• Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    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.zoneOP
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      17 days ago

      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

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        17 days ago

        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.

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        16 days ago

        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.

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    15 days ago

    Raygun: dishonestly positions herself to take the stage at histories largest physical competition on the international stage. Guaranteeing her chance to take the public eye and leave a mark on history and on the social zeitgeist.

    Raygun: fails spectacularly, marking history and leaving behind a special legacy socially.

    World: lmao wow

    Raygun: it’s not fair for you to make social commentary because I didn’t do as well as I thought I would.

    Get fucked, rayray. You made your bed and now you can sleep in it.

    • Doom@ttrpg.network
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      15 days ago

      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.

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      17 days ago

      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

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    17 days ago

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

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      17 days ago

      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.

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        17 days ago

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

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              14 days ago

              Why are these fuckin incels defending this shit lmfao. Grr hat dance wimen?

              “The reason we did that is because we were notified that there were applications from other parties trying to trademark my name and image for commercial purposes,”

              No. Do not let anyone copyright someone else’s name. What the fuck are you doing?

        • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee
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          15 days ago

          well she won the competition, but if you watch the video, she was still fucking terrible compared to the other girl. whether the judges were delirious, horny, or paid off, it’s fucked up that she won the nomination.

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        16 days ago

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

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          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.

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            16 days ago

            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.

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              15 days ago

              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.

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          16 days ago

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

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        14 days ago

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