>Makes a video to talk about the process of accepting rejection from his dream PhD program.>Spends the first five minutes or so talking about how high his grades were, how excellent his thesis was, how incredible the letters of recommendation he received for his application were, the amazing network of influence he was able to develop thanks to his YouTube channel to get the support he needed to be accepted into the program, and in general how exceptional and solid his "credentials" are.>Gets rejected anyway. >"Yeah dude like they just didn't have enough money to accept me dude like it has nothing like to do with me or my research proposal dude like I wasn't supposed to get in dude like I actually just want to make Youtube videos dude but like anyway I'm gonna like apply next year dude like I don't care to get in like the university of my dreams dude like academy is for losers dude but like I'm gonna do it anyway dude but like I just really don't care dude..."Midwits are so funny, man.
>>25084791lol. I hope he ropes.
>>25084791Who gives a shit about this nobody?
>chinkoids when their dream cram school rejects them
>>25084896fuck chinks. they love to abuse power and authority whenever they acquire it.
>>25084811To what extent is he /ourguy/I don’t think he’s 0% /ourguy/I don’t think he’s 100% /ourguy/ eitherBut he definitely isn’t 0%Makes him interesting and relatable
>>25084968Gay
Australian universities preferentially award funding to people who did their undergrad at the same institution. So the fact he didn't get in says something about his story isn't adding up. Also there are other really good and highly ranked universities in the country. He should have applied to more places. But this guy strikes me as very status obsessed and unwilling to compromise on UniMelb because of that.
>>25085052No one cares nigga
I am tired of incelebs being posted on my /lit/
>>25085052he's in Australia? based. I'm sick to death of non-whites and faggots being allowed to shit up our universities and conservatories. fuck them all.
>>25085071Yeah my understanding is he did his undergrad at unimelb and then applied for PhD there. Not sure if he's a citizen though. Citizens have a pretty easy time getting funding.
>>25085078nothing of value was lost. Robin should be forced to spend five years mixing concrete and stacking bricks for wasting everyone's time.
>>25085052His research project probably wasn't good, or at least it wasn't up to the standard of doctoral research or anything like that, because it doesn't make sense for someone to be rejected from a doctoral program when they have so many advantages (good references, high grades, contacts in the field and the university, etc.). He literally applied from a position of advantage and got nothing; he probably even lost to people who applied with less. The only coherent explanation is that he didn't meet the necessary intellectual standards, something easily verifiable by reviewing his videos and how characteristically superficial they are.
>>25085052>>25085071Always funny to remember he's apparently a born and bred Australian when he has that horrible half-Amerifagged homunculus of an accent. I may be more wogccented than the mainstream but as a Melbournean the only Australians I hear who sound like that are the ones that spend their lives on Youtube, for some reason.
>>25084968This guy is extremely /lit/ and I mean that in the worst way possible. Making fun of him is healthy and a reminder to every faggot here to not be like him.
>>25085103>Melbourneanfucking poofter cunt. Imagine not being a Queenslander.
>>25085107Kek, this. He's truly one of us.
>>25084791Why does his accent sound so fucked up?
>>25085117lol, who cares? I know a few relos in the outback who would enjoy making Robin do an honest day's work for once in his life.
>>25085110Aren't you too busy being eaten by a croc and dying of skin cancer you skippy hillbilly bitch?
>>25085125just part and parcel of living the best state.
Who the FUCK cares you fucking faggot
>>25085135sit down, zipperhead.
>>25085103At least the wogccent is Australian. >are the ones that spend their lives on Youtube, for some reasonThese people wish they lived in NYC or London so badly it's kind of funny.
>>25085140I wish they would too.
>>25085138Fuck your e-celeb worshipping retarded ass and fuck your off-topic cancerous thread
>>25085151sorry, mate. I don't speak Chinese.
OPSUCKSCOCKS
>>25085154is sum ting wong?
>>25085110Didn't they make it illegal to criticise Israel there
Good. Now he can write a novel skewering the higher education system. If The Learned Disguise was innocent and hopeful, and L'académie was blackpilled and despondent… this one will be all righteous rage. Third time's the charm.
>>25085159what the fuck is "israel"?
>>25084791Isn't he like 32 years old? Why does he want to do a PhD now? Doesn't he already have a job besides his YouTube?
