Before the 2024 Olympics, Raygun, whose real name is Rachael Gunn, was panicking about her upcoming performance. Her therapist asked what might be the worst that could happen. “The whole world could laugh at me,” Gunn replied.

“She’s like, ‘Do you think that’s reasonable?’ I was like, ‘Oh no’,” the Australian breakdancer says in the opening moments of a trailer for her upcoming Netflix documentary, Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly.

Dropping on September 1, the documentary’s synopsis says that “nobody, least of all Rachael Gunn, expected to be an Olympian”.

“But as Raygun’s performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics went viral overnight, so did an avalanche of memes, misinformation, and conspiracy theories questioning how she ever got there.”

The trailer shows Gunn’s reaction to becoming a viral moment following her nil-scoring Olympic performance, which quickly became a worldwide meme.

“There was this frenzy,” Gunn says in the trailer. “It was this growing monster ... I know I’m a dorky white woman who’s an academic, and I’m a big girl.”

In December 2024, Gunn drew controversy after attempting to shut down a Sydney comedian’s musical inspired by her Olympic performance, with her lawyers citing copyright infringement over the name Raygun and her famous kangaroo pose.

A few days later, a legal letter emerged revealing Gunn also demanded $10,000 in legal fees from the owner of a small Sydney comedy club that had planned to stage comedian Stephanie Broadbridge’s show, Raygun the Musical.

Gunn responded to criticism, describing the dispute as “a stressful time”. Meanwhile, Broadbridge continued her show without using Gunn’s breakdancing name and the kangaroo pose.

Directed by brothers Chapman Way and Maclain Way, the duo behind Netflix’s Wild Wild Country and The Kings of Tupelo, the Raygun documentary will be part of the streaming company’s sport documentary series, UNTOLD.

With dozens of documentaries now under the UNTOLD umbrella, Raygun’s will be one of three upcoming standalone stories told over three weeks.

In the Netflix trailer, Gunn’s parents are asked if they ever associated the word “Olympian [with] Rachel growing up?” The breakdancer’s mum replies “never”, while her dad laughs, and adds, “Sorry, not the right reaction, is it?”

Towards the end of the trailer, Gunn reflects on the way the online discourse surrounding her Olympic performance quickly turned.

“Some of the memes were funny. Then the tone started to change,” Gunn says, as online clips of people alleging on social media that the breakdancer cheated her way into the Olympics are shown, as well as screenshots of online hate.

“It just kept getting more crazy ... I can’t just be a meme. Am I Rachael or RayGun?”

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