Australian Breakdancer Raygun Breaks Silence Over Criticism After Routine | 2024 Olympics | E! News

[@Beccaheckawatches]

“What I bring is creativity.” Miss ma’am, you still scored 0 in creativity.

[@Dokindam]

💀💀💀

[@MyNameisNeo-w3x]

😂

[@yawzerdoink-a-sore-as]

The judges are racist!

[@Dargoneth]

She said she worked her butt off but then why is it still so big? If you watch other athletes, they always achieved the perfect body structure for their discipline. With her it really looks like she's a mom who volunteered in the crowd to go up there..

[@DoktrDub]

@@Dargonethhmm not sure, I mean I’ve seen female breakdancers with a butt of similar size but still make her look like a clueless amateur… maybe it can act as a counter weight in this discipline? 😂 either way my point is, she can’t use the butt-too-big excuse, she just isn’t very good at it regardless, don’t blame her too much though, blame the Olympics, they chose her to compete

[@randalkihei9261]

raygun says doing the water sprinkler is original and innovative. The judges was spot on giving her a big zero.

[@aliengranpa]

Calling that the water sprinkler is very generous of you! 😁

[@SilentJaguar]

Isn't it a Cobra?

[@Dan-di9jd]

@@randalkihei9261 yeah I’m surprised the media isn’t bringing up that she got a 0 but instead blaming people for pointing out what a horrible act it was. She got a zero plus ruined it for her peers who might have had hope to go because they’re not even doing breakdance in the 2028 Olympics.

[@ronin1648]

@@Dan-di9jd this "sport" was always a joke

[@decemruiz211]

😂

[@lorenzlorenzo1975]

You gotta give her credit for providing material to all stand-up comedians on the planet.

[@trinsit]

If she gets consequences for corruption, then sure. Until then, she gets zero points

[@cool_cat007smoove3]

She sure did 😂😂

[@wxxcable]

In a wrong place

[@RA_Mille]

Wait, I thought she WAS doing a comedy-parody routine. Is she saying she thinks she is a real professional break dancer?

[@realolivertwisted]

The gaslighting by Australia’s Olympic chief is INSANE. *WE HAVE EYES!!!*

[@sonnythebigdummy6151]

Golden comment.

[@theresat9377]

😂😂😂

[@PsalmCourier]

Right? Like we cant see the fking video and like weve never seen actual breakdancing.

[@saytas8302]

Just cuz you love a person dont mean you gotta send her to the olympics.

[@luckyspec2274]

no, it is because you love them, you don't send them to the olympics to fail...he must really hate her 😅💀

[@richardwalley2862]

Needs to be investigated for fraud. She should have never got as far as she did.

[@deandrejenkins9725]

Fax she owns the company that qualified her for the Olympics

[@TheCubingDatabase]

I really do not understand this narrative. Her husband is not the coach- She doesn't own any club that ran the Oceanic Championship. I don't get how everyone is just going along with this pretty far fetched idea.

[@irvintu5869]

What a confusing world we are living in these days, delusion is seen as courage, incompetence is interpreted as creativity, rudeness is seen as honesty or the other way around, politeness is seen as weakness.

[@sabitdeng1871]

so true, a strange world we live in today

[@KillKenny09]

Idiocracy all over the place...

[@aClownBaby-]

So true. Some people say the most delusional, hating garbage while scamming people but “Hey at least he’s honest 🤪”

[@bonzita23]

Yep, incompetent bias people took over the world, but hey at least she is faking it in dancing, imagine if she decided to be a doctor or a surgeon....

[@maulerkahn]

Wow

[@alondraarellano3737]

She took a spot from someone who actually knew how to break dance

[@anac9617]

Me! I got lost when the preliminaries were being held, unfortunately someone gave me the wrong address for the event 😢

[@duckymans7604]

I mean..... yea she did, but they let that happen. So I don't really feel that bad.

[@RobinJusticeWoods]

The girl she went up against in the qualifiers, I think her name was Holy Molly or something like that, was way better than Raygun. I watched the last round and she easily beat Raygun.

[@RS-ob1vr]

​@@RobinJusticeWoods I saw that as well ! That Holly molybwss a 100 times better than her 😮it,s such a shame she had to go in looking like a tennis ball girl and do such a whack routine.

[@duckymans7604]

@spatty918 provide a link that proves this claim.

