HomeWorldOlympicsRaygun sends heartbreaking message after Olympic Games disaster as viral breakdancer addresses wild conspiracy theory in wake of Paris performance
I really feel like Australia made a massive mistake by doing basicallly no due dillegence and have botched every aspect of how this was handled from beginning to end. Gun should never have been allowed on that stage and if anyone had a brain they would have quietly walked away from this without saying another word on the matter.
Just take the L, shut up about it and go the fuck home.
An underrated point – pun unintended: as Raygun points out, there are no points in breaking. Rounds are awarded based on majority decision. The “points’ displayed on the screen shows the split. Anyone facing a much more experienced opponent can lose by unanimous decision in every round.
The sliding scale on the scorecards *do* show that she lost each round by a significant margin, which is clear for us to see. But there are no points.
This has gone too far, and it’s wild that people from her own country is literally lighting up this whole thing as if they want the whole world to see just how salty they are.
It’s just disturbing that they just can’t build a damn bridge and get over it.
Everyone needs to chill. Most people didn’t even watch her rounds/routine. 99 percent of the people sharing memes didn’t even watch her dance – they just saw memes designed to make her look as bad as possible. Stop the online bullying. Laugh about it once if you think it’s funny and move on. People constantly sharing memes, commenting on her IG profile, making mockery videos of her are pathetic
I genuinely feel somewhat bad for her. Tbh I think she actually did her best. Some of her moves, the ones that don’t get shown, are alright. And really, who in their right mind goes out there dressed like that to intentionally fail spectacularly on an international stage.
I feel bad for her. She is getting way too much hate. The comments in her instagram are so nasty.
There are horrible performances in all sports. In most cases it doesn’t look that funny. In the men’s high jump there were 3 competitors that didn’t have a single successful attempt. The entry standard was 2.33 and these 3 guys failed at the first height of 2.15.
Yo Raygun just turn off your phone and clock out for a few months straight up, only way you make it through this without mental health issues
Let this bullshit die. She came she burned. End of story.
She wanted attention. She got it
Raygunn is just mad that that points in breakdancing symbolize the neoliberal late stage capitalism colonial aspect of contemporary judged breakdancing
Eddie the Eagle for the 2024 Games. She should just own it.
This shit is getting old. It was a good laugh when it first happened but now it’s just dog piling. She chose a bad routine, but that doesn’t mean there’s some corruption on how she got there.
Personally, I care more about why the Dutch sent child rapist Steven Van de Velde than a dancer who shit the bed.
I think it’s fair to dunk on her performance for being a lil goofy and out-of-place, but if you want to get pilled go check out her Instagram, it’s pretty fucking vile. I honestly think she will be positively remember a decade from now as someone who was out of their league but tried their best, and got absolutely disgustingly mogged by an internet mob for it
This was all i saw when i saw the video
Naaah i have just rewatch all of her 6 rounds and i cannot believe her. She was not 100% serious. The point is she was not just a bad breakdancer and finished last of 16. She was not even trying. Barely two or three moves looked like breakdance and anybody healthy could do it.
For her last round she starts with the Kangaroo jumps, that’s such a troll. Other girls were damn serious and focused. At every round she try to to motivate the crowd in an over the top way in comparison of other girls.
I am convinced she really knows she was just trolling
Here’s always the issue with this kind of thing…
Does this person deserve to get made fun of some? Yes. She stepped onto the world competition stage completely unprepared for the level of skill required and seemingly held herself out as a scholar of breakdancing.
But… the internet now allows everyone with an internet connection to make fun of this person and that accumulates to a disproportionate response.
On top of that, the world is full of maladjusted psychos who then always take this shit too far and literally try to bully the person into submission.
It deserves a “heh wow bro that’s fucking crazy hehehe” and that’s it.
Instead it turns into a firestorm of absurd proportions.
I don’t hate someone because I’m shocked about their complete lack of self-awareness.
I honestly don’t give a fuck that she “gave it her all”. Olympians sacrifice so much and work so hard to be there, just to share the stage with a complete rank amateur as if their efforts are equal in value and meaning. However, sending people hate messages on social media is pretty deranged. She’s a 36 year old woman I am sure she can come to her own conclusions as to what to make of her performance without the help of forever online brainrot brigade.
