Dancing is so beautifully strange to me, because these people express themselves by moving in ways I didn't know were possible, while I struggle to even find the right words to say, and I can't dance to safe my life
Nah I don't buy it. You can't be just twitchy just because you have the body strength and techniques. I have seen random people casually dancing with much better rhythm and moves.
This is why the fawning over Raygun pisses me off so much. The "She gave it a go" crowd completely overlook the fact that it's an awesome art-form with really dedicated cool people doing rad shit. Along comes a spider who makes a mockery of all those talented people. Plus she's a greedy piece of shit. Raygun sucks but this person is the bomb.
This isn't breakdancing though, this is Animation or Popping, it's a different dancing style. It's like complaining that a tango dancer is better than someone who came last in a waltz competition.
Wait. You can't dis raygun by saying people fawn over it and then proceed to fawn over this lady. Her NPC videos are cool (tho nothing original idea wise) but her dance moves are non existing. C'mon, I don't buy that. She probably has the body muscle strength but it's just a sequence of body twitches. No rhythm, no creative expression, no free styling skills or anything.
Lol. OK. I have also been practicing keyboard and music production for over 20 years. But I can say I suck at it still. Practice and time doesn't guarantee making someone good at something. She is naturally horrible at breakdancing, and years of practice and training haven't done well for her.
But that seems to be more a problem with the selection process. Like, should she have stayed home and been like "Australia's sitting this one out?" Should she have never tried for the position at all?
It seems like an awful lot of hate is placed of Raygun for being selected to represent Australia and very little attention is paid to the process and people that selected her.
Her and her husband were part of the selection process. That's one reason people hate them. They run small events too, and she tends to "win" them a good amount. Also, other dancers in Austrailia said they would have done it given the chance, which they were not. She wasn't just picked because some random set of selectors picked her because they thought she had talent... also, it would have been better for her to just say we are not participating. I'm sure she knows she isn't actually good.
Oh, you mean the hateful and misogynistic crap that was flung at her and the false accusations of nepotism? That imgurians gleefully engaged in? Yeah, fuck off dude.
I meant the actual real selection process she and her husband had nothing to do with. I, ah, didn't realize there was a deeply engrained conspiracy when I made my first post.
I actually didnt watch fhe Olympics, but like where she the only one that bad, and how the fuck can she be send to the Olympics? Are the Olympics even a serious competition anymore? Was it ever? I feel like the last one was kinda just one big meme with a banger intro.
The Olympic qualification process is stringent. But it becomes obscure with new territory. Running is straight forward. Be the fastest. From what I understand, there were enough good people in AU. Some say she had connections and was chosen that way, which happens in really anything competitive.
You have to keep in mind, the entirety of any dance competition at the olympics is adjudicated by the ball room dancing committee. So yeah, there were some amazing dancers there, but the metrics for scoring, the selection process for competitors, and everything outside of the actual dancing was pretty suspect to begin with. It is also the case that Break was on its way out for numerous reasons, and that it was not removed from the Olympics because of Raygun and her fucking garbage performance.
Allegedly she gained the qualification due to friends of her being the judges in key qualification tournaments. Allegedly because allegedly she sues everyone claiming that.
Yeah none of that's true. She won a bunch of competitions. The standard and accessibility of those competitions is probably the issue but she got there legitimately. Even watching her in other events she is normally not that bad. Not great but nowhere near as bad as she performed in the Olympics
This is so well done, a part of me thinks "this has to be something specific that happened to them" but then again, "Bethesda" which I guess makes for some unintentionally hilarious moments. Like that time I got to see the whole map from the sky, because I tried jumping down a hill during a fight.
macha100
She may play an NPC, but that's all main character energy there.
ucandcantunc
This is be soooooo cringe one day
Heelcat70
I'll bet that Toni Basil could still do that kind of thing.
justplainvanilla
BoringShelves
swear to god thought it was this person: https://youtube.com/shorts/nn_R2uqMVDM?si=9-30yqnnBFzE7q5m
meatsmokertx
I love imgur dance
DallasGuage
Ray gun really left a mark on break dancing
warpfactor1
Well she's no raygun but i guess it's ok
/s
joepineapplesindrag
Jewdakris
My father, the inventor of toaster strudel, is not amused by this
Waschbaerkoenig
Nicki and Loczek are a polish dance duo and couple.
you can find their stuff on Instagram and such by their handle "loczniki" (@loczniki_official)
Tjitso
Dancing is so beautifully strange to me, because these people express themselves by moving in ways I didn't know were possible, while I struggle to even find the right words to say, and I can't dance to safe my life
Conejito
Making. Fetch. Happen.
kaltralliart
Judges give 0 points because no Kangaroo
TheBigCheese93
I'm way too high for this shit.
sightlab
Those two are incredible movement artists. I love the NPC videos.
