Teabagging: Do You Find it Offensive?

[Zero Suit Roxas]

Every so often I come across players who feel the urge to teabag after they kill me or accidentally kill myself. One time an opponent found it fun to teabag every moment I was not close enough to attack him. If they do it I usually do it back at them to rub their confidence in their faces (which sounds creepy o_o). I don't ever do it if they didn't start it first.

It probably has something to do with For Glory, since I haven't ever seen people do it in For Fun. Being teabagged doesn't make me feel "glorious" when I compete in it.

Do you get offended by it? Do you do it back at them?

 

[Jiggly]

It's basically a taunt that unpunishable. I do it all the time and I never notice it anymore. I think that if you find it offensive, then you are too upset over what happened. It's nothing to be butthurt about anyways.

 

[Team Plasma N]

Teabagging is just weird imo. I guess it's offensive based on what it's implying, but I find that concept disgusting. It's not something I do, I prefer taunting. But I taunt anybody when I take a stock off them as a force of habit from the N64 days, I don't mean any insult by it. I just like seeing the character taunts. As for Captain Falcon, I must have any Captain Falcon player spam "Show ya moves!" taunt at me. It's the one taunt I absolutely love hearing.

 

[Zero Suit Roxas]

It's basically a taunt that unpunishable. I do it all the time and I never notice it anymore. I think that if you find it offensive, then you are too upset over what happened. It's nothing to be butthurt about anyways.

I don't get offended by it unless I do something dumb like I accidentally killed myself and they become proud for doing nothing.

 

[PartyHat]

I never took it as teabagging. Sometimes I think players use it to say hello at the beginning of a match because it's more safe then taunting.

The most offensive thing for me is if someone taunts at the beginning to say Hello, I taunt back in respond and that f***** attacks me in process.

 

[KoM]

I never took it as teabagging. Sometimes I think players use it to say hello at the beginning of a match because it's more safe then taunting.

The most offensive thing for me is if someone taunts at the beginning to say Hello, I taunt back in respond and that f***** attacks me in process.

Maybe that was his strategy and you fell for it, heh.

 

[genesis_SOC]

lol no not at all. Since you have limited taunts, you need to do something else. Besides it's also a form of communication or acknowledgment since like forever in Smash. It's not a real tea bag anyway like in other games because there's no dead bodies.

 

[Wintropy]

I've always taken it to represent bowing because I'm naive and innocent like that.

It's also a point of behaviour of mine that I never strike an opponent that's taunting, unless I happen to know the person well and am not taking the match too seriously.

 

[Zatchiel]

I've never seen someone teabag with the apparent intention of taunting me. When they crouch over and over again they usually want something from me, not to make me to feel silly. Like if the game is lagging badly we'll both stand there/crouch excessively/attack nothing to wait it out.

It is contextually dependent from my experience. I can tell what they mean without a doubt depending on when it happens or what precedes it.

 

[Darklink401]

I like crouching repeatedly. It's so pointless and yet conveys so much. I often do it when my opponent suicides and I SD as well to be a good sport. And sometimes just for funsies.

My friend laughs whenever I do it.

 

[Hayzie]

The CPU does it, why can't I?

 

[Darklink401]

The CPU does it, why can't I?

Exactly!

It also looks so funny.

 

[Kapus]

How could you get mad at Jigglypuff squishing up and down like that

the sound effects are adorable

 

[DunnoBro]

I find it very offensive. I also find video games, unbiased news, and the harsh light of the sun offensive as well.

 

[Darklink401]

How could you get mad at Jigglypuff squishing up and down like that

the sound effects are adorable

Oh hai


And I agree, Jigglypuff and Villager are so fun to crouch with~

 

[Orngeblu]

Are you kidding me? People actually refer this is "teabagging"?

That's not what it is, it's crouching. From my Brawl experience, it was the only form of communication online. One player would spam crouch in an attempt to say they're harmless, want to team up or taunt party. Like PartyHat said, it's essentially a greeting. You should take offense to it. I don't usually do it on For Glory, unless I find someone else who does it, and I catch on, I do some crouches too and then I use an aerial or any attack really, to signal that we should keep fighting. It ensures I know the player is friendly for sure.

And if I see someone SD, I actually hold crouch for a bit at the ledge, not out of disrespect, but because I know it was an accident. That doesn't mean I'll SD my stock, it depends on the percentage. If he SD's at 0%, I'll definitely SD a stock to make it even, but if we're say, above 80%, and he SD's, that would essentially be resetting the percentage. I don't like doing that.

