heated gaming moment
nounEtymology
Unintentionally coined by Ian Miles Cheong in a 2017 tweet defending YouTuber PewDiePie's use of the word nigger during a livestream of the video game PUBG: Battlegrounds, which asserted that he had merely done so in a "heated gaming moment".
Definitions
An instance of a video gamer doing something offensive, such as saying a racial slur, in…
An instance of a video gamer doing something offensive, such as saying a racial slur, in a moment of frustration or carelessness.
- Later that year, after he used a different slur while livestreaming a game, the phrase "heated gaming moment" entered the lexicon as an excuse for using derogatory language while livestreaming video games.
- Vertagear had a heated gaming moment on social media.
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