I don't think these types of status updates (even automated ones) even originate in gaming contexts. "Currently listening to {song title}" has been a part of am

I don't think these types of status updates (even automated ones) even originate in gaming contexts. "Currently listening to {song title}" has been a part of ambient status displays in IM interfaces since back early in the ICQ days. I've known people in office settings automate their IM status (back to at least Lync/Skype for Business before Teams) to say things exactly like "making a presentation" or "busy coding", whether for fun or for micro-managing bosses or nagging coworkers hoping to digitally "peak over their shoulder". Making it opt-out versus opt-in is maybe "gaming context-related" as Xbox and PlayStation both have opt-out versions on their own social networks. But the existence of detailed and automated status messages certainly isn't new from "gaming contexts".