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Would you go back to college?<\/p>\n

What if it looked less like four years of textbooks and cram sessions, and more like five days of non-stop streaming and content creation? That’s the vision that Twitch megastreamer Kai Cenat had for his second annual Streamer University, where budding content creators descended on a liberal arts campus to learn how to be the best streamers they can be. But what does the success of Streamer University say about the creator economy and where our attention is headed? To find out, Brittany is joined by Rebecca Jennings, features writer for New York Magazine and Alyssa Mercante senior reporter at Digiday.<\/p>\n

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Would you go back to college?<\/p>\n

What if it looked less like four years of textbooks and cram sessions, and more like five days of non-stop streaming and content creation? That’s the vision that Twitch megastreamer Kai Cenat had for his second annual Streamer University, where budding content creators descended on a liberal arts campus to learn how to be the best streamers they can be. But what does the success of Streamer University say about the creator economy and where our attention is headed? To find out, Brittany is joined by Rebecca Jennings<\/a>, features writer for New York Magazine and Alyssa Mercante<\/a> senior reporter at Digiday.<\/p>\n

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