[@zer0cx110]

Her lack of accountability is insane…

[@_BangDroid_]

She's talentless for sure but was given an opportunity to compete, maybe foolishly. Why she was given this opportunity is where criticism needs to be applied. You let any talentless person compete in the Olympics, they're going to embarrass themselves and their country exactly the same way.

[@DoktrDub]

@@peanut1001xtrust me save you anger, there is people out there worth hating much more than a crappy breakdancer.

[@jeanniemariealfred8652]

If this is the level of talent you needed to qualify and represent Australia, then most of the country should have qualified.

[@luckyspec2274]

she had the younger ages banned from being allowed to try out

[@missymani]

The rest of the population must not have limbs if she is the best 😂

[@JosedeJezeus]

This is what happens when I new event is added to the Olympics.

[@jeanniemariealfred8652]

@@missymani 😂🤣

[@meowMix03]

@@luckyspec2274hope she realizes how selfish. I doubt it tho. They usually stay that way

[@KatharineShaw-z8u]

She is a 36 year old University lecturer who beat girls half her age to go to Paris. Suspicious.

[@LifeSucksButILoveIt85]

Unfortunate part is she didnt beat anyone because her and her husband are con artist, they failed to let everyone else know this was even happening.

[@Haterade420]

Paid off judges

[@Pgt93]

Lol. What is suspicious about that?

[@lMobiuscidl]

​@@Pgt93that she bribed judges.

[@lMobiuscidl]

​@@Pgt93that's she bribed judges at the minor comps.

[@frankonev9704]

I think the person competing next to her deserves a medal for not laughing

[@radiantstrength]

Bruhh her husband is the organiser of the Australian olympic team. Both deserve to be imprisoned for fraud. Putting down actual teams like nt youlong boys and taking all funding from their competition. For this miserable representation of none sense.

[@boomerbloomer]

😂😂😂

[@Dargoneth]

Hhahaha 🤣

[@Clayton-Bigsby]

Internet trolls? The entire planet thought the same thing 😂

[@alexaraya2018]

yeah those people are horrendous, what do you call them? not visually impaired, yeah how being able to see entitles them to form an opinion on reality? Ray Gun you have the support of every person who didn´t or couldn´t see your performance.

[@Clayton-Bigsby]

@@alexaraya2018 no she doesn’t but you’re entitled to such opinions

[@JamesBond-i2n]

​@@alexaraya2018That's beyond ridiculous. You must be liberal

[@ZenCorvus]

These people are trolls, themselves.

[@sbss924]

WE were confused in America. 😂

[@Ken_neThT]

Not just her, I'm disappointed at the Olympics committee for defending this mess. It's one thing to be delusional. It's another to encourage delusion.

[@ChickVicious237]

Exactly!

[@poopsmith6853]

Her husband helped choose her

[@nebwachamp]

Ur gonna hate what happened in womens boxing then.

[@KatarinaS.]

​@@nebwachampwhat happened?

[@thecreek7152]

The breakdancing genre was supposed to honor breakdancing SKILL -- not some Aussie's "creative interpretation". Seeing how "creative" she thinks she is, I seriously expect her to compete in the NEXT Olympics in the synchronized swimming category. Why not? Look how talented she is . . .

[@SAMMl]

Creativity? Even my 3 year old nephew can bunny hop, do the sprinkler and throw tantrums on the floor. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Sisima13]

I’m sure your Nephew would have done a better job than what’s this lady did 😭

[@JasonweedQ3]

Don't forget the kangaroo 😂

[@flapper883]

😂😂😂

[@laurab6418]

I’m 200% sure your 3 year old nephew would have done better than her! She looked like she was having a seizure and muscle spasms on that floor 😬

[@Mary-CeceliaPrado]

ummmm excuse me it was a KANGAROO hop

[@LizzyAlexis]

If this happened in gymnastics, there would be an uproar. Why are news outlets praising this? Raygun's performance mocked breakdancing, but we're made to be the trolls for calling her out.

[@1978dodge383]

Leftist politics. Rinse repeat

[@havasubooo8840]

exactly

[@teegees]

She did mock breaking but there’s a lot of truth in what she did - most of what I saw from most of the Olympic competitors was pretty amateurish. There’s tons better on KZbin than what I saw. I think Rachel trolled the entire world, Borat style.

[@CuriousCritter17]

They are laughing just like the rest of us. It’s about attention.

[@Roomer645]

That's what Woke does ....

