Besides just being straight-up disrespectful and trying to gain a supposed upper hand in the most disrespectful, rudest, and most selfish way possible that creates a very unhealthy atmosphere, how else could tea bagging be interpreted?
I see it as a sign that the person who did it knows that I’m better than them. Nobody feels the need to celebrate a victory over somebody they think is beneath them. I just take it as a compliment and then do it back because I know it will trigger them since they wouldn’t have done it in the first place if they didn’t think it was meaningful.
First you have the upper hand, then they have the upper hand.
It’s a game of give and take, neither really pulling ahead, neither giving in to the other.
Finally, with one last shuddering breath, there is a victor. They t-bag, both to honor their fallen enemy, who at some point became so much more than that, and to show their ultimate dominance.
They met as enemies, they became equals, they look forward to when their two paths may cross again, on a different battlefield, in a different war, at a different time.
But while you take a moment to honor your slain enemy, you never hear the shot from the Widowmaker. And you join your enemy in eternal respawn.
(or you went 1v1 with a Mercy and you lost , she earned that t-bag :P)
p.s. I don’t t-bag. I’m just well past exhausted today, and this is what’s come of it.
It used to trigger me, and I don’t personally start the T-bagging battle, but if I see someone doing it to me for no reason, I assume they got tilted somehow.
So I respawn and continue where I left off while sipping their salty tears.