What she did is exactly the same as someone showing up to Judo and deciding “Eh, I’m going go to do karate instead. It’s the same right? I’m going to give it my all though!”
Just read her 2017 thesis, which suggests that she was against breaking’s inclusion in global competitions as the formalized stage would dilute breaking’s localized, cultural roots.
After being a break dancer for 12 years, she went out on the global stage and made a mockery of breakdancing, looking like a novice with no understanding of what breaking is as if to exemplify the point she was making in 2017 against this scale of competition.
Hot miked : ‘ what we’ve just seen is one of the most insanely idiotic things I ever. At no point in your fumbling, epileptic moves were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational Bdance. Everyone in this stadium is now dumber for having seen this. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.’
Her IG is vile, so much hate.
But i’m seeing a lot of “you politicked your way into the Olympics”, “what do you have to say to the people whose opportunities you stole”.
What’s that about?
I really don’t blame her but idiotic people who let her dance.
Truth is she just isn’t good enough and it’s okay to be honest while acknowledging she did her best ( wasn’t very good lol), but to be fair compared to many average people she could dance, but for the Olympics you have to be elite.
I even saw last videos and she just doesn’t seem elite compared to others.
But it’s why breakdancing never should’ve been a sport. Breakdancing is just a more physical singing competition. We see bad singers all the time who even make it far in singing competitions like American idol.
She just wasn’t good enough and I feel for her as a person and she has worked hard but sometimes you aren’t good regardless.
Whoever was sort of the process in Australia need tocbe held accountable. You have to have a set criteria that makes it known who should be in the Olympics.
Success in sports is a vital element in Australian identity and its place in the world. Raygun getting zero points is what is driving the rage. With a PhD, she also does not fit the aussie battler stereotype.
If we care for her mental health honestly should just downvote these breaking posts and let it die already. I’d rather see more posts celebrating victories that didn’t receive attention
She strikes me as the type who knows to touch grass. Just let it all go. You shot your shot on expressive dance; let the hate die off lack of response and go on to greater things.
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I really feel like Australia made a massive mistake by doing basicallly no due dillegence and have botched every aspect of how this was handled from beginning to end. Gun should never have been allowed on that stage and if anyone had a brain they would have quietly walked away from this without saying another word on the matter.
Just take the L, shut up about it and go the fuck home.
An underrated point – pun unintended: as Raygun points out, there are no points in breaking. Rounds are awarded based on majority decision. The “points’ displayed on the screen shows the split. Anyone facing a much more experienced opponent can lose by unanimous decision in every round.
The sliding scale on the scorecards *do* show that she lost each round by a significant margin, which is clear for us to see. But there are no points.
This has gone too far, and it’s wild that people from her own country is literally lighting up this whole thing as if they want the whole world to see just how salty they are.
It’s just disturbing that they just can’t build a damn bridge and get over it.
Everyone needs to chill. Most people didn’t even watch her rounds/routine. 99 percent of the people sharing memes didn’t even watch her dance – they just saw memes designed to make her look as bad as possible.
Stop the online bullying. Laugh about it once if you think it’s funny and move on. People constantly sharing memes, commenting on her IG profile, making mockery videos of her are pathetic
I genuinely feel somewhat bad for her. Tbh I think she actually did her best. Some of her moves, the ones that don’t get shown, are alright. And really, who in their right mind goes out there dressed like that to intentionally fail spectacularly on an international stage.
I feel bad for her. She is getting way too much hate. The comments in her instagram are so nasty.
There are horrible performances in all sports. In most cases it doesn’t look that funny. In the men’s high jump there were 3 competitors that didn’t have a single successful attempt. The entry standard was 2.33 and these 3 guys failed at the first height of 2.15.
Yo Raygun just turn off your phone and clock out for a few months straight up, only way you make it through this without mental health issues
Let this bullshit die. She came she burned. End of story.
She wanted attention. She got it
Raygunn is just mad that that points in breakdancing symbolize the neoliberal late stage capitalism colonial aspect of contemporary judged breakdancing
Eddie the Eagle for the 2024 Games. She should just own it.