[@bobbyhillthe3rd]

The Olympics is for the best of the best, she had no business being there, she even admitted to only spending 30 mins on her routine. Made a joke of Australia to the entire world

[@chrisnoname2725]

No she didn’t. Australia is a joke for sending her. You got it the wrong way around

[@nowthenad3286]

Maybe the Australians have enough self-confidence to withstand having a break dancer who has a sense of humour.

[@thesteveus]

No, the Olympics was made a joke when they allowed breakdancing in the games.

[@awee1234]

I think Breakdance is more than just „being the best of the best“. It‘s about culture also. And she is an expert on this culture, intellectually at least (she has published several papers, especially one about the relationship of breakdancing and olympics in 2023). So while it is always questionable when a street culture becomes mainstream, I think she accompanied this process with her nerdy punch in the face. She is just a nerd b-girl

[@tysontschauner6142]

Maybe you don't understand what the Olympics are .actually scratch that .I'm flat out telling u ,you don't understand what tge Olympics are

[@shadypelican]

Calling people who criticize her as "keyboard warriors" isn't accurate. A keyboard warrior is someone who would never say what they say online to their target in person. That is not the case here. Not only would I criticize her to her face, I would also be more than willing to have a dance-off with her as well.

[@fatteddymcgintee2516]

This is the perfect specimen of a society that isn’t allowed to criticize or comment on something which is inherently stupid and a waste of time. Spare everyone’s feelings and give everyone a medal for how special they are regardless of ability. A Brave New World incarnate. “Raygun” ladies and gentlemen

[@michaelwilliams9700]

Only works for wyt people.....

[@elliegee8346]

I can say, as an Australian, her attendance at the Olympics is a gigantic waste of tax payer funding and a complete embarrassment.

[@SmashingJack]

Not a total waste. We got memes out of it.

[@joelm4847]

@@SmashingJack it’s the best thing from the trash olympics

[@rahkriga]

Australia has handled the hip hop culture EXTREMELY poorly. You guys should leave hip hop alone. Seriously. Its disrespectful and downright clownish at this point. Just stop.

[@berkeliumk]

Corruption exposed!

[@martincarlberg9671]

Imagine being a female breakdancer in Australia when they promote RayGun as the best they have to offer.😢😅

[@jeremyroberts39]

Methinks they're probably all emigrating 😅

[@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457]

She wasn't the best..... something went wrong with selection

[@mauriciocatonartabe6116]

@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457 it was a scam

[@hitiming]

@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457yes, it was rigged

[@0utcast]

they really need to stick to swimming/diving, sailing.

[@MrBill-ee4mr]

Isn't it crazy how people blame sexism, yet there were many women that were impressive and no one is giving them a hard time.

[@martincarlberg9671]

Thats the world we live in today, women are not capable of being or doing anything wrong or bad…

[@aspengreen4319]

It’s very few people calling it sexist.. I hate people like that pretending that’s what feminism is 🤦

[@Simply_Ralfy]

Sexism? Who said that? But I agree the women rocked it. I was super surprised by B-girls India, 671 and Ami so dope creative. The men's event also spectacular. But Raygun shouldn't have been there but you know what if Team Australia felt that was there best Bgirl to represent then hey 🤷🏽‍♂️ but don't they have to compete prior to even get into the Olympics. I think for sure this was just a test run. But Raygun should not get hate. Matter of fact I couldn't even do her moves 😂 so shout out to her for doing her best. But the sad part that pisses me off they won't have breaking in 2028 los angels and maybe not even in Brisbane Australia 2032. So what was the point. All the breakers probably where thinking yes I could go in 2028 or 2032 or in the future. But now nothing. Super dumb on California for rejecting it. Like breaking came out of America the bronx then it hit every city then world wide. God knows when the Olympics coming back to America after 2028. You kno what, they should do what they did for surfing the Olympics was in Paris but surfing was in Tahiti. I bet if Cali spoke to the bronx. They could just set up something nice at any location or gym or armory in the bronx or Manhattan. Just dumb for not wanting to continue it. EVEN THOUGH THEY MENTIONED ALOT OF PEOPLE WHERE WATCHING and the top heads In Paris loved it and said it was "exhilarating" Breaking is basically gymnastics but cooler.

[@MrBill-ee4mr]

@@aspengreen4319 there are many people in the media calling is sexist. Just like the media calling you sexist if you don't like kamala.

