Jack Edwards #2

[StatusWoe]

Just curious - has Jack ever posted any of his writing online?

 

[flowerguk]

And "I love you rucksack"? Was he aiming for "I love your rucksack"? Are you and your easily confused?

Saying 'je t'aime ton sac à dos' instead of 'j'aime ton sac à dos' is quite a common mistake for someone who's just started to learn french. In our class it also took us a while until we understood the usage of the verb 'aimer'.

 

[Lola123]

Hahahaba omg I got a preview copy of that book he’s been paid to promote! I don’t even have like an Instagram I was just asked to review it to put on Amazon

 

[dalmatirox]

is the fact he giggles after every other word a nervous tick or something?

I feel like he wants a call you by my name typa romance in a foreign county..

entering his Elio era, yas gawd

 

[StephenTJackson]

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So, I was just watching a random channel with this really nice American lad who reacts to different British things. He reacted to one of Jack's videos thinking it was how all uni students lived in the UK.

Saw he posted this

He's a really nice guy, seems so sweet. Really enjoy watching his reaction videos.

 

[3calico3]

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Jack confirmed to be writing for Ali Abdaals book.

Is he writing anything though? While under other peoples' names it says 'Writing Team' or whatever, his titles don't mention anything specific.

 

[Lola123]

So what do we think Jack is off to do now he's moving (perhaps out of London)? I never really got why he wasted money moving there in the first place, but hey ho.

Masters?

 

[Calabria]

And "I love you rucksack"? Was he aiming for "I love your rucksack"? Are you and your easily confused?

j'adore ton sac à dos (I love your rucksack)

je t'aime sac à dos (I love you rucksack)

that’s according to Google Translate.

 

[LydiaDeetzHat]

He's definitely being paid to drum up interest in these titles. I read the proof of The Woman In The Purple Skirt and not only is it not at all creepy, it;s really slow paced and nothing happens

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Congrats Jack, you got laid. Good to know, esp in a reading vlog.

i get the feeling he's making this out to sound more interesting than it was.. I think it's more likely he got drunk and fell asleep at a mates rather than go home across town. My Parisien friend used to have ppl do this all the time

He’s always massively pinged my gaydar. Fair play to him if he is.

yeah was the "girlfriend" ever visible? also rainbow bookshelf..i don't even know out gay guys who would do that

Honestly im aware that his sexual orientation is none of our business but it really is a great mystery

the fact he's so mysterious seems to indicate that he actually gay and is sort of embarrassed about it or is trying to hide it so he has sex appeal for the girls who watch his channel because his content is neither interesting nor insightful about books

 

[Bennycs]

Um I think you misinterpreted what it is? It's not for people who have already bought the diary, it's like a separate product.

Just like Ruby Granger does, it will be a pdf download of the planner so people can get it outside of just England. I bought hers last year online and it was good. Postage from England is so expensive meaning lots of us can't afford to buy stuff sold by English youtubers. Last time I bought physical youtuber merch I had to pay a ridiculous customs fee too it's crazy. It was a Sarah Close tshirt and it was really bad quality, I couldn't believe how much I paid for shipping and customs!

I actually think the digital downloads are a great idea because it means people can get their planners outside of just England. That's just business.

Oh my bad. I should wear my glasses more often Sincerest apologies.

I saw someone having a moan about it elsewhere so that will teach me, won't it

 

[hollowcrown]

Are the whole videos ads or does he just have sponsored sections of them like most other Youtubers.

 

[mindlessness]

A bit late to the party but do you remember where he said that?
It is just that he didn't state it in his LinkedIn profile. Maybe the author is under Penguin Random House and hide his as a freelancer. Either way, I am just surprised he didn't mention Penguin Random House in his profile since it is a major publishing house and it can up his profile a bit.

Hi! Thank you for asking cause now I'm not sure if I am right. Looking back at the videos and I can't find out where. I swear it was originally in the day in the life video he did in March, or the Q&A the video prior. But now I don't know. Back in the first thread there was an idea maybe he was working for Vee who has a contract with Penguin so maybe that's where I got the idea from? Gah I'm sorry If I've completely misremembered or made it up somehow.

