The "young thug" effect

When an artist is brilliant live and then you go and listen to their song after the festival or gig and it's dead.

"Saw action broson live yesterday and he was bangin', looked up his songs after and they were dead"
"That's the "young thug" effect for you"

by Samohtrekoc April 17, 2017

John Walker Effect

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.

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

The Tim McGraw Effect

The Tim McGraw effect takes place whenever you associate a certain thing with a past lover. Usually this occurs because it was an interest/passion of said person. Comes from the Taylor Swift song “Tim McGraw” where she sings the line “when you hear Tim McGraw, I hope you think of me”.

“Bro every time I hear a Nicki Minaj Song I think of Brittney. She would always play her music in the car.”

“Yeah—its the Tim McGraw Effect”

by Nicki is my idol January 30, 2021

Hide and seek effect

When a girl/ boy tells you that they’ve had a crush on you in the past to deceive you into believing they don’t like you, when In reality they do. They name comes from the fact that sometimes when playing hide and seek the hider will go back to the same place with the logic they won’t expect me to go back again

Girl:” I used to like you like a year ago”
Boy:”really, cool”
Boys friend:” man she used the hide and seek effect”

by Don’t.worry.about.it December 18, 2019

Shotgun effect

Shotgunning beers in consecutive order to gain a drunk or buzzed feeling with fewer beers then it would take normally.

"Blair only has 6 beers, he needs the shotgun effect to get drunk"

by Blair_lg March 19, 2007

The Ripple Effect

When hitting a fat chick from behind, the massive tidal wave of fat that is created from the push-in, which eventually comes back and pushes you out.

That bitch was so huge, the ripple effect nearly pushed me all the way out.

by sunday52211 August 2, 2011

J-Lo Effect

The act of wearing tight pants to make your butt look bigger.

Don: Are your pants painted on or something!?
Liza: No why do you ask!
Don: Looks like you're tryna get that J-Lo Effect gurrrll...

by Rei[: July 21, 2009