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Pretty much. Even if you manage to somehow make a huge discovery or prove a major unproven theorem no one in academia will take you seriously because you don't have the right credentials. Perelman was successful only because he was already a respected figure within Differential Geometry at the time and his papers were published on Arxiv. If he was a hobbyist nobody who published his papers on Vixra he'd probably remain unknown even today.