When you come up with something that you think is cool and funny and you think you're the first person to think of it, but it turns out many people have thought of it long before you.
Person 1: Bro! I have a crazy idea! Imagine Frankenstein but he's a prankster, and his name is PRANKENSTEIN. Why has no one ever though of this before?
Person 2: That joke has been used several times already by many other people.
Person 1: Fuck. I'll call this phenomenon "The Prankenstein Effect"
Person 2: That joke has been used several times already by many other people.
Person 1: Fuck. I'll call this phenomenon "The Prankenstein Effect"
by Stalmoblin January 3, 2023