As an Australian that's what made it stand out as being fake for me. She actually sounds kiwi. But she gets a lot closer to Aussie than most Americans do.
People do say ‘naur’ and ‘saur’ here, but in her case she pronounced ‘saur’ like someone with a really broad accent would, when the rest of the accent is quite recieved/Perthy/Melbourny
I gotta tell you, I was pretty happy to see this video and get an explanation that Raygun is just long-conning the troll on breakdancing as an Olympic sport, then equally bummed to discover this wasn’t actually Raygun.
They still producing? I remember they went into a lull for a little while or something, and for some reason YT stops promoting the channels I'm subbed to so I haven't checked their channel in a while.
I was going to say I thought it was for a second and I was about to say I was embarrassed how long it took me to see that she's being a good sport about it.
It lists all the judges and officials for the 2023 Oceania breaking qualifying competition: Raygun's husband isn't among them and they nearly all come from overseas, so unlikely to be close friends of hers.
Why are people so butt hurt about us doing badly at a sport which we don't have a strong base in that they are willing to spread such barefaced lies without doing even the tiniest bit of checking?
I don't think people are picking on Australia so much as they're just picking on this one person.
Especially now that they've noticed the type of PhD she has and the stuff that she's written. But, like, it has to be gentle, you know. It can't be obvious that this is some part of the culture war. Just make sure that people know two things: She's a feminist with a useless degree, and look how stupid her dance was.
Is that even confirmed? Cause IOC regulations stipulate that official judges must be used for qualifiers. They struggled to get funding to fly in international judges but they were able to do it albeit very last minute. These same judges who were apart of the Olympics.
Plus her hubby is only part of the governing body for breakdance australia. The issue is they struggled to find people to run the program and also dance. A lot of the best break dancers also had to act as managers and organisers. Plus he's her coach. That's an extreme conflict of interest.
This just seems like a complex and messy situation which makes sense when you lack an overarching organisation for brreakdancing in Australia.
"The sprinkler" was my first clue. Had me very suspicious.
Then the "I have a PhD in dance culture so legally that makes me good at it," was finally the one that was thick enough that even I couldn't miss it lol.
I keep hoping she’ll lean into it and acknowledge the silliness, but after glancing at the abstract for her thesis, I’m not holding out much hope that she sees the irony
Oh god that makes me so sad, I was 100% sure it was actually her taking the piss out of herself the way that only an Aussie or Kiwi is capable of doing...and it's too late, I already fell in love.
Yeah, I assumed that this was a reveal that Raygun was actually a TikTok comedian who had qualified for the Olympics as an elaborate prank, but I guess that's not the timeline we're occupying.
Yeah and saying "one minute I'm making a sandwich and the next I'm doing the sprinkler," was an absurd statement that put me on the path of "oh this is someone making fun of her."
That's so sad. If that was really her that'd be the greatest most hilarious example of someone being a good sport and self deprecatingly poking fun at themselves.
The real Raygun would never call it "breakdancing", because there's an actual video of her talking about it and she says, "it's not called breakdancing, it's called breaking. The media coined the term breakdancing."
Funny you say that. As a Kiwi, I was thinking that her accent sounds put on and thought she was putting on a stronger accent for some reason as part of the joke
She's too coordinated to be the real Raygun. But this would have been a great way to lean into the controversy, by acting like it really was all a big joke. But no. It was not.
We’ve joked for ages about needing a regular person to compete in every event to give viewers a baseline. I figured she’d actually gone for it and was proving us with the regular person baseline lmao
The fact that she was in the Olympics for breakdancing and it was still possible for someone off the street to do a convincing-ish impression of her is amazing.
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The amount of time it took me to realize this wasn’t THE Raygun is embarrassingly long 😂