Eridianne
Oh the NPC girl is a dancer!
tangent
In retrospect it makes a lot of sense!
darkwingduckInaMiniSkirt
Right? It's The kind of body control you need to make those kind of gags.
freakdiablo
It's weird how you need perfect body control in order to look like someone (or something) that doesn't *quite* know how a human is supposed to move.
polifinka
They are dancers from Poland and they recently got engaged ❤️
clamjuicecoctail
Who is she!
clamjuicecoctail
Ok. I found her.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KgYPFm9wJkY
Imalwaysready
She's too good to be an Olympian, that's for sure.
jacblake
Zootsoot
With all the folks like this out here? It just makes “Raygun” more of an offense against the art she claims to revere.
stonecoldstevebuschemi
I own many sweaters. Just saying.
banderan
Moves like an NPC
gettingtwelveblueshellsinarow
I am not surprised, but super super impressed!
jimd1954
There is no cure for epilepsy. Donate for research for a cure.
pareidoliaperson
Nah I don't buy it. You can't be just twitchy just because you have the body strength and techniques. I have seen random people casually dancing with much better rhythm and moves.
5omeWhiteGuy
Hey it's the skyrim lady. She's so talented. Idk what that talent is, but she's got it in spades.
CarbonHawk
Her channel
https://www.youtube.com/@loczniki/shorts
rbudrick
Shit I knew I recognized her.
Fairemont
Her talent is doing things that are vaguely human but not entirely there.
BananaForScaIe
ahhh like prom night.
arthurvanhoudt
QoS?
AceBandito
body movin
MrSalvador
The talent is rhythm
TheFastpaws
When I try to dance people nearly die though.
CrumpetsWithHoneyAreCrumpetsWithBeeVomit
This is why the fawning over Raygun pisses me off so much. The "She gave it a go" crowd completely overlook the fact that it's an awesome art-form with really dedicated cool people doing rad shit. Along comes a spider who makes a mockery of all those talented people. Plus she's a greedy piece of shit. Raygun sucks but this person is the bomb.
Lulabel73
Agreed! And it’s turning out she’s a horrible person with a tribe of lawyers.
SalmonTheWise
This isn't breakdancing though, this is Animation or Popping, it's a different dancing style. It's like complaining that a tango dancer is better than someone who came last in a waltz competition.
pareidoliaperson
Still bad/poorly executioned as as popping. My old Ukranian friend who danced like that in clubs we went out with suddenly looks better in comparison.
Qpnao
She was terrible on purpose (when she was at the Olympics, no comment on her as a human being, i haven't followed it)
pareidoliaperson
Wait. You can't dis raygun by saying people fawn over it and then proceed to fawn over this lady. Her NPC videos are cool (tho nothing original idea wise) but her dance moves are non existing. C'mon, I don't buy that. She probably has the body muscle strength but it's just a sequence of body twitches. No rhythm, no creative expression, no free styling skills or anything.
Copperbrat
The fawning over Raygun has more to do with ironic humor being so trendy than anything else. I'll be glad when that trend dies.
gnomedeplume
Raygun has been dancing since she was a child and competitive breakdancer for a decade wtf are you talking about
Lulabel73
And I was better when I was 12 with no dance classes. There would be a child or teenager much better than her. Kids compete in the Olympics too.
ImAGrower
Lol. OK. I have also been practicing keyboard and music production for over 20 years. But I can say I suck at it still. Practice and time doesn't guarantee making someone good at something. She is naturally horrible at breakdancing, and years of practice and training haven't done well for her.
realizedagain
She sucks though
LostCaterpillar
But that seems to be more a problem with the selection process. Like, should she have stayed home and been like "Australia's sitting this one out?" Should she have never tried for the position at all?
