Overview
- Netflix released a trailer this week for Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly and the full documentary is set to premiere on Sept. 1, 2026.
- The film centers on Gunn’s Paris 2024 breaking performance, which received no judges’ votes and became a global meme that fed an avalanche of online misinformation and conspiracy claims.
- The Australian Olympic Committee has defended Gunn’s qualification as the result of a transparent, independent process while critics pushed a now-removed petition that reportedly gathered tens of thousands of signatures.
- In the trailer Gunn describes pre-Olympic panic and a therapist exchange in which she feared ‘‘the whole world could laugh at me,’’ and she grapples with her public identity as both Rachael and ‘Raygun.’
- The documentary also revisits Gunn’s post-Olympic disputes over a Sydney comedy show and reported legal demands, and it raises broader questions about how social media and new Olympic sports can magnify personal and reputational harm.