YMMV / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S16 E14 "Intimidation Game"

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• Harsher in Hindsight: The episode had scenes where we're shown a point of view from one of the attackers done up in a style similar to First-Person Shooters. People who mocked this episode certainly found the irony when on August 26th, 2015, disgruntled ex-reporter Vester Flanagan murdered his two ex-co-workers Alison Parker and Adam Ward and posted a video he shot in a first person view online.
• Memetic Mutation: Created the following:
  • "GO HOME, GAMER GIRL."
  • "They leveled up." The line is equal parts Narm and tastelessness to the point that it unintentionally Crosses the Line Twice.
  • "Prepare to be slaughtered" along with the K.O.B.S. mask in general.
  • "There is no reset button in real life."
  • The use of the phrase "darknet" (in lieu of the proper term deep web) is parodied often.
  • The K.O.B.S. taunts "LEVEL UP!" and "GAME ON NYPD!" gained traction pretty quickly.
  • The Captain Ersatz website Redchanit gained traction on Reddit and 8chan, with certain gaming-related subforums on both sites using the moniker as an Appropriated Appellation. Redchan.it even linked to an 8chan board for a time.
  • "I read on Kotaku that it the Amazonian Warriors game was better than Civ 5 with the Brave New World expansion pack!" The Product Placement-laden line inspired a bunch of snowclones.
  • "Where? Where does he play them!?" Delivered with the same urgency as "Tell me where the bomb is!" Or "Tell me about Bane! Why does he wear the mask?!"
  • The POV gun-aiming scene at the end of the episode has been photoshopped to include the settings and HUDs of popular FPS games.
  • Executive Producer: Dick Wolf is also mocked. After a whole episode about gaming culture, the phrase "Dick Wolf" ties into a certain meme from a popular video game webcomic.
• Narm:
  • Like so many crime shows before it, it tries to tackle video games and internet culture complete with video game-related one-liners ("They leveled up," the K.O.B.S. taunts in general ranging from "Prepare to be slaughtered" to "LEVEL UP!" and "GAME ON NYPD!" which are simply impossible to take seriously. And then there's the non-ironic use of "There is no reset button in real life"). The random first person camera perspective near the end meant to emulate a first person shooter just came across as jarring. Even better is that the episode's Downer Ending is followed by "Executive Producer: Dick Wolf", which is unintentionally hilarious in a video game context.
  • On a less serious note, Amazonian Warriors graphics are utterly horrible. The CGI is very basic, looks rushed, and not something you would expect from a highly anticipated game in-universe. It would have been better if the game was not shown, as the content of the episode can do without the viewer seeing it.
• Offending the Creator's Own: The infamous episode was created to stand in solidarity with women in the video game industry who have faced harassment from sexist fans, but ended up resoundingly panned by that exact demographic, due both to the things the game developer character in the episode goes through being so exaggerated from the real-life cases the story was based on as to wrap back around to almost comical and the fact although the episode ends with the villains captured, the victim still simply gives up, quitting her job and letting her abusers have the "win."

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