The Dutch Effect

A consistently negative phenomenon that occurs when Dutch—either a person known as Dutch or someone associated with the nickname—watches a sports game that their friends or family are emotionally invested in. Once Dutch tunes in, the favored team almost always loses. In extreme cases, a star player suffers a serious or season-ending injury. The Dutch Effect has become synonymous with jinxing crucial moments in sports.

Dutch’s family is rooting hard for the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals. After staying away the entire series, Dutch decides to watch. The result? The Pacers lose in heartbreaking fashion, and Tyrese Haliburton sustains a major injury that sidelines him for the entire next season. That’s the Dutch Effect in full force.

by The Unreal Monkey Family June 24, 2025

Kaiden Effect

The Kaiden Effect is when 2 people become friends and one friend becomes obsessed with the other friend and then don’t hangout with anyone else.

Friend 1: “Can we please hangout”
Friend 2: “No i’m hanging out with kaiden”
Friend 1: “Ugh you have the ‘Kaiden effect’ “
Friend 2: “ OH NO IM OBSESSED”

by theunderground1739 June 24, 2025

The Woon effect

When a person who buys a stock and it goes down, or sells a stock and it goes up.

I’ve purchased a stock so the Woon Effect means the price will tank.

I’ve sold a stock so the Woon Effect means it will shoot up

by RPhil June 25, 2025

Pusha T Effect

When someone starts a beef that ends with the victim getting their biggest secret shown to the world

Drake: Nigga was at Kroger workin' double time

Pusha T: You are hiding a child
And that is the pusha t effect

by SamWhich87 June 28, 2025

Orville Peck effect

When one artists’s music is so peak, it gets you into a genre that you don’t like.

Dude, i’m listening to this new punk band, i’ve never even bothered to listen to punk music before but this shit is peak, they have the Orville Peck effect on me

by I’m Not Black. June 30, 2025

Nastya Effect

The sudden, borderline-irrational infatuation a man develops after meeting a captivating Ukrainian woman named Nastya (short for Anastasia). Symptoms include spontaneous generosity, excessive day-dreaming, and learning random Ukrainian phrases overnight.

More broadly, any situation in which a single encounter with someone’s charm, humor, and Slavic swagger scrambles another person’s common sense.

“Dude, Fady just bought concert tickets to Kyiv after one video call with her—total Nastya Effect.”

by Dr WaterCheetah July 3, 2025

The PirateSoftware Effect

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