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Internet Amplification Effect

The Internet Amplification Effect is the effect the internet has on certain individuals and on society at large of taking traits that are within the person or society in question and, when exposed to the internet on site comment sections or forums, amplifies those traits to extremes.
Steve in real life is a political moderate, but when on the internet due to the Internet Amplification Effect he becomes a radical.
by Z_for_Zontar September 6, 2016
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Chemical Reaction Effect

When an amount of things triggers a memory.

Good or Bad Memory
Friend - "This is so... Chemical Reaction Effect."

Me - Ikr.
by XDTheLonelyOreoDX January 21, 2018
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the Reese Witherspoon effect

when a famous person possesses so much pure, wholesome, almost maternal/paternal energy that it becomes impossible to sexualize them or truly find them hot no matter how good-looking they are
"i wish i could think this person is hot, but they've got the reese witherspoon effect"
by vanookirby May 19, 2020
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Dunning-Krovid Effect

A subset of the Dunning-Kruger Effect which causes stupid people to deny medical science and potentially harm themselves and others during the COVID pandemic.
Him: Did you see the owner of that store in Alabama is denying entry to people wearing COVID masks?
Her: She’s suffering from the Dunning-Krovid Effect.
by stuartc1 May 23, 2020
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The Double-Ismail Effect

The effect that occurs when two people named Ismail convince you of something, or convince you to do something as long as it doesn't break the law. There is a 99.8% chance that Ismail and Ismail will successfully convince the subject. There are only a handful of recorded unsuccessful cases, though many say they are false reports.
Example 1:
Person 1: Wow I can't believe Ismail S. and Ismail H. convinced me to go camping at Joshua Tree, I hate the outdoors!

Person 2: They call that the Double-Ismail Effect

Example 2:

Someone get me two Ismails, this situation calls for The Double-Ismail Effect.
by wohoitsame March 22, 2020
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Scooby Doo Effect

When you can tell which objects in an animated film or video game are supposed to be picked up or manipulated by a character because they "pop out" from the rest of the scene. The effect is achieved by: (a.) making the stand-out object brighter,

(b.) making it a different shade of color than similar surrounding objects, or (c.) in the case of video games, making the object shiny or pulsing with light (intentional scooby doo effect).

The original effect was an unintended side-effect of cel animation. Animators would use the same slides over and over for static backgrounds and place the animation slides over them (e.g. the same picture of a room will be used for several hundred frames because the room never moves, but the characters have to be redrawn each frame with new slides).

The inconsistency of color and brightness between the new painted slides and the original background slide causes the animated object to stand out from the background. The Scooby Doo cartoon was a particularly noteworthy example of this effect in practice.
(playing a video game) "There's some major scooby doo effect on that door. I'm pretty sure you can open it."
by Boondiggle August 14, 2020
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Luke Murphy Effect

The "Luke Murphy Effect", is simply overstating and/or overusing a word, persons name, or saying, repetitively to the point it becomes stale.
Would you stop talking about Kanye West, you're using the Luke Murphy Effect.
by AnchorUp October 6, 2020
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