Bond Effect

A psychological phenomenon where an individual suffers great mental damage when facing an opponent with "Bond" in the name.

Common effects are: shivering, crying, blaming your team instead of yourself for everything, mental booming.

Nerf:"Hey Edo, how were your games today?"
Edo:"Not good, I've been suffering from the Bond Effect all day today."
Nerf:"Aw man, sorry to hear that."

by JanJan0_0 June 16, 2024

Fleetwood Effect

Someone who spends way to much money on one game and will love that game to the end of time... or until you beat them in that game, and will get triggered when you do become better.

Dude, you are so having the Fleetwood effect

by Doge is dead meme January 23, 2017

Hoodwinked Effect

The erroneous classification of a piece of media as "lost" when it is merely extant and unavailable on mainstream streaming platforms.

Many people online labelled a game as "lost media" even though it just wasn't available on Steam or Epic. You can just grab it from your local video game retailer. This is what's called the Hoodwinked Effect.

by AngellTangell January 14, 2025

eureka effect

A weapon in Team Fortress 2 that alow the user to teleport back and forth

This wrench used to be fucking useless but VALVe "before leaving the game" fix it so it's usable

Soldier: Where is our engineer ?
Heavy: He just spent 10 hrs watching Uncle Dane ninjaneer, so he keep wraping back and forth with the Eureka Effect just to be killed by a lime scout

by Free reddit karma May 23, 2020

LankyBox Effect

An effect that if something popular gets posted to the internet (primarily YouTube), LankyBox will make a shitty reaction video to it and try to flood the fanbase with kids.

"The LankyBox effect ruined my fanbase"

by EDPsCupcake69420 August 30, 2025

Dan Quayle effect

Every loser will once be a winner.

You know, it’s the Dan Quayle effect. You know, he won the second time — I mean, lost the second time, he got to run.

by RudolphTheRock December 3, 2016

Ferrari effect

The Ferrari effect is when a sports athlete moves to the most successful team, only to fail

Lewis Hamilton is the most recent driver to fall victim to the Ferrari effect. Having no podiums besides a sprint victory in China, struggling to cope with the teams incompetence.

by mesabuild November 18, 2025