The YouTube channel “WakatteTV,” known for provocative content built around academic pedigree, came under fire after a recent remark blew up for the wrong reasons. On 5channel threads, criticism spread fast — but so did defenses, with many arguing it’s “just their usual shtick” or that “it works as entertainment,” splitting opinion right down the middle. The discussion soon expanded to cover the fact that the channel’s central figure doesn’t actually have an elite academic background himself, the murky details of the cram school he runs, and even the broader debate over companies using university names as hiring filters.
Yeah, that's really the root of the problem.
If companies filter candidates by university name alone, without even looking at what they actually accomplished there, this is what you get.
And honestly, these guys graduated from Kyoto University and are running a cram school — that's kind of an insult in itself.
Lmao, brutal.
These are the same people who still won't condemn "women-only admission quotas" as discrimination in university entrance exams.
Lost to Mii-yama too — who could actually beat these guys at this point?
Environment and genetics.
Being loud about that stuff is probably their contribution to lowering the birth rate — so I guess they're "winning" at that.
It works as entertainment precisely because there's an obvious comeback — "you clown on low academic achievers, but you're just a high school grad yourself."
People who keep screaming "high school grad, high school grad" are missing the point.
Not just active — he's an executive at the cram school.
Maybe the whole "mocking low academic achievement" angle is just a way to drum up new students.
They call it a "cram school," but what this guy actually does is just point students to reference books and tell them to study on their own.
It's the kind of style that either really clicks with you or really doesn't — no in-between.
They already deleted the video in question, so no, it won't be.
I mean, if you had as many subscribers as these guys, probably yeah?
That genre seems to have a lot of female fans, too.
Nobody cares about insults that don't target their own personal insecurities.
Huh.
So it's basically just renting out space, no actual tutors needed?
They do technically have instructors.
Reviews on job-hunting sites aren't great though.
They've got a fair number of locations nationwide, but the head office is just a room in some multi-tenant building in Tokyo.
Honestly, if you dug into that side of things, you'd probably find something interesting.
Looks like people are reporting the channel itself too, not just the video.
On YouTube, deleting just the offending video is usually enough to avoid consequences.
Reporting the whole channel is pointless.
That's just the bit, that's the entertainment.
meanwhile the critical tweets are hitting viral numbers left and right.
Well, academic prestige is a limited-slot thing — there will always be way more people who qualify as targets for mockery than people who don't.
What's their cutoff for "high academic achievement" anyway, hensachi (deviation score) 60-plus?
If they're just labeling everyone below that as "low academic achievers," then low achievers massively outnumber the rest — there's no way to win by sheer numbers.
Lol.
Yeah, that'd piss anyone off.
Even Hiroyuki only graduated from Chuo University's Faculty of Letters, so by their own logic, he'd be a target for Takada to mock too.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
“WakatteTV” is a channel known for ranking people by university entrance-exam difficulty and provoking those it deems to have a “low academic pedigree” — this isn’t the first time it’s sparked controversy. What threads are pointing out this time is that the channel’s frontman himself dropped out of university and, on paper, only holds a high school diploma — meaning the whole “a high school grad mocking low academic achievers” setup has long been part of the act itself. Opinion split between those who see this as the usual bit, in on the joke, and those who felt it went too far this time by naming real universities and real individuals — with the latter camp raising questions about the reputation and actual business practices of the cram school the channel’s figure runs. The discussion also drew comparisons to corporate hiring practices like academic filtering, making this more than a simple “backlash vs. defenders” story — a nuance that’s easy to miss without the full thread context.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “[Image] Controversial WakatteTV Gets Flooded With Defenders wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
