Raygun’s fall from viral fame to campus layoffs
Australian breakdancer Rachael ‘Raygun’ Gunn, who went viral for a disastrous zero-point Olympic routine in Paris 2024, has lost her job as a media and popular culture lecturer at Macquarie University amid cost-cutting redundancies tied to fewer international students; the university cited privacy for not commenting on individual contracts, and Gunn has since pivoted to ventures like Cameo while facing ongoing scrutiny of taxpayer-funded programs in higher education.
