# Teabagging Teabagging, also called corpse-humping, is the gaming griefing act of repeatedly crouching over a downed opponent's body to mock them. Borrowed from a 1998 John Waters comedy, it took hold in Halo lobbies around 2001 and hardened into the default disrespect move across online shooters, eventually pulling mainstream press again during a PAX East scandal in 2018. ## Origin The 'teabag' euphemism was popularized outside gaming by John Waters' 1998 comedy Pecker, in a scene where a bar stripper is scolded for teabagging customers during her routine[4]. Players imported the term after Halo: Combat Evolved shipped on the original Xbox in November 2001, using it to describe the crouch-repeat taunt that the game's controls made trivially easy. The earliest public slang catalog entry came on April 10, 2005, when Urban Dictionary user Demon Phoenix 1337 submitted a definition covering both the sex act and Halo 2 trolling[3]. - **Platform:** Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox) / Urban Dictionary (slang codification) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2001 ## Overview The move works because most shooters map crouch to a single toggle, so mashing the button makes the winning player bob over the corpse like a dunking teabag[4]. Killcams and respawn timers force the loser to sit through the taunt, which is the whole point. From Halo to Call of Duty to modern battle royales, the gesture became shorthand for 'I owned you,' with no in-game reward beyond the psychic damage. The word itself points to the sex act of dipping the scrotum into a partner's mouth, borrowed by players in the early 2000s as a joke about what the on-screen crouching looks like[3]. Most studios treat it as emergent player behavior rather than punishable griefing, which is why the argument over whether it counts as harassment has run for two decades without a settled answer. ## How to Use The typical execution: kill an opponent in an online shooter, walk over their body, then rapidly tap the crouch button so your character bobs up and down over the corpse until they respawn. Killcams, spectator mode and death cams do the rest by forcing the loser to watch. It's common convention to reserve the move for particularly satisfying kills or personal rivalries rather than every downed enemy. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Teabagging? In gaming, teabagging is the practice of repeatedly crouching over a killed opponent's body to taunt them, mimicking the motion of dipping a teabag into a cup[3]. ### Where did Teabagging come from? The word was popularized by John Waters' 1998 film Pecker, then adopted by Halo: Combat Evolved players in 2001 to name the crouch-over-corpse taunt[4]. ### What does Teabagging mean? Outside games it names a sex act involving the scrotum and a partner's mouth; inside games it names the on-screen crouching taunt that mimics that motion[3]. ### How do you use Teabagging? Stand over a killed opponent and rapidly tap the crouch button so your character bobs up and down; killcams force the target to watch[2]. ### Is Teabagging still popular? It stayed part of shooter etiquette for two decades and pulled mainstream press again during the 2018 PAX East incident with journalist Amanda Farough[1]. ## References 1. [https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/09/man-team-killed-virtually-teabagged-female-journalist-shocking-game-rampage-7452093/]() 2. [https://www.giantbomb.com/tea-bagging/3015-142/]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabag]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/teabagging]() 5. [https://twitter.com/AmandaFarough/status/983297336049917952]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/teabagging Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library