Teabagging has been a gaming staple for at least two decades, but it’s back in the news again. That’s after Dilly was Apex Legends tournament organiser Fate Legion threatened to disqualify and permanently ban from Apex Legends Fate Legion tournaments for teabagging his own teammate. This was swiftly followed by what I can only describe as a Twitter rant from FPS streamer Gladd, whipping up the debate around teabagging – which has always swirled for as long as it has been a thing – back up again. There’s usually very little nuance to these debates, but I think in this specific instance, I stand in the middle and can offer a more measured view. The disqualification was silly and unnecessary, but I also feel Gladd’s tweet, which speaks to the loudest and most obnoxious attitudes in esports/online shooters, was equally silly and unnecessary. Sometimes teabagging is fine, and sometimes it’s bad, and it’s in this ‘sometimes’ where all logic and balance gets lost.
