This effect happens when consumers of a product (such as DAIN App or especially Telsa Autopilot) incorrectly uses a product, and unknowingly damages the reputation of certain software or products. The most notable case is Telsa's autopilot, where people are negligent and recklessly drive and get into accidents, damaging the reputation and credibility of those consumer products from news outlets reporting on these incidents.
James: "Ugh, another case of the misused autopilot effect! I wish people would start paying more attention while driving!"
Adam: "Yeah, isn't negligent driving, like, illegal?
James: "It is. It really is."
Adam: "Yeah, isn't negligent driving, like, illegal?
James: "It is. It really is."
by Jamespolation April 29, 2021
Nap Effect, this is what happens when you have a normal sleep schedule then you go choose to go to bed at like 2 or 3 o clock in the morning and end up waking up at 6:30 in the morning without waking up in the middle of your sleep.
Yo Peter where were you yesterday i was calling your phone all day. Sorry Tommy i had the nap effect.
by goji tree December 13, 2013
When a man's urine exits the penis in several different directions instead of one solid stream. Usually occurring after ejaculation, it often creates an unwelcomed mess on the toilet seat, floor, and sometimes pants.
by jim0581 May 28, 2014
What an annoyed attendee snorts at you when you sarcastically voice a gross/crude/embarrassing "audio clip" during/after a humiliating event that others would prefer to hush up or forget/ignore.
Wry-faced storyteller: "...but needless to say, that big plate of beans very decidedly did **not** completely agree with me, and so I ---"
You: "July is National Baked Bean Month --- ppppppprrrrrrrppppppffffhh --- excuse me!"
Wry-faced storyteller, casting an irritated glance in your direction: "Hey --- that's quite enough --- nobody said you had to supply the sound effects!"
You: "July is National Baked Bean Month --- ppppppprrrrrrrppppppffffhh --- excuse me!"
Wry-faced storyteller, casting an irritated glance in your direction: "Hey --- that's quite enough --- nobody said you had to supply the sound effects!"
by QuacksO June 03, 2018
a pipeline due to going to damonte (a very toxic, rich, and white environment) where poc change by getting used to racism (i.e. ignoring when racist traits are displayed from friends, not getting uncomfortable by racist behaviors, etc.), becoming racist themselves, or generally reflecting a personality of stereotypical white person aka whitewashed
person 1: yoo andrew just said some racist ass shit
person 2: what? no way... a couple years ago he would never let that pass
person 1: yeah he be going through the damonte effect
person 2: what? no way... a couple years ago he would never let that pass
person 1: yeah he be going through the damonte effect
by 85luvr June 01, 2022
The mindset among people who have abandoned physical media in favor of streaming services like Netflix and Prime Video, where if a movie is not on any streaming services and is inaccessible outside dvds or piracy, it might as well be lost media. Named after the 2005 film Hoodwinked! which has been called Lost Media by users on Twitter
by StarHogs January 04, 2025
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