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Prince Andrew Effect 

A modernist approach to the Streisand Effect, in which when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information.

Coined by the masses following British Royal Prince Andrew's request for all testimony in the Maxwell case to be kept secret.
The testimony from the Maxwell case will go public by virtue of the Prince Andrew Effect.

Prince Andrew Effect 

Drawing attention to something you want hidden. Based on the Dec 30, 2021 request by Prince Andrew to have all witness testimony in his Jeffrey Epstein- and Ghislain Maxwell-related sex trial sealed.

The Prince Andrew Effect is a version of the Streisand Effect. (In 2003,Barbara Streisand tried to have a picture of her beach house removed from the Internet This had the unintended effect of drawing people's attention and raising the prominence of the photo on the web.)
The PRINCE ANDREW EFFECT is making everyone want look up the testimony from his sex trial.
Prince Andrew Effect by starsfan6878 December 30, 2021

Andrew Effect 

The effect where people act uncontrollably flamboyantly gay, where you want to be with them physically and romantically, towards a single male.
I think my friends are affected by the Andrew Effect since they keep saying they want to suck Aj's dick.
Andrew Effect by Emotional Damage January 29, 2022

The Andrew Effect 

A phenomenon in which a persons dating life is full of people who, at some point, becoming transgender.
Person 1: Hey did you hear about Miles? all of his girlfriends are dudes now!
Person 2: He must have The Andrew Effect!
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Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
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