The International Olympic Committee claimed and blocked my video for 2 segments featuring the dances done by the competitors during the games. In order to get the video live again, I have had to completely remove those to 10 second segments. If you notice any weird cuts during this video, you can thank the Olympics.
IMO, no matter what she says or the IOC... someone is playing the world as a fool. I can't help but think this. Either Australia is UNTALENTED when it comes to break dancing, she bribed people, or the IOC choose her to make a mockery of Australia. Or they choose her so that the Event could be permanently banned from the Olympics. It doesn't make sense. What she did, I've done similar drunk... on a booze bus! DRUNK. Just remember that. This cannot be the talent coming out of the Australia at an Olympic level. Someone is TROLLING. Just like Nikacado did the internet the last 2 years.
It’s so distasteful how they gate-keep the footage. Feels like it’s against the spirit of the Olympics, no? Like I thought it was supposed to be about all the countries coming together to share in the betterment of our species through physical performance. *Citius, Altius, Fortius.* (Faster, higher, Stronger) I put the Olympics in the same mental box as classical music: it belongs to all of us. It’s public domain.
Yes ... for exercising their professional responsibility in protecting their intellectual property as well as one of their competing atheletes in good standing, from damaging sophomoric clickbait such as this video.
I was reminded of Elaine dancing on Seinfeld episode The Little Kicks 😂 so ridiculous, I think her husband must get off on people laughing at her, I can't imagine why as a breakdance teacher he would let her do this in public otherwise.
I think what upsets people is that she keeps trying to gaslight us! She still tries to make it seem like it has nothing to do with her skill level, but rather with us not understanding breaking.
It's strange when people use this as any kind of defense. You don't need to understand something to know that when it's been done elegantly that's the standard set. I don't need to be a star Michelin chef to know if I eat it, I'll either like it or I won't
@@jackwalker5266 Exactly. I don't have to be an expert in breaking to see that her performance was terrible to watch compared to the others! And I don't have to be a breaker to see that her performance lacked any kind of athleticism! And I don't have to be a breaker to judge that their performance lacked everything that makes breaking interesting for us laypeople. I actually thought it was good that breaking was at the Olympics. But if that's breaking, then breaking really doesn't deserve a place in the Olympics! The only reason why breaking was included in the Olympics was the high level of athleticism. Then Raygun comes along and shows us a performance without athleticism. If they then tell us that it's okay because that's a type of breaking, then I really wonder if breaking should be part of the Olympics!?
@@eat.food.not.friendsher own statements on the validity of her moves are contradictory. She said that her style is a legit approach in the breaking community, but then later insists that she knew it was gonna be rough for her because her stlye wasn't going to be understood. It's clear by her score of zeros across the board against three different opponents, that she's full of $h%t. Lay people didn't get her approach and clearly neither did the professionals. Creativity and artistry in breaking doesn't mean what she insists it means.
I’m from Australia, and it goes to show how narcissism, nepotism, corruption and delusions overshadow talented people. When RayGun was criticised years ago for her dancing, instead of improving /giving up she cried and claims it was sexism! RayGun could’ve used her academics and trained to help the next generation of dancers who don’t have the resources to compete!
Yes this! The fact that she made it all the way to the Olympics is extremely harmful and a fact the guy in the video doesn’t seem to get. She took an Olympic spot away from someone who actually had the talent
Yes, this! How is it possible that, in all of her 'academic breakdancing research', she never found one single real breakdancer that might have at least been competitive? Never mind winning at this point.
Claims it's sexism, yet there were women break dancing in the Olympics who blew Raygun out of the water. She doesn't understand that her "skills" are medicore and this has nothing to do with her being a woman. I wish people like her would stop trying to create an issue that doesn't exist.
She keeps saying that the people she is getting backlash from just don't understand breaking... But didn't she literally get zero points from the judges?
I would really love to hear from the breakdancing community on this. I was around when breakdancing was a big thing. I have seen much more skill on the street. That's the truth. I can't fathom how she made it to the Olympics.
Spidey from Behavioural Arts did a segment with a special guest, a really experienced break dancer, who did a brilliant job of breaking down how the scoring works and the more technical aspects, in a way anyone can understand. If it's something you're curious about I highly recommend checking that out.
Ditto. I said the same thing to my child. I said, "I've seen street dancers who are twenty times better than she is." No lie, TWENTY TIMES. And that's being conservative.
She didn't answer the judges question. The question was do you know any of the judges. Her answer was all the judges were from over seas and none of them have judged me before. This is a non answer statement.
She *ALLEGEDLY* took an opportunity away from a talented, young dancer, in order to stroke her own ego... I think people have a right to be a bit annoyed about that.
You don't have to say allegedly when it's an indisputable fact... When spots are limited and an actual clown is chosen for something they literally can't do, somebody who actually deserves a spot AUTOMATICALLY gets screwed out of one.
As an Australian, this was an embarrassment. Not only an embarrassment to the nation or to the Olympics, but to breakdancing. Breakdancing has a history and culture behind it, created by young immigrant youths and teens living in poverty in the Bronx in the 70s. so the fact she would take it and trash it like that, makes me mad. Then to not show even the slightest bit of self awareness 🤦♀️
@@zxyatiywariii8 The beauty of culture is that when shared respectfully it deepens our understanding and awareness for and of each other. It can create a bond between us that we may never of had with one another. Breakdancing is an example of a cultural tradition that can and has transcended beyond the original culture and capture an audience. It is an art. Breakdancers are strong; It takes a lot of mind muscle connection to be able to pop and lock, and a lot of core strength at minimum. It is really beautiful and awe-inspiring to watch. At least it should be. Rolling around on the floor and dancing the two-step and hopping around like a kangaroo, particularly without the control of the body and capturing what makes break dancing breakdancing, and why it is such a beautiful way to move and use the body to make a statement or share a story, using the word embarrassment as I did in my original comment is such an understatement, if I do say so myself.
She’s not “in denial”. She’s DELUDED. Her superiority complex leads her to think that her “art” is above and beyond what we normies could ever understand.
The moves she did appeared mocking and more like a toddler tossing a fit in my view. Now, that may be art in her view, and I support art, however she needs to accept her choices are also out there for consumption by viewers that are not going to always appreciate her art as much as she does.
Well kudos to you, she seems to acknowledge that. It's pretty obvious, so your comment seems to state the obvious? In a sense, adding to the nonsense of the worlds reaction. Yea, it was weird but not once did I find myself even thinking negatively in response to seeing her dancing. I chuckled and felt confused but that's what I felt. People who take it further, even with just a slight comment like yours, need to reevaluate what they waste their thoughts on. No, you aren't necessarily adding to the drastic hate social media sheep seem to emulate but you are adding to the pike of assumptions of how she perceives the situation. She's obviously dealing with something that can be pretty hard to grasp and properly react to because not everyone will, not many, will deal with this kind of situation. The social media going to extremes to attack and punish a person due to something they had done. Maybe they should redirect that hate towards the ones who put her through to the Olympics and maybe hold back on these "conspiracy theories" of how she got to the Olympics
The reason ppl are mad is because break dancing is solidly linked to the cultures of marginalized groups. She didn’t just “dance badly” she mocked a culture and is doubling down that she should be allowed to do so. I lived with a B-Girl when my oldest was 2, and he could pull better moves than “the best Australia has”. That’s a disgrace.
She says she was the top B-girl in the past 2 years in the national competition in Australia or something. But to me that just means the official competitions aren't in touch with the actual talent and culturally loaded parts of breaking. I know it's a stereotype but breaking is generally done in marginalized communities that don't have the opportunities to make it big. If she cared about the sport she would put her time and energy into trying to include these groups and their talent into the official competitions, not push herself into the competition when she's just not that good.
No, she didn't mock anyone more than a bad football (soccer) player is mocking poor Brazilian kids. I'm 50, white middle class from a rich country and I have peers who've danced it for decades.
The Olympics is not the time or place to do what she did. Its disrespectful to the level of athleticism the Olympics are meant to represent. She should have bowed out when she saw how out of her league she was. It's not like when they send young athletes to gain experience, she's at the end of her dance career. Not demure, not mindful.
@@thatsalt1560 she needed awake up call. She is delusional and she has no talent or skill and yet she talks like the public doesn’t know talent when we see it. She has no self awareness and is a bit narcissistic
Something she decidedly avoids talking about right? She claims her style is accepted in the breaking community but *olympic judges* are saying otherwise. In ice dancing, the skaters have to perform a certain number of difficult moves to prove their technical skill, perhaps that should have been the case with the olympics too.
our community want to move on, shes shit at breaking who cares. Plenty of shit dancers out there. One or two heads spoke at the start of it. But now we dont care. The public care.
Bully is a bit strong. She was roasted. People were having a laugh. Had she a bit of sense she would have taken it on the chin but instead she’s playing into the stereotype of an out of touch PhD/professional victim.
I feel it's about 50/50 roasting, and accusing her of being a narcissist, stealing Someone else's spot, corruption, taking taxpayers money, arrogant, embarrassment to Australia, the sport... that's bullying
@@ToniTries ya, but she never acknowledges most people are having a laugh. She immediately called it bullying and denied any fault, which is why most won’t give her a break. Her attitude fuels the fire.
She could’ve used her knowledge in dancing and train the next generation. Her delusional self got humbled quick and rightly so. She took away resources and overshadowed other talented dancers.
Wait....she never watched the current state of the skill set of her "art"?? It's a battle of skill not a artistic expression....it's not interpretive free form.
I don’t think it’s denial, I think it’s “duper’s delight” as they love to say on the body language panel. She has gotten away with something and flaunted it in everyone’s faces, she is loving the undeserved attention and her 15 minutes of fame.
Aussie here. Im angry because somehow she took a spot from someone who is more talented and she put dance sport, which Im not a fan of but support, back 20yrs. How did she get this spot when she obviously is not talented enough to compete at Olympic level? IF, which I doubt, she was the best our country had then we should not have sent anyone to compete at all. Yes, there should be an investigation in how she was selected because she was woefully below min required talent for this competition
I’m Australian and not one person I’ve met think this was a good performance. Our media keep telling us that it’s Australian to “have a crack “ at something, but I don’t find her efforts equivalent to what an Olympic performance should be. The Olympics celebrates athleticism. Even she admits she can’t perform power moves. She’s entitled and isn’t taking any accountability.
