An Australian TikToker has gone viral with her furious attack on Australian Olympic break dancer Rachael Gunn, who failed to score any points in Paris.
Gunn, 36, better known as Raygun, lost all three of her free-for-all battles at the games by a combined score of 54-0, leading many to express sympathy for her.
But not the provocateur Carla Efstratiou, who defines herself as “a girl with the opinions of a 65-year-old white man.”
“I don’t feel sorry for Raygun, that Australian break dancer that everyone laughs at,” Efstratiou wrote on her Gowoke Gobrokeaus (Woke up, Broke up) channel.
The conservative vlogger then attacked Raygun for having gone to university and lived in Sydney’s hipster inner west.
‘Raygun and his college friends from Newtown have said, ‘How dare you laugh at her? How dare you laugh at this woman who really gave her best?’
“Even the Prime Minister has said she has tried very hard,” he added.
However, Efstratiou has had enough, asking: “Are we all living in a delusional world?” and saying that Raygun should not have competed in Paris.
An Australian TikToker has gone viral with her furious attack on Australian Olympic break dancer Rachael Gunn (pictured), who failed to score any points in Paris
‘This woman came to the Olympics with a ridiculous routine, where people train their whole lives and dedicate their whole existence for four years to perform on this stage.
“And she continues with this poorly prepared routine that literally gave her a zero because it was so bad,” he said.
The influencer also questioned whether Raygun was really as involved in break dancing (which was called breaking at the Olympics) as she claimed.
“If she’s as deep into this break dancing community as she suggests, then she would have known that routine was a joke. And she wouldn’t have gone to the Olympics with that.
“If she really loved break dancing and took it so seriously and wanted the world to take it seriously, she wouldn’t act like this and attract so much criticism and ridicule,” he said.
Efstratiou then returned to his criticism of people who have had higher education and supposedly look down on others.
‘This is the problem with these college kids. They are so narcissistic that they think they can go out on the world stage and make a joke and people will love them for it anyway.
“No, that’s not how it works in a meritocracy like the Olympics. When you present to the world a performance and a routine that is a joke, you don’t complain when people laugh.”
The popular TikToker then imagined what it would be like if she herself competed at the Olympics, in two different 100-meter events: one on land and one in the water.
“If I dared to run the 100 meters, I would finish last by about five minutes. And that’s how it should be, because I’m not a professional athlete.
“I don’t train every day like these professional athletes do. And people would laugh at me.
“I would be Eddie the Eel in any kind of race I entered at the Olympics,” he said, referring to Eric Moussambani, the Equatorial Guinean swimmer who swam the slowest Olympic 100 metres in history at the 2000 Games in Sydney.
Efstratiou said that if she ran at the Olympics, people would make fun of her “because I shouldn’t be there.”
“Same with this girl (Raygun). How arrogant do you have to be to go to the Olympics without any preparation? It’s an insult to the institution.
‘Imagine if I went, swam the 100 metres, came in last by a huge margin, then cried when people laughed at me and showed the footage over and over again.’
Efstratiou’s views on her TikTok video were met with a mixed reception, as it was viewed nearly 100,000 times in less than 12 hours and received nearly a thousand comments.
“You won me over with ‘I don’t feel sorry for Raygun,'” wrote one, while another said, “The joke was that it was included in the Games. Raygun was the ultimate joke.”
A third wrote that they were there “because of the hate for Raygun because it’s one thing to dance badly… but to pretend to act like it’s something groundbreaking and protected is completely insane. Even the judges are apologising!”
Australian Rachael Gunn, also known as Raygun, is pictured during the B-Girls Round Robin at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.
Carla Efstratiou (pictured), who describes herself as “a girl with the opinions of a 65-year-old white man”, is not a fan of Australian breakdancer Raygun.
But others defended the break-dancing fighter.
“The important thing is that people have time to make this video. Well done Raygun… let’s have a little more fun in life… It’s great that Australia supports you,” said one.
Another wrote: “Raygun won break dancing per capita, just like Australia won medals per capita. Take that, USA!”
But most agreed with Efstratiou, with one commenter speaking for many by posting that “she single-handedly made break dancing unique,” referring to this being the first, and possibly last, time break dancing was included in the Olympics.