Australian breakdancer Raygun takes viewers behind the scenes of the global firestorm that erupted after her 2024 Olympics performance ­in a new Netflix documentary ­– revealing she was feeling a sense of panic even before the backlash.

“Right before the Olympics, I went to my therapist panicked,” Rachael Gunn says in a trailer for Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly.

“She was like, ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’ [I said] ‘The whole world could laugh at me.’ She’s like, ‘Do you think that’s reasonable?’.”

As we all know, the world didn’t just laugh – it turned on the then 37-year-old breakdancing academic after she failed to score a single point for her routines, one of which included a “kangaroo” dance.

The backlash was brutal and unrelenting, with what the Netflix promo describes as “an avalanche of memes, misinformation and conspiracy theories” that mocked her performance and falsely accused her of cheating to get to the Olympics.

Although Gun was nominated for Games selection after winning the Oceania Breaking Championship in 2023, an online petition even claimed she had set up her own governing body for breaking so she could qualify.

It amassed around 50,000 signatures before it was taken down after complaints from the Australian Olympic Committee.

In Untold Raygun, directed by brothers Chapman and Maclain Way and set to be released on September 1 as part of Netflix’s Untold sports documentary series, Gunn describes the fallout as a “frenzy”.

“I was like, ‘Oh no’… It was this growing monster.

“Some of the memes were funny, and then the tone started to change.”

Raygun failed to score any points at the Olympics. Photo: AAP

Referring to herself as “a dorky white woman who’s an academic… and I’m a B-girl”, she also reveals the backlash had her questioning her own identity.

“I can’t just be a meme. Am I Rachael or Raygun?”

The documentary features snippets of the social media trolling and reels, as well as footage of Gunn as a child and interviews with her parents, who both say they had never imagined her growing up to compete at the Olympics.

Within hours of the Untold Raygun trailer being shared on YouTube and Instagram it had attracted dozens of comments from critics who revived the pile-on, with one stating: “I would prefer this to remain untold.”

Netflix promises the doco looks inside “the rise, fall and reinvention” of Raygun, who in the immediate aftermath of the Games backlash declared she was going to stop competing, but has remained part of the breakdancing scene in Australia.

Gunn worked as a media and popular culture lecturer at Macquarie University until taking a voluntary redundancy earlier this year. She has since launched a website promoting her services as a keynote speaker, presenter and educator.

Speaking to 10News+ after leaving her job in academia, Gunn said she was looking forward to tackling new projects, and said she no longer let the “haters” get to her.

“It used to really get me down that all these people hated me, all these people had the wrong idea about me, but I can’t take that on every single day,” she said.

“I just don’t go into my Instagram DMs. So all the haters out there who are messaging me, who are commenting on my posts – I don’t look at them.”

Although breakdancing also received positive attention when the sport made its debut at the Paris Games in 2024, it was later revealed organisers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics had decided it wouldn’t be included in their program.

It is still unclear if it might return for the Brisbane 2032 Games.