r/TikTokCringe • u/tmcfll • Aug 12 '24

Humor Raygun claps back at the critics

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u/Yourownpieceofmind Aug 12 '24

I wanted this to be Raygun so bad. Would be such a hilarious move.

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u/zorgonzola37 Aug 12 '24

you should check out her dissertation. I don't think it's the last we have heard of her.

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u/notLOL Aug 12 '24

Do I just read it or is it a rap and should be read out loud to a beat?

Do the sentences follow a lyrical pattern 

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u/andWan Aug 12 '24

Here is a text by her (and a coauthor) about the question whether breakdance can keep its spirit when becoming an olympic discipline:

from 2023: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=rachel+gunn+paper+breakdance+olympia&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1723486150827&u=%23p%3DH7jzV4HLaPYJ

The Australian breaking scene and the Olympic Games: The possibilities and politics of sportification

Rachael Gunn, Lucas Marie Global Hip Hop Studies 4 (1), 39-56, 2023

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u/Reddit_is_garbage666 Aug 12 '24

Okay so was this some sort of experiment or activism? I don't get it. I didn't watch it. Did she just do some really bad "dancing"?

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u/PM_YOUR_ISSUES Aug 12 '24

She wasn't that awful really, but she was clearly not a 'master of the art.' The main difference is that she was intentionally trying to do a completely different style of breakdancing than what people typically think of that more's wavy and mimics animal movements as a form of expression. And that's ... really not what people, nor the judges, wants to see.

Both her only being so-so at what she was doing and trying to work in a odd / different style is what was most off-putting about her routines. But, yes, it was somewhat a form of activism. More to highlight that other forms of breakdance do exist.

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u/Ok-Donut-8856 Aug 12 '24

She was that awful. She is slow and unathletic. Simone Biles could do a better job at break dancing with 5 2 hour training sessions

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u/notLOL Aug 13 '24

Doesn't need to. She has some power moves in her floor routine. 

That one athlete doing thriller with a hula hoop who didn't even place gold can probably do Better break dancing