The bleached-butthole effect —
1. when a shocking, extreme and uncommon subject seems to be more prevalent and relevant than in actuality and receives disproportionate attention in public discourse, to the expense of normal but often critically important subjects
2. when some butthead exploits the bleached-butthole effect for profit, distracting our collective attention away from more relevant and important things, just so butthead and co. can make a buck
3. when the fourth estate promotes this drama, as they're in the business of keeping our attention, and distractions and theatrics are an effective means of doing so
1. when a shocking, extreme and uncommon subject seems to be more prevalent and relevant than in actuality and receives disproportionate attention in public discourse, to the expense of normal but often critically important subjects
2. when some butthead exploits the bleached-butthole effect for profit, distracting our collective attention away from more relevant and important things, just so butthead and co. can make a buck
3. when the fourth estate promotes this drama, as they're in the business of keeping our attention, and distractions and theatrics are an effective means of doing so
He shamelessly exploited the bleached-butthole effect until he had dominated the collective attention span of the entire world for weeks on end.
by tykomaki February 20, 2022
Get the bleached-butthole effectmug. The effect in which a generally unpopular public figure disagrees with an idea. Thus detractors of said figure then start supporting or looking into the idea. Essentially someone who you think is so backwards to your own way of thinking, that anything they oppose, you will likely align with.
The petition would of never passed 1 million signatures if PirateSoftware didn't criticize it. Everyone thinks he's so stupid that the petition must be a noble cause! "The PirateSoftware effect" has been born
by SwagDaddy_69 July 5, 2025
Get the The PirateSoftware Effectmug. by Rinbaby March 17, 2024
Get the Rin baby effectmug. The Chanelle Effect refers to when popular R U Next trainee Chanelle Moon was eliminated and the R U Next official TikTok account lost 20k followers almost overnight.
by Chanelle’s y/n August 27, 2023
Get the Chanelle Effectmug. To add some element or person to your life, that alters people’s perception of you.
Like an odor that follows and sticks with you from that point on.
A substance with a penetrating persistent odor
Directly referencing the effect Elon Musk has on the president Donald Trump.
Like an odor that follows and sticks with you from that point on.
A substance with a penetrating persistent odor
Directly referencing the effect Elon Musk has on the president Donald Trump.
by Nicktravesty March 11, 2025
Get the The Musk Effectmug. Also known as the birthday blues, this effect is a statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday, e.g. due to skydiving in order to celebrate birthday
They say there's a birthday effect, so I’m skipping the skydiving this year; I don’t want to become a statistic.
by Emotional Cruiser September 26, 2025
Get the Birthday effectmug. When you move to a place that makes you an extreme douche bag and inflates your ego to the absolute maximum where you think everything bad is someone else’s fault.
by Dr.15$ November 12, 2023
Get the The Victoria effectmug.