[@MrBill-ee4mr]

​@@Simply_Ralfy1:13 they cut that part out but during her interview she said it was sexism. You csn find the full clip on youtube. This channel just likes to hide the truth of ehat people say

[@douglaspinsak1246]

She was not “unconventional”, she was awful and devoid of real talent. The fact that she was in the Olympics is parody-level absurd. The only legitimate reason for her to be in the Olympics is if this was Australia’s way of protesting breakdancing as an Olympic sport; i.e. they sent her as a mockery, which may actually be what happened.

[@ghana1823]

This woman says, She loves Raygun's courage, & she loves her, but she said nothing about loving what she did. Because there was NOTHING to like.😂

[@stevenbrooks8983]

"What I bring is creativity." Your literally just plagiarizing every 4 year old tantrum.

[@peanut_toast999]

😂😂😂 knew it looked familiar

[@lindazhang1733]

My 3yr old had more moves and tricks when throwing a tantrum on our kitchen floor, he’s more entertaining to watch than her.

[@drowningpooralice5505]

Never thought I'd have second hand embarrassment for kangaroos.

[@Rebecca-qj4kv]

She embarrassed her country and deflected attention from Team Australia's medal achievements. The is a deluded fool.

[@joeng4057]

Chill 😂

[@James-kd7dc]

This Olympics was doomed from the start.

[@cbtowers4841]

Not only that, she’s deflecting attention from actual champion bgirls and bboys who worked so hard to show their craft in the Olympics. 😢

[@ArnyRimmer]

It was a clasic Aussie humor. The best on the world.

[@bamjohnsonbam14]

People work their ENTIRE LIFE for a moment on an Olympic stage, and especially considering it was BRAND NEW, to make basically a joke out of it is insane. And to make others that worked so hard for it WATCH YOU ACT A FOOL is even crazier. Step further then for the coach to encourage it/try to replace blame back onto “trolls” is just ridiculous. She made a mockery of it and should have opted out if she ACTUALLY felt she had no chance. If you had no chance, there were probably thousands of women who would have killed for and killed the competition. She should be ashamed and this is not an act of courage in the slightest. And that’s coming from a black American woman. I’d never encourage my daughter to make a fool of herself and/or others

[@Unpopularopinion2024]

One time, I walked into a spider web and instantly became my Olympic moment flailing, spinning, and performing moves I didn’t even know I had in me.

[@nineteenfortyeight]

I tripped over a bag of yard waste while carrying it down a hill once. Olympic moment!

[@Dargoneth]

I once took of my shoes and socks at the beach and underestimated how scorching hot the sand was and did some olympic worthy moves as well 😌

[@claymenefee6999]

I think she thought break dancing was in the realm of interpretive dance

[@MJ-fj9yv]

Like Black face? 😂 Somethings you just don’t do if you respect other people’s culture.

[@peenoice5176]

Yep, she has a phd in dancing or something.

[@dominiquecamara3089]

Well, break dancing really is a type of interpretive dance, but what she did still isn't it

[@moniqueb8545]

I think she thought break dancing was rolling around on the floor and occasionally touching her chin or the brim of her cap.

[@DJTikiMillions7]

😂😂😂

[@australien6611]

Courage doesn't involve bringing shame on yourself and your country

[@weeeeee-ol2xt]

Self-delusion isn't courage.

[@kwallsmall25]

She is the coolest Aussie I’ll ever know!

[@khankake9576]

How did she bring shame on her country?

[@No-Lie-I-Want-To-Die]

She has no shame.

[@No-Lie-I-Want-To-Die]

​@@khankake9576By failing at Break Dancing in the Olympic games.

[@patrickmccoleman5835]

I'm embarrassed for her 🤦

[@carolegreen9938]

I'm embarrassed for Australia

[@lindaferguson630]

@@carolegreen9938 Don't be. Most Aussies have a sense of humour.

[@ilikeoldladies7829]

@@lindaferguson630clearly they don’t

[@ruthsaunders9507]

@@lindaferguson630 Their memes about her have been hilarious.

[@danielbirdhead1239]

I was too…until she doubled down on this hilarious debacle 😂. The lesson here is if you’re not going to simply own up to being ridiculously unskilled, don’t say anything. At all 😂

[@BuildLancer]

"I was never going to beat these girls" so basically she saying she got in to one of the biggest competitions of her life and decided not to try

[@xboxrules8472]

The only trolling was her trolling the "sport"

[@Devon-sx5dj]

As a B boy in my youth, at the dawn of the art and the culture itself it's insulting for her to have made a mockery of it in front of the world.

