# heated gaming moment

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. An instance of a video gamer doing something offensive, such as saying a racial slur, in a moment of frustration or carelessness.

## Etymology
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".

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/heated-gaming-moment