A young Australian woman has gone viral with her furious takedown of Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn, who scored zero points in Paris.
Gunn, 36, who is better known as Raygun, lost all three of her round-robin battles at the Games by a combined score of 54-0, leading many to express sympathy for her.
But not the provocative Carla Efstratiou, who calls herself 'a girl with the opinions of a 65-year-old white man'.
'I don't feel sorry for Raygun, that Australian breakdancer that everyone is laughing about,' Efstratiou wrote on her gowokegobrokeaus channel.
'Raygun and her Newtown, university-type buddies have all come out saying "How dare you laugh at her. How dare you laugh at this woman who really gave it her best crack".
'Even the Prime Minister has come out saying that she gave it a great shot,' she added.
Efstratiou, though, has had enough, asking 'Are we all living in delusionalland?' and claiming Raygun should not have competed in Paris.
'This woman went with a ridiculous routine to the Olympic Games, where people train their entire life and dedicate their entire existence for four years to performing on this stage.
An Aussie TikTokker has gone viral with her furious takedown of Australian Olympic break dancer Rachael Gunn (pictured), who scored zero points in Paris
'And she goes with this ill-prepared routine that literally scored her a zero because it was so bad,' she said.
The influencer also questioned if Raygun really was as invested in break dancing - which was called breaking at the Olympics - as she claimed to be.
'If she is so into this break dance community, as she suggests, then she would have known that that routine was a joke. And she wouldn't have gone to the Olympics with that.
'If she truly loved break dancing and she took it so seriously and wanted the world to take it seriously, she wouldn't go and perform like that and bring such criticism and mockery onto her,' she said.
Gunn took up the sport in 2012 and obtained a PhD in breakdancing culture prior to her highly ridiculed routine at the Games. She works as a university lecturer at Macquarie University.
Efstratiou then returned to her criticism about people who have had had a higher education supposedly looking down on others.
'This is the problem with these university types. They're so narcissistic that they think they can go on the world stage and perform a joke and people will love them for it anyway.
'No, that's not how it works in a meritocracy like the Olympic Games. When you present the world a joke of a performance and routine, don't complain when people laugh.'
The popular TikTokker then imagined what it would be like if she competed at the Olympics herself, in two different 100m events - one on land, the other in water.
'If I dared to run the 100m sprint, I would come dead last by, like, five minutes. And so I should, because I am not a professional athlete.
'I don't train every day like these professional athletes do. And people would be laughing at me.
'I would be Eddie the Eel in any sort of race that I would enter at the Olympics,' she said, referring to Eric Moussambani, the swimmer from Equatorial Guinea who swam the slowest Olympic 100m time ever at the 2000 games in Sydney.
Efstratiou said if she did run at the Olympics, people would 'mock me, because I shouldn't be there.
'Same with this chick (Raygun). How arrogant do you have to be to go to the Olympics completely unprepared? It's an insult to the institution.
'Imagine if I went, swam the 100m, came dead last by a really long way, then had a cry when people laughed at me and showed the footage over and over again.'
There was a mixed reception for Efstratiou's opinions under her TikTok video, which has been viewed almost 100,000 times in less than 12 hours, and got almost a thousand comments.
'You had me at "I don't feel sorry for Raygun",' wrote one, while another said 'The joke was breaking being included in the Games - Raygun was the ultimate punchline.'
A third wrote that they were 'here for the Raygun hate because it's one thing to dance bad ... but to pretend to act like its something innovative and being protected is completely outlandish. Even the judges are apologising!!'
Australian breaker Rachael Gunn, also known as Raygun, is pictured during the B-Girls Round Robin in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in Paris, France
Carla Efstratiou (pictured), who calls herself 'a girl with the opinions of a 65-year-old white man', is not a fan of Aussie break dancer Raygun
But some others defended the break-dance battler.
'The thing is people having time to make this video. Well done Raygun... let's have some more fun in life... great that Australia is supporting you,' one said.
Another wrote that 'Raygun won break dancing per capita. Just like Australia won the medals count per capita. Take that America!!!'
But most agreed with Efstratiou, with one commenter speaking for many in posting that 'she single-handedly made breakdancing a one and done' - referring to this being the first, and possibly last, time breaking was included in the Olympics.