[@B77548]

Breakdancing is already embarrassing enough as it is without her...

[@airpunchrc3978]

Interested to hear what year the dawn of said art was for you? Because for me it was 1985 with actual boom boxes.

[@TheDrukkus]

That was an absolute mockery to all B Boys.

[@TheLeatheryman]

In 1984 we did moves in the high school hall at lunch that would have at least won her a bronze if she could pull them off.

[@dan5626]

​@@B77548This. It becoming a Olympic sport is beyond ridiculous. I imagine it is the result of a group of White upper-class burocrats in a room trying to find a way to make it more "hip" and "current".

[@milambo9276]

How did she qualify to the Olympics?? 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@godmadenotredameno1]

She is a PHd in cultural movement. She didn't qualify as Australia didn't have anyone else.

[@michaelb347]

Her husband and her conned the community Look into it. It was awful . I feel bad for the people of her nations

[@camilladelavega7853]

My thoughts exactly 😂

[@NofaceCat]

What are you? How did she qualify? You don’t have to qualify nowadays. You could be a man and pay home. You’re a girl. It’s all BS qualify. Give me a qualified knucklehead to watch it.

[@CountryFenderBass]

She was picked as a DEI prospect and her woke ideas

[@J-WHO312]

Turns out her and her husband were the organizers of the tryout’s for olympic breakdancing. And she won every event they held. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@Elizabeth-n3v2u]

That's a shocking lack of oversight.

[@rebeccaavoca9143]

lolllllllllll

[@Inosuke_Hashibira75]

😂😂😅

[@autumnleaf3667]

She was trolling, I thought it was hilarious

[@one7decimal2eight]

This is what happens when you live in a bubble where no one tells you that you suck. Woman: Am I fat? Friends...no you look great! Totes not fat. You keep doing you, queen! Man: am I fat? Friends...I know 5 fat people, and you're 4 of them.

[@tomrock7019]

True

[@rita2774]

Her husband was literally the main reason she got to compete. Relax.

[@chelseapoet3664]

It's utterly dim to frame this mediocre dancer as the victim when if anyone should have our sympathy it's almost every other female breakdancer in Australia, who would have deserved a place more than her.

[@wikcr]

Thank you - a shameful report

[@TheMangoMovement]

She is a victim in the sense that international humiliation isn't an appropriate punishment for being bad

[@Jaykun09]

​@@TheMangoMovement It's a predictable consequence of doing what she did on a global stage. It's unreasonable to expect people to just not have opinions on what they've been shown.

[@coltonruscheinsky7863]

And non-dancer

[@TheMangoMovement]

@@Jaykun09 it's also Australia's fault for not stopping her from getting to the Olympics. She assumed she was good because she got that far.

[@benzini6708]

She broke her silence after failing to "break"dance 😂

[@J-WHO312]

💀

[@janiceshepherd7752]

😂

[@spencerosei2616]

😅😅😅

[@inidbil7277]

Legendary comment

[@NicholasLatipi]

Just another woke going broke (she broke the record)

[@eat.food.not.friends]

We shouldn't criticize her performance because she's "nice"?

[@demetricehall]

Everything people of color create is not for everybody. I hate when we create something and others try to imitate it, redefine it, and tell us what it is. Just Stop! This is not Breakin!

[@MiguelLopez-om8mb]

Her husband and friends were on the committee to get her to the Olympics. She simply had a free vacation and a spot from someone who actually had talent. Classic case of pulling strings and entitlement.

[@bluntlyhonest3157]

“All my moves are original” That doesn’t mean they are any good 😂

[@trevorcorkery]

Breaking isn't interpretive dance. Its not about art. It's about athleticism.... which is WHY IT WAS IN THE OLYMPICS!!!

[@kabodick]

Exactly!!!

[@Bibirallie]

It shouldn’t be in the Olympics.

[@drnanard9605]

It's both tho. It is art. And it's also athleticism.

[@friedsugar2701]

Breaking is about interpretation and art, hence the marks on music and stuff. Just like Gymnastics is subjective, the point is her interpretation and "ART" was horrible. Again, breaking has cultural significance.

[@friedsugar2701]

@@Bibirallie Absolutely, it is super subjective and just not a sport.

[@memania-]

Creativity is important to the judges as well. Zero, she got zero.

