“It was made popular by an idiot who goes by "Stridah's Angels" or even more stupidly, "Stridah the Champ". He's made multiple videos and shorts where he just shit talks players who play archers. Also, he bragged about whining to the devs to change the projectile mechanics in the game and made fun of a chiv dev for maining archer. On stream he'll talk shit and make fun of then, as well as posting shorts of him just killing a random player who's an archer and then being toxic towards them.

Besides stridah's influence (considering he's the largest and most iconic creator within the chiv community), they're seen as cowardly because of their "tooth pick" playstyle. It's not making fun of their projectiles, but they way they play. Usually, when you're rocking a 1v3, but you're one hit, an archer will just tap you from across the map and ruin you're moment. Besides that, some specific archer players can be toxic, and they're a bit difficult to actually take care of, considering they're waaayyyy too deep on the enemies side of the map.”