YouTube Effect

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The phenomenon in which one navigates to a single video hosted on Youtube (either by URL from email, friend, forum post, by searching, or otherwise) and find yourself clicking on related videos until you wake up hours later to find yourself watching Chocolate Rain for the umpteenth time or enjoying the musical stylings of Rick Astley.

The YouTube Effect can apply to any other video, image, music, etc. site that shows related files or pages on whatever page you are viewing.

Shit, I told myself I'd only watch that ONE Lady Gaga video on YouTube, but before I knew it, it was 3 AM and I was watching mindless crap like fat ladies yelling at skater kids. Damn YouTube Effect...

YouTube Effect by WerriamMebster February 2, 2010

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Youtube Effect

The proccess by which a funny video, viral or not, is deemed unfunny by someone. This occurs when said person is told to watch a video by a freind, relative, the person who created the video, or some other person.

The reason it occurs is because the person being told to watch the vdeo is expecting something funny, which may not have been the case with the person who is telling the other person to watch the video (this person may have stumbled upon it, or if they created the video, overestimate how funny they really are)

Members of Youtube often destroy their chances of having their video go viral by saying things such as "omg go watch my video-it's so funny!" on the comments section of other viral videos-people are expecting something funny, and are let down when the video in question isn't as funny as they expected

Some videos are exempt from this effect, such as "HaHaHa" (the video of the laughing baby)

James told Shaniqua to go on Youtube so she could watch watch "Charlie Bit My Finger"- because of the Youtube Effect, James was on the floor laughing, while Shaniqua forced a laugh, expecting something funnier then what she saw

Youtube Effect by repoed2 February 7, 2010

The Youtube Effect

When you go to a video, but then you get distracted and click on 'related' links until you are watching sneezing pandas.
Results include:
Bad Grades
Getting Fired
Gaining interest in something new

Teacher: Student, did you do you're homework?
Student:No...
Teacher:WTF u little nagger! YTF u not do ur homework u choob! Now I am going to DEVOUR UR SOUL! No longer will u get all A's for special Favors!
Student:Its not my Fault Mrs. Teacher.... It was the Youtube Effect!
Teacher:O... k. Tht makes sense. Ur off hook... go back to ur work

The Youtube Effect by Nick Haveran May 9, 2009

YouTuber Effect

The effect where a YouTuber will play a video game and their mindless sheep followers will start playing the game. This is usually good, but in roblox, it can result in cringe ass nae nae games such as tycoons to explode in the big money.

Fuck Denis and Flamingo. Their bitchass followers caused tycoons to flood the game section, leaving no room for the good games and causing the creators of the actually good games to use bots to get their games slightly noticed. God damn this YouTuber Effect

YouTuber Effect by BlueCaekz June 2, 2020

Salad Days

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5

"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."

Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011

Word of the Day on August 28, 2026

age gate

An absolutely foolproof way to keep minors from viewing content deemed "too mature" for them to watch.

Billy: "So I was trying to watch some videos for an M rated game, and I ran into an age gate, so I put in my real birthday. SOMEHOW it managed to figure out that I am 12. CURSE YOU AGE GATE!!!"

Bill: "Fucking age gate! *quick scroll* THERE! I was born on January 1, 1904. Fuck you age gate."

age gate by Banja January 7, 2011

Word of the Day on August 27, 2026

board chow

A)
The Crud that collects under the keys in a keyboard. Usually more severe in the keyboards of programmers and webmasters as they tend to spend a lot of time at the the computer and thus eat at their desk. Mainly affecting IBM Model M (clicly) style boards.

B)
Can also be used to gross out Non-Techie people

A)
Bill: want to go to the club?
Bob: No, I've got to clean out my board chow, keys are starting to stick.

B)
Bill: Want to go out to get a bite?
Bob: No, i am just going to have some of my board chow/
Bill: Whats' that?
Bob: The food scraps that collect in my keyboard; Want some?
Bill: *GAG* *HURL* *GAG*

board chow by BinaryHackerMan September 3, 2007

Word of the Day on August 26, 2026

young pup

a young person, a young adult in their late teens/early 20s.

Ah, you're just a young pup at 23!

young pup by the dog May 30, 2006

Word of the Day on August 25, 2026

grebo

West Midlands slang word for rockers, bikers, greasers etc. In the late 1980s it was used by the UK music press to refer to a specific scene centered around the bands Pop Will Eat Itself and Crazyhead. The term never found favour with readers of 'the inkies' (Sounds, Melody Maker and the still extant NME) and was soon dropped. Now often used in predominantly working-class areas of the midlands and the north to mean someone who listens to rock-derived music and/or dresses in a manner that suggests they affiliate themselves with rock music of some kind.

Some grebo passed with Sabbath playing on his stereo.
The Poppies are at no. 17? God, a grebo band in the charts!
They're playing nu-metal now, bloody grebos!

grebo by cactuscat September 15, 2006

Word of the Day on August 24, 2026