[@mariamaria2751]

She did the T rex a diss

[@MegaDoomer101]

She took a spot from someone who works hard and deserved to be there. I bet she could fight off a whole army of wasps though

[@PianomanMusic96]

She did not TAKE ANYTHING OFF ANYONE. Someone gave her the place. They are at fault

[@maxo1124]

She gave the spot for herself... Corruption people call it

[@drnanard9605]

She didn't. The only other candidate was even worse. There was no one else.

[@crispy876]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@Bowl849]

⁠@@drnanard9605so you’re saying the out of 26 million people, only two people knew (used this term very loosely) how to breakdance?

[@nicomeier8098]

Wait what? She was . . . . break dancing? Like I read in another post: "she looked like my grandma stroking out on the floor".

[@alanmorris7669]

Nobody wants to play her unedited dance routine because it's too embarrassing for them.

[@athenagriego4561]

NO! STOP ✋️ enabling this. Its no wonder she continues doing this. People keep telling her shes good. Shes not !

[@cool_cat007smoove3]

Indeed 👍

[@juliocalzada1419]

She’s a full grown women and should be ashamed of herself…. Unbelievable what people do for attention.

[@aussiejubes]

Why should she be ashamed? There's no shame in what she did. Embarrassed yes, & she'll definitely be that.

[@lpointmpoint3736]

Full grown? Well past that. She's a middle aged woman.

[@Bar-bar-a.]

Adults gotta be more childlike sometimes for fun...its feels really good!

[@danidiaz2377]

Men. Are .always. so fixated on women’s ages

[@corvus1970]

Woman, singular. "Women" is plural.

[@morganmenser6773]

"i OnLy dO oRiGinAL mOvEs" Does the sprinkler..... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thegorn]

Was it a Pope or Gardena? Fans need to know.

[@Inosuke_Hashibira75]

😂😂😂

[@tobyzhang5481]

I thought the Olympics was a competition of sports, not art and creativity

[@mrvgstyle2442]

I was going to say.

[@talullah1065]

Have you seen other performances by professional breakdancers? It takes incredible skill and an insane level of strength and stamina.

[@wutang23361]

This was a absolute disgrace to the art

[@falconmclenny7284]

Art, culture, country, you name it.

[@DarellDavie1]

Yep.😅

[@ruebenthomas6496]

Talk about cultural appropriation, how many young girls wanted and deserved that opportunity, and would have represented the sport with beauty and dignity. She stole their true chance at a dream.

[@drnanard9605]

She didn't. She won her spot by being better than the others. The real tragedy here is that Australian girls don't know how to breakdance.

[@ruebenthomas6496]

@@drnanard9605 Her husband sponsored the tryout competition, it was arranged for her to win. I promise there's video coming out of better girls than her.

[@marcomartins3563]

Breaking has no beauty or dignity

[@AA-wq5sm]

I don’t see how cultural appropriation is relevant, since breakdancing has its origins in America doesn’t that mean every other country is culturally appropriating as well?

[@InfernoProj]

@@drnanard9605have you watched her qualifying matches? She gets absolutely destroyed. She was not better than anyone. She is extremely privileged.

[@Timorias]

I don’t understand. HOW DID SHE GET TO THIS POINT? I’m not even talking about the people who lied to her about to her skills. I’m talking about the judges. HOW did she get through qualifiers for the *olympics* . Like I can understand random judges here and there throughout her career giving her points for “creativity” but that doesn’t explain her making it to the top.

[@Grrovejet99]

She's white

[@micheal4388]

Her husband was the judge for the competitions in Australia. She also only let her friends compete so she could beat them and didn’t have to go up against anyone with actual skills

[@LH74]

Her husband was a judge in the qualifiers! She was the CEO of the group sponsoring the qualifiers.

[@greysuit17]

It’s the best Australia has

[@godzgr8]

The university that employs her needs to stop. What a joke.

[@Forever18or21]

Sometimes you should listen to the haters.

[@jonathansmith8192]

The fact she gets paid to essentially know nothing about what she teaches is hilarious.

[@athenagriego4561]

She looks like an SNL charactor making fun of a real person.

[@Monica-fg9iw]

Nowadays mediocrity is called creativity. Olimpic games are about being beyond the excelence.

[@LiwaySaGu]

she's a woke lecturer what do you expect 😂

[@AirLancer]

@@LiwaySaGu Can you even define woke?

