You should learn how to accept a compliment and realise change is happening.
But, it is hard to see it from the inside of the phenominon without years of practice. Human nature is to resist change in favor of the memories of what was a good time even if the factors driving the good time are diverging away. Change happens with you or to you no matter how agressively you defend the memory. Tradition is how a group who evolves with change maintains the past into the future.
Some squad at some time in this game gets a bad name and derisive variations of it. Eventualy the game moves past them and the next squad down the path gets their 15 minutes of strange fame while their members move on with their lives. This too will pass and become a part of the collective history of the game. Some events in the games history have left us with game meme's good and bad. I suspect vTard will be part of the game fabric for some time and not equal "wow what a hot stick" when uttered at a future player. Fortunately only a few will even remember the word or it's connotation prefering a neative meme from our larger cultural group like eh@le.....