against their oh so perfect heroes. However, this unintentionally causes these characters to be beloved by the audience (or at least a section of the audience who believe that the ideas they embody are good), for they are the only ones who
-Call out the protagonists' bullshit for what it is
-Have actual ideas and motivations that aren't selfish
-In some way or other represent the ideal of the ideology they embody (since a writer cannot tear down an idea without first building it up)
Oftentimes these characters have to be amped up to cartoonish levels of evil in order to try and make the audience root against them, which usually does not end up working and in some cases just makes the audience love them more.
Rorschach from Watchmen, Tyler Durden from Fight Club, and Colonel Quaritch from Avatar are all examples of villains that suffer from the John Walker Effect.
by janh47 July 23, 2023
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- a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.
- a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general.
More specifically, The Tezyln Figaro Effect covers the behaviour, attitude, and mannerisms of its namesake. Those inflicted with this mental disorder often exhibit delusions of moral superiority, an insufferable attitude due their self righteous nature, and unjustifiably smug demeanor because of their own overestimation of their knowledge and abilities.
by Thick Richard September 3, 2023
Get the The Tezyln Figaro Effect mug.When an actor becomes delusional after becoming slightly well known, and begins posting incoherent, babbling, drug fueled rhetoric about conspiracy theories on social media
"I used to always love watching Charlie Sheen on t.v. until he slowly started suffering from the Randy Quaid Effect"
by TRMmafia June 21, 2021
Get the The Randy Quaid Effect mug.When a computer fault that has been plaguing a user suddenly disappears at the mere presence of someon who works in I.T.
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