[@annemorgenstern6070]

I'd say your spelling is below mediocrity. 😂

[@Rocketman-c7b]

​@@AirLancerhardline leftists

[@veryberry39]

​@@LiwaySaGu Nice try, little Russia bot

[@siamsimte007]

Olympics isn't a place for showing artistry. It's a serious competition. How you got your Degree from the University has raised a big question.

[@ZephyrinSkies]

Don't insult artistry. That performance completely lacked any of it.

[@WhiskeyToro]

Like something out of a SNL skit

[@slothythebadger7726]

If i was Australia, I'd be embarrassed

[@anonymouscomment8477]

Her performance was the funniest SNL skit I've seen all year.

[@sonnythebigdummy6151]

And l straight up thought that's what it was at 1st😭😂

[@derrickcooper4856]

@@anonymouscomment8477 that's what I was thinking... From now to Dec 31st she's going to break the Internet with the most mems... 🤔

[@Andrew.W.19]

Idk how the sprinkler and windmill is considered original and creativity? She needs real honest friends to tell her the truth.

[@hitiming]

I would say she is one of those people who has gone thru life where her parents have told her that everything she did was exceptional, she would never have been told no and she is in that age group where every child at school that runs in a race or there is some sort of competition that gets a prize.

[@berkeliumk]

That friend would then be called a misogynist and cancelled

[@ohwowoh7281]

Olympics are not judged by creativity. It’s measured by talent.

[@emillyyelen5169]

Your argument is flawed...

[@Pneumanon]

Except in events where being creative is part of the talent…

[@thegalhorowitz]

its one of the 4 metrics but without the other 3 that alone isnt enough. I didnt see any creativity either. Shigikix and phil wizard...had creativity.

[@tobiaslawrence8928]

​@@emillyyelen5169 clearly you didn't read it properly

[@friedsugar2701]

They are measured by creativity, like gymnastics or boxing, she was just UNCREATIVE

[@DallasHustla2000]

The fact that they doubled down makes it worse. Creativity is great for interpretive dance but for breakdancing you need creativity, skill, athleticism, and style. All I saw her doing was flopping on the floor. I literally did the same thing when I was 3 trying to breakdance.

[@filipsaric4844]

They always double down it's how they roll it's an all out attack on our common sense

[@marksr1907]

She illustrates everything wrong with the "education" industry. Skill and Merit mean absolutely nothing to "educators" it's all about the virtue.

[@MrBill-ee4mr]

She teaches people about break dancing. Sad.

[@GenX...MCMLXV]

whats sad is anyone who would have her teach them

[@aussiejubes]

Calm down. She lectures about breaking culture, she doesn't teach people how to break. She was the wrong choice for the Olympics but it's pathetic to say she's bad at her day job. There's a humorous irony given what she does, but lecturing about culture is not a correlation to dance performance.

[@dff8809]

I was her student and she doesnt actually teach us how to dance she once taught us about the breaking culture

[@MrBill-ee4mr]

@@dff8809 you paid to learn about break dancing........in college.......Great use of money.....

[@dff8809]

@@MrBill-ee4mr im an interactive design student in the department of media and i had to take a compulsory unit about media representation. In one of the lectures Rachel was discussing breaking culture. Im not a break dance student at all… i wasnt even interested in that topic..

[@chrisshell6178]

Keyboard warriors and trolls? How about human beings who are smart enough to realize if somebody belongs in the Olympics or not

[@mthor2346]

This could be made into a comedy movie.

[@Vanessa-po6my]

We need to get Will Ferrel on this.

[@martincarlberg9671]

If we didnt know better it could be a skit from SNL…

[@taghazoutmoon5031]

There's already a movie 🎬 like this. Little miss sunshine 🌞. About a poor girl going to a pageant and doing an embarrassing performance because she has no idea.

[@mthor2346]

@@martincarlberg9671 I want to be a movie extras since it was my idea. Or a body double. I think I could play her as a body double.

[@spookyacti0n45]

​@@Vanessa-po6my yes

[@nickarcher8617]

Australia trollin the world. Taking the heat off the boxing blasphemy

[@SerPodrick]

Blaming "trolls" for her convulsing and hopping like a bunny.....irony

[@chelseapoet3664]

I am a kangaroo and I disavow the comparison

[@arellytran]

She’s 36. She knows better and did this anyway. How embarrassing for her country.

[@shayan4040]

Mentally she’s 16.

[@chadbailey7038]

Bunny hop 🐰… bunny hop 🐰. 🤔 I believe my 3 year old was “stealing her creativity” the other day.

