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The Programmer's Curse 

When learning a new language, unless your first working sample is "Hello World" you will be cursed and will struggle to use that language for anything useful.
I was learning Ruby on Rails but because I didn't start with a "Hello World" example, I've been struggling with it from Day One.

Bob: "Hey, Jim. I can't seem to understand why my Ruby on Rails project just won't work."
Jim: "Did you start with a basic "Hello World" example to show you understand the basics?"
Bob: "Heck no! Why would I waste my time."
Jim: <smh> "Well, good luck, Jim. You've cursed yourself with The Programmer's Curse.
The Programmer's Curse by h4rper August 28, 2019
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The Liar’s Curse 

Live your whole life deceiving and manipulating those around you, and in time of need, no one will be there.
The Boy who cried wolf, now has The Liar’s Curse.

Pirate's Curse

A phenomenon that occurs amongst those who pirate video games. Essentially once someone has a large library of pirated video games, they suddenly lose the urge to play anything from it or lose interest in games all together.

One can theorize that once something that is normally obtained via monetary means is stolen (especially in large quantities), it may lose its value to the person who initially stole it.
"Hay bro what's up, you look kind of down today?"
"I spent all night downloading 20TB of old retro games, and out of all of them none of which I have no desire to play."

"First, I think you got the pirate's curse. Second, why did you spend the entire night downloading games?"
Pirate's Curse by DarinNWolf September 6, 2020

The headphones curse 

The curse that all headphones, no matter if you take the upmost care to them, will start to break randomly.
Some random person:Why aren't my headphones working?!I took so much care to them!
Some other random person:Oh that means you have been cursed with the headphones curse.
The headphones curse by Bannana247 September 23, 2020

Cheese Land Curse 

The inability to finish a project that you're working on.
Person 1: "Hey. Are you going to record Cheese Land this weekend?"
Person 2: "Yeah definitely!"
*Next week*
Person 1: "Hey. Are you going to record Cheese Land this weekend since you forgot last weekend?"
Person 2: "Yeah definitely! Sorry!"
*Next week*
Person 1: "Hey. Are you going to record Cheese Land this weekend since you forgot last weekend?"
Person 2: "Yeah definitely! Sorry!"

- This an example of the Cheese Land Curse
Cheese Land Curse by da riff May 27, 2021

9-3 curse 

When you are losing in Valorant 9-3, you will win the game despite being down by 6 rounds.
"ff"
"nah it's good, 9-3 curse"
9-3 curse by Happ7hour September 22, 2021

Mimas's curse 

Mimas's curse is in reference to something that would usually happen when going to google images and typing in the name of a moon plus the word moon after that and how if you scrolled far enough you would always find an image of Mimas instead of the moon you're looking for.
These days this curse doesn't really exist anymore but it used to in around late 2019 to middle 2020.

These days Mimas's curse isn't Mimas's anymore but different moons take it's place however when you repedetly get an image of a moon you weren't searching for it is still calledm Mimas's curse.
A: Hey, I'm trying to fid a good image of Enceladus but only Mimas and/or Titan keep showing up
B: Ah, Mimas's curse strikes again!