What a shit university actually. She should be stripped of her PhD. Another classical example of university being mostly meaningless. What a disgrace to Australian and global academia.
It's more sinister than that. She and her husband fraudulently imposed themselves into the mess, scamming taxpayers throughout their careers. They have made a pampered living by criticising "colonialism", that is, Whıte Australians - the very people whose taxes they have been scamming.
Looking at the faces of the audience that witnessed that...'performance (?!?)' is far more entertaining. They knew they were at something that would never see the like again.
Really? So it's her parents' fault? Where have all these experts been blocking her way to that stage of shame because of the obvious state of hers? You are all in Australia blaming it on her instead of trying to find how she got the ticket to find herself there??
You're right, but l actually don't think she's deluded, she and her lame ass goofy ass husband know in their souls that she shouldn't be there,which is worse than being deluded
@@chadjcrase If they tried to win that marathon by speed walking because they felt they couldn’t beat any of the others by running, and as a result finished entire minutes behind the second-to-last place, then yes I would be just as embarrassed by that performance. If you’re gonna resort to whataboutisms, at least make the comparisons equal to one another.
@@houseofbryks_I agree with them and I LIVE in France! Also France right now is in absolute turmoil here so I have ZERO idea why anyone would be jealous! What are you a Raygun simp? 😅
@@houseofbryks_ 🤔 you’re making less than no sense! Soooo DEFINITELY simping then! That’s what you find SO attractive that you’re willing to bleat all over the comments to a bunch of randoes? You know you’re screaming into a vacuum right? 😂 also why do you converse like a teenage Valley girl? 🤷♂️
I would be mortified to become a bad international meme and pulling my country [and family, and friends, an colleagues...] into the mess even if it means free vacations on Europe.
i'm a 62 year old white guy from the midwest USA i have never did breaking have seen it it is an art and an athletic feat and i believe i could of beat Raygun, she was a joke and manipulated her way onto the team
It’s not hate. It’s the truth that no one around you ever said to her. I am the friend and family member that will always say the truth because I want people to succeed. My girls have grown up very love, thriving, confident young woman that never cried cause they didn’t get a trophy. Raygun is the example of why not everyone should get a trophy.
@@esteban1487 well, that o can’t blame you. Though there’s another possibly that she kept funds from a program for a girls prop. So, it may turn to hate. lol
Except that no Australian - nor anyone else for that matter - had ever competed in this sport at the Olympic Games. This is a false narrative that anyone in Australia would ever have cared one way or the other about one's breaking skill. Even people in the 'scene' would not have cared whether she was any good or not; it just wasn't, and isn't, a part of our sporting culture.
I am accused of having no filter, and I am the one in my family who tells them the truth, so they don’t make a fool of them selves. If they don’t listen it’s on them, I did my part. 😅
1:18 - I wouldn't insult the Jamaican bobsled team like that. Bobsledding is a race, not something judged and won by points. Those guys knew they wouldn't win, but wanted to learn the sport and participate. They didn't make a joke out of the sport of bobsledding. Raygun single-handedly made a joke out of breakdancing, and ended it's Olympic future.
@@babyshaker8932 Read her thesis. Look at her interviews. She doesn't have a sense of humour at all. So definitely not capable off pulling off a big prank. Sadly, she's 100% serious.
i didnt know she is from hornsby, that is where i live, funny mr g went to barker college as well, its hard to believe, they have such smart uniforms and look so nice but now i see chris lilley was taking the piss out of his own school
Exactly my sentiments. Instead of talking about Australia's most successful Olympic campaign, this only added to an Olympic games full of controversies. Instead, it will be remembered as a viral event full of embarrassment. The worst part is her, her supporters, the Australian Olympic committee, even Albo thought she did OK, adding to the embarrassment. I even learned how to spell embarrassment properly because of this.
I think it's fair, Raygun should be under investigation on how she made it to the Olympics. Wether you call it hate? It actually isn't, it's being fair. You represented your Country in the worst possible way. Australia had to pay for your travel, accommodations and others. Now, Australia wants to know how on Earth you were the best person for the Job. Australia has the right to know? Of course, they paid for it.
My thoughts exactly…narcissistic in thinking she’s artistic. Almost anyone can perform those dumb dance moves. She dances like she’s drunk but she’s drunk with pride and ego.
The other half has a degree from Macquarie, in accounting. She's kinda embarrassed to mention that uni now, being quick to point out it's NOT in dancing.
@@DonTrump-sv1si exactly!!! i wish i could tell my colleague with a phd my honest opinion about her phd. but i need this job and i have to tolerate her. 😩 😉
@@WxkR As I've read elsewhere, she's been "break (sp?) dancing" for some 16 years. It was like me in golf; I could break 90 but 80 was unobtainable for me (but I had fun.) I played for 40 years and never got better.
Hell no. Even in the '60s it stood for "Piled higher and deeper." Can't get much higher than Gunn's PhD without it toppling over. At least she didn't plagiarize anyone; then again, who else has a PhD in break dancing?
Once something becomes a judged, competitive event, it ceases to become art. It's just doing precisely what others want and are expecting. I don't know about Gymnastics, but it may still be true there too.
She used to be reasonable, but got old. She admits she can't do the power moves and thought she could get away with 'interpretive dance ' instead. He Phd is totally bogus too.
i do not regard 'break' as a sport, let alone a serious one. but for to have any credibility it requires very high impressive levels of strength and athleticism similar to top gymnasts and arcobats to be displayed as shown at (5:11), otherwise its a joke. what she did was like 25 handicapper playing in the british open- an embarassing disgrace.
Her moves were geriatric. Even her older stuff was sucky chuck nuts. She can't even sweep.Molly should have gone. Her husband was no rhythm on the floor and he was her coach.
