No, I'm saying there is a behavior. This behavior is linked with octopuses and fish that pair up for food gathering. It isn't random.

Trying to ascribe a human motivation to it in any way is just fantasy. Nothing wrong with that, per se. But it's shitty science, and the twit that published the original article the behavior was described in fucked up by engaging in imagination instead of good science.

"Spite" is no more or less likely than it being a bro punch. It could be a repositioning effort, it could be some other communication. It could be a necessary way of engaging some sort of neurochemical. We don't know. The last of those is the only one that can be empirically tested at all with current technology, and I'm not sure if there's enough background work done on the neurochemical makeup of the species involved to draw any useful conclusions with that possible testing.