Well I can’t do any of that so
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I'm so tired of hearing about this..
The thing is, at least she gave it a shot even if it was stupid and she sucks at it. She'll be the most popular person at the pub.I actually wish I had that opportunity even if the Internet laughed at me honestly
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Imho someone should have warned her..
I think she is someone who has been lied to. Like a girl who had never been told she cannot sing, and when she finally hits the talentshow, Simon Cowell has to break it to her. He's a dick, but he's not wrong.
And now a real, good breakdancer is missing out on this chance. We're talking about the Olympics for crying out loud. Not some tournament with all sorts of people joining. She does not have the skill to compete with the breakdancing going on, clearly, compared to others in this competition.
If she doesn't like the hate, then don't seek this spotlight. It's great to have a passion, yay you! It's not okay to force the world to enjoy your passion. It's that type of entitlement that gets people to support someone who clearly doesn't have what it takes to join the Olympics.
For real, as I'm writing this I don't get why people accept this. It's not fair to people ACTUALLY being good at this.
End of rant. Cannot wait to see people get mad at me for not accepting her on that stage.
She was warned, and acknowledged it in an interview before the Olympics. But, she could go to the Olympics. Honestly, it's kind of weirdly brave to knowingly go and embarrass yourself in front of a global audience. And it's mostly harmless.
I mean it's a mortal wound to breakdancing, Australia as a country, and the Olympics as an institution, all of which must necessarily be taken less seriously now. But other than that. 🤣
But embarrassing oneself is one thing, taking away chances from people that actually try really hard.... Kinda mean
Whatever I've spent enough time on her now. Time to live life again.
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I still have yet to see the part where she supposedly jumps like a kangaroo!
I think it's in the second part, right at the beginning.
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I see someone who is passionate about something, trying her best, and having a good time doing it.
Good for her. The routine is goofy, but fuck yea. I'm glad she is out there doing what she loves.
She spearheaded the selection for Australia‘s break dancers, excluded anyone who was better than her in the preliminaries, and then picked herself to go to the Olympics. Then once she got there, she realized she was going to get her ass handed to her by the competition, so she decided to be goofy instead of actually trying (and failing) to keep up.
She doesn’t deserve any praise.
Yes. Except, no. None of that is true.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/australian-breakdancer-raygun-olympics/
Why do we have to suck so much ass as a species? Why does a little anonymity or distance make us into such nasty little shit heads?
I mean, we've got people cyberbullying others simply for having the audacity to play a character that they don't like on television shows, and shit like this where they're doing it because some dancer was bad.
Why can't we just make a couple of pretty harmless jokes, have a fucking laugh, and move on?
I don't know, why aren't you doing that right now instead of trying to blow it up into some fundamental social problem? I guess there's your answer.
Yeah, you got it, it's actually me that's the problem 👍 ...not the people baking up conspiracy theories and cyberbullying a person because she was bad at something she did at the olympics.
That makes total sense: pointing at a problem causes that problem. /s
PS: My questions were rhetorical.
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The snopes debunk is correct. However she was selected out of 15 people in the ENTIRE CONTINENT of Australia in an event that was not publicisized among breakdancing events. Was it rigged per se? No. Did she know what she was doing when many were excluded from the selection process? Yes
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Not when she's taking the place of someone else who is more competent at it on a world stage. 1:01 part was actually impressive though.
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