No one should feel sorry for her, she's terrible, never was qualified for the Olympics. She is NOT a break dancer. If this was what Australia thought was the best, they have no idea what breaking is, period.
'The best australia had', then you don't send someone. You don't send someone who can't swim, to swim in the Olympics, you don't send someone who can't operate a gun to the Olympics, you don't send someone who can't ride a hirse, to ride in the Olympics. And note to add, i just watched a 6yo breakdance better than her
The voice rising at the end of a sentence is just how we Australians talk. It's not necessarily anything to do with uncertain. I don't know why we do that, but it's an Aussie thing.
I had a crush on an Australian friend back in college. He also always spoke this way as well. When any of our mutual friends here in the states playfully imitated him, they would lift their voices at the end of phrases as well. He would laugh it off and then playfully mock us by exaggerating a lowering tone at the end of sentences. He was super hot! We never actually hooked up. My crush was unrequited but he was a really great guy.
I dare her to find ONE person that will honest and standing proud and tall look someone other straight in the eyes and say, that that was a great performance of break dance, and not cosplaying as someone having a seizure or a child doing a self made australian animals dance in kindergarden.
You've found your man. That was the best performance of any one in this space I've ever seen. The way she commands that chair, her chin tuck and those frantically hurriedly looking stare of another boutful cringe inducing reactions of self denial is top dollar
Me coming into this video: "Oh c'mon, the dance can't be that bad! Let me just look it up real quick...." Narrator: "The dance could, in fact, be that bad."
The fraudulance we experience these days is quite incredible. To pass off this woman's attempt at an artform that has definitaion and purpose, under the guise of a cultural representation is beyond words. I'd actually say it's insulting. As others have said, if this was the best Australia had - I very much doubt this - then have the grace a good form to bow out until you do. I'm pretty certain every aboriginal and animal in Antipodea would concur.
@@mamacito1795She very well may have won, but whonwas judging? Im not talking about friend or family but rather what were the judges credentials, and moreover what metric was she being judged by to 'win'. Turning up and busting some random moves seems an extremely low bar. She is right, breaking can have ideas and themes integrated, but it has to follow some form of the overall flow/style. I can't turn up to a ballroom competition and start moshing, even if I think that it's prrsonal interpretation because at that point it no longer fits the requirements of ballroom. It's a pretty straightforward process.
Why? She's a national treasure. Sometimes things are so bad they're good. By far the most entertainment I've ever got from the Olympics. What's caused this is a world problem, not an Australian one.
Aside from her lacklustre performance, the hate is due to the embarrassment caused to her country and the entire break dancing community/sport. A real shame.
She was criticized and she made such a fool of herself that she was laughed at but she didn't get any hate, or was bullied but that's the narrative that she and her peers will hold onto, until the sun burns out.
Online bullying is hate. Don't get me wrong, I laughed at her, I made jokes, I criticized her and her husband for getting her into the Olympics, and I think she shouldn't have been there. I'm glad she was so we could all laugh at her velociraptor and kangaroo moves, but lets call it what it is. She was hated on, but she should have expected it. It's delusion that's keeping her from seeing that.
@@brandaoberg4841 If you can clearly define what is "bullying", and 100k people who would also agree on the same definition, then I might agree that she was bullied. Before that.. nah.. it was banter. Sure there might have been few bad apples but it's the internet. You can find people in every topic that are toxic, if you go look for them, and I'm sure that only those very few were/are/will be the ones that Raygun and her peers will point out as hate, until the end of times. If she can't see why she is being dunked on, then yeah.. she's completely delulu.
@@brandaoberg4841 hate as in true vitriol or hate as in a good teasing? Getting roasted is all in good fun. She handled the fair teasing so poorly that’s why it’s dragging out. Trying to play victim is basically keeping with the stereotype, which keeps the tasting going. PhD and no common sense.
@@no_one01-5 I just don't understand why you're being so sensitive about this tbh. She was hated on, but she earned it. It's just not that big of a deal imo. There are always going to be people that hate you, dislike you for no reason. We all need to be able to handle that, and it's really not that big of a deal that she was hated on. She needs to get over it like everyone else does.
I would like a panel of sorts. A few breakdancers from Australia to give their feedback, their criticism, and their experience during this whole ordeal. From the moment they heard of breakdancing being incorporated in the Olympics to the qualifiers to the actual event. Then break dancers that went to the Olympics and what their experience was. Then hearing from the judges themselves. Because this woman is now being given a platform when talented breakdancers are not.
She’s right in that most of us know nothing about breaking culture. That said, I don’t think I need to know anything other than how absolutely ridiculous it looked. No one hates her but the criticism is well deserved imo.
She would've done better and represented the dance more respectfully by executing the simplest of standard moves. However, what she did was simply an idiotic mockery of some kindergarten child romp.
While I was watching I immediately thought she was purposely making a mockery of break dancing. That she thought it was a big joke to be in the olympics. It's really sad that she thought she was good and that those around her had lied so much to her. Really a sad situation all around. No wonder the olympics aren't bringing it back.
I would love to see Observe and The Behavioral Arts do a collab to cover a topic such as this. It would be so cool to see how their observations align or don’t align.
I am a yt academic in australia who does casual dance classes. the studio I dance at is excellent at acknowledging the history of the street dance styles taught and the importance of keeping the roots in mind while learning and training. Especially because australia doesn’t have a very big african- and latino-american population, it’s important not to ignore that street dance here, including breaking, still emerged from these underprivileged communities in the US, even with the physical separation. I think it’s really crucial for us who come into these spaces from a different and privileged (and caucasian) background to recognise our place and respect the cultural and historical roots, especially if you jump as far into the community as Rachel has. This is what I think is missing with her? It felt more appropriative than appreciative, like there’s not really a genuine acknowledgement of how breaking was born from struggles she will never experience or fully understand, even if she academically acknowledges it? Idk if this makes sense but that’s what I got while watching both her performances and her interviews.
I can't lie, the jokes are fun. Especially the whole "let's see a normal person in the Olympics" ones. But I wish her the best and hope she's doing okay. This has to be incredibly difficult.
This was not just about "dance"... This is about going to the Olympics! And breakdancing for the first time at the Olympics! She made it like a joke for all of us that dream about going to the Olympics that's what we're discussed about!
Years back she actually had male competitors question her skills at dance competition. Apparently she was in tears. That should’ve been her sign to give up.
@@MelaniaRose I wonder what her skill is with her experience in ballroom dancing? If she can't break dance to save her life, then I doubt that she's good at any form of dance TBH.
To my fellow Aussies. If you think Raygun is showing the Australian spirit, can you please keep your mouth shut and not tell the world what our spirit is? I'm Australian and I do not have Raygun's entitle-delusional ''spirit''.
So she quickly got off the internet and likes all the positive feedback she’s received? Doesn’t this mean she just put herself into her own echo chamber? This was the Olympics, not a school dance… she’ll get judged like everyone else.
Australians and New Zealanders as a base line end a large number if their sentences sounding like a question so you can't read anything into that. (23:44)
It’s wild that she can admit that “no one” would understand her style, but still chose to compete with moves that no one, including the judges, would understand. The moves couldn’t be judged at an Olympic level because those moves don’t exist in the sport in which she was competing. Technique, skill level and execution can’t be judged in a competition when the moves have been invented by the performer. This is why she scored a zero.
Awareness of how much time has passed is not the same as self awareness lol that she said it wasn't uncommon for her to never watch her performances seems to imply a voluntary lack of self awareness towards her abilities. It's as if she went to the Olympics on vibes lol
There's no way you're going to convince the entire world that she or her husband did not know somebody that helped her get on the Olympic team. Although there is a unique artistic style to her "Dancing". Breakdancing became a thing when I was a young teen, something we did on a piece of cardboard on the street corner. I have watched it evolved over many years. How any judge could think that this was at a level where she could compete at the Olympics it's mind-boggling. I do agree she's getting way more hate than she deserves. Because she's a viral trend! For the wrong reasons. And I also believe if you're going to put yourself out there in a public setting in any genre. You have to be prepared for the backlash along with the admiration. Both can be extremely overwhelming. But as we've learned over the years with social media brings out the worst in people. People will always hide behind their profiles and follow the flow of the comments and start trolling. Social media has allowed bullies to be more prominent without consequence. But we also have to face the cold hard facts of reality. Even if she was competing in ancient Rome during the very first Olympics. There would be outrage in backlash. Just the consequences might have been dire. This is a human reaction, we still have that animalistic part of our brain. I do have some empathy for Gunn, but the overwhelming amount of my empathy goes to the breaking community, especially in Australia. For this is going to be a hard incident to overcome. Or to come back to in 4 years at the next Olympics. I'm glad to see if she's trying to keep the positivity. Yet there's the side that you put yourself on the world stage, and the world is going to wait for an apology. But I don't believe she has the awareness to do so. Unfortunately this incident is always going to hurt the break dancing competition in the Olympics. This was break dancing debut. A statement I was told as a child, has never run more true than now. "If I do something right no one remembers, when I do something wrong no one forgets."
I love the whole “issue”, the controversy, the campness, the craziness, the siliness, the whogivesashitness and THE name Raygun of it! 😂 Love it!!! And the moves tooo 😂❤
Oh wow she was only learning these moves for the last year? That makes a lot of sense. Most Olympic athletes are training their entire lives not just for a year in their mid-thirties. Sad.
@@bboyfocus12 No she specifically said she was learning common moves professionals use for the year before the Olympics. She's just not qualified or talented.
@@Cove_Blue what are you saying no to? It's not a lack of talent when you are doing something 5 years and people around you who never did it can copy it in seconds . Its simply complete delusion. We have a formula to add complexity to movements . She didn't do it. In other words nobody told or showed her
16:30 it makes sense with this situation but overall an athlete or dancer saying they regularly don’t watch back their own performances immediately is a really odd thing to do
Not for dancers and actors. Lots of us don't watch our stuff back or we wait for a period where we're less emotionally invested. A lot of us have coaches and directors we rely on and trust to give feedback in the moment.
