Mau5dotting effect

when Joel Thomas Zimmerman, better known as Deadmau5, posts a link to a smaller site, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily close.

damn, seriously amazing, this "mau5dotting effect"... holy moly, the internet can't keep up with you guys. ♥ c'mon internet, get better!
DeadMau5

by MaydayM March 3, 2011

The Keemstar Effect

It's when some no-name YouTuber gets popular through being on DramaAlert, or being shown on one of LeafyisHere's or Pyrocynical's videos.

Person 1: Did you hear that LtCorbis was featured on LeafyisHere?
Person 2: Must be the Keemstar Effect again, she's got 100k subscribers now.

by FoxofGrey July 25, 2016

The Westbrook Effect

The event of when a player on a team makes his teammates worse. Can be used to describe any event where a person negatively affects the performance of a teammate or colleague .

You are playing terrible! It must be because you are playing with Russell. It's the Westbrook effect!

I can't believe I have to play with Russell. Now I'm not going to play good because of the Westbrook effect.

by Shaq Diesel47 May 21, 2018

Westermarck effect

The Westermarck effect, or reverse sexual imprinting, is a hypothetical psychological effect through which people who live in close domestic proximity during the first few years of their lives become desensitized to sexual attraction.

The professor says the Westermarck effect is why incest is taboo.

by Ravenalien October 8, 2015

The Phenom Effect

The act of overusing a meme or joke to where it’s one of the only things you’re capable of saying. Also known as phenomenalization.

HypixelPhenom : NICE HAIR RIGHTEST
MetaHumans : Oh no bald rightest got the phenom effect!

HpixelPhenom : Bill Cosbying MrCreepyPlayz Bunghole
HowCouldYou : Shut the fuck up fatass

by HypixelPhucknom June 8, 2020

Avaroe Effect

"Similar to the Streisand Effect but specific to YouTuber drama in where attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely by YouTubers." - Repzilla

Onision has triggered the Avaroe Effect.

by jkcl January 8, 2019

cigarette effect

a phenomenon when a guy who juuls appears to seem cuter than he actually is. kinda like when actors pose with cigarettes, they are hotter. the cigarette effect

he's not even that cute but because cigarette effect he is

by poopie000 April 25, 2020