and it became more prominent in later first-person shooter games like 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. 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".