Person 1: "Elon Musk changed that
Twitter accounts that
don't pay for a monthly subscription
will temporarily be restricted to reading 600 posts per day"
Person 2: "that's some kind of Wheatley Effect bullshit"
Person 1: "Elon Musk chose to rebrand
Twitter.com into X.com"
Person 2: "wow, the Wheatley Effect must really take place here"
David Zaslav, new CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery following the merger, cancelling Batgirl, a nearly completed feature film, for tax reasons; and continuing to release 2023's The Flash, only for it to disastrously bomb at the box office is an example of the Whealtey Effect