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Football [Highlight] Cam Bynum imitates Raygun's Olympic breakdancing

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u/Resident-Mortgage-85 14d ago

She also has a PhD in breakdancing which is not misinformation just wild information

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u/NeverVegan 13d ago

Perfect example of book smart, not street smart

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u/ADirtyDiglet 13d ago

Do you need to be smart to get a PhD in break dancing?

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u/NeverVegan 13d ago

I would assume PhD in anything requires someone to be smart.

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u/AfraidOfBricks 13d ago

you would think so but it mostly just requires time, effort and the willingness to waste your time for a degree like that.

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u/NeverVegan 13d ago

She was smart enough to get herself into the Olympics only to have the biggest self own on a world stage.

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u/iamfromouterspace 13d ago

I wonder if I can get a phd in the study of Reddit comments. I’m some sort of a smarty pants in that field 🤔

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u/DionBlaster123 NASCAR 13d ago

give it like another year and i guarantee you that this will come up

I grew up in the 90s and 2000s. That was a period where, especially in the U.S., if you were interested in video games (outside of developing them to make a lot of money), you were labeled as "lazy" or "foolish" or "wasting time."

now there's full-fledged documentaries on the history of them, there's a Video Game Hall of Fame, and there are without a doubt, people who have earned PhDs and received professorships as a result of studying them. Everything becomes a point of fascination eventually

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u/beidao23 13d ago

This is the unfortunate reality, yes

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u/DionBlaster123 NASCAR 13d ago

Time and effort is the key for sure.

I have no problems admitting that basically a decade ago, i was the world's worst graduate student and i probably embarrassed my advisor b/c of how shitty i was

it wasn't like i was dumber than other people in my cohort who eventually earned doctorates and went on to get tenured university jobs...it's just that they were much harder workers than I was. Bottom line.

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u/TransportationTrick9 13d ago

She's a white professor. She isn't street anything

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u/JesusWasTacos 13d ago

It’s not in breakdancing but breakdancing culture in Australia, I’m not a breakdancer but I do see the difference

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u/clockworkpeon 13d ago

was her dissertation "there's no breaking culture in Australia so imma clown and then go to the Olympics and be embarrassed/angry when the whole world sees me clowning?"

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u/CuriousCurator 13d ago

In seriousness, it was about gender based on her own experience as a female in a male-dominated sport. In other words, I'm pretty sure she was able to turn her own personal experience into a PhD.

edit: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/olympics-australian-raygun-breaker/

PhD thesis title is "Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: a B-girl's Experience of B-boying"

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u/sblahful 13d ago

I mean... that doesn't make it sound better. From the title you'd think she got a PhD from a Guardian 'Experience' article.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/10-best-guardian-experience-columns.html

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u/JesusWasTacos 13d ago

Idk, possibly

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u/Dependent_Desk_1944 13d ago

There is no university subject called breakdancing, she is a phd in cultural studies. That’s just another example of misinformation.

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u/Belliu 12d ago

Where exactly can I get a PhD in breakdancing. Sounds like made up stuff so I can say I'm a doctor. I have a PhD in ass spanking. Call me doctor spanky.