@@jordanleighwheatleyactors I get, I know it’s cringy for them to watch themselves playing a role. I just know a lot of dancers and bodybuilders and I’ve done gymnastics and my experience has been different. After the results of a competition they always go to someone who was filming to see what they look like and pinpoint their mistakes
@@insertname193 for me, after a competition, I usually need a day or two before I can watch. Even if I won or placed really well. As an actor, I'm usually ready to watch something when it comes out because it's been months by that point. But it's still a cringe feeling. For dance, maybe it's the style of dance, too, that makes people have different reactions. I do pole and it's a really supportive community but it's quite vulnerable still
@@insertname193 I HATE watching myself on video. I thought it was just me. Before phones had cameras, I was a Microsoft trainer. We would record ourselves & play it back to see our mistakes. It was awful & no one saw it but me. It made me an excellent trainer, tho.
@@jordanleighwheatley any Olympic level competitor does, which is why she was not qualified for the Olympics. Her and her husband were not at this level.
Australia is a massive and diverse country. One thing I would guess is that there are many break dancers who aren’t able to get to all the comps because of funding despite how talented they are…
Her ability to gaslight herself over and over again, so that she can stay in her day dream where she is that super talented breakdancer, is unbelievable. She even twists the quote from hip hop legend Spice to make it sound like he was criticizing her for causing a backlash, instead of what the quote actually expresses. It was obvious that he criticized her because she went to the Olympics with this low skill level. He obviously said that her performance was bad and embarrassing. But she gaslighted us and herself by saying "I have no control over how people react." He didn't criticize her for how people reacted, but rather for the fact that she even went to the Olympics, when she is light years away from being at that level.
The main point is she's representing the whole country. Of course people can judge her! It was never about her passion, or bringing awareness to the sport. It was never about her hobby. People cheer on when seeing a runner falls, hurting and limping to the finish line. People love genuine fall guy who apologize that he failed even if he'd tried his best. It appears that she failed and said "Ooops!" When you're representing your country, you're not just you anymore. I think people feel a bit of narcissism in her and that's what they don't like.
The funny part is that her husband was the Olympic coach for breaking and that he trained her. She as been told many times that she sucks, but all she did is call it racism and discrimination. She is an old white lady claiming it was hard for her to learn power moves, yet that is part of breaking. There is a 65 year old man who just started like maybe 6-7 years ago and he can windmill. People love him because he is progressing forward nit making excuses that people just understand breaking like Gunn keeps stating. Her and her husband both need to stop this crap of disrespect. It’s ok to want to learn but do t tell others they don’t understand that you can break. She also control the funding for the grants to get others there but no she didn’t help the outer areas kids to come. I can call her a breaker ok but not world or top, that is just plain lying. She also stated she didn’t think any judges knew her or judged her before. The reason why she won’t compete anymore is because the world knows she just ain’t good, she now has to face it. The woke told her way too many times she was something. Now she has to face her own truths about herself. The fact that she is the most talked about Olympian is just sad. 2024 was a woke joke and this just proved it sad to say. New Zealand judge straight said she was going to get smashed that said something. A 0 is a zero from pros judges who know what breaking is about.
What really strikes me as odd is the fact that she keeps going back to this "all the positivity" crap. Unless I've missed something, none (or very few) of the responses and analysis were overly positive. It's like she's trying to highjack the narrative and gaslight everybody. She's like, "l know what everybody saw but this is what REALLY happened and y'all just don't understand.". But people DO know what they saw and people DO understand. I think deep down she actually knows that she shouldn't have been there where her skill level is quite yet. She just doesn't want to admit it.
20:49 Usually I agree with your takes. But this isn't just a thing "the internet needs to be up in arms about" Breakdancing has cultural values to it. It was originated in the african-american and Latino youth group in America. It is a significant part of dance for a large marginalized group. What Raygun did was a mockery of the dance. She made it a joke. It is a sad situation that shows how Australia's Olympic team views breakdancing. Did she deserve death threats and hate, no, but there was a need to show respect to the form of dancing you partake in.
If this woman had any shame whatsoever she would have declined the spot. Nobody on planet earth thinks that she’s a talented dancer except her. But instead of taking ownership of her failure, she’s trying to gaslight the entire world by saying that we don’t understand the genre. If she had apologised, profusely, maybe she wouldn’t be subjected to all this ridicule. But she’s out there milking the system for all it’s worth. When she speaks of Australia not having a great track record of winning championships, please tell me that she’s only referring to her dancing. Australia has phenomenal sports teams that have achieved the pinnacle of sporting success.
What made people mad was the fact her performance doesn't look like she even tried. It just looks like she is flailing around and making fun of everyone else there.
Break dancing was huge in Australia from the mid 80s. We know what good break dancing looks like. Raygun wasn't good. It was like she had never even seen break dancing before.
The thing is she didn’t deserve to get that spot to go to the Olympics. People thought there must have been a conspiracy or a high level of corruption. Others have to work harder to get there. This is the main reason why people are upset either way her and why her performance is so insulted.
I beleive Olympic contestants should belong to 3 different clubs and can afford the trips abroad, which excluded many less well off breakdancers competing in the Oceana championships. It was not only her inability but her arrogance and derision that fueled the outcry to her performance.
That's true, some people can teach and are better teachers than fighters, and some fighters are better at fighting and competitions than being teachers or being instructors. For example Mike Tyson is much better as a heavy weight boxer competing, but as a coach and instructor he's not that good.
Even worse she fed cultural reference into her 'piece'. One has to wonder if this was a reason for her successful application. Seems to completely ignore the cultural beginnings of the dance form she utterly defaced, and dare I say make a mockery of the decent aboriginals she's supposedly dancing for.
It seems she doesn’t feel embarrassment. Is that a thing? She does say she never watched her own battles and I feel like that was her biggest mistake. She could have learned a long time ago that she simply doesn’t have the talent and the vibe of “breaking” no matter how much she practiced that would never go away. The fact that she keeps saying that the world doesn’t understand “breaking”/ break dancing is insane. We all know break dancing when we see it and that was not it. It was a sad attempt.
I am he same age, I would be impressed with myself if I could do her routine..... that does NOT mean I think I should enter any competitions let alone the OLYMPICS 😂
Holding her very own dance competitions with no other participants doesn't count as winning. It doesn't count as losing either so I'm surprised she didn't claim to be undefeated.
She said she doesn't watch video footage of any of her battles. 🙄 Wouldn't a dancer or competitor want to watch a playback of their battles to improve their technique??
Great analysis on her body language and tonality. IMHO it's a tough and tricky situation, to me she seems like some level of dunning Kruger but enough self confidence to enter the Olympics of her own volition and encouragement of her husband. IMO there are bigger factors here at play like epistemology(how do we know at all?)and expected standards of a field(in this case what's the standard and consensus for break dancing? What makes good and bad break dancing, and is it in a spectrum?) Honestly the most cringe part of this saga, is how everyone's treating her like a scapegoat when we can easily point to other events in this Olympics, from the opening ceremony, to some events that are far cringe worthy than this. IMHO she doesn't deserve this level of hate and ridicule when this Olympics is enough hate and ridicule already.
In regards to the breaking, the fact there were several criteria and multiple judges and Rachel didn't score particularly highly in many of them suggests there is good and bad break dancing, and her performance is an example of bad breaking. I'm also confused as to how she's won competitions before and how she was chosen to represent what should be the pinnacle performer.
@@mamacito1795 Sure, there were several criteria to break dancing, standards used by judges, all within Paris Olympics. My main gripe with this still are a few unanswered questions like: Which standard of break dancing are the judges using? USA? EU? Which standard from which consensus? Also even if she didn't score highly in many of them, IDK if this really suggests good/bad break dancing and her performance being an example of bad break dancing when we're comparing and contrasting her to current competing break dancers in that competition, even to past historical break dancers that are uniquely gifted and moved very technically and smoothly or quickly or even tensely than her. So when we compare/contrast as audience members, plus when judges compare/contrast based on a metric I and we don't know about, can we really say she definitively is bad at break dancing?
@@danielnelson3136 but why does that matter? Each performer was from a different country, each may have its own standards. So let's say this was a neutral "olympic" one. The playing field was still level. Rachel was being compared against her competitor in each criteria and she did not do well. Another of your comments said many criticising her are likely no better at breaking than her. That's more than likely true. But you don't need to be a chef to know your food is over salted nor be a surgeon to feel a doctor hasn't done their job well if they removed the wrong kidney. You don't need to be a world class breaker to compare Ray guns performance to the other performances at the same event to see she's severely lacking in skill when technically she should be theoretically as good as the others.
I wondered what wpuld have happened if she had been male? Would the committee have let him through? But also, would the hatred have been as off the charts ? There are lessons to learn here, no less the bizarrely rapid formation of what I have to say looks and feels like a witchhunt! This, in my opinion, is of far greater concern than some shit moves
@@Bibichnya I agree that this event is a good lesson on epistemology. Like if we changed her demographics around, or even personality, would the backlash be more or less? How would we know? How would we make sense of this situation and which method of understanding is valid? Also, yes on the witch-hunt! Like we're so preoccupied with hating/trolling/cyber bullying her, but much less time reflecting and seeing how we sometimes play into this witch hunt dynamic.
So, obviously, the torrential downpour of hate is not even close to equal to the alleged crime. She doesn't deserve to be harassed or bullied. And I almost feel bad for laughing so hard at her and the subsequent (awesome) memes. Almost. It was just too funny. I can't help myself.
She did deserve it though. She overshadowed the event and other dancers. Instead of helping the next generation of dancers she instead thought she was better than everyone 😂
@@MelaniaRose I don't think she deserved the amount of hate that she got for what she did. A little bit of ribbing, fine, but to have the whole internet jump on you for...dancing in the Olympics is wild. I agree that she is smug and annoying. But I don't think the punishment fit the crime.
