The Death of the Teabag?

[Casbahthegrey]

As a gamer of some mediocre skill and a frequent attendee of LAN cafe' type places I have come into contact with that strange phenomenon "The Tea Bag".
I'm sure everyone on this forum knows what it is and it's intended effect.

Lately I have been attending my local place of gaming worship more frequently as I have recently found myself with strange amounts of free time in the afternoon and I have been playing games such as COD4 online, I have noticed something as you may have guessed from the tittle of this thread: No one has been tea bagging me. This could easily be attributed to COD4's fast and furious game play where teabagging the body of a fallen enemy would probably lead to your death as the act eats up valuable duck and cover time. But as I moved into other games such as World At War, DOD (source), Team Fortress 2 and Unreal Tournaments various incarnations I found them all devoid of that strange and silly action.

Teabagging has never really annoyed me or even phased me, academically I understand that it is meant to be a tremendous insult; emasculating and crude, it's decline in a digital world where anonymity causes people to act and play as complete dickwads surprises me.
Has anyone else experienced this or have any comments on the act itself?

 

[Hazy]

Perhaps people are hurrying it up for fear of getting gunned down?
I haven't been "Bagged" in a while, and in games like Unreal Tournament, you're dead if you don't keep moving.

I personally only TeaBag my friends in COD 4 while they're in last stand. And very rarely in Halo.

 

[HardRockSamurai]

Teabagging really isn't a problem in my opinion. Sure, when you play online, it's crude and borderline annoying, but if it's a substitute for a 13 year thrash talking through his head set, I'll take it.

Incidentally, it's funnier when you're playing with friends locally.

 

[BakaSmurf]

I've noticed a notable decline in the act of tea-bagging lately too. I have no idea what cosmic force is causing this silly act to stop, but it's certainly welcome (Unless it's the same cosmic force that's turning Activision into an evil super company, it can go die in a hole if that's what it is).

 

[Casbahthegrey]

I've noticed a notable decline in the act of tea-bagging lately too. I have no idea what cosmic force is causing this silly act to stop, but it's certainly welcome (Unless it's the same cosmic force that's turning Activision into an evil super company, it can go die in a hole if that's what it is).

Amen

 

[ElephantGuts]

I haven't seen tea-bagging in a while too. But that might be because I've been playing a lot of Battlestations: Pacific. Ships can't teabag other ships. That is why they make for the most respectful form of warfare.

 

[latenightapplepie]

I still get it reasonably frequently on Halo 3. It irks me to no end. If indeed it is on the decline, I am quite pleased.

 

[LitigationJackson]

i pretty much only play TF2 now, and since the game is objective based, rather than a straight up deathmatch, i generally have better things to be doing.

but in gta 4 dm, i teabag a plenty

 

[One Seven One]

i think it's because in such games as COD or TF2 when you get killed you don't watch over your body and the kill cam isn't long enough for you to watch being teabagged, but in games such as halo, you have a while to respawn and bungie made sure teabagging was more humiliating (your head kind of sticks to the crotch a little bit when you come back up)

but their are cases that they take it to a more annoying level such as in COD when your enemy is the last man standing in a match of search and destroy and all he has to do is defuse the bomb, they show off their mod and teabag all the dead bodies around the bomb,

Spoiler: which actually remind me of a funny story

it was match of COD4 and the previous round one person was left alive and all he did was shoot the bomb and teabag the dead bodies, so i decided that when the bomb was planted i would place a C4 on it, it kind of missed and was put in an obvious spot which made it even more humiliating when he shot it and lost his team the round. (he probably shot it thinking it was one of those fake C4s people throw during search)

 

[olee12343]

Martyrdom got rid of the teabag. Thank IW.

 

[EOT]

One of the reasons tea-bagging is not so prevalent in CoD4 is because of martyrdom. Te-bagging the fallen becomes a less attractive option to your local idiot when he is likely to recive high velocity shrapnel up his virtual jacksie.

 

[SimpleChimp]

Its cause martyrdom! That and halo still uses the tea bagging.

I only ever tea bag when i kill a camper who i know has been camping all game.

 

[sneakypenguin]

I teabag 2 times before I stab someone in the back in cod4. That or zoom in on the back of their head and hold it a sec before I shoot. That said I do see an absence of it in online MP games.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

I teabag in COD4. Especially when I have time to diffuse the bomb in Search and Destroy and I am the last man.

 

[Casbahthegrey]

By the wayside I am certainly not an advocate of the teabag and would discourage any and all from taking part in this unseemly activity. It's just really immature and a really bad insult, worse even than whiny little homophobes insulting my mother and her marital status at the time of my birth.
At least have the decency to insult my gaming skill or infer that because I'm so bad I am less of a man.

 

[13lackfriday]

Maybe all those 10-year-old's finally grew up.

Also, you hardly need it when you have such great tracking abilities on games nowadays (i.e., Player 1 is DOMINATING Player 2, Revenge kills, and of course, the BarbeQQ in TF2)

 

[Code Monkey]

An optomist would say that humanity is evolving, and growing more mature.
(Yeah, right.)

 

[TeaBaggin]

Spoiler

 

[MMMATT]

It's still prevalent on the Halo games, most likely because the crouch/stand combo in Halo (push left thumbstick in; release) streams far more naturally than in games such as Call of Duty (press B; press B again or press A).