In 2024 there was this documentary called the Shadow Scholars, shown on the U.K.’s Channel 4 last year with the title “The Shadow Scholars Fake Essay Scandal.” It was about the army of educated but underemployed Kenyan people who had been using gig work platforms to link up with Western college students and write their academic essays for them. It did exactly what you would want a documentary like this to do: went to Nairobi and let you feel like you were