@@sarahg2653she deserved all of it. She made a mockery of an art by a people she isn’t even a part of and then tries to gaslight everyone else into thinking we’ve just misunderstood her art. She did not belong there and took the spot from someone who was actually talented
8:28 - Just a note here, the breakdancing routines weren't "created." Breakdancing competitions (and breaking in general) rely on improvisation, and this was the case for the Olympics, too. The dancers weren't going into the competition with a fully choreographed routine (unlike other artistic sports in the Olympics). The dancers also didn't know the song they'd get until it played. This is why you'll see the breakers take time to get a feel for the music before going for their first touch (i.e., first turn). I heard of her getting zero points and just now watched the performance against Syssy from France. As a dancer interested in breakdance, I didn't find her dance to be necessarily awful (though, it definitely didn't reach the technical level Syssy showed, nor was her musicality up to par). The thing that really bothered me and that would cause me to give her zero points, regardless of what skill level she performed at (which was, admittedly, lower than expected), was that she was yawning when her competitor was dancing. I've only ever seen breakers hype each other up when it's their competitors' touch, and that's how it should be. The blatant lack of sportsmanship with the yawns - no matter how played up/hyperbolic/cheeky it was meant to be - did not sit well with me. Not to mention, there was a huge latency between her touch being done and giving her competitor the floor, as well as that one time where she didn't make it clear if she was done her second touch or not (Syssy even started dancing, only for RayGun to start dancing again for a few seconds, forcing Syssy to stop). Those behaviours show a lack of dance/breakdance etiquette - at least, as far as I'm aware of it, based on my observations from other breakdance competitions. All that said, it was her attitude I had a problem with, not so much her dancing itself (especially since breakdancing is improvisation, it might've been some nerves playing a role there, too). Edit to add: I just watched two of RayGun's Oceania battles (the final against Molly and the top 8 against Fizzy). In those battles, she showed a higher level of technical prowess (some pretty cool musicality moments and freezes in her battle with Fizzy, especially). In the final, she was a bit sloppier, and I could see some of the sloppiness from Paris come through a bit. Molly had some more "impressive" moves, but I think she ran out of steam in the final round/touch - that's where RayGun pulled more votes and got the win. That said, I don't really think Molly would've placed better than RayGun in Paris; it seems the b-girls competing in Oceania didn't have the skill b-girls from other countries have. Interestingly, I didn't see any of the weird yawning "performances" from RayGun in the Oceania videos, and she even hyped up Fizzy quite a bit during their battle. She even cleared the stage properly after her touch was finished to make space for the other dancers. Perhaps there was a bit of a sense of inferiority in the Olympics that caused the need to be cheeky in such a way (re: yawning) and maybe nerves just got the better of her in terms of not following "proper" dance battle etiquette.
I wonder if she ever competed outside of Australia and if she did what was her ranking there, because it seems like the bar wasn’t too high in Australia and just competing there didnt help her grow in the art of breakdancing
Milli Vanilli wanted to sing on their tracks and were duped by their label, not even knowing that their voices weren't being used until the first single was out. One of them died of a drug overdose after the controversy. Wouldn't say that's comparable.
I don't condone the backlash and level of hate she got, that must have been horrible... BUTTTT, I also think she did not handle the response from public gracefully. Breaking is a disappearing art form and while there could very well be different versions/ interpretations of this form, she was just unqualified for that level, simple. She could have reduced some hate if she had just been a bit more humble in her responses, genuinely showed emotions towards disappointing the breaking community and just said that she will keep learning more about it instead of showing how crazy/ uncalled for the responses were or saying how she's all misunderstood but so qualified for doing this, or "its not on me" when she single handedly made the entire country look stupid...ugh. Girl, get it together. Her contempt towards genuine feedback is very telling.
Exactly. Her defence of “people just don’t understand my style!” “I had to focus on my strengths!” Rather than acknowledge the embarrassment she caused a country and the damage she did to her own breaking community.
@nainafavs I find it offputting when (I think I saw this quote) she said I knew I could win with moves, so i went for artistic style. Or something along those lines, meaning she really didn't put 100% effort into competing, I would find that disingenuous to the competition, why even go then if you weren't going to put your heart in.
@@Sunshine0235 Exactly. Not only it's disrespectful to the art form but also wasting a spot on such a prestigious platform with someone who is ridiculously egotistical of their skill levels, instead of giving this spot to someone who genuinely has love and passion for giving their best.
I'm sorry but in one of the clips they showed of her competing you can see her husband is one of the judges so you (the proverbial) won't be able to convince me that they didn't use their positions and privileges to get her a spot that she didn't deserve and I also doubt the legitimacy of her other wins.
Dr. Gunn's (she has a PhD) body language leans toward someone who is not used to being criticized even in a positive/learning experience type of way. Odd, considering her (self-reported?) competitive background. Animosity regarding her inclusion on Australia's team should be directed at the judges whose ratings allowed her to complete at the 2024 Olympics, plus the confusing convoluted Olympic scoring system for this sport. Directing negative comments or harassment at Rachael Gunn, her family and friends gains nothing for this sport. A good place to start learning is by listening to experts such as Ivan "FLIPZ" Velez on how the scoring can be improved.
39:54 it’s so crazy that during the closing ceremony when everyone was pushing her to do the kangaroo, she thinks that they love her and genuinely liked that move and doesn’t realize that everyone was laughing AT her… fascinating
In the Australian media the hate has been huge. Sky News in particular likes to whip up outrage culture. I for one don’t care and hope for a movie in the vein of The Castle, Australia’s greatest cinematic masterpiece. Or in the very least an episode on Australian Epic musical series, the Steven Bradbury episode is a thing of beauty.
Plucky, courageous and fun doesn't feel like him say, "YES! You nailed it" to me. It almost has more of a, "well, you tried. And bless your heart" kind of feel to it. "Come on my cruise and see what the hell all of this hype is about." Thats more like what it comes off as to me.
The International Olympic Committee claimed and blocked my video for 2 segments featuring the dances done by the competitors during the games. In order to get the video live again, I have had to completely remove those to 10 second segments. If you notice any weird cuts during this video, you can thank the Olympics.
IMO, no matter what she says or the IOC... someone is playing the world as a fool. I can't help but think this. Either Australia is UNTALENTED when it comes to break dancing, she bribed people, or the IOC choose her to make a mockery of Australia. Or they choose her so that the Event could be permanently banned from the Olympics. It doesn't make sense. What she did, I've done similar drunk... on a booze bus! DRUNK. Just remember that. This cannot be the talent coming out of the Australia at an Olympic level. Someone is TROLLING. Just like Nikacado did the internet the last 2 years.
It’s so distasteful how they gate-keep the footage.
Feels like it’s against the spirit of the Olympics, no? Like I thought it was supposed to be about all the countries coming together to share in the betterment of our species through physical performance. *Citius, Altius, Fortius.* (Faster, higher, Stronger)
I put the Olympics in the same mental box as classical music: it belongs to all of us. It’s public domain.
I guess they didn't think they looked pathetic enough yet so it was toddler tantrum time!
Yes ... for exercising their professional responsibility in protecting their intellectual property as well as one of their competing atheletes in good standing, from damaging sophomoric clickbait such as this video.
I think most people were angry because her performance was so bad that it looked like she was making a joke of it. It looked like a bad SNL skit.
Well, cmon, if it was an SNL skit it might have been a bit funny 😁
I genuinely thought this was a joke, then I realized it's at the Olympics games.. she's so far in denial it ain't even funny
I was reminded of Elaine dancing on Seinfeld episode The Little Kicks 😂 so ridiculous, I think her husband must get off on people laughing at her, I can't imagine why as a breakdance teacher he would let her do this in public otherwise.
Yep. It looked like she was mocking the type of dance they were doing. Or at the very least very ill prepared for the olympics
She is not sorry with her awful performance. She said I'm sorry you don't like my performance
I think what upsets people is that she keeps trying to gaslight us!
She still tries to make it seem like it has nothing to do with her skill level, but rather with us not understanding breaking.
It's strange when people use this as any kind of defense. You don't need to understand something to know that when it's been done elegantly that's the standard set. I don't need to be a star Michelin chef to know if I eat it, I'll either like it or I won't
The Australian Olympic committee gas lighted the whole world.
@@jackwalker5266 Exactly. I don't have to be an expert in breaking to see that her performance was terrible to watch compared to the others! And I don't have to be a breaker to see that her performance lacked any kind of athleticism!
And I don't have to be a breaker to judge that their performance lacked everything that makes breaking interesting for us laypeople.
I actually thought it was good that breaking was at the Olympics.
But if that's breaking, then breaking really doesn't deserve a place in the Olympics!
The only reason why breaking was included in the Olympics was the high level of athleticism.
Then Raygun comes along and shows us a performance without athleticism.
If they then tell us that it's okay because that's a type of breaking, then I really wonder if breaking should be part of the Olympics!?
@@eat.food.not.friendsher own statements on the validity of her moves are contradictory. She said that her style is a legit approach in the breaking community, but then later insists that she knew it was gonna be rough for her because her stlye wasn't going to be understood. It's clear by her score of zeros across the board against three different opponents, that she's full of $h%t. Lay people didn't get her approach and clearly neither did the professionals. Creativity and artistry in breaking doesn't mean what she insists it means.
If we don't understand her art, the judges gave her 0 😂😂 we know what we saw !
I’m from
Australia, and it goes to show how narcissism, nepotism, corruption and delusions overshadow talented people. When RayGun was criticised years ago for her dancing, instead of improving /giving up she cried and claims it was sexism! RayGun could’ve used her academics and trained to help the next generation of dancers who don’t have the resources to compete!
Yes this! The fact that she made it all the way to the Olympics is extremely harmful and a fact the guy in the video doesn’t seem to get. She took an Olympic spot away from someone who actually had the talent
So typical of the Australian University culture atm. Full of delusional, self entitled arrogance.