It is weird if he is with them, even in a freelance role working on Ali's book (or Vee's), to not mention it.

 

[pumpkinssspice]

Still together! She must have a job that requires her to be private?

If you google her you’ll find her LinkedIn which says she’s been a ‘Student Volunteer Coordinator’ at Durham University since October 2020

 

[urfavepisces]

He's never definitively said, but basically for the content/aesthetic. As far as I know he's never shown an interest in French language or culture before this point.

Didn’t he go in France for a few days once to learn French? or am I thinking of someone else?

 

[mindlessness]

Jack is definitely better than Ruby and Jade. He is more relatable. He is honest about falling behind, messed up life and not having everything in order - things we can relate to. Definitely cant do that with Ruby and I haven't watched Jade's vids in a while.

To be fair, comparing to Jade and Ruby is setting a very low bar for Jack

 

[herathebeaver]

Absolutely - I think they're all varying degrees of toxic and dishonest.

Ali's not repped by Sixteenth, nope. He's the one whose content I'm least familiar with, but from what I've seen, he follows a very similar tactic of pushing toxic productivity, putting himself on a pedestal as being far smarter and more productive than his audience will ever be, then trying to scam people out of money for paid courses and overpriced, shitty stationery that they do not need. It's incredibly similar to the shady Sixteenth grift.

Eve's probably the least offensive of the Sixteenth studytubers, but that's not for lack of trying. The podcast they did together highlighted just how pretentious and stupid she is. It was half an hour of self-congratulatory waffle in which Eve took the lead and generally made herself look incredibly dumb while trying desperately to sound smart.

She tried to get her own Emma Chamberlain rip-off coffee business off the ground (also owned and run by Sixteenth), but it collapsed before it really started. Sixteenth sources the cheapest, shittiest manufacturers, so the only products this coffee company was able to provide was cheap hoodies, shitty drink cups and metal straws. It was a coffee company that sold no coffee. She tried to get the merch scam going but it just didn't come together like Jack and Ruby’s did, and just like them, she couldn't be bothered to put the work in to grow a genuine brand for herself or build a business.

Her content is just as lazy and creatively barren, too. She's now not only pivotting into ripping off LegalEagle's content, but she's hiring other people to write and edit that content for her because she has zero creativity to offer.

Most damningly though, like the other Sixteenth studytubers, she built her name pushing toxic productivity and then never acknowledged her part in it, even while making videos claiming to be a victim of the "toxic productivity echochamber".




10 minutes of pretentious, meandering waffle again, in which she proports to pull the veil from everyone's eyes to expose the culture of toxic productivity they're all a part of, without once mentioning that she built her career on pushing that mentality onto her audience. She never mentions her part in that, or her association with an influencer circle of other, equally toxic people who lie about what they read and how much they accomplish to make their audience feel inferior as they strive to achieve that unattainable goal. People don't get to smugly take credit for pointing out a problem they themselves helped create. It's like expecting a reward for calling to report a fire you started.

(And in true Sixteent studytuber tradition, she tried her best to make the ad declaration in the thumbnail as small and well-hidden as possible.)

They're all varying degrees of awful and they should be ejected from the internet.

at the very least I learned abt money and productivity from ali abdaal
learned nothing from the others lol except how not to behave

 

[herathebeaver]

Does anyone know what his parents do specifically? Like are they teachers etc.?
Although its admirable that a boy enjoys reading as much as Jack does (most people who read are girls and boys are made fun for reading), its not admirable that jack pretends to read more than he does
why lie?

 

[herathebeaver]

I think they must be? He lives in Sussex is it? His bedroom seems nice. He seems to have a lot of cultural and social capital despite moaning about how Durham don’t take enough state schools students on!

wdym by having lots of cultural/social capital
he isn't grace Beverly with her million-pound inheritance, well-connected mother and aristocratic grandpa!
and he isn't a member of the landed gentry in the UK or similar

 

[herathebeaver]

He’s an utter moron. Wake up.

He's not stupid...he's just as greedy and dishonest as his fellow YouTubers/influencers
and he has an inflated sense of his achievements, which he mainly achieved through grifting

 

[dalmatirox]

I reckon he wants to link up with Damon Dominique, maybe become part time travel vlogger ~