She Was X, You Sick Fuck

About

She Was X, You Sick Fuck refers to a reaction image of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit character Elliot Stabler (played by actor Christopher Meloni) captioned with a line accusing someone of inappropriate sexual relations with or interest in someone. The reaction meme has often been used ironically to reply to accusations of grooming against people who are legally adults but are viewed as vulnerable for other reasons.

Origin

On May 19th, 2000, episode 22 titled "Slaves" of season one of the American crime drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered in the United States.^[1] In one scene of the episode, the character Elliot Stabler, portrayed by Christopher Meloni, puts psychological pressure on the character Randolph Morrow by commanding him to stand up and sit down several times to show that he is not in control (scene shown below).

You like beating up women? Huh, tough guy? Stand up. Sit down. Stand up. Stand up. Sit down. Sit down! Now who controls who?

On July 9th, 2020, an anonymous 4chan user posted a still frame of Stabler screaming at Morrow from the scene to /tv/,^[2] captioned with a misquote in which Stabler accused someone of having sexual relations with someone who was one second below the age of consent (18). On August 14th, 2020, an anonymous 4chan user made another post of the same meme on the /tv/^[3] board (shown below), with screenshots of that post being widely circulated in the following months.

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On January 5th, 2021, Redditor StareOut posted a Political Compass version of the meme titled, "In light of the new callmecarson drama," that garnered over 9,500 upvotes in /r/PoliticalCompassMemes^[4] three years (shown below).

In 2023 and 2024, the meme saw extensive use online, most notably on X / Twitter, as a reaction format. For example, on May 25th, 2023, X^[5] user @ShitpostRock used a version of a meme to reply to a post about "a 23 year old postminor dating a 5'2'' minor-coded 25 year old," with the post garnering over 1,500 reposts and 20,000 likes in one year (shown below, left).

On February 8th, 2024, X^[6] user @LookAtMyMeat1 used the reaction image to reply to a post critical of relationships between short women and tall men, with the quote post garnering over 3,800 reposts and 57,000 likes in five months (shown below, right).

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