Effective Accelerationism

Don't slow down AI expansion, accelerate it, get out of the way, de-reg, and blow the sucker up.

The e-ack crowd, believed effective accelerationism was the answer to solving world issues, countering the effective altruism folks trying to do good.

by jmacofearth January 2, 2024

The Idiolect Effect

The occurrence of 2 or more people having a different definition of a word; mostly resulting in different understandings of the thing someone was trying to say

It was a big misunderstanding, perhaps The Idiolect Effect.

by KingMeer August 1, 2020

The Quote Effect

When you post something on Twitter and someone quotes you, you reply with something that makes you look even stupider than what the original post said.

Zak quoted Andres on why he thinks Chrollo is mid, so Andres replied and made himself even more of an embarrassment. Andres experienced The Quote Effect.

by kirasucks_ September 10, 2020

Fosca effect

In the novel of Simone de Beauvoir, Fosca is a man who is the only one who cannot die. However, he becomes unhappy because all his friends die and leave him. The Fosca effect is therefore the feeling of an old person when he or she outlives their friends and the other people around them also disappear. It is a mixture of melancholy, pride and the guilt of still being alive.

Why is your father so sad? It's the Fosca effect, another one of his school friends has died.

I really must write my memoirs. It's probably the Fosca effect: if I don't do it, who else will?
The Fosca effect is quite natural when you get very old.

by ThePhysopher June 16, 2025

Mandela effect

An event that happened to a lot of people like a whole generation. Where everyone remember one thing but it was never like that aka Remembering wrong. It doesn't seem to make sense though. Like as if a time loop or everyone is in a different universe. Often thought of to started in the 2010s as zoomers or gen Y were noticing that things are different now.

The Mandela effect of the black and blue or gold and white dress

by 459395 May 26, 2023

The Wilhelm Effect

The Wilhelm Effect is an auditory illusion where the listener has difficulty recognizing the origin of a certain sound effect to truly be the original source after hearing it be sampled many times throughout other types of media. It is named after the Wilhelm Scream. which was used as a sound effect by movies and TV shows many times throughout history.

Person 1: Where exactly did the guy yelling "SHUT THE F*** UP!" come from?
Person 2: It comes from this clip of a Penn and Teller episode.
Person 1: I've heard this sound effect SO MANY TIMES to the point where the original feels edited.
Person 2: That sound effect is a good example of The Wilhelm Effect.

by Milesium December 10, 2024

supreme wader effect

The act of ejaculating while wearing hip or chest waders. See also wader effect

After experiencing supreme wader effect, the poor guy had to sponge out the inside front of his chest waders, he wished he’d been in in hip waders and would have let it dry on the outside as a trophy

by Docksee January 17, 2024