@@carissaf6909what? It’s an absolutely NOTHING qualification! Whilst studying for my physics PHD we would actively rip the absolute 💩 out of our friends doing “attend courses” Her so called PHD is an absolute joke! So NO it’s not off limits! You sound like someone who’s triple jabbed and thinks there’s a “patriarchy” Tell I’m wrong! 😂
@@carissaf6909 Nobody needs to "knock" her PhD. It knocks itself out. As a matter of fact, she knocked it out as utter cr@p after her less than stellar performance.
Raygun herself admits "I was never going to beat these girls on what they do best the dynamic and the power moves so I wanted to move differently be artistic and creative because how many chances do you get that in a lifetime to do that on an international stage" Goes on to call herself the Underdog and wanted to make her mark in a different way. So she was well aware that she didn't have the skills to beat the other girls so she thought feck it, I'm here now, might as well just pull any shat off and give it a crack cause near enough is good enough ay? lol 😆
Instead of making way for better young dancers, she took the spotlight for herself. Sad thing is it worked. She's now famous and will likely make a lot of money from that fame. That's why it's up to governing bodies to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen.
Just shows the state of our Education system when you can get a PhD in Break Dancing WTAF!!! She embarrassed the whole of Australia meanwhile we had a good laugh at her expense
PhD in breakdancing isn't unusual though. It's a topic on which information exists and thus one can compile, analyse, or share opinions on. That's not to say anything of her research's qualities ofc. And all that should qualify her for is to talk about it. Not to participate in a global competition on the subject of her research.
I thought someone was doing a parody of what her thesis would be. lolz. She's either a Kaufman level genius committed to the bit of being a woke white woman or she's the wake-up call woke white women need. I give her a 10/10 for being a sign of our times
@@LLcoolDay There is a recent history of fake, satirical papers being published, but this would require a very high level commitment to a 'character' for a long time. It's not impossible though.
Imagine being a legitimate athlete training for the Olympic for x amount of years, win a medal in the area of what they had trained for, only to be overshadowed by a goofball dork who possibly fudge her qualifications in break dancing, not wining a medal, becoming a meme, and being one of the most talked about person from this event
She knew she wasn't good enough......she should never have been allowed to represent Australia at the Olympics and an elite level and that means the best of the best in the world across ALL key standards and metrics...she wasn't even close....she needs to take full responsibility as do all those who let this 'train wreck' happen on an international stage, representing Australia...heads should roll!
That's incorrect, to compete at the Olympics one only needs to be in the top 30% or top 50. This is complicated by the fact the third party WDSF basically set the eligibility rules for this event.
She has embarrased my country and the breakdancing community. Aussies take their sport very seriously, so much so we are more ashmend by her than we are about our hockey player buying illegal drugs. That's how bad it is. We had a petition demading an inquiry into this very fishy choice. In 3 days it had over 55,000 signatures. It was taken down.🎉
Sorry Raygun. Not buying the explanation. Your a 36 (?) yo woman not 16, involved in the break dancing scene, apparently. You'd have watched thousands of BD videos and performances I would expect. I'm assuming your training regime would have included videoing yourself and being critiqued by a trainer and friends. At what point did you, for one second, think you were in any way, competition ready, let alone the Olympics? Your not a horrible person, just someone who was, for whatever the reason, betrayed by your trainers, family and friends that encouraged you. Not sure if they just couldn't bring it upon themselves to be honest or what. You'll have to also accept you weren't honest with yourself either. I hope this, if nothing else, has been a major learning curve for you. All the best.
She wasn't "betrayed" by anyone. SHE betrayed the Australian tax payer and Australian "breakdancers". She is a professor of gender studies. Her and her husband founded the breakdancing organization that was tasked with picking the team. Her husband and mom were judges on her competitions. Her husband was given the coaching position despite being WORSE than her. Rachel and her husband financially benefited enormously from this grift. They both got an all exspense paid trip to Paris and they are still there. This person has benefited financially from grifting and finally got exposed.
Her moves showed that the Breakdancing scene was taking itself too seriously, forgetting it was a dance not a competition for who can spin on their heads for three minutes. The fact that no one knows who won the medals proves the professionals didn't do anything noteworthy.
@coolnoah2744 What?! Have you never seen professing breakdancers before? "Didn't take herself as serious"?! She was at THE OLYMPICS. The best in the world are supposed to go there. She looked like someone's mom trying breakdancing for the first time.
Or...or....ALBO should just stick to doing shit a prime minister SHOULD be doing like fixing housing market, economic state of affairs, jobs, sustainability etc etc....instead ALBO has enough time to comment about a subpar 'break dancer'. He should be apologising for not having his fucking priorities (and our wellbeing) straight
@@buddydev93 and let me guess, she has actually trained her whole life and was actually good? Plus we all know Japanese are more nimble and flexible than anyone from the west..
Is not a style, not creative, not unique. Is a naive display of her perception of it. This is a lesson for the entire world, and perhaps that’s her only contribution.
I'm 67 years old and I love Break Dancing. Takes dedication and skill. Because of her, we won't get another chance to have it added as a sport ever again! I'd be surprised if that community of people even want to be around her.
She is part of the delusional woke generation who believe they can be anything they want to, you can be an Olympic Breakdancer., even without any work, talent, we are all equal.
@@veganbutcherhackepeterShe teaches gender cultural studies and does PhD in the politics of breakdance. She accused everyone criticising her as sexist. Can’t get any woke than that behaviour.
we actually were in 1983-4, there was a group called `The Smurfs` on the Gold Coast that had a world title challenge against Americas best and won, i danced alongside these guys doing shows in Surfers paradise most weekends, one main guy ended up going to Hollywood as a breaker and choreographer, Jason Rae, went to Miami High school at the time, Aussies were very good in the 80s
I don't know why I'm so invested in this. I guess it just pissed me off once I knew the whole story and saw her reaction to it. She's 36, there's ZERO chance a 36 yo could possibly be the best breakdancer in Australia. ZERO
Only way a 36 year old WITHOUT good skills could have gotten on the Olympic team is a flawed system that excludes the hundreds of talented young people in Australia who could have easily done better than her. Her husband wasn't one of the judges who directly scored her in their qualifiers but they are part of the leadership of the AOC system which strongly suggests some kind of undue influence if not outright corruption.
