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Man Who Has Never Attended A Single Lecture Credits Entire Degree To 23-Minute Indian Man On YouTube
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A final-year engineering student has come forward to publicly thank a man he has never met, never paid, and cannot name, for "carrying" his entire university degree from a digital whiteboard somewhere overseas.
The student, who has attended an estimated zero of his scheduled 96 lectures this semester, says he owes everything to a YouTube channel run by a calm man who explains thermodynamics in 23 minutes with a marker and infinite patience.
"This bloke taught me more in twenty minutes than my forty grand tuition," the student said, unknowingly quoting the top comment of every educational video ever uploaded, a comment that currently has 18,000 likes.
The man on the screen does not know the student exists. He does not know any of us exist. He has 1.2 million subscribers, all of whom discovered him at 1am the night before an exam, the way our ancestors discovered fire.
The student admitted he typically watches at 2x speed while nodding and occasionally saying "ohhhh" out loud to his empty room, before realising the next morning he has retained none of it.
Experts note that watching a video, however good, makes a person feel like a knowledgeable passenger rather than a driver. At press time, the student had still not left a comment, a like, or a subscription for the man who single-handedly delivered his Bachelor of Engineering.
He was advised that the video's transcript could have been dropped straight into QUIXME and turned into flashcards that test him on what the man said, rather than simply letting him nod at it at 2x speed. The student agreed this was "actually genius," then rewatched the video at 2x speed, nodding.