Walmart effect

When retailers remove extras from their products to make them more price-competitive with Wal-Mart.

Polo shirts sold by J.C. Penney without the customary breast pocket demonstrates the Walmart effect.

by Lane D. April 29, 2008

Olaf Effect

When you are predisposed to hate a character that shows up on screen but you are surprised that he/she was not as annoying as you thought.

When Uncle Grandpa cameoed on Steven Universe, it was sort of like the Olaf Effect. You would think you would hate him, but you didn't (sort of).

by The Logical Fallacy February 1, 2016

island effect

Condition where the inhabitants of an island consider the island their universe. Anything outside the island is foreign, alien, indistinguishable.

Vera suffered from an acute case of the island effect. She never left the island and thought they were insulated to plagues and economic depressions.

by islandeffect December 7, 2009

Special Effects

Contemporary art that eschews style, content and technical skill and replaces these with hip effects like randomly applied paint drips and stencils. A reference to action movies that consist entirely of explosions, car chases and CGI.

Guy: I thought it was a good show, with some really aesthetically interesting stencils of spiderwebs...
Guy2: Yeah but you're into special effects.

by foxinshocks September 25, 2008

The Kumon Effect

When you begin to feel angry, sad, depressed, lonely, stupid, dumb, less smart and enraged at the same time. It can cause raging, such as throwing Kumon work, burning Kumon work or becoming a taxidermist and stuffing Kumon instructors.

I'm starting to feel the Kumon Effect. I'm starting to feel stupid and lonely.

by Lebron steve June 17, 2019

The beiber effect

When a 12-25 year old famos band boy starts getting millions of usually 12-16 girl die hard fans
the only possible good thing about this is getting their girlfriend concert tikets so they might bang them
every girl wants him
every boy dispises him
all competing rappers want him shot

girl1: OMG JUSTIN BIEBER!!!
girl2: AHHHH BEIBER I WANT YOU I LOVE YOU!!!!!

guy1: the hell is thier problem?
guy2: the beiber effect
guy1: damn it

rapper: he needs to get shot

by anonymous595872986526 April 24, 2010

The Jackson Effect

When Michael Jackson Died the major search engines like google slowed up to 50% due to internet traffic. the jackson effect is when any large news story hits and cause the web to clog.

the jackson effect made yahoo so slow the other day i had to use a dictionary

by frostyletitia July 4, 2009