How can Raygun call it hate, when most of us are just downright embarrassed for her and feel bad that nobody has been straight with her all these years..
She calls it "hate" because she assumes everything she had done is legitimate and the hundreds of talented younger people in Australia who didn't even know they could try out for the Olympics was a mere afterthought. In her own statements, she admitted she wasn't very good so her only chance to make a mark was to us the "artistic freedom" category which turned out atrocious because she didn't have the skills to begin with to push the envelope. She basically admitted she didn't belong in the Olympics where the best of the best are suppose to compete. Merit apparently is not very relevant here. Entitlement is everything.
The Australian Olympic committee is funny she embarrassed the country and forgave her. But waited 6 years after Peter Norman's death to forgive him. He was a silver medalist at the 68 Olympics and oceanlantic record holder
The Australian Olympic committee was at fault lol. She won the qualifier…. Meaning they made the process so convoluted everyone else was even worse than her.
@@2DarkHorizon Yea and it was technically meant to be an Oceania qualifier also and could have potentially had a male Australian and female say New Zealand competitor but some how Australia monopolized it and prevented any one else from competing shrinking what was already a small pool of talent even further.
One of break dancer is from US joined the competition in Paris Olympic Games. She is over 30, but her break dancing skill is much better than Raygun a lot!
How to learn breakdance from raygun Step 1 : fish out of water Step 2 : kangaroo hop Step 3 : elephant nose swing Congratulations you are now an olympic breakdancer .
My opinion is that to compete at an Olympic (world) level, you have to be World Class. I have no formal training, but i am well versed in body language and listening to what people give away in their conversations, and i had heard her overconfidence (conceit?) where she claims to have smashed it, and that she knew she was never going to beat the others. At that point, get your coat and go home, or simply do your best. Eddie the Eagle was a British ski jumper who badly wanted to be world class, and his story is one of sheer determination. Despite coming last he showed absolute commitment to his goal and gave it his All. What Gunn has done by way of comparison is akin to getting on the slopes and then as she gets to the end of the ramp, releases a parachute with a silly picture on. She has made the headlines at world level, but not in any way so as to be able to gain respect from anyone with a serious interest in Breakdancing culture. She just made a mockery of an art form. This is not art by Jackson Pollack, this is I turned up to compete at a world dancing final and didn't even bother to get dressed or follow the accepted (and more importantly, Expected) style, but instead then tries to use some psychological trick to convince people what she did has some actual merit... And she's pleased with herself, clearly. That's what disturbs me most about it.
It's weird. Breakdancing started from ethnic minorities who were marginalised... Raygun is a PhD, academic, who went to Barker (~$40,000 a year private school)...
All your discernments of Rachel Gunn are spot on. Breakers showcase a combination of power moves, including windmills, the 6-step, and freezes. The battles are divided into best of three rounds, which are called throwdowns. The three elements of breaking are: • Top Rock - Dance moves that are performed while the breaker is standing. • Down Rock - The part of the breaker's performance that is composed on the floor. • Freeze - When the breaker holds a pose in an unusual position during the middle of their performance. A panel of nine judges score each battle and every round based on five criteria: technique, vocabulary, execution, musicality, and originality. Therefore, I suspect the AOC anticipated she would score zero or believed the judges might find a way for her to win. Additionally, I think the AOC sent her to advocate for education among young people in underprivileged areas and to promote breakdancing, leveraging her strong writing skills. Result of the AOC’s decision to send her: • She scored 0 from all nine judges in all three categories against her opposing dancer in the first stage and did not advance to the next stage. • Someone in Australia that would have scored points was cut from the team. • Damaged the worldwide respected reputation of Australia in the Olympics, e.g., swimming, track & field, cycling, rowing, sailing, hockey, equestrian, and surfing. • Damaged the reputation of, and trust in, the AOC. This scandal has been met with too much humor when it should evoke shame, remorse, and apologies. The AOC's support of this woman represents one of the greatest sports scandals of our time. Accountability is necessary within both the AOC and the IOC for this unthinkable injustice against breakdancing, Australia in the Olympics, and the athlete who was cut from the team.
Raygun is fast becoming Australia's answer to "prince" Harry. Always on the lookout for the next detractor to drag through court in order to extort money from.
The “ Emperors New Clothes” syndrome!! Hope she is enjoying her European break, funded by the tax payer, the majority of which cant afford a holiday this year.
Never in the history of the Olympics has a competitor finished a routine and scored across the board - 0.00.
Thanks Raygun. You made history.
As Denzel Washington said.
"Let me speak slowly so all the PHD's in the room will understand" "You can't dance" 😂
I love Denzel Washington!
😂🏆
Quote from déja vue 😂
What a shit university actually. She should be stripped of her PhD. Another classical example of university being mostly meaningless. What a disgrace to Australian and global academia.
Yeah okay, but I have listened to Australian b-boys suggest that, "That's just her style."
She's dancing like a drunk uncle who wants to show you his moves at a house party.
Drunk uncles are fun to watch at least lol
Shes dancing like shes trying to deconstruct breakdancing
She’s flapping about like a freshly caught mullet🐟
raygun got all her moves from the 3 stooges....breaking will be back in the 2032 australia olympics....
She’s clearly a result of participation awards and parents who weren’t honest with kids and told them they were wonderful at everything.
