The Olympic breaker says she had been "blindsided" by the musical and only heard about it through media reports.
  • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    27·
    5 个月前

    I’m sympathetic, because if I embarrassed myself that bad I’d also want it to go away. But this ain’t gonna make it go away lmao

    • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      18·
      5 个月前

      I only heard about it when I opened Reddit and half my front page was mocking her

      Trying to copyright a kangaroo hop is going to be funny. I’m pretty sure we did that in PE in prep or grade 1. Not to mention, y’know, the fact there’s 30-80 million (depending on whose guess you trust) animals out there doing it every day

      • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        5 个月前

        I meant I missed the analysis published on The Conversation that I linked. I heard about the shutting down of the musical and saw the news about Gunn’s latest insta post. Her response seems kinda ‘How do you do, fellow kids’ and at first I thought it was hilarious in a ‘gift that keeps on giving’ kind of way but then I realised it’s just sad.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        5 个月前

        Oh okay, you wanna trademark the single most efficient leg-based locomotion system in the animal kingdom? What’s next, wheels? You want the rights to all wheels, as well? What else? Sure, you invented water, that’s fine.

  • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    15·
    5 个月前

    Good I’m happy for her she seems genuine and the world is such a shit place

    • Axefanatic@aussie.zoneEnglish
      33·
      5 个月前

      There are many better break dancers in Australia but her and her partner lied and manipulated to get into the the Olympics and made a complete joke about what should be been a serious event.

      • dumblederp@aussie.zoneEnglish
        40·
        5 个月前

        Literally a national embarrassment then follows up with lawsuit over a parody show. I cannot wait to stop hearing about this woman.

      • tyler@programming.devEnglish
        14·
        5 个月前

        That was a completely false rumor that spread like wildfire because people like you will believe anything they read.

        • gramie@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          5 个月前

          I know absolutely nothing about breakdancing, but I do know that the clips I saw from the Olympics were embarrassing and shameful for any team. I don’t know why she was there, but it was clear she shouldn’t have been.

          At least Eddie the Eagle displayed courage and dedication, even though he locked ability.

          Now if you told me that she was doing it as a protest to vividly demonstrate the corruption and lack of values of the Olympic system, I could go along with that.

          • tyler@programming.devEnglish
            7·
            5 个月前

            When it’s the first event for anything, you’re not going to get the best. That’s just the fact of the matter. Some are going to sit out, some aren’t going to hear about it at all, some just won’t want to participate because it’s the IOC. And sometimes athletes just have a bad day. As plenty of actual breakers have pointed out, she’s not that bad, she was having a bad day. It’s pretty clear that memes are doing overtime on spreading misinformation this year.

            • gramie@lemmy.caEnglish
              3·
              5 个月前

              Why would you make such a strawman argument? I was replying to a comment that she was not worthy of representing her country at the Olympics in breakdancing.

        • iegod@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          5 个月前

          We all saw the results. However she got there was shameful.

      • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        1·
        5 个月前

        Nah straight up this women doesn’t deserve any of this flak and at this point people still memeing on her are fuckin dweebs

    • Doom@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      5·
      5 个月前

      Some idiot online: Posts a complete fantasy retelling of this woman’s experience and thinks he’s funny for it.

      A company tried to copyright HER image. She didn’t lie about anything. The first Olympic breakdancing went great, go watch the earliest MMA matches or child pageants.

      You’re being told how to think by the news and accepting it at the cost of sounding pretty misogynistic, which I don’t say lightly. Either you mock this woman cause you’re a corporate boot licking asshole or you go “ha woman bad” like there’s no other position.

      And all for what? an Internet laugh? Grow up idiot.

    • Baku@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
      6·
      5 个月前

      I know you’ve deleted this, but if you’re still wondering, the answer is she can’t. But ego and money often makes people ready to try stupid things