A toxic gesture is indispensable in shooters – now Valorant supposedly wants to ban you for it

A toxic gesture is indispensable in shooters – now Valorant supposedly wants to ban you for it

Tea bagging in Valorant could soon be a thing of the past. According to leaked information, Riot Games wants players in the future banned for tea bagging.

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  • Riot Games could ban players for tea bagging in the future.
  • The regulation would come into effect on July 1.
  • The duration of the ban for tea-bagging could range from a week to a year (depending on “how many times you ducked”).

According to the leaked info, if a tea bagging violation occurred, Riot Games would abandon the game and no one would emerge from the match as a winner or loser.

What is tea bagging? If you play online games, sooner or later you will probably be confronted with the gaming tradition of tea bagging. This happens a lot, especially in competitive shooters like Call of Duty and Halo Infinite.

Tea-bagging is a gesture used to humiliate a defeated opponent. After defeating an opponent, the player repeatedly crouches over the defeated corpse. Often directly above the other’s head.

Here you can read what tea-bagging means and why this gesture is made in games.

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Should tea bagging be banned?

What does the gaming community think of tea bagging bans? On reddit, user opinions on the subject of tea bagging are mixed. Many people argue for or against banning the gesture accordingly.

What do people who are against tea bagging bans say? There are those who complain that the rules are too strict and want to keep tea bagging as a gaming tradition. They see it as an essential part in MMO games and don’t see the gesture as an insult.

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They argue that tea-bagging is purely a game mechanic to annoy the other. Players liken it to killing the opponent in-game and it doesn’t compare to a real action either.

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What do people who support tea bagging bans say? Users who argue against tea bagging call the behavior childish, toxic, and abusive.

Since tea-bagging originally describes a sexual act, the question arises whether the gesture in the game represents a kind of “sexual assault”. After all, no consent is given for this sexual act by either party.

There is also a risk that people who have experienced sexual assault in the past will be triggered by tea bagging.

Discussions about tea bagging in games keep popping up – especially in the shooter Valorant.

A year ago there was already a discussion with the title “Is tea bagging really that bad?” in the Valorant reddit (via reddit). There were also different opinions in the community:

  • Blueberry Axolotl: It’s bad when you’re angry. When I’m not angry, I just wonder why the other person is being so toxic at random and laugh halfheartedly.”
  • MrEnzium: “People get triggered far too easily these days. It’s just playful banter. But a few people take everything so seriously and are so easily offended that they want it banned or report it as ‘offensive’.”
  • TenzenEnna: “I think there is a tendency towards more maturity in the communities. Some try to make the internet a balanced and welcoming place. You’ve already defeated the opponent, he knows he’s dead. No more reason to harp on about it.”
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What do you think about banning tea bagging in games in the future? Write it to us in the comments.

Another big discussion came when a new MMORPG in beta permanently banned a hacker.

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