It's more sinister than that. She and her husband fraudulently imposed themselves into the mess, scamming taxpayers throughout their careers. They have made a pampered living by criticising "colonialism", that is, Whıte Australians - the very people whose taxes they have been scamming.
Literally the adult equivalent of “look what I can do”
Dance with Wombats lives in the parallel reality of the woke Academia.
Looking at the faces of the audience that witnessed that...'performance (?!?)' is far more entertaining. They knew they were at something that would never see the like again.
Really? So it's her parents' fault? Where have all these experts been blocking her way to that stage of shame because of the obvious state of hers? You are all in Australia blaming it on her instead of trying to find how she got the ticket to find herself there??
As a parent, I would never want someone like her teaching my child anything.
Exactly
She doesn't teach at special schools
@trevorclark5138 is that where you went?
@@stefpantis8006 no second prizes
Yes, she is an awful person! Keep her away from children! This is so dangerous and scary. (Give me a break)
You don't go to the Olympics to have fun , you represent your country to win a medal . She is completely deluded. Utter embarrassment.
If one is able to win a medal; are you equally embarrassed by the marathon participants who finished something like 18th and 24th?
You're right, but l actually don't think she's deluded, she and her lame ass goofy ass husband know in their souls that she shouldn't be there,which is worse than being deluded
@@chadjcrase If they tried to win that marathon by speed walking because they felt they couldn’t beat any of the others by running, and as a result finished entire minutes behind the second-to-last place, then yes I would be just as embarrassed by that performance.
If you’re gonna resort to whataboutisms, at least make the comparisons equal to one another.
Of course you had fun, you and your man got a free vacation to Paris that you did not deserve
You're just jealous
@@houseofbryks_I agree with them and I LIVE in France!
Also France right now is in absolute turmoil here so I have ZERO idea why anyone would be jealous! What are you a Raygun simp? 😅
@@bugsy742 I thought the person was crying about Raygun having fun and getting a free vacation. Did Raygun offend your sensitive feelings too?
@@houseofbryks_ 🤔 you’re making less than no sense!
Soooo DEFINITELY simping then!
That’s what you find SO attractive that you’re willing to bleat all over the comments to a bunch of randoes? You know you’re screaming into a vacuum right? 😂 also why do you converse like a teenage Valley girl? 🤷♂️
I would be mortified to become a bad international meme and pulling my country [and family, and friends, an colleagues...] into the mess even if it means free vacations on Europe.
i'm a 62 year old white guy from the midwest USA i have never did breaking have seen it it is an art and an athletic feat and i believe i could of beat Raygun, she was a joke and manipulated her way onto the team
My 2 year old granddaughter too
Are you voting for walz?
@@narda1072 Can he also break dance as well as Raygun? I heard though that he prefers things to do with horses....
@@jeannenora6113 my comment was for the original poster since he says he is from the midwest
@@narda1072 Rude, rude.
It’s not hate. It’s the truth that no one around you ever said to her. I am the friend and family member that will always say the truth because I want people to succeed. My girls have grown up very love, thriving, confident young woman that never cried cause they didn’t get a trophy. Raygun is the example of why not everyone should get a trophy.
I do hate how lousy her break dancing is 😂
@@esteban1487 well, that o can’t blame you. Though there’s another possibly that she kept funds from a program for a girls prop. So, it may turn to hate. lol
Except that no Australian - nor anyone else for that matter - had ever competed in this sport at the Olympic Games. This is a false narrative that anyone in Australia would ever have cared one way or the other about one's breaking skill. Even people in the 'scene' would not have cared whether she was any good or not; it just wasn't, and isn't, a part of our sporting culture.
I am accused of having no filter, and I am the one in my family who tells them the truth, so they don’t make a fool of them selves. If they don’t listen it’s on them, I did my part. 😅
1:18 - I wouldn't insult the Jamaican bobsled team like that. Bobsledding is a race, not something judged and won by points. Those guys knew they wouldn't win, but wanted to learn the sport and participate. They didn't make a joke out of the sport of bobsledding. Raygun single-handedly made a joke out of breakdancing, and ended it's Olympic future.
Nigga chill. Take a joke
Everyone binge watching actual good breakdance videos this week, trying to bleach their eyes and undo the trauma
Run DMC, bomfunk. Sure am.
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I think accidentally she made the discipline famous - if not for her botched performance, no one would take any interest in break dance
@@jadziajagoda6187 %100
The University needs to be investigated to allow this to happen …PHD…unbelievable!
One Word: Delusional
Full on 😂
Or IOW "Woke"
Or the world's greatest troll ?
She's gonna make lots of money from this .
@@babyshaker8932 Read her thesis. Look at her interviews. She doesn't have a sense of humour at all. So definitely not capable off pulling off a big prank. Sadly, she's 100% serious.
It’s the only word you need
People are demanding an apology for having to watch her performance!
Simon Cowell, Where were you when needed. 😣
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Very good one !
Oh God yes. Even Piers would've torched her.
Not to worry, she's now on an European holiday (three weeks I believe) with her husband thanks to the Australian ioc.
i didnt know she is from hornsby, that is where i live, funny mr g went to barker college as well, its hard to believe, they have such smart uniforms and look so nice but now i see chris lilley was taking the piss out of his own school
@@Penfold-8521 what does "european holiday" mean?
Exactly my sentiments. Instead of talking about Australia's most successful Olympic campaign, this only added to an Olympic games full of controversies. Instead, it will be remembered as a viral event full of embarrassment.
The worst part is her, her supporters, the Australian Olympic committee, even Albo thought she did OK, adding to the embarrassment. I even learned how to spell embarrassment properly because of this.
Then why don't you talk about Australia's gold medalists then. No because no one would regardless.
@@carissaf6909, our park skateboarders were phenomenal! 🥇
No one is going to take any uni qualifications from MacQuarie uni seriously...
