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child athlete effect

The tendency of kids who grew up playing a competitive sport and then retired in their teens to tryhard video games, have a good sense of momentum, timing, and intuitive controls, be prone to careers requiring more discipline, and being used to regiment/feeling lost without rigid schedules or structure.
"Hey, why is John so good at timing his jumps in Mario Kart 7?"
"Oh, that's just the child athlete effect. He did competitive gymnastics for 7 years before quitting."
by Cry_onis September 5, 2021
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Snow globe effect

When you are stuck inside a snow globe. So no matter where you go it’s safe but it’s still a snow globe. Unless you switch dimensional realities.
Dayummmm sun. you we’re a cartoon in the snow globe!”

Be careful to not fall into the snow globe effect.

We advise you not to remain living in the snow globe effect.
by George Eliot September 5, 2021
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The Hady Effect

A beautiful man named Hady Ibrahim who definitely fucks. It’s due to his amazing personality and awesome looks that he definitely gets lots of girls. He fucks.
You see that girl simping for him? It’s the Hady effect, he fucks.
by hadylover September 8, 2021
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The Taylor Effect

When Taylor Swift's lyrics and brand take root in your day-to-day life intentionally or unintentionally.
1: I don't know why, but I hate men in scarves.

2: That's just the Taylor Effect.
by CourtBenj September 10, 2021
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steel chair effect

The act of throwing a steel chair either in the air or on the ground that causes a mass anger in a crowd that causes them to get mad over nothing or something as little as a steel chair.

This idea originally came from The Boondocks episode "Grandad's Fight"
*Chair is thrown*
Person 1: Oh my god a chair!
*Chair falls*
Person 2: Now I'm mad
Person 3: And that's the steel chair effect.
by NGNC September 13, 2021
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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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The Jason Lemkin Effect

The Jason Lemkin effect is when you feel 10X more excitement for one event/project over others competing for your attention.
I paid $$$ to watch Metallica's 40y anniversary show this December, both on Friday and Sunday, in the Chase Arena. But for some reason, I feel way more excited about SaaStr Annual 2021 that I got a free ticket for - this has got to be the Jason Lemkin Effect.
by rukn@ September 27, 2021
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