@@AmbyJeansplus, I was embarrassed. Not any national pride felt for her achievements. 😢
Yes, this! How is it possible that, in all of her 'academic breakdancing research', she never found one single real breakdancer that might have at least been competitive? Never mind winning at this point.
Claims it's sexism, yet there were women break dancing in the Olympics who blew Raygun out of the water. She doesn't understand that her "skills" are medicore and this has nothing to do with her being a woman. I wish people like her would stop trying to create an issue that doesn't exist.
She keeps saying that the people she is getting backlash from just don't understand breaking... But didn't she literally get zero points from the judges?
She definitely accuses us of not understanding her "art" but the judges understand completely so they gave her 0
💯 agree
I would really love to hear from the breakdancing community on this. I was around when breakdancing was a big thing. I have seen much more skill on the street. That's the truth. I can't fathom how she made it to the Olympics.
Spidey from Behavioural Arts did a segment with a special guest, a really experienced break dancer, who did a brilliant job of breaking down how the scoring works and the more technical aspects, in a way anyone can understand. If it's something you're curious about I highly recommend checking that out.
@@chameleonstrikes Thanks, I'm going to check that out!
Ditto. I said the same thing to my child. I said, "I've seen street dancers who are twenty times better than she is." No lie, TWENTY TIMES. And that's being conservative.
She didn't answer the judges question. The question was do you know any of the judges. Her answer was all the judges were from over seas and none of them have judged me before. This is a non answer statement.
The interviewer also asked about the selection process, she only talked about the judges
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She *ALLEGEDLY* took an opportunity away from a talented, young dancer, in order to stroke her own ego... I think people have a right to be a bit annoyed about that.
You don't have to say allegedly when it's an indisputable fact... When spots are limited and an actual clown is chosen for something they literally can't do, somebody who actually deserves a spot AUTOMATICALLY gets screwed out of one.
As an Australian, this was an embarrassment. Not only an embarrassment to the nation or to the Olympics, but to breakdancing.
Breakdancing has a history and culture behind it, created by young immigrant youths and teens living in poverty in the Bronx in the 70s. so the fact she would take it and trash it like that, makes me mad. Then to not show even the slightest bit of self awareness 🤦♀️
As a fellow Australian I totally agree it was an embarrassment!
As a woman born in the Bronx, thank you, that's it exactly.
@@zxyatiywariii8 The beauty of culture is that when shared respectfully it deepens our understanding and awareness for and of each other. It can create a bond between us that we may never of had with one another. Breakdancing is an example of a cultural tradition that can and has transcended beyond the original culture and capture an audience. It is an art. Breakdancers are strong; It takes a lot of mind muscle connection to be able to pop and lock, and a lot of core strength at minimum. It is really beautiful and awe-inspiring to watch. At least it should be.
Rolling around on the floor and dancing the two-step and hopping around like a kangaroo, particularly without the control of the body and capturing what makes break dancing breakdancing, and why it is such a beautiful way to move and use the body to make a statement or share a story, using the word embarrassment as I did in my original comment is such an understatement, if I do say so myself.
She’s not “in denial”. She’s DELUDED. Her superiority complex leads her to think that her “art” is above and beyond what we normies could ever understand.
I was thinking the same thing after hearing her interviews and her video addressing the backlash.
The moves she did appeared mocking and more like a toddler tossing a fit in my view. Now, that may be art in her view, and I support art, however she needs to accept her choices are also out there for consumption by viewers that are not going to always appreciate her art as much as she does.
Well kudos to you, she seems to acknowledge that. It's pretty obvious, so your comment seems to state the obvious?
In a sense, adding to the nonsense of the worlds reaction. Yea, it was weird but not once did I find myself even thinking negatively in response to seeing her dancing. I chuckled and felt confused but that's what I felt.
People who take it further, even with just a slight comment like yours, need to reevaluate what they waste their thoughts on. No, you aren't necessarily adding to the drastic hate social media sheep seem to emulate but you are adding to the pike of assumptions of how she perceives the situation.
She's obviously dealing with something that can be pretty hard to grasp and properly react to because not everyone will, not many, will deal with this kind of situation. The social media going to extremes to attack and punish a person due to something they had done.
Maybe they should redirect that hate towards the ones who put her through to the Olympics and maybe hold back on these "conspiracy theories" of how she got to the Olympics
This was all intentional. A stunt. Raygun used her husband to get her to the olympics.
She’s confusing breakdancing with interpretive dance. 😂
Bingo
Nailed it
The reason ppl are mad is because break dancing is solidly linked to the cultures of marginalized groups. She didn’t just “dance badly” she mocked a culture and is doubling down that she should be allowed to do so. I lived with a B-Girl when my oldest was 2, and he could pull better moves than “the best Australia has”. That’s a disgrace.
She says she was the top B-girl in the past 2 years in the national competition in Australia or something. But to me that just means the official competitions aren't in touch with the actual talent and culturally loaded parts of breaking. I know it's a stereotype but breaking is generally done in marginalized communities that don't have the opportunities to make it big. If she cared about the sport she would put her time and energy into trying to include these groups and their talent into the official competitions, not push herself into the competition when she's just not that good.
No, she didn't mock anyone more than a bad football (soccer) player is mocking poor Brazilian kids. I'm 50, white middle class from a rich country and I have peers who've danced it for decades.
@@thatsalt1560 🤣 if you’re gonna lie on the internet, either make it believable, or bare minimum make it interesting.
@@eevee2411 👏👏👏 exactly.
@@thatsalt1560 what a weird comment. Did poor Brazilian kids invent soccer? Be so for real
I don't understand how her and her husband can do 1 activity for so long and still be so bad at it...
I know - mind blowing.
She said we just dont understand her "art" 😂😂
@@apmpni lol
I've seen a kid maybe about 3-4 years old in NYC do a street performance with his dad and that lil guy was soooo much better than her
Even here in Australia, we have amateur juniors doing way better 😂
100% right!!!!!
"I knew I was going to get beaten" then why did you not tap the shoulder of one of the youngsters with extraordinary talent you've spoken about?
The Olympics is not the time or place to do what she did. Its disrespectful to the level of athleticism the Olympics are meant to represent. She should have bowed out when she saw how out of her league she was. It's not like when they send young athletes to gain experience, she's at the end of her dance career. Not demure, not mindful.
What I don’t understand is how on earth did she win all of those other competitions - make it make sense! 😵💫
It wasn't bullying. It was well deserved harsh criticism for what amounted to a shameful and disgraceful performance.
It was bullying. Absolutely. And I have seen terrible performances in the Olympics before. Never has anyone been attacked like this. It's sick.
@@thatsalt1560 she needed awake up call. She is delusional and she has no talent or skill and yet she talks like the public doesn’t know talent when we see it. She has no self awareness and is a bit narcissistic
She took the opportunity away from actual talent. As an Australian she was a total embarrassment.
Didn’t the Paris judges give her all zeros?????????????? Like wake up lady
Something she decidedly avoids talking about right? She claims her style is accepted in the breaking community but *olympic judges* are saying otherwise. In ice dancing, the skaters have to perform a certain number of difficult moves to prove their technical skill, perhaps that should have been the case with the olympics too.
That just meant the judges were unanimous that the other competitor was better than her. as was expected. They were ranked top 10. She was 62.
Her and her husband are in folie a deux.
She was told years ago at a competition that she didn’t have the talent. She claimed it was sexism and cried about it.
@@livtempleton coincidently didn’t mention how breaking isn’t part of the Olympics anymore either lollll
Intentionally or not, she made fun of the event. I wonder what the other dancers think about it.
Good point- I hadn’t thought of it that way
I was more thinking how mortified she must be! Or I would be
Ironically none of us remember the names of the other dancers, as Raygun overshadowed them
our community want to move on, shes shit at breaking who cares. Plenty of shit dancers out there. One or two heads spoke at the start of it. But now we dont care. The public care.
Bully is a bit strong. She was roasted. People were having a laugh. Had she a bit of sense she would have taken it on the chin but instead she’s playing into the stereotype of an out of touch PhD/professional victim.
I feel it's about 50/50 roasting, and accusing her of being a narcissist, stealing Someone else's spot, corruption, taking taxpayers money, arrogant, embarrassment to Australia, the sport... that's bullying
@@ToniTries ya, but she never acknowledges most people are having a laugh. She immediately called it bullying and denied any fault, which is why most won’t give her a break. Her attitude fuels the fire.
She could’ve used her knowledge in dancing and train the next generation. Her delusional self got humbled quick and rightly so. She took away resources and overshadowed other talented dancers.
@@MelaniaRose if you were in the top 3 of your sport and you won a spot on the Olympic team, you'd take it too.
she fd around and found out
Wait....she never watched the current state of the skill set of her "art"??
It's a battle of skill not a artistic expression....it's not interpretive free form.
Exactly. In competition, creativity comes after technical excellence.
The only words that should come out of her mouth is “I’m sorry”
Just because you CAN doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
and art, dance maybe even sport is subjective. you come across like a real _____ snob. Dare I say someone who lacks confidence? Sorry......
@@eunhingedCertainly someone comes across as a snob, but it's not the op... Hope you have a better day
Words to live by
She was criticised years ago at a competition, that should’ve been her sign to stop.
@@MelaniaRoseOr implement changes based on that criticism
I don’t think it’s denial, I think it’s “duper’s delight” as they love to say on the body language panel. She has gotten away with something and flaunted it in everyone’s faces, she is loving the undeserved attention and her 15 minutes of fame.
I agree and she's going to get as much money as she can
Agree, and now she is going on rounds of interviews for attention.
Aussie here. Im angry because somehow she took a spot from someone who is more talented and she put dance sport, which Im not a fan of but support, back 20yrs. How did she get this spot when she obviously is not talented enough to compete at Olympic level? IF, which I doubt, she was the best our country had then we should not have sent anyone to compete at all. Yes, there should be an investigation in how she was selected because she was woefully below min required talent for this competition
I’m Australian and not one person I’ve met think this was a good performance. Our media keep telling us that it’s Australian to “have a crack “ at something, but I don’t find her efforts equivalent to what an Olympic performance should be. The Olympics celebrates athleticism. Even she admits she can’t perform power moves. She’s entitled and isn’t taking any accountability.