[@Dozer-xt4wn]

I thought it was the 🦘 hop!

[@T0mek87]

it was a kangaroo hop. because she's from australia. kangaroos are from australia. that's very creative. you are not creative enough to link kangaroos to australia. maybe if you get a phd you will get this.

[@HelTra91]

100% original, 0% break dancing. But also 0% original because I've seen all of those moves done by drunk people or toddlers throwing fits.

[@smartchai]

Ray Gun gave it her best shot 😅 !

[@josearredondo6599]

This is what happens when parents have that " you can be whatever and whoever you put your mind to talk is taken extremely serious by their child 😂😂 "

[@hitiming]

Yes exactly, I wonder how her parents feel now, embarrassed I hope

[@BoxingIQ360]

The real question is how she made the team?

[@DeborahMitchell-hh1xp]

Very good question 🤔 Apparently she and her Husband/coach fooled someone. Now they are looking like fools 🤪🙃😖

[@Hannah-201]

​@@DeborahMitchell-hh1xpthey don't care prob get lots of money out of this already have

[@CatLoverx900]

Liberal academia nepotism

[@kimonmatara1350]

@@CatLoverx900 Was her university somehow connected to the selections?

[@CatLoverx900]

@@kimonmatara1350 Dr. Todd Grande has a lovely segment on the matter.

[@1dash133]

Raygun could have done a non-athletic performance that emphasized artistry and imagination. She didn't. She threw together an "act" composed of jokes, memes, and oddities. Very inconsistent in emotive content. More of a high school talent contest quality, than an olympic effort.

[@chelseapoet3664]

Elementary school surely

[@weeeeee-ol2xt]

The whole thing is very... sambo routine. It feels racist. Her duck face reads like she's thinking to herself, "this is what i think breakdancers (mostly black, or at least originally so) look like. Here, let me do my impression of a breakdancer for you.

[@bongobob7079]

"could have done a non-athletic performance" Clearly you have 0% idea what break dancing is all about. What a dumb comment

[@threeheavenshealing]

She made a fool of herself and a mockery of breakdancing and the Olympics… and they’re mad at us for not respecting that

[@jaybezel7089]

The creativity was being the only one wearing an actual Olympic uniform to a breakdancing battle.

[@Pierre-wm3xs]

She just wanted a free trip to Paris😂😂😂

[@jrb4347]

I feel like a just watch something out a Will Ferrell movie

[@Timetofly8888]

The most scary thing I heard today.. "..she lectures at a University.."

[@Slickstaff_Stainpants]

thousands of students will be mocking her

[@natilyfe]

She could have at least dressed the parr😂 she looks like a middle aged casino tourists

[@anthos818]

Raygun deserved every bit of the criticism she was dealt for whatever that was she was doing. She was out there just winging it looking like she probably didnt even practice. Her presence in the competition is so disrespectful to the real breakers. Ray gun is a huge poser and she knows it.

[@ntabon0219]

I saw this routine and was total confused. This was not good. I was embarrassed looking at it to be honest.

[@hitiming]

Were you looking thru your fingers and trying not to look but just had to keep on, that is what i did. It was like watching a car crash in slow motion 😊

[@liliofthevalley_]

when you're suck at something, just put it as "art" 💀

[@MarieAntoinetteandherlittlesis]

Okay but why is she dressed like a Zookeeper mixed with a 90’s kids football coach?

[@hitiming]

Nah, she is dressed like our Australian women’s cricket team. Bloody awful she was.

[@SeattAl]

Honest critique = “hate” Sick of that

[@MRTA1980]

That was the worst breaking i have ever seen. She is the worst breaker on the planet

[@FMD70757]

I can’t wait for the SNL skit

[@Slickstaff_Stainpants]

i saw it.. it was gooooood

[@MrKydaman]

The first part of her quote was very accurate. "I was never going to beat these girls..." She should have stopped there.

[@Dovey14]

Instead of a gold medal for competing, she sought a gold star for perfect attendance. "Everybody wins!" She should compete in 2028 when they introduce "Air Guitar" as an Olympic sport!

[@acove8413]

Proof a PHD in a subject doesn't mean you know anything about the subject.

[@ChristianKrogh-Denmark]

One can say alot about her performance, but you can’t take away from her, that she was 100% GUNning for it! 😯💪

[@justapseudonym7]

Girl that was not creativity, that was nick jr. She was really hopping like a kangaroo lol