Teabagging is in danger

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

Well maybe you will get in trouble with teabagging in the future…..

A debate sparks among gamers about whether the act of 'teabagging' can be considered sexual assault given its context in online gaming.

In online gaming, there are more than a few ways in which players can mess with their opponent. One of the most common ways a player can jokingly troll their opponent is through "teabagging." For the uninitiated "teabagging" is a gaming term that involves one player, usually in an FPS or fighting game, rapidly crouching over their defeated opponent. It is assumed that the practice began somewhere around the era of Quake or Counter-Strike in 1999, but "teabagging" truly spread across the gaming community with the release of Halo: Combat Evolved.

Now, over 20 years since "teabagging" began as a practice, some gamers are debating whether it should be considered a controversial action. Specifically, some believe that "teabagging" counts as sexual assault. To some, "teabagging" has been seen as a controversial act, and it was banned from a Killer Instinct tournament in 2017.

The conversation was sparked on Discord, when one user joked about being a "serial offender" when it came to "teabagging." Some found this joke to be unfunny and to be making light of a serious issue like sexual assault. Since screenshots of the Discord conversation broke out online, gamers all over social media have been weighing in with their thoughts. Some big names, like popular streamer MoistCr1TiKaL, have decided that "teabagging" does not count as sexual assault.

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Others are firmly in the belief that the act should not be used in games and at the very least counts as sexual harassment, if not full assault. Still, "teabagging" is a practice that will likely remain prevalent in gaming. Even outside of video games, it seems that "teabagging" is considered more of a celebratory move than it is a controversial one. In late 2021, an NFL player was seen celebrating after a sack with a "teabag." So, unless the internet was to unilaterally decide against the act of pressing the crouch button repeatedly after killing an opponent, it seems that "teabagging" will stick around.

In the world of gaming, developers have even promoted "teabagging." Call of Duty: Warzone revealed a "teabag" finisher move back in 2021, and following a nerf to the act in Overwatch, that saw players unable to stand over their opponent after they were hit with Ana's Sleep Dart, the developers at Blizzard quickly changed the ability so that players could once again "teabag" at their own discretion.

https://gamerant.com/video-game-teabagging-sexual-assault/amp/

[Defenestration]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i1T6Ts3V9ZY

[GhostyOsty]

Originally posted by GageTheSpartan:

Originally posted by GhostyOsty:

Eh, I'll just check out a Lenny in chat. Or is it harassment to do so?

No, the chat is getting banned right after!

Gasp! Wha--at about... Voice CHAT?! Will I be banned because someone didn't like my EPIC gamer insult, that I don't like the Counter-Terrorist team because I'm opposing against them?!
Oh golly, I might not even be allowed to move ingame because it makes fun of people who are paralysed! Am I even allowed to play FIFA or is that also insulting people who are overweight that cannot play the game in real life?!

This surely has hit my broken, and endless brain thinking.

[HarleyIsntReal]

Originally posted by GhostyOsty:

Originally posted by GageTheSpartan:

No, the chat is getting banned right after!

Gasp! Wha--at about... Voice CHAT?! Will I be banned because someone didn't like my EPIC gamer insult, that I don't like the Counter-Terrorist team because I'm opposing against them?!
Oh golly, I might not even be allowed to move ingame because it makes fun of people who are paralysed! Am I even allowed to play FIFA or is that also insulting people who are overweight that cannot play the game in real life?!

This surely has hit my broken, and endless brain thinking.

You don't understand! They're already planning to take away our GAMING CHAIRS! Oh, the horror!

[UmmUmBurst]

Like.... how do people get through life if they can't handle pvp. I don't understand it.

People missing out on all the fun matches, making buddies, etc....

[Alaskan Catfish Hike]

When we were in school, they started with “if you look at someone for more than three seconds it is harassment.”
Of course everyone went “one, two, three harassment.”

[Morkonan]

Originally posted by GageTheSpartan:

Originally posted by GhostyOsty:

Damn, now what am I going to do when I kill someone with a random critical hit?!?!?!

...Maybe we can still shoot their bodies. That's the alternative everyone seems to use.

Huh. Wonder why tbagging would be focused on but not shooting corpses.

Or... just killing people.

How many gamers complain that they were murdered IN REAL LIFE in their Murder Hobos game? Well, since they all joined the game session to murder each other... I guess that's alright?

People can be harassed in video games - This is true. Does it graduate to the level of "We should have a Civil Rights movement to stop harassment in vidyo gaemez? No.

Online harassment exists. Sure. But, one has a lot more solutions than someone being subjected to such a thing in "real life." That doesn't mean such harassment should occur, only that its a far cry from something needing a Civil Rights Movement level of response. Just log off, change your NIC, complain to the host, stop using furry-porn avatars, join another group... For crying out loud, it ain't that darn difficult. It's not like being prevented from using the bathroom or the same water fountain as everyone else and being put in jail for trying to buy a cup of coffee at the "wrong" place...


We are not doing well at all with dealing with the social impact of Teh Interwebz. Not at all. Too many people see this thing as "real life" and it has few to none of the evolved social support systems and responsive dynamics that have been in-built into human societies for many thousands of years.

