An effect often seen in books of the dystopian genre where the author inserts a slew of unfortunate, jarring events that leave the reader astonished and speechless, especially if a beloved character dies suddenly with little time to grieve.
In the book Mockingjay, from The Hunger Games Trilogy, the death of the character Finnick Odair shows The Hunger Games Effect in full force, where he dies so suddenly, it’s almost comical.
by Eclipz2 January 28, 2025
Get the The Hunger Games Effectmug. When you make a recipe for your friends or family that turns out a bit *too* good. They then associate you with said recipe and insistently demand that you make it for them at as many special occasions as possible. It can become very annoying very quickly.
Named after a dessert called bread pudding, praised for its simplicity and incredible flavor.
Named after a dessert called bread pudding, praised for its simplicity and incredible flavor.
1: "UUGHHH! I hate the bread pudding effect!"
2: "Uh... what?"
1: "I made some bread pudding for my sister's birthday party last week. It turned out incredibly well, but now it's all she ever talks about with me! She keeps asking me to make more of it for her and asking me to bring some to more events and... ugh, it's so annoying."
2: "Bread pudding is indeed really quite nice! Ya know... you could probably persuade her to pay you for more of it in the future."
1: "That-- ...that's not a bad idea, actually. Hm!"
2: "Uh... what?"
1: "I made some bread pudding for my sister's birthday party last week. It turned out incredibly well, but now it's all she ever talks about with me! She keeps asking me to make more of it for her and asking me to bring some to more events and... ugh, it's so annoying."
2: "Bread pudding is indeed really quite nice! Ya know... you could probably persuade her to pay you for more of it in the future."
1: "That-- ...that's not a bad idea, actually. Hm!"
by Inlovewithabsol December 23, 2023
Get the The bread pudding effectmug. By advertising, promoting, and/or wearing low inventory merchandise, an illusion is manufactured to deceive investors & customers into supporting a failing celebrity brand. This illusion is meant to deceive consumers into believing that "sold out" equates to popular & profitable.
Meghan Markle borrowed & modeled low inventory fashions and out of season designer clothing. Her "friends" purchased the remaining stock therefore causing the scarce inventory to quickly "sell out" which created The Meghan Effect.
by GRITS Gal September 3, 2025
Get the The Meghan Effectmug. by dodley December 16, 2024
Get the Racha Effectmug. by Yuno6510 January 18, 2024
Get the Hoppy Effectmug. When you have an exam in 3 days and you know that you won't have the time to study, because it is just to much you may give up on learning at all, which would be called a Dennisovitsch Effect
by Expressed Sequence June 28, 2024
Get the Dennisovitsch Effectmug. The phenomenon in which a community around any given piece of media goes mad with shitposting after a long drout of any new content from the media. (At least any GOOD content) This process can be spontaneous or gradual.
Named after a reddit post on the Batman Arkham subreddit which kicked off it's now famous descent into insanity.
Named after a reddit post on the Batman Arkham subreddit which kicked off it's now famous descent into insanity.
by Bob_Wire February 9, 2025
Get the Alsume Effectmug.