This shit is getting old. It was a good laugh when it first happened but now it’s just dog piling. She chose a bad routine, but that doesn’t mean there’s some corruption on how she got there.
Personally, I care more about why the Dutch sent child rapist Steven Van de Velde than a dancer who shit the bed.
I think it’s fair to dunk on her performance for being a lil goofy and out-of-place, but if you want to get pilled go check out her Instagram, it’s pretty fucking vile. I honestly think she will be positively remember a decade from now as someone who was out of their league but tried their best, and got absolutely disgustingly mogged by an internet mob for it
This was all i saw when i saw the video
Naaah i have just rewatch all of her 6 rounds and i cannot believe her. She was not 100% serious.
The point is she was not just a bad breakdancer and finished last of 16. She was not even trying.
Barely two or three moves looked like breakdance and anybody healthy could do it.
For her last round she starts with the Kangaroo jumps, that’s such a troll. Other girls were damn serious and focused.
At every round she try to to motivate the crowd in an over the top way in comparison of other girls.
I am convinced she really knows she was just trolling
Here’s always the issue with this kind of thing…
Does this person deserve to get made fun of some? Yes. She stepped onto the world competition stage completely unprepared for the level of skill required and seemingly held herself out as a scholar of breakdancing.
But… the internet now allows everyone with an internet connection to make fun of this person and that accumulates to a disproportionate response.
On top of that, the world is full of maladjusted psychos who then always take this shit too far and literally try to bully the person into submission.
It deserves a “heh wow bro that’s fucking crazy hehehe” and that’s it.
Instead it turns into a firestorm of absurd proportions.
I don’t hate someone because I’m shocked about their complete lack of self-awareness.
I honestly don’t give a fuck that she “gave it her all”. Olympians sacrifice so much and work so hard to be there, just to share the stage with a complete rank amateur as if their efforts are equal in value and meaning. However, sending people hate messages on social media is pretty deranged. She’s a 36 year old woman I am sure she can come to her own conclusions as to what to make of her performance without the help of forever online brainrot brigade.
What she did is exactly the same as someone showing up to Judo and deciding “Eh, I’m going go to do karate instead. It’s the same right? I’m going to give it my all though!”
Just read her 2017 thesis, which suggests that she was against breaking’s inclusion in global competitions as the formalized stage would dilute breaking’s localized, cultural roots.
After being a break dancer for 12 years, she went out on the global stage and made a mockery of breakdancing, looking like a novice with no understanding of what breaking is as if to exemplify the point she was making in 2017 against this scale of competition.
Hot miked : ‘ what we’ve just seen is one of the most insanely idiotic things I ever. At no point in your fumbling, epileptic moves were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational Bdance. Everyone in this stadium is now dumber for having seen this. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.’
Her IG is vile, so much hate.
But i’m seeing a lot of “you politicked your way into the Olympics”, “what do you have to say to the people whose opportunities you stole”.
What’s that about?
I really don’t blame her but idiotic people who let her dance.
Truth is she just isn’t good enough and it’s okay to be honest while acknowledging she did her best ( wasn’t very good lol), but to be fair compared to many average people she could dance, but for the Olympics you have to be elite.
I even saw last videos and she just doesn’t seem elite compared to others.
But it’s why breakdancing never should’ve been a sport. Breakdancing is just a more physical singing competition. We see bad singers all the time who even make it far in singing competitions like American idol.
She just wasn’t good enough and I feel for her as a person and she has worked hard but sometimes you aren’t good regardless.
Whoever was sort of the process in Australia need tocbe held accountable. You have to have a set criteria that makes it known who should be in the Olympics.
I, for one, love that [kangaroo](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-08/240812-rachael-gunn-breaking-wc-0813-309c36.jpg) photo of her and the judges in the background. It’s just so bad but so good at the same time.
Success in sports is a vital element in Australian identity and its place in the world. Raygun getting zero points is what is driving the rage. With a PhD, she also does not fit the aussie battler stereotype.
If we care for her mental health honestly should just downvote these breaking posts and let it die already. I’d rather see more posts celebrating victories that didn’t receive attention
She strikes me as the type who knows to touch grass. Just let it all go. You shot your shot on expressive dance; let the hate die off lack of response and go on to greater things.