Don't take it offensively, really, it's not meant to be.

 

[DunnoBro]

Are you kidding me? People actually refer this is "teabagging"?

It is similar though one must consider why "teabagging" is called what it is and why it isn't really applicable to how it's used in smash.

...Unless you're playing stamina mode :^)

 

[Meek Moths]

I always bag my teas, I thought it's normal to do so.

 

[Orngeblu]

How could you get mad at Jigglypuff squishing up and down like that

the sound effects are adorable

Don't forget Kirby. <3

 

[Darklink401]

Don't forget Kirby. <3

Right?

I also feel when characters like Little Mac crouch, they're pumping themselves up.

 

[Deleted member]

Nope. Maybe it's because I always taunt (even in serious matches), but I never have and never will find teabagging offensive.

 

[Kodachi]

i love doing this its basically saying "hi!" I also attack players who do it back as part of mindgames

 

[LOGIA666]

It all depends on how you view it. I teabag people on For Glory when they are too easy. Yes, it's meant to be offensive, and yes it's to humiliate them and put them in an uncontrollable rage.

Either they have a fit and leave, meaning they in no way attempted to actually get any better, weeding out those types of players, or they keep on regardless as a way to "show me their moves" and become better players as a result. I've actually gone from "Two Stock Tea Baggin' " to almost at my level just within the same five or six matches. Sounds like a win/win to me.

Every once in awhile, I'll get someone who teabags back, despite getting bopped, which irks me, because he basically did what the OP said and "rub their confidence in their faces" which is about right.

Honestly, I do it for fun in order to tease my opponent. I would never pull that stunt in person or even a friend online. I just do this from time to time to random individuals.

#Tb@g4lyfe

 

[Arrei]

Honestly, I find myself wondering how anyone could interpret repeated crouching as teabagging in a game with no corpses to teabag outside of Stamina Mode. I just like crouching with Pikachu for the boingy sound effects.

 

[GSM_Dren]

Meh I'm impartial to it, as it isn't necessarily a big deal as compared to taunting. I even do it from time to time just as habit, not intentionally to taunt someone.

 

[CyberHyperPhoenix]

I personally don't find it offensive, because I do it back to them anyway

 

[The Slayer]

Meh, it's not all that offensive to me. Just taunting me after I lose to stock due to the opponent's lag irritates me though. Really? Using an outside source that I can't control to jest? Shows how bad someone can be.

 

[TropicalTaco]

Offensive? No.

I do find it hilarious with Wii Fit Trainer, though.

 

[LF2K]

Not really offensive, just irritating.

 

[JingleJangleJamil]

I hate getting T-Bagged. If I am in a good mood I T-Bag back and proceed to destroy them (or at least try to),but when I am a bad mood I just SD on purpose and leave because I don't want to feel like an even worse player then I would feel at the time. I think I am a fairly good player,but when I keep losing a lot I can lose confidence and just quit play against them.

 

[solitonmedic]

When Ness' crouch, it looks like his head bucking to something metal, ha.

 

[Maluhky]

Oh hai


And I agree, Jigglypuff and Villager are so fun to crouch with~

I am laughing so hard at your default picture

 

[Pazzo.]

Do I find it offensive? No. Annoying? Yes.

But K.Oing them just becomes more satisfying.

 

[RelaxedUnicorn]

It all depends on how you view it. I teabag people on For Glory when they are too easy. Yes, it's meant to be offensive, and yes it's to humiliate them and put them in an uncontrollable rage.

Either they have a fit and leave, meaning they in no way attempted to actually get any better, weeding out those types of players, or they keep on regardless as a way to "show me their moves" and become better players as a result. I've actually gone from "Two Stock Tea Baggin' " to almost at my level just within the same five or six matches. Sounds like a win/win to me.

I accidentally deleted part of your text, but I couldn't disagree more, or hate you more. People who teabag to pissed people off are worse than the people who leave because they're mad. Why would you want people to be salt all the time, rather than just play the game better than them. Also, some people don't get better as soon as you said so each time your literally just making them angrier and angrier. I literally want throw my controller every time someone does it to me because I am literally just trying to get better, and when people rub it in my face that I'm not good it's the worst feeling ever. No, teabagging is offensive and isn't okay, especially if you are saying that people getting salty is bad, then don't teabag.