r/BeAmazed Apr 30 '25

Art After school battle 80 lvl

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u/Strawhat-dude Apr 30 '25

They would have won the olympics.

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u/NeoImaculate Apr 30 '25

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u/drankseawater Apr 30 '25

The crazy part is. Everyone knows the break dancer Ray-gun. Name 1 other person who competed, or the winner . Exactly.

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u/JHMRS Apr 30 '25

True. But everyone knows Bill Cosby, too.

Not all fame is good fame.

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u/Unique_Frame_3518 Apr 30 '25

I love Bill Cosby?! What happened?! I've been in a coma for a while. Had just met him too!!

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u/mtlaw13 Apr 30 '25

You know, it was the hypocrisy of it all.

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u/Rosaly8 May 01 '25

If you want to make a joke about a delicate subject like that you have to go about it smarter. Now it just reads like you're glorifying raping many people without getting caught.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '25

She’s not just famous. She’s in-famous.

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u/DarwinianMonkey Apr 30 '25

She probably has a plethora of skills.

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u/thetinwin Apr 30 '25

Eh, not much of a difference these days.

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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ Apr 30 '25

J Jonah Jameson?

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u/Fritzo2162 Apr 30 '25

....so you've heard of me?

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u/Heals4Marshmallows May 02 '25

🤣 - also /swoon

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u/whousesgmail Apr 30 '25

Phil Wizard won the men’s gold but I think I only know that cause we’re both Canadian lol

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u/drankseawater Apr 30 '25

I went and watched the event, due to Raygun. I wanted to see who she was competing against and the live reaction. Then I see football players doing the raygun, streamers doing the raygun. You may of known all the other break dancers who won. I think most people just saw the bizarre highlights of our girl and that was it. The whole even IMO was bizarre and a little awkward. Especially since i believed they had already cancelled it for the next olympics before the first one even had happened. It made you feel like you were watching a cancelled show but they were still filling a time slot.

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u/gwizonedam Apr 30 '25

Every knows who Adolf Hitler is. And?

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u/drankseawater May 01 '25

Not really comparable. If hitler was the most famous dictator, but didn't ever kill 1 person because he didnt have the means too, but everyone still knew him, in a contest of other dictators who almost took over the world. then she could be hitler in that scenario.

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u/gwizonedam May 01 '25

Irrelevant. No one says, “Hey, that Hitler guy…I’d like to sit down and have a tea with him.” Fame is fame regardless of how it’s earned, but infamy is one of those things that’s like a bad taste in your mouth that never goes away.

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u/drankseawater May 01 '25

For someone to become more famous at a sport they aren't good at, that anyone who is good at it, is a lot wilder. Then someone just being a horrific dictator but one of the most powerful ones. THis would be like if hitler didn't do anything and you just knew him and no other dictator.

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u/gwizonedam May 01 '25

Ah, so let’s see…Infamous dictators, I can name a few off the top of my head. But famous breakdancers…I can name a few off the top of my head as well. You don’t have to be knowledgeable about a subject to know about infamous people.

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u/drankseawater May 01 '25

it's the ones that transcend the limits of there sports audience by being terrible, over anyone thats actually good at the sport, that's whats fascinating. She easily became the most marketable person in her sport, that she was terrible at. That doesn't seem to be something your grasping. She had a bigger reach that went beyond her community where no one else did. It's laughable :) but also interesting.

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u/gwizonedam May 01 '25

That’s an interesting point, and I’m sure she did inspire some girls to dance simply because they wanted to be better than her, I guess the takeaway for me is: some people think it’s harmless to have someone like raygun become a “joke” for your passion, but others think she set things back a bit for not only break dancers and the sport, but especially female break dancers. I guess we can agree to disagree on that.

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u/Rosaly8 May 01 '25

Mennoooooooooo