It means em-bare-assed because that's how a normal person feels. Gunn obviously wasn't. 🕺
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I think it's fair, Raygun should be under investigation on how she made it to the Olympics. Wether you call it hate? It actually isn't, it's being fair. You represented your Country in the worst possible way. Australia had to pay for your travel, accommodations and others. Now, Australia wants to know how on Earth you were the best person for the Job. Australia has the right to know? Of course, they paid for it.
Because RAY GUN🎉 and HUBBY were the selection committee
Fully funded 2 week , second honeymoon to Paris, the joke is on the Aussie tax payers!
But if you look at her previous performances, they were actually better. Not good, but better
@@mark2073- I doubt she was better than _all other women/teens_ who performed in the Oceana title competition.
@@mark2073you’re what’s wrong with the world.
@Qayin wow that's quite a conclusion. What's going on with you?
This is the endgame to a lifetime of receiving participation medals and making sure nobody's feelings are getting hurt.
Absolutely right.
Like a wise man said ' if there is a crack in one tile, everybody will focus on it rather than appreciate the other tiles.
I swear my wife can see a little spider from 100 feet because she can see the "black" against the white of the walls and ceiling. It fits.
"Raygun" is a classic entitle narcissist with delusions of grandeur.
You've gotten all caught up in the lies spreading through the internet.
She's right up there with Megan Markle!!!😂😂😂
My thoughts exactly…narcissistic in thinking she’s artistic. Almost anyone can perform those dumb dance moves. She dances like she’s drunk but she’s drunk with pride and ego.
There was a time when a PHD actually meant something
The other half has a degree from Macquarie, in accounting. She's kinda embarrassed to mention that uni now, being quick to point out it's NOT in dancing.
@@DonTrump-sv1si exactly!!! i wish i could tell my colleague with a phd my honest opinion about her phd. but i need this job and i have to tolerate her. 😩 😉
It has never meant that you can dance breaking or anything else. Learn first.
@@WxkR As I've read elsewhere, she's been "break (sp?) dancing" for some 16 years. It was like me in golf; I could break 90 but 80 was unobtainable for me (but I had fun.) I played for 40 years and never got better.
Hell no. Even in the '60s it stood for "Piled higher and deeper." Can't get much higher than Gunn's PhD without it toppling over. At least she didn't plagiarize anyone; then again, who else has a PhD in break dancing?
*Just because I study art doesn't make me an artist!* I hope it's investigated, and we get some answers.
Once something becomes a judged, competitive event, it ceases to become art. It's just doing precisely what others want and are expecting. I don't know about Gymnastics, but it may still be true there too.
She used to be reasonable, but got old. She admits she can't do the power moves and thought she could get away with 'interpretive dance ' instead. He Phd is totally bogus too.
Don't knock her PHD. Stuck to her dancing if you want but you know nothing about it.
i do not regard 'break' as a sport, let alone a serious one. but for to have any credibility it requires very high impressive levels of strength and athleticism similar to top gymnasts and arcobats to be displayed as shown at (5:11), otherwise its a joke. what she did was like 25 handicapper playing in the british open- an embarassing disgrace.
Her moves were geriatric. Even her older stuff was sucky chuck nuts. She can't even sweep.Molly should have gone. Her husband was no rhythm on the floor and he was her coach.
@@carissaf6909what? It’s an absolutely NOTHING qualification!
Whilst studying for my physics PHD we would actively rip the absolute 💩 out of our friends doing “attend courses”
Her so called PHD is an absolute joke! So NO it’s not off limits! You sound like someone who’s triple jabbed and thinks there’s a “patriarchy”
Tell I’m wrong! 😂
@@carissaf6909 Nobody needs to "knock" her PhD. It knocks itself out. As a matter of fact, she knocked it out as utter cr@p after her less than stellar performance.
She needs to pay back every penny Australia spent on her or go to prison.
Lol settle down Karen it's only breakdancing
People are so damn quick to have people go to "prison" for the most non-violent crimes ever.
Does every athlete that didn't win a medal have to give back the money allocated by the sports' governing bodies?
@@danielhackett1581 : But it isn't just breakdancing. She wasted over $35,000 of Australian tax dollars. She should never have gone to Paris.
@@sidecarmisanthrope5927 I agree that she didn’t deserve to go to Paris, but the Australian taxpayer didn’t fund her trip - the AOC did.
I think Ill enter in the next Olympics 100m sprint and ‘do it in a different way’ … just walk and wave at the crowd. Maybe in a bear suit.
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I’ve seen toddlers behave like she ‘danced’ in supermarkets when they don’t get what they want!
🤣😂 Mine in the form of "Hey Mom, look what I can do!" LOL
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Since she’s an academic, this reminds me of the saying “those that can’t do, teach”
But she was lost on “do”
Lol😂
You may also have heard that PhD stands for “piled higher and deeper”. In this case it might ring true.
She's a big do do 💩
Those that can't " indoctrinate. . Yes teacher's no longer teach.
I love how the guy nearly choked upon hearing of "phd in breakdancing"
Raygun herself admits "I was never going to beat these girls on what they do best the dynamic and the power moves so I wanted to move differently be artistic and creative because how many chances do you get that in a lifetime to do that on an international stage" Goes on to call herself the Underdog and wanted to make her mark in a different way. So she was well aware that she didn't have the skills to beat the other girls so she thought feck it, I'm here now, might as well just pull any shat off and give it a crack cause near enough is good enough ay? lol 😆
Instead of making way for better young dancers, she took the spotlight for herself. Sad thing is it worked. She's now famous and will likely make a lot of money from that fame. That's why it's up to governing bodies to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen.
And that is how woke works.
@@lance134679- She's now _*infamous_ - not a good thing.
@@wholeshebang1 Infamous to most of the world, a hero to her friends in academia.