No one should feel sorry for her, she's terrible, never was qualified for the Olympics. She is NOT a break dancer. If this was what Australia thought was the best, they have no idea what breaking is, period.
I think I can speak for the rest of Australia when I say, she is not what we think good breakdancing is. 😂
You'll all talking about delusion but THIS is real delusion.
'The best australia had', then you don't send someone. You don't send someone who can't swim, to swim in the Olympics, you don't send someone who can't operate a gun to the Olympics, you don't send someone who can't ride a hirse, to ride in the Olympics.
And note to add, i just watched a 6yo breakdance better than her
No one is Swimming to the Olympics…
@@LuvableAF wow...
So true 😂 she could’ve used her resources to help other young dancers get into competitions
I don't buy that anyway. The fact that she had to spend the year before learning common moves tells me something's fishy.
@@LuvableAFIt’s not too late to delete your comment.
The voice rising at the end of a sentence is just how we Australians talk. It's not necessarily anything to do with uncertain. I don't know why we do that, but it's an Aussie thing.
It’s cadence. We Scots have our own, we start high, middle is low, end is often high again
Yes! I'm not Australian but I've noticed that.
I had a crush on an Australian friend back in college. He also always spoke this way as well. When any of our mutual friends here in the states playfully imitated him, they would lift their voices at the end of phrases as well. He would laugh it off and then playfully mock us by exaggerating a lowering tone at the end of sentences. He was super hot! We never actually hooked up. My crush was unrequited but he was a really great guy.
Same in Norway
It's also super common in the SF Bay area. It's simply the way some people learn to speak.
I dare her to find ONE person that will honest and standing proud and tall look someone other straight in the eyes and say, that that was a great performance of break dance, and not cosplaying as someone having a seizure or a child doing a self made australian animals dance in kindergarden.
@@uddelhexe3545 You’ve got some scary-ass animals in Australia. Children doing a self-made dance about animals in Australia could be interesting!
You've found your man. That was the best performance of any one in this space I've ever seen. The way she commands that chair, her chin tuck and those frantically hurriedly looking stare of another boutful cringe inducing reactions of self denial is top dollar
Me coming into this video: "Oh c'mon, the dance can't be that bad! Let me just look it up real quick...."
Narrator: "The dance could, in fact, be that bad."
The fraudulance we experience these days is quite incredible. To pass off this woman's attempt at an artform that has definitaion and purpose, under the guise of a cultural representation is beyond words. I'd actually say it's insulting. As others have said, if this was the best Australia had - I very much doubt this - then have the grace a good form to bow out until you do. I'm pretty certain every aboriginal and animal in Antipodea would concur.
I need to understand on a deep level how's she's won multiple competitions and how she was asked to compete. Was she the best out of one?
@@mamacito1795She very well may have won, but whonwas judging? Im not talking about friend or family but rather what were the judges credentials, and moreover what metric was she being judged by to 'win'. Turning up and busting some random moves seems an extremely low bar. She is right, breaking can have ideas and themes integrated, but it has to follow some form of the overall flow/style. I can't turn up to a ballroom competition and start moshing, even if I think that it's prrsonal interpretation because at that point it no longer fits the requirements of ballroom. It's a pretty straightforward process.
As an Aussie we don't claim her!!!
uh she was literally representing Australia at the Olympics.
Why? She's a national treasure. Sometimes things are so bad they're good. By far the most entertainment I've ever got from the Olympics. What's caused this is a world problem, not an Australian one.
Aside from her lacklustre performance, the hate is due to the embarrassment caused to her country and the entire break dancing community/sport. A real shame.
I heard somewhere that a lot of break dancers didn't agree with it being in the Olympics, so didn't even try to qualify.
I heard this too, many breakers believe it's meant to be experienced/enjoyed organically in the streets and what not.
She was criticized and she made such a fool of herself that she was laughed at but she didn't get any hate, or was bullied but that's the narrative that she and her peers will hold onto, until the sun burns out.
Online bullying is hate. Don't get me wrong, I laughed at her, I made jokes, I criticized her and her husband for getting her into the Olympics, and I think she shouldn't have been there. I'm glad she was so we could all laugh at her velociraptor and kangaroo moves, but lets call it what it is. She was hated on, but she should have expected it. It's delusion that's keeping her from seeing that.
@@brandaoberg4841 If you can clearly define what is "bullying", and 100k people who would also agree on the same definition, then I might agree that she was bullied. Before that.. nah.. it was banter. Sure there might have been few bad apples but it's the internet. You can find people in every topic that are toxic, if you go look for them, and I'm sure that only those very few were/are/will be the ones that Raygun and her peers will point out as hate, until the end of times.
If she can't see why she is being dunked on, then yeah.. she's completely delulu.
@@brandaoberg4841 hate as in true vitriol or hate as in a good teasing? Getting roasted is all in good fun. She handled the fair teasing so poorly that’s why it’s dragging out. Trying to play victim is basically keeping with the stereotype, which keeps the tasting going. PhD and no common sense.
@@no_one01-5 I just don't understand why you're being so sensitive about this tbh. She was hated on, but she earned it. It's just not that big of a deal imo. There are always going to be people that hate you, dislike you for no reason. We all need to be able to handle that, and it's really not that big of a deal that she was hated on. She needs to get over it like everyone else does.
@@no_one01-5 denying that it happened isn't helpful, but she needs to not be a pussy and get over it. That's just my opinion. 😂
I would like a panel of sorts. A few breakdancers from Australia to give their feedback, their criticism, and their experience during this whole ordeal. From the moment they heard of breakdancing being incorporated in the Olympics to the qualifiers to the actual event. Then break dancers that went to the Olympics and what their experience was. Then hearing from the judges themselves. Because this woman is now being given a platform when talented breakdancers are not.
She’s right in that most of us know nothing about breaking culture. That said, I don’t think I need to know anything other than how absolutely ridiculous it looked. No one hates her but the criticism is well deserved imo.
She would've done better and represented the dance more respectfully by executing the simplest of standard moves. However, what she did was simply an idiotic mockery of some kindergarten child romp.
While I was watching I immediately thought she was purposely making a mockery of break dancing. That she thought it was a big joke to be in the olympics. It's really sad that she thought she was good and that those around her had lied so much to her. Really a sad situation all around. No wonder the olympics aren't bringing it back.
I would love to see Observe and The Behavioral Arts do a collab to cover a topic such as this. It would be so cool to see how their observations align or don’t align.
I am a yt academic in australia who does casual dance classes. the studio I dance at is excellent at acknowledging the history of the street dance styles taught and the importance of keeping the roots in mind while learning and training. Especially because australia doesn’t have a very big african- and latino-american population, it’s important not to ignore that street dance here, including breaking, still emerged from these underprivileged communities in the US, even with the physical separation. I think it’s really crucial for us who come into these spaces from a different and privileged (and caucasian) background to recognise our place and respect the cultural and historical roots, especially if you jump as far into the community as Rachel has.
This is what I think is missing with her? It felt more appropriative than appreciative, like there’s not really a genuine acknowledgement of how breaking was born from struggles she will never experience or fully understand, even if she academically acknowledges it? Idk if this makes sense but that’s what I got while watching both her performances and her interviews.
I can't lie, the jokes are fun. Especially the whole "let's see a normal person in the Olympics" ones. But I wish her the best and hope she's doing okay. This has to be incredibly difficult.
Its not hate. Its ridicule. People feel sorry for her more than they hate her.
This was not just about "dance"... This is about going to the Olympics!
And breakdancing for the first time at the Olympics!
She made it like a joke for all of us that dream about going to the Olympics that's what we're discussed about!
But the fact that the entire country cheered and enabled this delusion on all these years is wild and 🤢
Years back she actually had male competitors question her skills at dance competition. Apparently she was in tears. That should’ve been her sign to give up.
Maybe she thinks she’s Sam Fricker!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@MelaniaRose I wonder what her skill is with her experience in ballroom dancing? If she can't break dance to save her life, then I doubt that she's good at any form of dance TBH.
To my fellow Aussies. If you think Raygun is showing the Australian spirit, can you please keep your mouth shut and not tell the world what our spirit is?
I'm Australian and I do not have Raygun's entitle-delusional ''spirit''.
Notice she only focuses on positivity, no accountability
@@apmpni Sad but true
So she quickly got off the internet and likes all the positive feedback she’s received? Doesn’t this mean she just put herself into her own echo chamber?
This was the Olympics, not a school dance… she’ll get judged like everyone else.
Who wouldn't? Are you ignorant?
Australians and New Zealanders as a base line end a large number if their sentences sounding like a question so you can't read anything into that. (23:44)
Can’t believe she did the sprinkler lol
It’s wild that she can admit that “no one” would understand her style, but still chose to compete with moves that no one, including the judges, would understand. The moves couldn’t be judged at an Olympic level because those moves don’t exist in the sport in which she was competing. Technique, skill level and execution can’t be judged in a competition when the moves have been invented by the performer. This is why she scored a zero.
Awareness of how much time has passed is not the same as self awareness lol that she said it wasn't uncommon for her to never watch her performances seems to imply a voluntary lack of self awareness towards her abilities. It's as if she went to the Olympics on vibes lol
There's no way you're going to convince the entire world that she or her husband did not know somebody that helped her get on the Olympic team. Although there is a unique artistic style to her "Dancing". Breakdancing became a thing when I was a young teen, something we did on a piece of cardboard on the street corner. I have watched it evolved over many years. How any judge could think that this was at a level where she could compete at the Olympics it's mind-boggling.
I do agree she's getting way more hate than she deserves. Because she's a viral trend! For the wrong reasons. And I also believe if you're going to put yourself out there in a public setting in any genre. You have to be prepared for the backlash along with the admiration. Both can be extremely overwhelming.
But as we've learned over the years with social media brings out the worst in people. People will always hide behind their profiles and follow the flow of the comments and start trolling. Social media has allowed bullies to be more prominent without consequence.
