Stellar Don't miss out on the headlines from Stellar. Followed categories will be added to My News. There is a folder on the phone of Rachael “Raygun” Gunn where she stores a growing collection of happy, positive images and funny memes that she says have helped to keep her sane over the past few difficult months.
Their exact contents might surprise you. “Can you believe that?” Gunn asks Stellar, laughing as she holds up her phone to the screen during our video interview. In the frame is an image of Gunn lying down in her infamous Australian Olympic Team tracksuit, legs waving back and forth in their position on the rear windscreen wiper of a Jeep.
“How good is that? Love that. I’m going to get that for my car,” she adds. She holds up another meme depicting a grid of several of her most animated faces from her three Olympic breaking battles, ranked from one to seven.
It reads: “On a scale of Raygun moves, how is your mental health today?” Rachael Gunn AKA Raygun. Picture: Steven Chee for Stellar Another features Gunn in her signature kangaroo hop pose, leaning back with curled hands, photoshopped on the zebra crossing of The Beatles’ 1969 Abbey Road album cover. “I’ve got a digital pool room of all the best ones,” she reveals, referencing the “straight to the pool room” line from the classic 1997 Australian film The Castle.
“My friends were all sending them to me and I loved it. I loved the people laughing with me because, yeah, I was doing some.