I don't do it because it's not my style, but there are absolutely people who teabag and do shitty dances after a set specifically to get to the opponents. I feel like it's a valid strategy. If someone gets tilted from silly stuff like that, that's a weakness in their game that they likely need to address. We tend to play poorly when we're irritated or down on ourselves. One way to counter this, mentally, is to not attribute malice to the individuals doing the teabagging/gloating, but to see their actions as calculated moves on their part to attempt to make you play poorly, an attempt to eliminate a threat. It certainly helps me to just approach it as another method the opposing player is using to try to trip me up, rather than them just being an asshole. Post-match hate mail is something else entirely. That just deserves a block.

I hate games like Counter strike PvP that is just run around and kill as quick as possible it's not fun....and well that's D2... I avoid PvP as much as I can and I hate the fact I have to currently do it to level up can't wait till that grind is over... I have started just standing their doing emotes until the match is over now tho find that more fun that actually playing it lol

Honestly man if a virtual achievement means so much to some one that they further rub it in they probably arent getting any achievements in life. My best advice is to troll these ppl. Try asking if they want a girlfriend. Or say “good job you beat a girl” watch how fast attitudes change after that. Lol

I think you're dealing with a lot of young people who were never taught how to handle that competitive energy with any sort of class, respect or restraint. IOW....with "sportsmanship."

This game is trash

The whole game is abundant with narcissists.

Feeling superior for a moment when you rarely do in life. That's pretty much it. Its competitive nature. Which is essentially proving worth. This has always been around, even in gaming. The thing I've seen changed recently though is honor of victory. And I'm not talking about tea bagging. I'm talking about playing fair. In my day, if you used a glitch, or a "easy/unfair" set up or play style, you wouldn't gain respect from anyone around you. I am good at games. But I suck at mortal kombat type games. I cant combo. I dont know why. I cant. I always got my but kicked. But I never practiced either. One day I played a character in mortal kombat and did a leg sweep with 1 button. Super easy. Turns out I was able to essentially use that move, knock them down, and use it again before they had a chance to get up and strike me. I just had to get the timing right. That part wasnt hard for me. From that point on, I was unbeatable, as long as I got that 1 knock down, I could repeat the same move over and over and guarentee a win. So my friends started doing the same thing, since it's all they could do to battle my cheap tactic. The game turned into something completely different. It wasnt fun anymore. We then agreed not to use that move to keep the game interesting and skill based even though I went back to losing. I didnt see myself as good by playing cheap. They didnt see me as good. I was using a cheap tactic and forcing others to use it as well to keep the game fair for them. When in reality, they were just better, and I wasnt using cheap tactics to keep it fair. That's the difference between then and now. Games have always had "cheap" unfair mechanics, weapons, and glitches. The more time goes one. The more I see masses using them and transforming games into something totally different. In my day, masses looked down on those players. Didnt grant them respect or praise. But today, people say, its playing "smart". Everyone wants the op gun. In cod. There was a grenade launcher attachment. It essentially guaranteed 1 or 2 kills every life. It was OP. Easy to use. It was the best attachment for players without thumbs. Yet you only saw maybe 1 or 2 players using it on a team of 6-8. Why? Because there was no challenge. It didnt make you feel good. It felt cheap. If people had used it the way we use op things today....cod would have never been popular. It would have been renamed noob tube duty. I would have stopped playing if it's all I ran into. But when everyone around you uses it. It becomes almost impossible to play without using it as well. It's not just studios and game developers changing for the worse. So are gamers. I couldn't even use an auto in trials in d1, because of this concept. Only like the top 1% of players could use it effectively because 99% used snipers, shotguns, and hand cannons. It's so hard to balance games today, because of the players.

I play a decent amount of crucible (I'm of average skill) and I rarely encounter people like this. Maybe you mean people being silly with their emotes after winning or killing you, but that's a game mechanic that probably isn't going anywhere. I don't do it (because emotes are a bit dumb) but I realize they're just part of the game. One time time, about two months ago, I was running solo in Control match on Burning Shrine and we won. I managed, without trying very hard, to pick up heavy ammo about three times allowing me to rocket the crap out of folks camped out in territory 2. Territory 2 on Burning Shrine is basically fish in a barrel, but after the game someone sent me a message saying something like "great job camping rockets highly skilled person!" I replied "THANKS" and moved onto the next match. People do take this stuff very seriously sometimes, but it doesn't mean you have to. It's leisure time, which is rare for most of us, so try to make the best of it by not letting the lowest common denominator bother you as much. It doesn't matter.

It's a gaming wide phenomena, tbh I think there is a bit of a lost art to trash talking. Over this past gen and on the later part of the previous gen ya just get cookie cutter swears and cussing. Its lazy A.F . Hell I reckon if ya gonna talk smack at least be inventive with ya insults 😂