Etymology

heated gaming moment

Today it means: An instance of a video gamer doing something offensive, such as saying a racial slur, in a moment of frustration or carelessness. Full definition →

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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".

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