>>25084791He still isn't in a PhD program...he got rejected again or gave up. Also this chink nigger thinks he can make a living off Youtube by releasing a video once a month to a whopping total of 5k views. Waldun is cooked. Academia rejected and so has the literary world.
>>25085222What the fuck do you mean he's 32 he doesn't even look beyond 25 what the fuck
>>25084791What does getting PhD in literature even mean? I don't get it
>>25085266It's a stepping stone to getting a full time professorial position that leads to tenure. As long as your nation-state doesn't collapse, University Professor is one of the most secure jobs ever to exist. It's also practically impossible to get fired from once you're hired.
watch any one of his videos and you'll see he's too stupid for a phd.
>>25085269Yes because being a tenured professor is the academic equivalent of being a senator. Absolutely useless and embarrassing sac of flesh
>>25085269Tenured professor is one of the most secure jobs ever but the career path is one of the least secure. Getting a PhD isn't even the halfway point to tenured professor.
>>25085304if all u care about is a secure job just go work at the post office it's a lot easier any unionized government job is a job for life
>>25085314That's exactly my point to the other anon, there's nothing secure about academia unless you land the top job. Tenure track positions are like job interviews that last for years. Especially in literature, what're the backup plans for a literature PhD.
>>25085304>>25085314>>25085326Both of you are low IQ and artless which is why you think becoming a professor is difficult.
>>25085394actually my boss is always trying to get me to teach classes i'm like nah i'm not grading ai slop
PhD programs are largely corrupt, political, and basically scams to get cheap laborAcademia is in fact just as bad if not worse than working for corposThe corpos are just more transparent about being total psychopaths who want to abuse you
>>25085397Your mom doesn't qualify as a boss, and all she's doing is trying to get you out of the basement.>Oh sweetie, you read so many books...I know, why don't you become an English professor!This is just sad, really.
>>25085263He's been stuck with that youthful look for a while now. See if you can find a haumted painting inside his house.
Does anyone have his wine drunk discord rants.Also check these digits
>>25085222>32 y/o Jesus fucking christ.I always found this guy insufferable, but since I thought he was in his early twenties, I acted indifferently, as we're all usually a bit idiotic and pretentious at that age, and it's not a sin to be that way in that context. But knowing that this guy is actually like that, even though he's not a young adult, is truly depressing, and I wouldn't wish that kind of fate on my worst enemy—being a thirty-something stuck in the body and head of a teenager, but even more so, in the incapacity and impotence of a still-childish intelligence that wants too much and achieves nothing.
>>25085643ya i try to tell ppl once u turn 25 and haven't accomplished anything, you've aged out of the boy genius act and need to face u aren't special
youtube and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race
>>25085394Every loser I've ever known has that same "anybody could do that" attitude towards success.
>>25085655i just use youtube for dj sets, skatevideos, and accessional college lectures, u don't have to watch eceleb slop, but it is kind of either brilliant or nefarious of google to monetize people with narcissistic personality disorder in such a way lmao
It's really amazing how this entire website is obsessed with famous people/internet personalities telling them what to think, live vicariously through them, and participate in eceleb drama, while also thinking they're independent thinkers and free of all the normie bullshit. The amount of fags on here is so sickening and the cope that will follow this will be even more depressing than OP posting this literal WHO retard bug man.
>>25085661>this entire website is obsessed with famous people/internet personalitiesit's called social media marketing, you think anyone is organically posting that garbage?
>>25085661zoomers have no concept of subculture or identity, so they just spam the same garbage everywhere without reservations.
>>25085664I do. There's enough sad faggots on here that know all about these people and think they're their actual friends. If this wasn't true there'd be no simp money in anything.
>>25084791Reminds me of the Jared Henderson video about why he "quit" academia, and ofc him "quitting" and academia souring on him happens to coincide with him getting rejected from a position in academia
>>25085729You don't get it, dark academia is too hardcore for normies like you.
>>25085643>32Waldun is at most 25 and at least 23...you might actually be retarded.
>>25085762>Who are your favorite writers?>To name a few: Ursula K. Le Guin, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plotinus, Aristotle, Hilary Mantel, St. Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, John le Carré, Karl Marx, Ian M. Banks, Neal Stephenson, ane Elizabeth Anderson.I wish tradcath zoomer larpers like you would neck yourselves. You're not /lit/.
