Halo: Combat Evolved. The use of teabagging is now widespread in video game culture, although some gamers consider it to be an act of bad sportsmanship or harassment. The act courted much controversy across June and July 2022 when two professional female Valorant players received suspensions by Riot Games for criticizing people who had compared the act to sexual assault. In addition to the suspensions, the players were also doxxed and faced real-world consequences. The suspensions caused outrage in much of the Valorant and wider internet community, with various commentators calling the comparison to real-world sexual violence as “out of control” and “absurd”. The player known as Dawn, who received a three-month suspension for voicing her opinion, said of the situation: "I have watched [sexual assault] happen in broad daylight. It is not something you can compare to crouching in a video game. I was visibly upset by this, as were hundreds of thousands of people, and replied under her thread expressing my frustrations and concerns." Social ridicule and harassment Teabagging is not always carried out consensually, such as when it is done as a practical joke, which, in some jurisdictions, is legally considered sexual assault or sexual battery. It has been practiced during hazing or bullying incidents, with reports including groups holding down victims while the perpetrator "shoved his testicles in [the victim's] face" or puts his "crotch to his head". See also Swaffelen Turkey slap Kanchō References External links Oral eroticism Practical jokes Sex- and gender-related slurs Scrotum Sexual acts Sexual slang