a twitch streamer just said streamer university is worth more than harvard and the internet has thoughts

streamer university is shut down, the auditions are over, and the atlanta recap threads are still being written. and somehow in the middle of all that, twitch streamer snowcone went on record claiming kai cenat's streamer university gives creators more life-changing opportunities than getting into harvard. per dexerto's coverage of the clip, snowcone argued the exposure and network you get from su2 changes your life in ways a degree simply doesn't.

chat, the responses did not wait.

a chunk of the discourse, per various reply threads, took snowcone's point seriously. the argument being that harvard costs somewhere north of $300k across four years and gives you a credential, while a seat at streamer university allegedly puts you in front of millions of people overnight. several creators made the case that parasocial reach is the actual currency now and no institution is minting it faster than kai cenat's format.

a different group found the whole comparison absurd on its face. the counterpoint circulating is that streamer university lasted one chaotic week, ended with auditions being officially shut down, and produced as many arrests as it did success stories. comparing that to a four-year institution is, per more than a few posters, doing a lot of heavy lifting for a show that hasn't even confirmed a second season.

some people landed somewhere in the middle. the more measured takes acknowledged that snowcone isn't really talking about harvard the building, but about the idea that credentialism and traditional gatekeeping are losing their grip on who gets ahead. which is a real conversation. it's just a funny one to be having via a clip about a streamer event that also involved soulja boy being physically removed from the premises.

the fathom journal opinion piece from yesterday, which argued the countdown format was the core structural flaw in su2's design, is getting pulled into the harvard discourse now too. the implicit question being whether the concept itself was brilliant and the execution broke it, or whether the whole thing was always going to be this.

anyway. harvard has not responded to the comparison. presumably they are busy.