Wadzani Dauda Palnam, a Nigerian scholar with a Ph.D has berated TikToker Peller for offering to hire two photographers with Masters degrees for a monthly salary of N500,000 each and then filming a video interview that mocked their degrees and academic intellectualism.
In a Facebook post titled "TikTok Mockery of Scholars: The Bigger Picture Behind the Laughs," Palnam told Peller that "You didn’t need scholars for a job. You needed them for content."
Palnam made it clear that Peller was mocking academics to trend while using social media tools and monetization models developed by academics he was mocking.
"You used the dignity of their degrees to lift the illusion of your own relevance. But success that depends on someone else’s shame is not success. It is insecurity with a spotlight.
"Education was never just about getting a job. It was about capacity. The ability to build systems. To challenge ignorance. To offer solutions. You don’t need to trend to be relevant. And relevance that requires someone else’s humiliation will never last," he said.
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