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this may contain side effects

When you hear this on a medicine ad, you're done for.
'Buy Your Mom's anti cry pills for your entire family! This may contain side effects...'

"W-w-w-what are t-they?"

'DEATH'

AAA DONT DO THAT
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scrimbol effect

The effect where certain frequencies of noise can scramble your brain much like how strobe lights cause seizures to epileptic people
I turned on my strobe light and jerry died of the Scrimbol effect
by Scrimbol April 17, 2022
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AADC effect

The phenomenon when the box office success of one Indonesian movie, e.g. "AADC: Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?" (2002) whose title means "What's Up with Love?", is immediately followed by the emergence of many Indonesian movies with similar themes
After "AADC: Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?" became a hit, the AADC effect kicked in, and suddenly every new release was another teen romance trying to capture the same magic!
by Emotional Cruiser September 25, 2025
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The Anton-Effect

When a low IQ child ranging from 12-16 comes across alex they fall for his facade as a really smart and nice person, even though in reality hes got the intelligence of a wet sack of pennies.
The Anton-Effect combined with a lack of attention from the parents of the child usually results in alex using the children as talking fleshlights.
Some lucky souls break out of their condition and gain consciousness, thus being healed from their ailment.
It is important to keep in mind not every child is at risk of the Anton-Effect, if the child even has a semblence of self worth and self awareness they usually steer clear and remain normal happy and healthy children.
"Aw dude look this little girl used to be normal now she changed her username to "X the blooming rose", another victim of the Anton-Effect"
by The dragon of creeljima July 24, 2023
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Elliot effect

a strange feeling of euphoria and happiness, when coming into contact with people given the name Elliot or any sort of variation of the spelling of name
mark-“i’m so happy today and don’t know why“
mathew-“did you talk to elliot at all”
mark-“yeh, maybe that’s why”
mathew-yeh it’s the Elliot effect
by jeetmaster July 12, 2023
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The Shyamalan Effect

The feeling of disgust after climax when watching porn. Dubbed "The Shyamalan Effect" because, like M. Knight Shyamalan's movies, masturbation has a mediocre twist ending that makes you question why you wasted time on it.
Some Guy: Yo y'know that feeling when you splooge and like immediately feel gross?

Me, an Intellectual: Ahhh yes.. The Shyamalan Effect.
by exoheck July 15, 2018
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Davos Effect

The Davos effect refers to when two high status people walk towards each other with no idea who is higher or should get out of the other's way.

It happens in environments where there are very high status people but with no hierarchical context or idea of who the others are.

The term was coined for the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in Davos. Because high status attendees are not allowed to bring an entourage, no one knows who is higher in status and they habitually walk into each other because everyone refuses to give way.
Those two CEOs just showed the Davos Effect, they walked directly into each other, neither knew who should get out of the other's way!
by Human Peacocking January 23, 2024
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