It seems like an awful lot of hate is placed of Raygun for being selected to represent Australia and very little attention is paid to the process and people that selected her.
ImAGrower
Her and her husband were part of the selection process. That's one reason people hate them. They run small events too, and she tends to "win" them a good amount. Also, other dancers in Austrailia said they would have done it given the chance, which they were not. She wasn't just picked because some random set of selectors picked her because they thought she had talent... also, it would have been better for her to just say we are not participating. I'm sure she knows she isn't actually good.
LostCaterpillar
I've read a bit of her work. I'm not convinced she knows she'd bad, tbh.
As for the rest... Maybe stop repeating this misogynistic misinformation?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/australian-breakdancer-raygun-olympics/
RayneOfSalt
Oh, you mean the hateful and misogynistic crap that was flung at her and the false accusations of nepotism? That imgurians gleefully engaged in? Yeah, fuck off dude.
LostCaterpillar
I meant the actual real selection process she and her husband had nothing to do with. I, ah, didn't realize there was a deeply engrained conspiracy when I made my first post.
RayneOfSalt
Yeah, that's where the misogyny came from. You can tell that imgurians are still mad about being called out for it by the downvotes I'm gettings.
UncleRat
She really improved since the Olympics.
chicharrone
pareidoliaperson
Up to this day I just saw stills and small fragments coz I just can't. Too cringey!
Larzemagne
I mean, the first kind was there too (quite a bit of it in fact) but the world just decided to ignore it in favor of the meme.
Gwenx
I actually didnt watch fhe Olympics, but like where she the only one that bad, and how the fuck can she be send to the Olympics?
Are the Olympics even a serious competition anymore? Was it ever? I feel like the last one was kinda just one big meme with a banger intro.
SecondSince
She was pretty sub-par. She was sent because the rankings were weird. Yes the Olympics are serious. No it wasn't always. And the reason the
SecondSince
last one seemed like 'one big meme' is because the internet turns EVERYTHING into one big meme.
AllMyPain
My guess is few break dancers can pass the drug test
VaultGirl69
The Olympic qualification process is stringent. But it becomes obscure with new territory. Running is straight forward. Be the fastest. From what I understand, there were enough good people in AU. Some say she had connections and was chosen that way, which happens in really anything competitive.
wabitgirl
You have to keep in mind, the entirety of any dance competition at the olympics is adjudicated by the ball room dancing committee. So yeah, there were some amazing dancers there, but the metrics for scoring, the selection process for competitors, and everything outside of the actual dancing was pretty suspect to begin with. It is also the case that Break was on its way out for numerous reasons, and that it was not removed from the Olympics because of Raygun and her fucking garbage performance.
PolitiCat
Allegedly she gained the qualification due to friends of her being the judges in key qualification tournaments. Allegedly because allegedly she sues everyone claiming that.
chiefrunswithscissors
Yeah none of that's true. She won a bunch of competitions.
The standard and accessibility of those competitions is probably the issue but she got there legitimately.
Even watching her in other events she is normally not that bad. Not great but nowhere near as bad as she performed in the Olympics
OlympicFail
That’s the lady who does the Skyrim NPS videos!
imaginaryPeppers
NarratesTheDarkerStory
This is so well done, a part of me thinks "this has to be something specific that happened to them" but then again, "Bethesda" which I guess makes for some unintentionally hilarious moments. Like that time I got to see the whole map from the sky, because I tried jumping down a hill during a fight.
Wulph421
THAT WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT TOO!! is it actually?
ImAGrower
Yes
thespaceneedle
What’s nps?
SteersAndQueers
The button in the middle of the boob
YippeeKayakOB
Non-Player Sharacter
HankeringForASpankering
Not much, what's nps with you?
thespaceneedle
Ha! I lol’d
DidItForScience
Non-Player Someone
PinPointSnarkuracy
OriginalSyn
They meant NPC
thespaceneedle
Oh. Then what’s an npc video in Skyrim? I’ve played the game but the reference is escaping me
Feralkyn
She did vids where she pretends to be Skyrim NPCs
OriginalSyn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5f9zui95Zg
imakeeper
Non-Player Character. They are the computer controlled folks running around the world.