But we also have to face the cold hard facts of reality. Even if she was competing in ancient Rome during the very first Olympics. There would be outrage in backlash. Just the consequences might have been dire. This is a human reaction, we still have that animalistic part of our brain.
I do have some empathy for Gunn, but the overwhelming amount of my empathy goes to the breaking community, especially in Australia. For this is going to be a hard incident to overcome. Or to come back to in 4 years at the next Olympics.
I'm glad to see if she's trying to keep the positivity. Yet there's the side that you put yourself on the world stage, and the world is going to wait for an apology. But I don't believe she has the awareness to do so. Unfortunately this incident is always going to hurt the break dancing competition in the Olympics. This was break dancing debut. A statement I was told as a child, has never run more true than now. "If I do something right no one remembers, when I do something wrong no one forgets."
I love the whole “issue”, the controversy, the campness, the craziness, the siliness, the whogivesashitness and THE name Raygun of it! 😂 Love it!!! And the moves tooo 😂❤
Oh wow she was only learning these moves for the last year? That makes a lot of sense. Most Olympic athletes are training their entire lives not just for a year in their mid-thirties. Sad.
Right!? You can't convince me she's the best Australia had to offer when she's just now learning the moves!
shes training for the olympics specifically for a year. But breaking for over 5 years. She looks shit because nobody told her her stuff was bad
@@bboyfocus12 No she specifically said she was learning common moves professionals use for the year before the Olympics. She's just not qualified or talented.
@@Cove_Blue what are you saying no to? It's not a lack of talent when you are doing something 5 years and people around you who never did it can copy it in seconds . Its simply complete delusion. We have a formula to add complexity to movements . She didn't do it. In other words nobody told or showed her
@@bboyfocus12 Did you stop reading at no?
16:30 it makes sense with this situation but overall an athlete or dancer saying they regularly don’t watch back their own performances immediately is a really odd thing to do
Not for dancers and actors. Lots of us don't watch our stuff back or we wait for a period where we're less emotionally invested. A lot of us have coaches and directors we rely on and trust to give feedback in the moment.
@@jordanleighwheatleyactors I get, I know it’s cringy for them to watch themselves playing a role. I just know a lot of dancers and bodybuilders and I’ve done gymnastics and my experience has been different. After the results of a competition they always go to someone who was filming to see what they look like and pinpoint their mistakes
@@insertname193 for me, after a competition, I usually need a day or two before I can watch. Even if I won or placed really well. As an actor, I'm usually ready to watch something when it comes out because it's been months by that point. But it's still a cringe feeling. For dance, maybe it's the style of dance, too, that makes people have different reactions. I do pole and it's a really supportive community but it's quite vulnerable still
@@insertname193 I HATE watching myself on video. I thought it was just me. Before phones had cameras, I was a Microsoft trainer. We would record ourselves & play it back to see our mistakes. It was awful & no one saw it but me.
It made me an excellent trainer, tho.
@@jordanleighwheatley any Olympic level competitor does, which is why she was not qualified for the Olympics. Her and her husband were not at this level.
Australia is a massive and diverse country. One thing I would guess is that there are many break dancers who aren’t able to get to all the comps because of funding despite how talented they are…
" Oh my gosh, what have I done?". The only honest thing she said in my opinion.
Her ability to gaslight herself over and over again, so that she can stay in her day dream where she is that super talented breakdancer, is unbelievable.
She even twists the quote from hip hop legend Spice to make it sound like he was criticizing her for causing a backlash, instead of what the quote actually expresses. It was obvious that he criticized her because she went to the Olympics with this low skill level.
He obviously said that her performance was bad and embarrassing.
But she gaslighted us and herself by saying "I have no control over how people react."
He didn't criticize her for how people reacted, but rather for the fact that she even went to the Olympics, when she is light years away from being at that level.
The main point is she's representing the whole country. Of course people can judge her! It was never about her passion, or bringing awareness to the sport. It was never about her hobby. People cheer on when seeing a runner falls, hurting and limping to the finish line. People love genuine fall guy who apologize that he failed even if he'd tried his best. It appears that she failed and said "Ooops!" When you're representing your country, you're not just you anymore. I think people feel a bit of narcissism in her and that's what they don't like.
The funny part is that her husband was the Olympic coach for breaking and that he trained her. She as been told many times that she sucks, but all she did is call it racism and discrimination. She is an old white lady claiming it was hard for her to learn power moves, yet that is part of breaking. There is a 65 year old man who just started like maybe 6-7 years ago and he can windmill. People love him because he is progressing forward nit making excuses that people just understand breaking like Gunn keeps stating. Her and her husband both need to stop this crap of disrespect. It’s ok to want to learn but do t tell others they don’t understand that you can break. She also control the funding for the grants to get others there but no she didn’t help the outer areas kids to come. I can call her a breaker ok but not world or top, that is just plain lying. She also stated she didn’t think any judges knew her or judged her before. The reason why she won’t compete anymore is because the world knows she just ain’t good, she now has to face it. The woke told her way too many times she was something. Now she has to face her own truths about herself. The fact that she is the most talked about Olympian is just sad. 2024 was a woke joke and this just proved it sad to say. New Zealand judge straight said she was going to get smashed that said something. A 0 is a zero from pros judges who know what breaking is about.
Stop using the word 'woke'. Those who are WOKE tell the Truth.
Would love to see you do one of JoJo Siwa's interviews. She's delusional I think but I'd be interested in what you observe
Equally delulu
What really strikes me as odd is the fact that she keeps going back to this "all the positivity" crap. Unless I've missed something, none (or very few) of the responses and analysis were overly positive. It's like she's trying to highjack the narrative and gaslight everybody. She's like, "l know what everybody saw but this is what REALLY happened and y'all just don't understand.". But people DO know what they saw and people DO understand. I think deep down she actually knows that she shouldn't have been there where her skill level is quite yet. She just doesn't want to admit it.
20:49 Usually I agree with your takes. But this isn't just a thing "the internet needs to be up in arms about" Breakdancing has cultural values to it. It was originated in the african-american and Latino youth group in America. It is a significant part of dance for a large marginalized group. What Raygun did was a mockery of the dance. She made it a joke. It is a sad situation that shows how Australia's Olympic team views breakdancing. Did she deserve death threats and hate, no, but there was a need to show respect to the form of dancing you partake in.
If this woman had any shame whatsoever she would have declined the spot. Nobody on planet earth thinks that she’s a talented dancer except her. But instead of taking ownership of her failure, she’s trying to gaslight the entire world by saying that we don’t understand the genre. If she had apologised, profusely, maybe she wouldn’t be subjected to all this ridicule. But she’s out there milking the system for all it’s worth.
When she speaks of Australia not having a great track record of winning championships, please tell me that she’s only referring to her dancing. Australia has phenomenal sports teams that have achieved the pinnacle of sporting success.
What made people mad was the fact her performance doesn't look like she even tried. It just looks like she is flailing around and making fun of everyone else there.
Break dancing was huge in Australia from the mid 80s. We know what good break dancing looks like. Raygun wasn't good. It was like she had never even seen break dancing before.
The thing is she didn’t deserve to get that spot to go to the Olympics. People thought there must have been a conspiracy or a high level of corruption. Others have to work harder to get there. This is the main reason why people are upset either way her and why her performance is so insulted.
That so called freestyle dance are more like a mating dance.
Heck, even mating dance from birds are much more beautiful than that.
That means nothing, birds are great dancers!
Everyone is much more beautiful than you and your unnecessary comment
@@ApequH Agree. That's a hard fact!
I’m shocked to hear she trained in dance as a child. Her performance at the Olympics showed absolutely no flair for dancing of any kind.
I’m not a break dancer at all, but grew up in the 80s when it was all the rage. Nothing she did looked anything like the breakdancing I remember 🤷♀️
I beleive Olympic contestants should belong to 3 different clubs and can afford the trips abroad, which excluded many less well off breakdancers competing in the Oceana championships.
It was not only her inability but her arrogance and derision that fueled the outcry to her performance.
They only had to be a member of the World Dance Sport federation.
A normal requirement. eg Swimmers need to be a member of Swimming Australia
The Oceania qualifier was in Sydney. Not overseas
So true. She’s also a narcissistic
With Raygun's PhD in dance theory, she seems to be the epitome of, "if you can't do, teach." 😅 Looking forward to this analysis!
I thought this exact thing.
As a horrible artist, I have a degree in art history.
But I KNOW I’m not a great artist.
That's true, some people can teach and are better teachers than fighters, and some fighters are better at fighting and competitions than being teachers or being instructors. For example Mike Tyson is much better as a heavy weight boxer competing, but as a coach and instructor he's not that good.
WAIT....wait....that's what her PhD is in???
Even worse she fed cultural reference into her 'piece'. One has to wonder if this was a reason for her successful application. Seems to completely ignore the cultural beginnings of the dance form she utterly defaced, and dare I say make a mockery of the decent aboriginals she's supposedly dancing for.
@@marieleelee To be fair, her PHD is in dance THEORY, not performance. She understands the technical moves, but her execution is HORRIBLE.
This is what happens when every child wins a prize.
It seems she doesn’t feel embarrassment. Is that a thing? She does say she never watched her own battles and I feel like that was her biggest mistake. She could have learned a long time ago that she simply doesn’t have the talent and the vibe of “breaking” no matter how much she practiced that would never go away. The fact that she keeps saying that the world doesn’t understand “breaking”/ break dancing is insane. We all know break dancing when we see it and that was not it. It was a sad attempt.
I am he same age, I would be impressed with myself if I could do her routine..... that does NOT mean I think I should enter any competitions let alone the OLYMPICS 😂
I guess Australia also has a gunn problem.
This woman should be ashamed of herself. Look at all the Gymnastics from the 80s and 90s and how they were talented! Shame on her!
Holding her very own dance competitions with no other participants doesn't count as winning. It doesn't count as losing either so I'm surprised she didn't claim to be undefeated.
Spot on assessment as usual Logan 💗 and I had no clue about this so I love when u teach me things that r going on
Her: I had to go with what I was good at.
The world: that wasn’t good
Her: you didn’t understand it.