IMO, this is one of the most concerning and major social and psychological development problems in the world facing this generation of human beings. I am very worried about how dysfunctional many young people appear to be due to this problem. They... grow up "here." It's their "world." They literally are forced to raise themselves here, online, in a world that is not real. And, this world is very much not like "real life." It's not even close. It's a hamstrung, broken, amorphous, mutant thing.

Anyway, just another pointless comment. /sigh

[GhostyOsty]

Originally posted by GageTheSpartan:

Originally posted by GhostyOsty:

Gasp! Wha--at about... Voice CHAT?! Will I be banned because someone didn't like my EPIC gamer insult, that I don't like the Counter-Terrorist team because I'm opposing against them?!
Oh golly, I might not even be allowed to move ingame because it makes fun of people who are paralysed! Am I even allowed to play FIFA or is that also insulting people who are overweight that cannot play the game in real life?!

This surely has hit my broken, and endless brain thinking.

You don't understand! They're already planning to take away our GAMING CHAIRS! Oh, the horror!

NOOO NOT MY GAMING CHAIR!!
Wait, I think they're at my door, the bad guys dressed in white suits. HOLY CRACKERS they've liquidised the security door, and consumed the wooden front door! I gotta run; they grabbed my Gaming chair, my keyboard, my mouse pad, my BED! My... birth certificate?! What the hell. Oh my lord, I think that's the president of the United States of America! Hold up, he claims that he's Teddy Roosevelt. He just pulled out his ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ revolver. And he shouts "taste this ♥♥♥♥♥" as he shoots the bad guys right in the face. "I'm also a gamer, ♥♥♥♥♥." As he reloads. I'm in shock.

Omg this truely is a gamer moment.

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if we ever want to see esports as real sports, we must let certain things sink into collective consciousness. of course this necessity doesn't mean that virtue can be enacted. many are going, "ha ha, fingertips go tap tap tap on touchscreen", but if sports (especially team sports) ever was a virtue, miscommunication is companion of defeat.

[The nameless Gamer]

Originally posted by Pudge:

Originally posted by The nameless Commander:

And nothing shall be missed. It's a shame that civil and polite behavior needs to be enforced to begin with. It doesn't hurt to be nice.

i think this type of behaviour is important in games. without trolls and toxicity online games would be much less entertaining. it really makes a moba match much more fun to me when there is some trashtalking and conflict either between teammates or teams

I don't know what's entertaining about team-mates adding insult to injury by flaming a player for getting outplayed. It's why I quit MOBAs as a genre. Instead of telling me what I did wrong, I was told to go kill myself for being outplayed and that didn't exactly help me become a better player.

[The nameless Gamer]

Originally posted by Dracoco OwO:

Originally posted by Pudge:

i think this type of behaviour is important in games. without trolls and toxicity online games would be much less entertaining. it really makes a moba match much more fun to me when there is some trashtalking and conflict either between teammates or teams

Honestly also that's their fault if they fall for the bait too, teabagging can have that startegic effect on crybabies losing their temper making them lose or fall for traps easier.

Taunting a downed opponent is not strategy, it's bad sportsmanship.

[UmmUmBurst]

Originally posted by The nameless Commander:

Originally posted by Dracoco OwO:

Honestly also that's their fault if they fall for the bait too, teabagging can have that startegic effect on crybabies losing their temper making them lose or fall for traps easier.

Taunting a downed opponent is not strategy, it's bad sportsmanship.

It's hilarious is what it is. It's not a sport. It's a game.

[Lemale]

Obviously trolls here think it’s bait. They aren’t real gamers anyway

[Gabe Yukon]

Players did indeed tea-bag in Counterstrike back when it was a mod of Half Life and I assume that's where it began. It was a "cultural" thing; almost no one did it but then there were a few servers where everyone did. I never understood why people did it in CS. You were basically hoping that the player you killed would immediately go into observer mode and tab over to your character to see that they were tea-bagging your corpse, and often it resulted in the tea-bagger getting killed. You basically had to commit to tea-bagging the guy you killed and just stand there and do it until someone killed you in order to have the best chance of whoever you killed seeing you doing it. Was never my thing but to each his own.

It's safe to say it did not begin in the original Quake. There was no crouching action in that game, and there was observation period, or observer mode, or really any way for the player you killed to see what you were doing.

If you get offended by what someone is doing in a video game, be that tea-bagging or otherwise, go cry to your mother. And you need your ass kicked. If you believe that tea-bagging in a video game is sexual assault you're just wrong, and that's the end of it.

[crunchyfrog]

Well it's not sexual assualt and cannot be as the law is pretty obviously clear - there's no physical contact and there's anonymity.

It would fail in both senses right off the bat.

Is it bad or insulting? Sure. It's pretty stupid and childish and drastically unfunny and tired.

Personally, I'd treat anyone who did it as anyone annoying or edgy in game - block them and move on.

Teabagging is dumb behaviour and to say "It's in danger" is a GOOD thing.

[ZZZZZ]

guess its time to sexual assault some fellow gamers ingame