The word Hindenburg being derived from the airship "Hindenburg"; To categorize a subject/object through a Hindenburg Effect is to say that the mentioned subject/object once had a high reputation or a prestige record in something, say what happened to Pewdiepie with the whole Fiverr thing, and then in one fell swoop, destroys their own standing/popularity by their own doing and ruins the state of other objects around them, also like how the Fiverr incident made advertisers pull out from YouTube, and WSJ milking the words "pewdiepie" and "nazi".
TL;DR: To take something's high reputation and have them ruin it themselves and their surrounding state.
TL;DR: To take something's high reputation and have them ruin it themselves and their surrounding state.
(To use an outdated but relevant example)
Guy1: You heard what happened to that Pewdiepie dude? I heard he's a nazi!
Guy2: No, you've got it wrong, he's not a nazi, that's just another claim from his own Hindenburg Effect.
Guy1: You heard what happened to that Pewdiepie dude? I heard he's a nazi!
Guy2: No, you've got it wrong, he's not a nazi, that's just another claim from his own Hindenburg Effect.
by RK800#84329009 August 11, 2018
Get the Hindenburg Effectmug. When your world crashes around you; the rapid weight loss experienced subsequent to the break-up of a committed relationship.
by Monique625 March 25, 2008
Get the Hindenburg dietmug. A chaotic romantic encounter, typically involving a plus-sized partner and an inflatable bed, characterized by sudden deflation—both literal and metaphorical—often triggered by rough activity and unexpected intensity.
Bro, I was banging it out on the air mattress with the heavy set English teacher. She was riding me and, just when I told her to choke me, the air mattress deflated. I didn’t anticipate it, but I did the Hindenburg.
by Tom Collins September 13, 2025
Get the The Hindenburgmug. by chandis888raygor999666 February 21, 2017
Get the eating the hindenburgmug. When you bang a big woman on your balcony. Midway before you bust a nut, you douse her with everclear, push her over the rail, and as she falls to her death you cry out "awe the humanity,"
by Humantripod800 May 3, 2021
Get the Hindenburgmug.