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The Jason-Streisand Effect

A Hyperbolic, yet sadly real, escalation of the original Streisand Effect, where relentless and disproportionate attempts to suppress, deny, or draw attention to a trivial or non-issue that not only fails but catastrophically backfires. Repeatedly.

Key components include:
1) Compounding Backfire
2) Self-Destructive Persistence
3) Total Reputation Collapse
4) Terminal Irony

1) Compounding Backfire-

Unlike the classic Streisand Effect where suppression attempts once amplify attention, the Jason-Streisand Effect involves multiple rounds of doubling (or sextupling) down, each time worsening the backlash exponentially.

2) Self-Destructive Persistence-
The Streisand-er refuses to course-correct, despite pleas and obvious chances to do so, instead escalating their efforts (Legal threats, Public denials, or aggressive PR moves) despite clear signs of mounting damage.

3) Total Reputation Collapse-

What started as a minor issue or even a misunderstanding or mistake snowballs into universal condemnation, turning even neutral observers into detractors.

4) Terminal Irony-
The harder the Streisand-er fights, the more absurd and meme-worthy their efforts become, fueling further ridicule and scrutiny.
Person 1: "What's going on with the Pirate Software Drama?"

Person 2: "After getting caught lying about his raid skills, Pirate Software pulled The Jason-Streisand Effect —deleting VODs, blaming his party, gaslighting his fanbase, and ranting on stream until even his fans called him a fraud."
by Deja Who? August 13, 2025
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The Chris Effect

The "Chris" Effect, where someone gives off the impression that they hate something or someone with a passion, but in reality, they have a deep affection or love for the aforementioned
A guy I know plays this game for many hours almost every day, but he always talks about how much he hates the game, as he continues to play it. I think he has a case of The Chris Effect
by JoeModest July 10, 2025
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MJ Effect

A girl with the name starting with M, and a boy with a name starting with J have so much crazy sex it makes everyone around them green with jealous rage. So much so that everyone hates they are together.
Can you believe those two? They have such an MJ Effect on people it's astonishing!
by TheAfroAlien April 4, 2025
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out-house caffeine effect

The phenomenon where coffee drinks ordered whilst eating out, have more caffeine* — to the point that their caffeine content is as kicking as that of Tombocantuxin caffeine pills

*compared to coffee drinks (of same serving size) served at homes
After downing that ice cappucino at the café, I felt the "out-house caffeine effect" kick in—way stronger than my usual brew at home.
by Emotional Cruiser October 17, 2025
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Toy Story Effect

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
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
by Fanther09 March 19, 2019
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Chad effect

Noun: a type of body buzz, similar to a high from shooting roids or heroin, but it is a natural buzz that comes from being diddled harshly by authority figures like Kunt, Gev, or Barma. Also a feeling that can be caused by being around naperville faggots or shooting baskets with other kunts at yellow box or doing things in other situations that causes a similar feeling of being a total twatwaffle.
Render dawggie: Yo brahs, what yous gettin into today ?

Key Monny : hey nigrums, im all about getting that chad effect!

Cassata nems: should we hit up the box? Or you guys thinkin of gettin our balls smashed at launch nems by a dirty ass kunt palmer for that deep chad effect buzz?
by ballplayer182 April 12, 2022
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The Sanjaya Effect

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.
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
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