The Fortnite Effect 

1) Game A gets popular
2) People start bashing Game A saying it sucks.
3) When the next big game (Game B) releases, everyone starts praising Game A, pretending they never hated it. Ever.

Minecraft is awesome? Weren't you calling it "cancerous" in 2016? Ladies and Gentlemen, the fortnite effect in action.

The Fortnite Effect by Crondom July 10, 2019

The fortnite effect 

where every game that came out after fortnite needed to have battlepasses and cartoonish skins regardless if it was free to play or not.

1: "did you see how the call of duty games now have battlepasses?"

2: "You can thank fortnite for that, that's the fortnite effect"

The fortnite effect by audaxo January 23, 2022

The no-skin effect - Fortnite 

In the game fortnite, the no-skin effect is an assumption of a rookie play-style, when some experienced players encounter another player based on the appearance of a skin set to default.

Before fighting the experienced player will go easy on the no-skin player based on the expectation the no-skin player is a rookie and has a rookie play-style.

After seeing play-styles of players and in the end of the battle/fight in the BR game fortnite, the experienced player's original assumption or conclusion of a no-skin has either A) stayed the same: the no-skin is an inexperienced player (AKA real no-skin) or B) changed: the no-skin is another experienced player (AKA fake no-skin).

Skill not based on appearance but talent The no-skin effect - Fortnite

The no-skin effect - Fortnite by Ferntheplant23457 August 19, 2019