>>25085801Forgot to add that I know because I've been sucking his dick on a regular basis for the last 5 years
>>25084791Lucky fucker, now he can go start an actual career.
>>25085809Pardon?
>>25085811same
>>25085763Cope loser
>>25084791No new lore has dropped with this guy in forever. We need a new talentless hack to dogpile.
>>25084791he is a white male and didn't pretend to be gay or transwhat was he thinking?
>>25085435hello waldun
>>25085839Those are Jared Henderson's favorite writers.
>>25085093This. There needs to be penalties for this nonsense. Hard labour would do him some good.
>>25086243Nothing wrong with Neal Stephenson, anon
>>25085435Modern academia is far worse and has far less accountability.
>>25084791Not going to watch this, but I'm guessing he only applied to big name universities and mostly focused on his status as a minor internet celebrity that sells a literary lifestyle. The adcomms probably assumed he only wanted a PhD because a PhD in lit from Oxbridge/HYP would build his aesthetic and brand, not because he was particularly interested in research and advancing the field. But, in general, grad school admissions are pretty unpredictable. I got denied by a program that I had strong connections to, had a letter written by a faculty member and famous contributor to the field, etc. But then got accepted by a program that I had no personal connections to. We're also in a period where the humanities are struggling with funding and general economic anxiety is making everyone apply for grad school to wait it out.
>>25085809>tradcath zoomer larper>no Chesterton or O'ConnorNGMI
>>25085110queenslanders can't read
>>25085953You blind? He's Asian. I've noticed our category of white is a little narrower here in Aus but surely this doesn't pass for white in the US
>>25086453Same thing to Ivy League.Would an Aussie say Asian or Oriental for east Asians?
>>25086486we say Asian.>>25086452there's a grain of truth to that claim. we're a very practical and no-nonsense people who love to shit on people in the humanities unless they have genuine talent.
I was a regular on /lit/ the year (2022?) his academie book came out. Today I had an impulse to open this board again and there are still two threads on waldun, despite there being no new content. There is no more juice to squeeze out of the lemon here
>>25084968He is the walking talking stereotype of the /lit/ pseud. So he's certainly one of ours, though I wouldn't call him /ourguy/F. Gardner though, he not only relished on the meme but even profited from it and doubled down on the absolute retardedness of his writing instead of fixing it in hopes of getting a larger audience. I would say he is much closer to being /ourguy/ than Waldun
>>25085110QUEENSLANDER!!!
>>25086510waldun can squeeze something out of me whenever he wants if you know what I mean :^)
>>25085110every queenslander i met had mental problems. without exception. all of them are descended from robbers and spoilers. a sorry bunch if ever there was. marcus clarke knew this.
>>25086632victorian cope.
>Melboids and Brisboids arguing over who gets to come second to SydGODs
>>25086663These days, you have foreigners in Melbourne and queers in Sydney, everything is muddled up !
>>25086513>He is the walking talking stereotype of the /lit/ pseud.not at all. the average /lit/ pseud has been a /pol/ tourist for about a decade now, and the pseuds before that were never as dumb and empty as waldun
>>25086663don't lie, anon. we all kneel to Darwin ubermensch.
>>25086663>implyingChadeladean's march on.
>>25086690>SAyou're on the commonwealth council but we do not grant you the rank of Australian.
>All these NON-CAPITAL plebs-Actually yeah nah, Canberra is pretty empty
>>25085801>>25085809>Calls other people retarded >Unironically a midget midwit chink cock lover
>>25086804Fuck I meant >>25085801
>thread dissolves into Australian statebaiting KEK good job boys.
>>25086694>grow up watching australian tv>feel genuine confusion and cringe at all these people using "australian" slang like it's normal>visit the eastern states>people genuinely speak like thatConvict labour was a mistake.
>>25086931immigrating here without a criminal record is bloody un-Australian.
Elon Musk should be in jail for giving Australians internet.
>>25087182we invented the internet, Ranjesh.
>>25087185No you didn’t bruce
imagine trying to get a degree in 2026, you are basically giving away your money, youth and time trying to compete with llms
>>25087267that's irrelevant. people who get a degree outside of STEM to make money or increase their status clearly don't belong there and that is one of the primary reasons why Robin was told to fuck off. real academics hate pseuds like Robin with a fucking passion and would enjoy curb stomping him as a warning to all the other pseuds they have to deal with.
