About teabagging culture in DBD

Since the update I rarely struggle as killer (as my main* I still have trouble learning new killers of course), but that's because my mmr was quite low to begin with. Now that it's gone up a bit, I'm starting to get more teams that actually power the gates or escape.

I rarely see genuinely toxic survivors. Most times if I run into teabaggers, either they die before the gates are opened because they're not actually that good at chases, or they let up on it when they see I'm playing chill.

Same, I'm sometimes running into extremely good survivors, that could loop me for days if I let them, and who manage Head On rescues and such, but they're rarely the kind to teabag or click. They're just better than me, but they're not being ######### about it, which I respect.

My friends often joke that I live in the good timeline... I'm not complaining haha !

t-bagging culture in DbD?

Does it have its own culture in FPS and fighting games that I can assure you is never an insult?

I don't think so.

I distinguish Teabagging for politeness (one or two slow squats) from Teabagging for humiliation (spam). The same thought applies to the nod of the killer's head.

The worst thing a survivor can do to the killer is crouch a couple times. The killer gets to literally murder the survivor.

Waiting at the exit gate is kind of annoying, but I don't mind it in other places. If you think you can loop the killer and want to taunt him into chasing you (and thus leaving your teammates free), go for it.

Context is important for "teabags", Since we have no real means of communication in the game I and most others use teabags was a way to say thanks after you get a heal from a team mate or as a greeting at the start of the match. When directed at a killer I'd say one or two teabags is the same if they give you hatch or let you escape, a nod works well in these situations too.

If you teabag after every pre-dropped pallet or the like the teabag is used aggressively, you want to taunt the killer and make them play worse. It can be considered a tactic but it's no less unsportsmanlike than a killer letting you bleed out rather than hooking or that hit you on the hook.

That said, if you did a clever play and teabag once or twice during the entire match as to say "Got ya!" it's the same as when you as killer give the annoying clicker or teabagger a few nods after you get them on the ground, it's not meant to be an insult just a way to convey that maybe you're not as bad as they thought.

Waiting at the exit when you've already won just to teabag the killer is worse than the rest though, it's only ever used to mock the killer, who can do nothing to change the outcome at that point, more often than not used by people that you got two hooks on early and then decided to go easy on as to not ruin their fun, often followed by "ggez" in the end game chat. It's immature and a waste of everyone's time. Even if you don't teabag, requiring that the killer watch you leave is only annoying and a waste of time.

Since you're not actually on top of the person when you do it it's not the same as the teabags of old FPS games. It's just quick crouches but the term teabag has come to just mean that.

Edit: Why do the forums keep eating my comments after I make small edits to fix grammar or typos? Last time it came back randomly, I hope it does now as well xD

Maybe you have personal rule when killer slaps you on a hook repeatedly and nod too?

It's hillarious how many are triggered by absolutely innocent actions. Remembering Dark Souls with all those point downs, poop throws and claps, today's kids would have probably had a heart attack.

I usually let last surivor go, one time I was against so called "toxic" team that brought offering, flashlight clicked, sabotaged and squatted constantly. I won the match (last two were slugged) and... let them go. And, surprise surprise, they said that I was a skilled killer (although I don't think I am) and in was very fun to play against me, gg and have fun.

Thanks for the info! I did just reach 100 posts like a couple of days ago but I've been on the forums for one year and one day today :P

Makes sense though, hope fully it'll stop soon enough or I'll just have to learn to properly proofread my posts before I hit that "Post Comment" button xD

Teabagging saps the horror movie energy out of the entire experience.

What kind of games are this, were it is not meant as an insult? i am really interested.

The thing is, you cant ignore the history of it. It was invented in shooters as a form of virtual ######### to insult and humiliate your fallen opponent. Sure, some people say its ok because it just virtual ######### and not real one, but i can´t find anything cute about it.

Sure, some people say its just people hitting the crouch botton several times, but by that standard racial or sexist slurs are also just letters written after one another.

Again, the intent counts.

What I read is: you wanted to taunt him and in the end you were successful. And then he paid you back in ingame coin.

Best reply. I see it the same way. It's not so serious to me when there is not really much other ways we can communicate in-game through emotes. Sometimes it's also just a fun way to interact with other players and have a laugh.

You wanted to give another person a breather by taunting the killer. The killer killed you for the taunt. I would have done the same. Good thing I play most of my matches as survivor and punish other mates for being toxic.

If you had "Head on" with you, you must have selected it before the match. Which survivors take "Head on" with them? Survivors who want to record a video with meme content, or toxic survivors who want to get on the killer's last nerve. Where is the video of the match? Oh, you don't have one? All right.

Teabagging as always been a way to troll your opponents since the original halo. We just didn't take it as serious as everyone does now. You would get bagged and be like alright you killed me and then move on.

Worse Thing is when u Play a weaker Killer and the Survivors Instant teabag you all the time becasue they know u ,most likely doesnt have a Chance against them

But then when u Play Nurse or Blight the same Survivors are Scared or DC 🤷‍♀️

The main difference between Minecraft and DbD is that the Enemy opposing the player is essentially an AI.

I understand that even in DbD, t-bagging is done at the start of the game as a greeting to an allied survivor. There will be no intent or context of insult there.

But would t-bagging be done against zombies, skeletons, or endermen?

Maybe in the case of streamers and Funny Moments, t-bagging could be done with DbD zombies, but that is different from the t-bagging culture being discussed here.

The killer in DbD is not an AI, there is a human inside that controls it.

If you fail to understand that the killer is also a player and t-bagging with a clear intent to ridicule, I despise it.

I don't think anyone is talking sophistry, but would anyone who does it on a daily basis t-bagging even against a tutorial trapper?

Your story just doesn't add up. You claim that you once used Head on and that the killer took that, and only that, personally. You claim to have chosen Head on for a daily. I have never seen a daily that calls for Head on. Then you claim to have helped a fleeing survivor. But Head on has a cooldown of 3 seconds until it is usable. If a survivor is unhooked and fleeing and you see the killer tunnels, you don't have time to jump into a locker and wait 3 seconds. The story didn't happen the way you want us to believe. And since you don't have a recording of the match, we can't figure out what really happened. I can't figure out what the truth is, and I'm less and less interested in making assumptions. 

So for me, I'll put an end to this communication here. As I said, your point that behind every survivor and killer sits a player with feelings is the most important one, and, if you like, you could do some soul-searching and examine your stance on that.

I love this community😘 genuinely interesting takes on pretty much anything