Raygun: Last News

Paris Olympics mimicked a kangaroo, found herself in another embarrassing snafu at a Sydney nightclub.Raygun, the divisive breakdancing sensation, tried to grab a microphone out of the hands of a drag queen Thursday, but not before she fell on the stage in an apparent attempt to recreate her viral performance from the Summer Games.In a video shared on Instagram, the crowd at long-running gay bar Universal can be heard chanting Raygun’s name before she loses balance busting out one of her breakdancing moves.The 37-year-old dancer, whose real name is Rachael Gunn, then gets back up, and tries to grab the mic out of Sydney drag queen Champagne’s hands.The breakdancer blamed being tipsy for her topsy-turvy act.“Hahaha, defs had a bit too much! Imagine my hangxiety today!” she commented on an Instagram post by Gay Sydney News.Some social media users had tongue and cheek reactions to the infamous dancer.“It’s like seeing Jesus walk on water,” wrote Instagram user London Briidge.Others were more supportive.“She was a great sport! I’d have given her gold last night!,” wrote Instagram user Keira Billie, in reference to her dismal Olympics routine in which she failed to score a single point.Raygun announced she was retiring after the “really upsetting” backlash she faced following her Paris performance, only to turn back around and say she is “never going to stop.”“I’m still going to be part of community jams, or I’d like to go to community jams and still and still dance and still break,” she said back in November.It appears that’s what she did, or at least attempted to, this week.

Raygun” Gunn has revealed she is back at work to make ends meet.The divisive breakdancing sensation may have emerged from the Paris Olympics as one of the most talked about athletes on the planet — but her fame hasn’t yet converted into dollars and cents.The widely held belief that the 37-year-old has been cashing in on her 15-minutes of fame has been busted with the viral B-girl saying she has agreed to only one endorsement deal following the Paris Games.According to colorful celebrity management guru Max Markson, a recent promotion she launched with tech platform Finder would generally be worth around $50,000.It comes after the Macquarie University lecturer, who holds a PHD in cultural studies, insisted she has not retired from professional breakdancing, despite saying she is “not going to compete any more.”She has returned to her regular employment at the university in Sydney’s north.“I’m still marking papers to pay the bills,” she said in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald.“I have a whole stack to mark right now,” she says.

Tones And I brought out Olympic breakdancer Raygun to perform at their Melbourne show on Saturday (November 9), while NFL’s Camryn Bynum re-enacted her viral Olympic routine during a game the following day.Raygun, real name Rachel Gunn, competed for Australia in breaking during the Paris Olympics this summer and scored zero points across three rounds with an unconventional routine that ended up becoming a viral meme.During Tones And I’s performance of ‘Dance With Me’, she came out on stage to re-enact the infamous routine, even striking a kangaroo pose.In a TikTok post capturing the moment, Tones And I said: “Raygun. A genuinely kind, beautiful person.

Scene-stealing Australian Olympic breakdancer Raygun has made a cameo appearance on stage at a music concert, following her announcement earlier this week of her retirement from competition. 

Australian breakdancer Raygun is ending her competitive career.

Michaela Zee Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, has announced that she is retiring from competition following the backlash over her performance at the Paris Olympics. “I’m not going to compete anymore, no,” Gunn said on Australia’s 2DayFM “The Jimmy and Nath Show.” “I was going to keep competing, for sure, but that seems really difficult for me to do now — to approach a battle. Yeah, I mean I still dance, and I still break.

Twitter and TikTok over the summer after she competed in the inaugural breaking event at the Summer Olympics. She scored zero points in all three of her round robin battles and was eliminated, becoming a viral meme.

Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, the Australian Olympic breaker who went viral after her unusual moves were widely mocked in the days after her performance at the Paris Games this summer, says the worldwide ridicule and attention prompted her to seek mental health support and to withdraw from all social media.

