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Huh, definitionally it's always a bad thing, i wonder why people around you use it that way
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whammy
It was definitely a bad thing in "Press Your Luck", the game show where the term was coined. The "Whammy" was a little monster who took all your money.
Even from your link there's someone using it in a positive way so clearly not mate lol.
Where, quote it for me. I looked in 5 separate dictionaries, they all say it's a negative thing.
"How to use Whammy in a sentence" 5th one down is "I love being able to sing for my job and its my passion to so it's a double whammy"
Edit: funnily enough, keep scrolling and you have the British dictionary definition and let's face it you are speaking English. There it directly says, "something which has great, often negative, impact"
So right there in your link, it's not always negative.