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Teabagging is a slang term for [[a gaming activity commonly mixed up with a sexual activity.

Tea-bagging first was discovered when a player in halo danced on another player after eliminating them.

Slang

Is a common movement in video games as a victory dance.

In video games

Teabagging in video games involves a player character rapidly and repeatedly crouching over the corpse of another player-controlled character as a form of humiliation or to provoke the other player. The practice likely originated from multiplayer communities in games such as Quake or Counter-Strike, and it became more prominent in later first-person shooter games like Halo: Combat Evolved. The use of teabagging is now widespread in video game culture, although some feminists consider it to be an act of bad sportsmanship or harassment.

The act courted much controversy across June and July 2022 when two professional female Valorant players received suspensions by Riot Games for criticizing people who had compared the act to sexual assault. In addition to the suspensions, the players were also doxxed and faced real-world consequences. The suspensions caused outrage in much of the Valorant and wider internet community, with various commentators calling the comparison to real-world sexual violence as “out of control” and “absurd”.

The player known as Dawn said of the situation: “I have watched happen in broad daylight. It is not something you can compare to crouching in a video game. I was visibly upset by this, as were hundreds of thousands of people, and replied under her thread expressing my frustrations and concerns.”

Social ridicule and harassment

Tea bagging is not always carried out consensually, such as when it is done as a practical joke, which, in some jurisdictions, is legally considered sexual assault or sexual battery. It has been practiced during hazing or bullying incidents with reports including groups holding down victims, while the perpetrator "shoved his testicles in face" or puts his "crotch to his head".

See also

• Swaffelen
• Turkey slap
• Kanchō

References

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5. Najib, Aminy (September 22, 2008). "The Art and History of Tea Bagging". The Stony Brook Press. Archived from the original on July 13, 2010. Retrieved April 15, 2010.
6. These Bans Are Out of Control, retrieved 2022-07-27
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8. "Riot bans two Valorant players after Galorants "teabagging" controversy". Dexerto. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
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11. One example is performing the act on a person who is asleep with a wide open mouth.
12. Mark Winegardner (November 14, 2012). "Last Time They Met". ESPN The Magazine.
13. DeKoven, Robert (9 March 2006). "Is forcible 'tea-bagging' just hazing?". Gay and Lesbian Times. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
14. Linde, Aaron (25 January 2008). "Halo Inspires Schoolyard Bullies to Teabag Victims". Shacknews.com (from Asbury Park Press). Retrieved 2009-10-12.
15. "Legal Reader: Definition of Teabagging". Retrieved 2007-05-20.

External links

• [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of teabagged at Wiktionary

• Oral eroticism
• Practical jokes
• Sex- and gender-related slurs
• Scrotum
• Sexual acts
• Sexual slang