She did still dance; it's not as if she attempted to run backwards in the 100m or something! 😀
The rich kids give each other jobs, overtaking talent. Seen this first hand in Australia
Spot on
Tax payer funded joy ride. We want a refund. PHD? No wonder our kids are getting dumber.
Exactly 100
She thought that audacity was part of the criteria 😅
I'd bet $1 million that she can't even do one proper windmill 😂
@@amit_patel654 do you have a 1 million $? exactly.
So not only can you get a PHD in something completely stupid, you can suck at it as well. Amazing....
And got pay for doing, from the government.
Just shows the state of our Education system when you can get a PhD in Break Dancing WTAF!!! She embarrassed the whole of Australia meanwhile we had a good laugh at her expense
PhD in breakdancing isn't unusual though. It's a topic on which information exists and thus one can compile, analyse, or share opinions on. That's not to say anything of her research's qualities ofc. And all that should qualify her for is to talk about it. Not to participate in a global competition on the subject of her research.
her thesis was "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying". it's not a phd in breakdancing.
@@stevqtalent This makes it way worse.
@@stevqtalent She clearly displayed the Deterritorializing of the Break Dancing sport just woeful!
Having a Ph.D. means you can write academic papers. It has never meant you can dance. This has nothing to do with the education system.
This whole Olympics was the biggest troll to human kind
Sadly
The only thing she took seriously was the phone she was gonna use to take pictures of her fully paid vacation.
This should definitely go to court ...she can do her routine for the jury !!!
The audience watching this is the best part.
I like how much she triggered people.
They need to undergo therapy to unsee what she did. 😁😁😁
It looked a pretty sparse crowd, though.
A PHD in breakdancing. The whole world has gone insane.
the funniest thing in this story will always be her phd thesis title 😂
I thought someone was doing a parody of what her thesis would be. lolz.
She's either a Kaufman level genius committed to the bit of being a woke white woman or she's the wake-up call woke white women need.
I give her a 10/10 for being a sign of our times
@@LLcoolDay There is a recent history of fake, satirical papers being published, but this would require a very high level commitment to a 'character' for a long time. It's not impossible though.
Imagine being a legitimate athlete training for the Olympic for x amount of years, win a medal in the area of what they had trained for, only to be overshadowed by a goofball dork who possibly fudge her qualifications in break dancing, not wining a medal, becoming a meme, and being one of the most talked about person from this event
What’s crazy is she will get on every reality show - every dance with stars - she will walk away from this just fine
She does claim to be an expert in ball room dancing too, so would love to see that...pleeeeeease
The very definition of failing up.
Oh please, do you know how many people are mad at her?
@@freedomofchoicelover3734go away
@@randomvintagefilm273That's why she will make millions. Exactly because of that.
If you do want to go as raygun for Halloween, all you'll need is a subway sandwich uniform.
She knew she wasn't good enough......she should never have been allowed to represent Australia at the Olympics and an elite level and that means the best of the best in the world across ALL key standards and metrics...she wasn't even close....she needs to take full responsibility as do all those who let this 'train wreck' happen on an international stage, representing Australia...heads should roll!
Her self awareness is non-existent. She's got no idea of her total lack of talent in breakdancing. She really does think she is good! Bizarre stuff.
That's incorrect, to compete at the Olympics one only needs to be in the top 30% or top 50. This is complicated by the fact the third party WDSF basically set the eligibility rules for this event.
@@chadjcraseLol watch her battle against sui a 9year old
She probably got her PhD from the Ministry of Silly Walks.
Where does one get a PHD in Breakdance? ? ? ?
Apparently only in Australia! Well, they were a British penal colony! Nuff said!
This tell you what is austalia about, rich!
And ending up not understanding what break dance is.
It's not in breakdance, it's in the culture of breakdance.
@@mizzury54She should of gone the route of Cultural of Riverdance! She would be happier!!
The thing is that she denied some one else's participation in the games
*The AOC should be Investigated.*
After all Mel Gibson’s hard work this lady comes along and gays Australia up
@@emrakultheaeonstorn7430American here... I absolutely loved your comment. Thank God Steve Irwin wasn't subjected to this embarrassing performance
@@emrakultheaeonstorn7430 Mel Gibson is arguably more American than Australian, Hugh Jackman is a much better example.
@@chadjcrase Hugh Jackass couldn’t touch Mad Max
The AOC should all resign. Especially Anna Meries
it's not us, it's you Rachel.
She has embarrased my country and the breakdancing community.
Aussies take their sport very seriously, so much so we are more ashmend by her than we are about our hockey player buying illegal drugs. That's how bad it is.
We had a petition demading an inquiry into this very fishy choice.
In 3 days it had over 55,000 signatures. It was taken down.🎉
It was taken down??
That kangaroo hop was something 😂....all your gold medal was nothig compare to this gold gun 😂😂😂😂😂
@@megancao5988
Yes, it was taken down.
I would say after pleasure from the AOC.
@lov.2.g
Yeah, a happy thing a 5 year old would do. 🤦♀️
She put Australia on the map, calm down. Be happy.
If her Olympic performance was the result of her hard work and dedication I feel sorry for her.
Sorry Raygun. Not buying the explanation. Your a 36 (?) yo woman not 16, involved in the break dancing scene, apparently. You'd have watched thousands of BD videos and performances I would expect. I'm assuming your training regime would have included videoing yourself and being critiqued by a trainer and friends. At what point did you, for one second, think you were in any way, competition ready, let alone the Olympics? Your not a horrible person, just someone who was, for whatever the reason, betrayed by your trainers, family and friends that encouraged you. Not sure if they just couldn't bring it upon themselves to be honest or what. You'll have to also accept you weren't honest with yourself either. I hope this, if nothing else, has been a major learning curve for you.
All the best.
The "trainer" is her husband.
