New BuzzWord: Jade effect

Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 21, 2009

‘The term Jade effect is a media creation based on an emerging productive pattern in English. The X effect, where X is a proper noun corresponding to someone in the public eye, describes a tendency for people to do a particular thing because they have taken inspiration from said person X.’

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