>>25084791waldun? more like walled and dun with academia lmao
>>25087297yes it's irrelevant, i am talking about universities and academia in general, once people start losing jobs, universe will become irrelevant, yes current academics might keep their research jobs, but zoomers are not going to waste their youths going to school anymore when they are led to believe they can become rich youtubers or roblox programmers, or vibe coders,
>>25087307>they can become rich youtubers or roblox programmers, or vibe coders,and that's a good thing. Universities are returning to their original mandate.
>>25087310no, public universities are going to turn into museums while real research gets done in the labs of private conglomerates, its not going to be as rosy as you expect, especially with a republican govt still in power during this ai transition period
>>25087321she'll be right. I have the advantage of competing against people who only applied because they were too stupid for STEM rather than, God forbid, having actual passion for the subject.
being a minor e-celeb with a trust fund seems to be the sweet spot in the current world
>>25087327>she'll be rightare you australian?
>>25087375spot on, mate. we hate faggot pseuds down here.
>>25085655Why? Because zillennials have an avenue to making money that isn't wageslaving for mr sheckelstein for the rest of their lives?
>>25087388>muh zillenirinosGenerationbrained faggot.
How about we let this thread die and continue the banter on >>>/mlp/?
>>25087407get a job, Robin.
>>25084791>dream PhD programThere is nothing romantic about doing a PhD, it's brutal no matter what you're researching.
>>25087380have the chinese already stopped pumping money into your universities, mate
>>25087546send me another $350 and I'll teach (you) how to use proper punctuation and stop eating cats.
>>25087560don't they own the port of darwin? australia is a joke of a country, mate. a feminized society trying to pretend they are relevant capitalists like the us while sucking off to communist china.
>>25087578don't bite the hand that feeds you scraps, Wang.
>>25087586no need to bite it when it's freely auctioning its resources to you
>>25087594last time I checked $700,000,000 is not free and Darwin is a sweltering hot box that no self-respecting Australian wants to live or work in so consider yourself lucky that our government even considered leasing it.
>>25087598it's literally the gateway to your next largest economy, indonesia, and you just gave it away
>>25087601>Indonesiaa pile of dog shit on our doorstep that we pretend doesn't exist.
>>25087601it's so over for the huwites and it really just comes down to minuscule birth rate, if australian had 1.4 billion bogans or whatrver no one would be buying their ports
kek. I love how this thread basically turned into an edition of aus/pol/.
>>25085110Everyone's entitled to their geographical proclivities.
>>25087616Best thread on /lit/I don't have it but someone should post the Simpsons monkey fight at this point.
>>25087609I am a nigger. What is huwite?
>>25087654only whites are human, hence the term "hu-white".
>>25087606a shitstain that will soon flood your low birth country, and you just ignored it and gave china access to the gates
>>25087650HELLO? BASED DEPARTMENT?
>>25087665>Off by oneWell at least I'm not Satan
>>25087545Tell that to the kid whose entire internet career basically consists of selling a romanticized and unrealistic image of academia. No wonder he was told to fuck off—I seriously doubt he'll ever actually accomplish anything within a PhD program, especially at a prestigious university.
>>25084791fuck off, Waldun. nobody cares.
I think Ogden Nesmer was the best of us.
>>25085661fpbp
>>25086632>every queenslander i met had mental problems. without exception.You're a neurotic fag who tries to armchair psych everyone to feel in control. Of course QLD cunts hated you. They knew you were a poof right away.
>muh cuckbourne>muh pissbin>muh shitneycitycucks are a scourge
>>25087606lol this is such cope. indonesia is already a bigger economy than australia with 300 million people, one of the only countries in the world that is able to feed itself with its own food production and is rich in energy and minerals. And get this, as huge as it is, its growth is just starting. aus is sooo fucked hahah
>>25089852Mad much? Aussies are top 15 in GDP per capita, about 30 times ahead of Indonesia. It's a muslim shithole with no education, no infrastructure, trash and mental pajeets everywhere in the street. Get real, it is nobody's dream to emigrate to Indonesia to study or live. The only immigration you receive are poor, underqualified aliens from shittier places nearby that can't make it to the the first world.