She wasn't "betrayed" by anyone. SHE betrayed the Australian tax payer and Australian "breakdancers". She is a professor of gender studies. Her and her husband founded the breakdancing organization that was tasked with picking the team. Her husband and mom were judges on her competitions. Her husband was given the coaching position despite being WORSE than her. Rachel and her husband financially benefited enormously from this grift. They both got an all exspense paid trip to Paris and they are still there. This person has benefited financially from grifting and finally got exposed.
Her moves showed that the Breakdancing scene was taking itself too seriously, forgetting it was a dance not a competition for who can spin on their heads for three minutes. The fact that no one knows who won the medals proves the professionals didn't do anything noteworthy.
The husband got paid $65k to train her
@coolnoah2744 What?! Have you never seen professing breakdancers before? "Didn't take herself as serious"?! She was at THE OLYMPICS. The best in the world are supposed to go there. She looked like someone's mom trying breakdancing for the first time.
She is delusional. We, the citizens of Australia are soo embarrassed.
On a positive note, I have not laughed at something so much in ages. 🤣🤣🤣
She put Australia on the map for all the wrong reasons..Shamefully 😫
"Australia's not known for its breakdancing." It is now! 😂
The Prime Minister should apologize to all the Ausies.
Yes, yes he should …. but not just about his endorsement of RayGun.
Are they really that sensitive?
Or...or....ALBO should just stick to doing shit a prime minister SHOULD be doing like fixing housing market, economic state of affairs, jobs, sustainability etc etc....instead ALBO has enough time to comment about a subpar 'break dancer'. He should be apologising for not having his fucking priorities (and our wellbeing) straight
Exactly
He should apologise for being a prime minister !
Breakdancing should not be an Olympic Event.
I seriously thought that was the point she was trying to make. 😮
@@faodail3913 I hope you're right. I hope you're both right. It's silly.
She has a phd in delulu😅
4:16 The most iconic photo of the Wokelympics in "gay" Paree 2024. She'll be remembered beyond her allotted 15 minutes, I think.
I just realized that most of the B-Girls are around ages 17-30 and she's 36. At that age she's already past her prime when it comes to athleticism.
Yep, just another wanna be, scary thing is she actually truly believes she is good..
fun fact is b-girl ayumi from japan is 41 years old when competing at the paris olympic
I just realised people are still doing this stupid dancing. First saw it in the eighties, thought it was stupid then.
@@buddydev93 that's why I said most not all of them.
@@buddydev93 and let me guess, she has actually trained her whole life and was actually good? Plus we all know Japanese are more nimble and flexible than anyone from the west..
Is not a style, not creative, not unique. Is a naive display of her perception of it.
This is a lesson for the entire world, and perhaps that’s her only contribution.
This Lady united the World again. Well done Australia?
😂😂😂 Nice positive spin!
Just not in the way she wanted.
I'm 67 years old and I love Break Dancing. Takes dedication and skill. Because of her, we won't get another chance to have it added as a sport ever again! I'd be surprised if that community of people even want to be around her.
She is part of the delusional woke generation who believe they can be anything they want to, you can be an Olympic Breakdancer., even without any work, talent, we are all equal.
well she was an olympic breakdancer facts! however clearly far from the best.
She's almost 40
Woke? She actually reminds me more of Trump, who thinks he's a business man and has scammed his entire way through an entitled life as a grifter.
@@veganbutcherhackepeterShe teaches gender cultural studies and does PhD in the politics of breakdance. She accused everyone criticising her as sexist. Can’t get any woke than that behaviour.
she managed to unite the whole world, that's quite a talent.
This is what happens when we give participation trophies to kids
"I went to the olimpycs to have FUN".......its not a party You know.....
someone should have told her "you're committing a genocide of my eyeballs every time you force me to watch that...." 💀💀💀
She showed the world how ridiculous having break dancing is in the Olympics. Love it. 😂😂😂
Fun fact Raygun has also qualified for the special olympics 😂😂😂
You can't tell me she actually believes she is good?? She must be delusional, she has to be!
She is good, just at the technical moves of this particular sport. If it were 'interpretative dance', she could be a star.
1:41 "White people who want to be black" He said it perfectly! lol 😆
You are right, but I think this year she'd rather be Japanese. Ami Yuasa won the B-girl Gold.
I reckon, how embarrassing to be put into that genre. No one wants that. Those ones who do that can stay there.
Asians definitely don't try to be black 😂😂😂😂
The less American culture we try to emulate the better, of course.
When your parents tells you you’re good and go pursue your dreams. 😂
Australia is now the break dance capital of the world ..
we actually were in 1983-4, there was a group called `The Smurfs` on the Gold Coast that had a world title challenge against Americas best and won, i danced alongside these guys doing shows in Surfers paradise most weekends, one main guy ended up going to Hollywood as a breaker and choreographer, Jason Rae, went to Miami High school at the time, Aussies were very good in the 80s
@@freedomofchoicelover3734you should of tried to enter the event, you couldn't have done worse.
@@davidhales8799as 53 yr old male I could if just identify as a female and I'm sure I could of mustered up something lol
If I was a bit younger I'd put on a wig & lipstick & belt a few sheila's in boxing.@@freedomofchoicelover3734
She definitely got breakdance to be trending.
I don't know why I'm so invested in this. I guess it just pissed me off once I knew the whole story and saw her reaction to it. She's 36, there's ZERO chance a 36 yo could possibly be the best breakdancer in Australia. ZERO
Only way a 36 year old WITHOUT good skills could have gotten on the Olympic team is a flawed system that excludes the hundreds of talented young people in Australia who could have easily done better than her. Her husband wasn't one of the judges who directly scored her in their qualifiers but they are part of the leadership of the AOC system which strongly suggests some kind of undue influence if not outright corruption.
How can Raygun call it hate, when most of us are just downright embarrassed for her and feel bad that nobody has been straight with her all these years..
