Any instance when internet chat rooms or subreddit groups rouse a significant number of anonymous individuals to support a cause or an individual with the aim of exercising the group's bandwidth to hi-jack or manipulate things in the real world,
The Sanjaya effect is named after its first well-known publicized occurrence in 2006 when a Reddit group of mostly young males decided to hi-jack American Idol's voting systems to push a mediocre singer, Sanjaya Malakar, into the final competition. When he had consistently disappointed the judges for weeks on end, and still made it into the final competition with the last two other singers, the judges decided they had to take voting back into their own hands to stop the internet trolls from ruining the whole sixth season's final competition.
"The Sanjaya Effect" is now an easy way to explain what might appear as ludicrous events that may seem to occur with little reason but when taking into account the ease by which the internet allows individuals to anonymously conspire together to form large cohorts that bring about change in the real world with social media and manipulation of voting systems, it is now par for the course that such internet groups exist and always will exist.
The Sanjaya effect is named after its first well-known publicized occurrence in 2006 when a Reddit group of mostly young males decided to hi-jack American Idol's voting systems to push a mediocre singer, Sanjaya Malakar, into the final competition. When he had consistently disappointed the judges for weeks on end, and still made it into the final competition with the last two other singers, the judges decided they had to take voting back into their own hands to stop the internet trolls from ruining the whole sixth season's final competition.
"The Sanjaya Effect" is now an easy way to explain what might appear as ludicrous events that may seem to occur with little reason but when taking into account the ease by which the internet allows individuals to anonymously conspire together to form large cohorts that bring about change in the real world with social media and manipulation of voting systems, it is now par for the course that such internet groups exist and always will exist.
Examples of the Sanjaya Effect are plentiful, including TV Shows like American Idol, season 6 in 2006, or stock prices (e.g. the 2021 Game Stop Frenzy), or cryptocurrency prices (e.g. The DogeCoin Pump Scheme, followed by Shibu Inu and Floki Inu pump and dump internet conspiracies in succession)
by Tyler Warden September 13, 2021
Get the The Sanjaya Effectmug. by UtileWins February 10, 2021
Get the Utile effectmug. When a movie series wraps up, and the viewers think it can't continue because it was a perfect ending.
Then the movie studio releases the trailer for the next one and you become really excited again
Then the movie studio releases the trailer for the next one and you become really excited again
Person 1: New trailer for the 4th one
Person 2: not interested. The trilogy wrapped everything up perfectly
Person 1: At least just watch the trailer
Person 2: Ok *Watches Trailer*
Person 1: So what do you think?
Person 2: *says nothing, and instead preorders opening premiere ticket
Person 1: Seems to be the Toy Story Effect to me
Person 2: not interested. The trilogy wrapped everything up perfectly
Person 1: At least just watch the trailer
Person 2: Ok *Watches Trailer*
Person 1: So what do you think?
Person 2: *says nothing, and instead preorders opening premiere ticket
Person 1: Seems to be the Toy Story Effect to me
by Fanther09 March 19, 2019
Get the Toy Story Effectmug. When you lose your lane in league of legends but your team wins, or when your team loses their lane while winning your lane
by Blitztank May 28, 2025
Get the Duncy Effectmug. The Coach Ashley Effect is when Coach Ashley says she's going to do something but doesn't fucking do it.
"Coach Ashley Said she was going to schedule me to work a midshift tomorrow but somehow it didn't fucking happen, that's the Coach Ashley Effect in action"
by ThePublicker February 13, 2025
Get the Coach Ashley Effectmug. Employee 1, "My desk phone was not working, but as soon as I emailed helpdesk it started working. "
Employee 2, "Bro that's the helpdesk effect."
Employee 2, "Bro that's the helpdesk effect."
by JBlocka May 12, 2016
Get the helpdesk effectmug. Apparently not as effective as I am at getting your cohorts to see reason and abandon you. Bwahahahahaha!
by Hym Iam March 11, 2023
Get the Effectivemug.