OK, the contingent of folks who believe Raygun had no business being at the Olympics just got a huge boost… in the form of a very small child…

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Australian breakdancer Rachael Gunn, better known as Raygun, is speaking out against the harassment she has faced since going viral during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Her unconventional dance moves while competing against the U.S.’s Logan Edra, Lithuania’s Dominika Banevič and France’s Sya Dembélé garnered worldwide attention and led to accusations that Raygun manipulated Australia’s selection process for the Olympics. “I just want to start out by thanking all the people who have supported me,” Raygun said in a video message posted to her Instagram page.

Olympic breaker Raygun – whose real name is Rachael Gunn – is breaking her silence on her viral break dancing performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics amid allegations she’s faced.

Not the entire world was laughing at Raygun, we guess. No, some folks are hopping mad!

The Guardian this week, Madigan highlighted how Gunn’s swift transformation from a relative unknown to a cultural icon suggests she could have a lucrative career ahead of her.“ … the breaking-neck (see what I did there) speed at which Raygun went from cultural cringe to cultural icon was something to behold,” Madigan noted.“And augurs very well for her future. Because we love, love, love an underdog.”Marketing and public relations expert, Max Markson, told Daily Mail Australia that Gunn already possesses “an enormous brand” and could potentially earn millions through international deals.“Her reputation in Australia isn’t that great, but she is famous across the world,” Markson said.“I don’t think everyone else in other countries is conscious of how Australians feel about her.“I think Australian marketers will be avoiding her for that reason, but there will be somebody in this country who will go for it.”Markson predicts that Gunn will attract offers from global companies, particularly in the sports, food, and technology sectors.“She will get international offers from sports shoe brands, like Adidas or Puma, food companies like McDonald’s or KFC, electric cars like BYD, and she will get a phone company like Telstra or Optus or Vodafone.

TikTok this week – but who is she and why is Adele “shitting” herself over her memes?Raygun (real name Rachael Gunn) recently competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics as a breakdancer. Though she scored zero points across three rounds, the dancer and professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, has become one of the most memorable athletes from the sport overnight – with singer Adele even giving her a shoutout in a show at her current Munich residency.But if you’re in a headspin about the many Raygun memes populating social media, take a breather and don’t freeze – just read on for more…User @mariahkreutter on X/Twitter was one of the first posters to shed light on Raygun, writing: “I could live all my life and never come up with anything as funny as Raygun, the 36-year-old Australian Olympic breakdancer”.They then shared a still of Raygun in her green and gold Olympic kit, with her fingers pointing outwards and a confident smile on her face.I could live all my life and never come up with anything as funny as Raygun, the 36-year-old Australian Olympic breakdancer pic.twitter.com/1uPYBxIlh8— mariah (@mariahkreutter) August 9, 2024There are many photos and videos of the breakdancer doing the rounds on social media, each focusing on a specific move Raygun busted out at the Olympics.One meme focuses on a crawling move Raygun executed, where she wriggles on the floor and touches her toes.

Rachel is in the house! But not THAT Rachael!

Ellise Shafer It was only a matter of time before a comedian spoofed Australian breakdancer Raygun, whose performance at the Paris Olympics over the weekend earned her zero points and inspired countless memes. “Saturday Night Live” alum Rachel Dratch did so during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday night, interrupting the late-night host’s monologue with some kooky dance moves. “Breakdancing made its Olympic debut, and everyone’s still talking about the competitor from Australia named Raygun,” Fallon said as he proceeded to show a clip from Raygun’s performance, which included a lot of floorwork and jumping reminiscent of a rabbit.

Raygun is ALL the rage with Adele!

THAT viral breakdancer is speaking out after becoming a meme!

Chicago Sun-Times, who said Kezdy died today (October 9) at a hospice in Glenview, Illinois, after years of having cancer.Kezdy began his musical career in the short-lived band Strike Under, after talking his way into the group. “He didn’t even know how to play an instrument,” Naked Raygun manager Lou Lombardo said.