She calls it "hate" because she assumes everything she had done is legitimate and the hundreds of talented younger people in Australia who didn't even know they could try out for the Olympics was a mere afterthought. In her own statements, she admitted she wasn't very good so her only chance to make a mark was to us the "artistic freedom" category which turned out atrocious because she didn't have the skills to begin with to push the envelope. She basically admitted she didn't belong in the Olympics where the best of the best are suppose to compete. Merit apparently is not very relevant here. Entitlement is everything.
@@kenw.4539
Yet she is fine accepting all the accolades, while the Aussie record number of medal winners take back seat❔
I call BS on your BS❕
The Australian Olympic committee is funny she embarrassed the country and forgave her. But waited 6 years after Peter Norman's death to forgive him. He was a silver medalist at the 68 Olympics and oceanlantic record holder
Did he have a phd?
The Australian Olympic committee was at fault lol. She won the qualifier…. Meaning they made the process so convoluted everyone else was even worse than her.
One of the requirements was for two accreditation’s for a street art meaning the only people that applied or knew how to apply were Nerds like her.
@@joshmccarty8800 are you serious? never knew that. that would of left out alot of talent.
@@2DarkHorizon Yea and it was technically meant to be an Oceania qualifier also and could have potentially had a male Australian and female say New Zealand competitor but some how Australia monopolized it and prevented any one else from competing shrinking what was already a small pool of talent even further.
One of break dancer is from US joined the competition in Paris Olympic Games. She is over 30, but her break dancing skill is much better than Raygun a lot!
We're probably really bad at LaCrosse as well...who Cares?
Elaine from Seinfeld dance was better.
That's what her performance reminded me of
How to learn breakdance from raygun
Step 1 : fish out of water
Step 2 : kangaroo hop
Step 3 : elephant nose swing
Congratulations you are now an olympic breakdancer .
😂😂😂
the power of delusion
This performance and event will go down in Olympic history, to provide comic relief and serve as a warning to delusional selectors.
She looks like she's playing Twister without a partner! 😂
My opinion is that to compete at an Olympic (world) level, you have to be World Class. I have no formal training, but i am well versed in body language and listening to what people give away in their conversations, and i had heard her overconfidence (conceit?) where she claims to have smashed it, and that she knew she was never going to beat the others. At that point, get your coat and go home, or simply do your best. Eddie the Eagle was a British ski jumper who badly wanted to be world class, and his story is one of sheer determination. Despite coming last he showed absolute commitment to his goal and gave it his All.
What Gunn has done by way of comparison is akin to getting on the slopes and then as she gets to the end of the ramp, releases a parachute with a silly picture on. She has made the headlines at world level, but not in any way so as to be able to gain respect from anyone with a serious interest in Breakdancing culture.
She just made a mockery of an art form. This is not art by Jackson Pollack, this is I turned up to compete at a world dancing final and didn't even bother to get dressed or follow the accepted (and more importantly, Expected) style, but instead then tries to use some psychological trick to convince people what she did has some actual merit...
And she's pleased with herself, clearly. That's what disturbs me most about it.
It's weird. Breakdancing started from ethnic minorities who were marginalised... Raygun is a PhD, academic, who went to Barker (~$40,000 a year private school)...
She's proof that having mere book-smarts doesn't translate into actual applied success
She is delusional. We, the citizens of Australia are soo embarrassed.
On a positive note, I have not laughed at something so much in ages. 🤣🤣🤣😊
I agree... An artists determines how much the public likes them based on the reactions they get from the public
She trolled everyone
I think I’ll join the next Olympic cycling events. Let me get my tricycle out of my parents garage.
getting '0' in any sport event more so in olympics,, is devastating. She is that BAAADDDD,,,😅
Growing up in Canada and having followed a few Olympic games, I have never seen a "0" score ever.
About the only thing Australia will be remembered for in the 2024 Olympics 😂😂😂
😂😂😂 she tried and was confident as really It Made Us Laugh 😃
All your discernments of Rachel Gunn are spot on.
Breakers showcase a combination of power moves, including windmills, the 6-step, and freezes. The battles are divided into best of three rounds, which are called throwdowns.
The three elements of breaking are:
• Top Rock - Dance moves that are performed while the breaker is standing.
• Down Rock - The part of the breaker's performance that is composed on the floor.
• Freeze - When the breaker holds a pose in an unusual position during the middle of their performance.
A panel of nine judges score each battle and every round based on five criteria: technique, vocabulary, execution, musicality, and originality.
Therefore, I suspect the AOC anticipated she would score zero or believed the judges might find a way for her to win. Additionally, I think the AOC sent her to advocate for education among young people in underprivileged areas and to promote breakdancing, leveraging her strong writing skills.
Result of the AOC’s decision to send her:
• She scored 0 from all nine judges in all three categories against her opposing dancer in the first stage and did not advance to the next stage.
• Someone in Australia that would have scored points was cut from the team.
• Damaged the worldwide respected reputation of Australia in the Olympics, e.g., swimming, track & field, cycling, rowing, sailing, hockey, equestrian, and surfing.
• Damaged the reputation of, and trust in, the AOC.
This scandal has been met with too much humor when it should evoke shame, remorse, and apologies. The AOC's support of this woman represents one of the greatest sports scandals of our time. Accountability is necessary within both the AOC and the IOC for this unthinkable injustice against breakdancing, Australia in the Olympics, and the athlete who was cut from the team.
2:30. This dude is totally correct. She has been given praised and award for something she wasnt really great at and this is the result.
DEI didn't let her know she was no good.
Go woke go broke 💔
Raygun is fast becoming Australia's answer to "prince" Harry. Always on the lookout for the next detractor to drag through court in order to extort money from.
The “ Emperors New Clothes” syndrome!! Hope she is enjoying her European break, funded by the tax payer, the majority of which cant afford a holiday this year.