She said she doesn't watch video footage of any of her battles. 🙄 Wouldn't a dancer or competitor want to watch a playback of their battles to improve their technique??
Great analysis on her body language and tonality. IMHO it's a tough and tricky situation, to me she seems like some level of dunning Kruger but enough self confidence to enter the Olympics of her own volition and encouragement of her husband. IMO there are bigger factors here at play like epistemology(how do we know at all?)and expected standards of a field(in this case what's the standard and consensus for break dancing? What makes good and bad break dancing, and is it in a spectrum?)
Honestly the most cringe part of this saga, is how everyone's treating her like a scapegoat when we can easily point to other events in this Olympics, from the opening ceremony, to some events that are far cringe worthy than this. IMHO she doesn't deserve this level of hate and ridicule when this Olympics is enough hate and ridicule already.
In regards to the breaking, the fact there were several criteria and multiple judges and Rachel didn't score particularly highly in many of them suggests there is good and bad break dancing, and her performance is an example of bad breaking. I'm also confused as to how she's won competitions before and how she was chosen to represent what should be the pinnacle performer.
@@mamacito1795 Sure, there were several criteria to break dancing, standards used by judges, all within Paris Olympics. My main gripe with this still are a few unanswered questions like: Which standard of break dancing are the judges using? USA? EU? Which standard from which consensus? Also even if she didn't score highly in many of them, IDK if this really suggests good/bad break dancing and her performance being an example of bad break dancing when we're comparing and contrasting her to current competing break dancers in that competition, even to past historical break dancers that are uniquely gifted and moved very technically and smoothly or quickly or even tensely than her. So when we compare/contrast as audience members, plus when judges compare/contrast based on a metric I and we don't know about, can we really say she definitively is bad at break dancing?
@@danielnelson3136 but why does that matter? Each performer was from a different country, each may have its own standards. So let's say this was a neutral "olympic" one. The playing field was still level. Rachel was being compared against her competitor in each criteria and she did not do well. Another of your comments said many criticising her are likely no better at breaking than her. That's more than likely true. But you don't need to be a chef to know your food is over salted nor be a surgeon to feel a doctor hasn't done their job well if they removed the wrong kidney. You don't need to be a world class breaker to compare Ray guns performance to the other performances at the same event to see she's severely lacking in skill when technically she should be theoretically as good as the others.
I wondered what wpuld have happened if she had been male? Would the committee have let him through? But also, would the hatred have been as off the charts ? There are lessons to learn here, no less the bizarrely rapid formation of what I have to say looks and feels like a witchhunt! This, in my opinion, is of far greater concern than some shit moves
@@Bibichnya I agree that this event is a good lesson on epistemology. Like if we changed her demographics around, or even personality, would the backlash be more or less? How would we know? How would we make sense of this situation and which method of understanding is valid? Also, yes on the witch-hunt! Like we're so preoccupied with hating/trolling/cyber bullying her, but much less time reflecting and seeing how we sometimes play into this witch hunt dynamic.
So, obviously, the torrential downpour of hate is not even close to equal to the alleged crime. She doesn't deserve to be harassed or bullied. And I almost feel bad for laughing so hard at her and the subsequent (awesome) memes. Almost. It was just too funny. I can't help myself.
True, we are supposed to just play along and be serious when folks are delusional so as not to upset them. Woke.
She did deserve it though. She overshadowed the event and other dancers. Instead of helping the next generation of dancers she instead thought she was better than everyone 😂
@@MelaniaRose I don't think she deserved the amount of hate that she got for what she did. A little bit of ribbing, fine, but to have the whole internet jump on you for...dancing in the Olympics is wild. I agree that she is smug and annoying. But I don't think the punishment fit the crime.
@@sarahg2653she deserved all of it. She made a mockery of an art by a people she isn’t even a part of and then tries to gaslight everyone else into thinking we’ve just misunderstood her art. She did not belong there and took the spot from someone who was actually talented
@@AmbyJeans Okay.
8:28 - Just a note here, the breakdancing routines weren't "created." Breakdancing competitions (and breaking in general) rely on improvisation, and this was the case for the Olympics, too. The dancers weren't going into the competition with a fully choreographed routine (unlike other artistic sports in the Olympics). The dancers also didn't know the song they'd get until it played. This is why you'll see the breakers take time to get a feel for the music before going for their first touch (i.e., first turn).
I heard of her getting zero points and just now watched the performance against Syssy from France. As a dancer interested in breakdance, I didn't find her dance to be necessarily awful (though, it definitely didn't reach the technical level Syssy showed, nor was her musicality up to par). The thing that really bothered me and that would cause me to give her zero points, regardless of what skill level she performed at (which was, admittedly, lower than expected), was that she was yawning when her competitor was dancing. I've only ever seen breakers hype each other up when it's their competitors' touch, and that's how it should be. The blatant lack of sportsmanship with the yawns - no matter how played up/hyperbolic/cheeky it was meant to be - did not sit well with me. Not to mention, there was a huge latency between her touch being done and giving her competitor the floor, as well as that one time where she didn't make it clear if she was done her second touch or not (Syssy even started dancing, only for RayGun to start dancing again for a few seconds, forcing Syssy to stop). Those behaviours show a lack of dance/breakdance etiquette - at least, as far as I'm aware of it, based on my observations from other breakdance competitions. All that said, it was her attitude I had a problem with, not so much her dancing itself (especially since breakdancing is improvisation, it might've been some nerves playing a role there, too).
Edit to add: I just watched two of RayGun's Oceania battles (the final against Molly and the top 8 against Fizzy). In those battles, she showed a higher level of technical prowess (some pretty cool musicality moments and freezes in her battle with Fizzy, especially). In the final, she was a bit sloppier, and I could see some of the sloppiness from Paris come through a bit. Molly had some more "impressive" moves, but I think she ran out of steam in the final round/touch - that's where RayGun pulled more votes and got the win. That said, I don't really think Molly would've placed better than RayGun in Paris; it seems the b-girls competing in Oceania didn't have the skill b-girls from other countries have. Interestingly, I didn't see any of the weird yawning "performances" from RayGun in the Oceania videos, and she even hyped up Fizzy quite a bit during their battle. She even cleared the stage properly after her touch was finished to make space for the other dancers. Perhaps there was a bit of a sense of inferiority in the Olympics that caused the need to be cheeky in such a way (re: yawning) and maybe nerves just got the better of her in terms of not following "proper" dance battle etiquette.
Thanks For this! Love your analizis❤❤❤❤
I wonder if she ever competed outside of Australia and if she did what was her ranking there, because it seems like the bar wasn’t too high in Australia and just competing there didnt help her grow in the art of breakdancing
Millie Vanilli was cheering her on
Milli Vanilli wanted to sing on their tracks and were duped by their label, not even knowing that their voices weren't being used until the first single was out. One of them died of a drug overdose after the controversy. Wouldn't say that's comparable.
No they weren't...
@@GayleenFroeseexactly
I don't condone the backlash and level of hate she got, that must have been horrible... BUTTTT, I also think she did not handle the response from public gracefully. Breaking is a disappearing art form and while there could very well be different versions/ interpretations of this form, she was just unqualified for that level, simple. She could have reduced some hate if she had just been a bit more humble in her responses, genuinely showed emotions towards disappointing the breaking community and just said that she will keep learning more about it instead of showing how crazy/ uncalled for the responses were or saying how she's all misunderstood but so qualified for doing this, or "its not on me" when she single handedly made the entire country look stupid...ugh. Girl, get it together. Her contempt towards genuine feedback is very telling.
Exactly. Her defence of “people just don’t understand my style!” “I had to focus on my strengths!” Rather than acknowledge the embarrassment she caused a country and the damage she did to her own breaking community.
Breakdancing isn’t disappearing 😂
@nainafavs I find it offputting when (I think I saw this quote) she said I knew I could win with moves, so i went for artistic style. Or something along those lines, meaning she really didn't put 100% effort into competing, I would find that disingenuous to the competition, why even go then if you weren't going to put your heart in.
@@Sunshine0235 exactly. She had no rhythm or skills for breaking.
@@Sunshine0235 Exactly. Not only it's disrespectful to the art form but also wasting a spot on such a prestigious platform with someone who is ridiculously egotistical of their skill levels, instead of giving this spot to someone who genuinely has love and passion for giving their best.
She has no rhythm, no grace and no creativity, yet she wants people to praise her.
I'm sorry but in one of the clips they showed of her competing you can see her husband is one of the judges so you (the proverbial) won't be able to convince me that they didn't use their positions and privileges to get her a spot that she didn't deserve and I also doubt the legitimacy of her other wins.
This wasn’t the video I woke up today thinking you were gonna release, but I am most certainly here to watch it!
Dr. Gunn's (she has a PhD) body language leans toward someone who is not used to being criticized even in a positive/learning experience type of way. Odd, considering her (self-reported?) competitive background. Animosity regarding her inclusion on Australia's team should be directed at the judges whose ratings allowed her to complete at the 2024 Olympics, plus the confusing convoluted Olympic scoring system for this sport. Directing negative comments or harassment at Rachael Gunn, her family and friends gains nothing for this sport. A good place to start learning is by listening to experts such as Ivan "FLIPZ" Velez on how the scoring can be improved.
39:54 it’s so crazy that during the closing ceremony when everyone was pushing her to do the kangaroo, she thinks that they love her and genuinely liked that move and doesn’t realize that everyone was laughing AT her… fascinating
I don't remember hate hate for her, was mostly people filming themselves mocking her dance
In the Australian media the hate has been huge. Sky News in particular likes to whip up outrage culture. I for one don’t care and hope for a movie in the vein of The Castle, Australia’s greatest cinematic masterpiece. Or in the very least an episode on Australian Epic musical series, the Steven Bradbury episode is a thing of beauty.
Plucky, courageous and fun doesn't feel like him say, "YES! You nailed it" to me. It almost has more of a, "well, you tried. And bless your heart" kind of feel to it. "Come on my cruise and see what the hell all of this hype is about." Thats more like what it comes off as to me.
Like the circus side show