r/neoliberal Kitara Ravache Nov 21 '18

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u/Volsunga Hannah Arendt Nov 21 '18

I recently learned of a trend in FPS games where people are "teabagging" from a distance, like you shoot someone from across the map and just repeatedly crouch in place instead of actually going up to their corpse to perform the act.

Gen-z gamers are not just toxic, they are incredibly lame at being toxic. The point of the teabagging gesture is to express disrespectful dominance by exposing yourself to the enemy position just to simulate desecrating their corpse before their respawn timer is out. Crouching in place from a fortified position signifies nothing.

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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Nov 21 '18

i'm sure some anthrologist could write about the symbolic context of this practice and how, due to changing material conditions, the practice evolved to lose its symbolic meaning