Jack Edwards

[3calico3]

He is so desperate to classify himself as special in some way, he's reaching very far. You don't need a label, especially ones that are essentially meaningless. He might as well keep saying he's a Libra. Also, being first gen means nothing - even if a sibling or parent went to uni before me, everyone's experience is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. It's not like I truly experienced uni before just because they went.

The fact that he felt that he had to send a tirade of messages (DMs I might add) in response to a tweet shows that he's pretty defensive about things. I wouldn't be surprised if he mentions it in an upcoming video about how mean people are.

What will this guy be like once he hits 30? Only 8 years away...

I have no doubt that he will be exactly the same.

 

[DietGossip]

Playing the mental health card hahah
I didn’t even say anything about him personally, I pasted a comment from here that pointed out how he was incorrect to say x y and that being from the third best state school doesn’t make you disadvantaged as he implicitly implies yawn x bored

This makes me want to "k" him after he's written that whole essay

 

[Anon576]

I’ve not once met someone at uni that’s mentioned whether they’re first gen or not everyone feels anxious before uni, get a grip

 

[ThrowawayQDO]

Wasn't first gen but might as well have been - I did my UCAS by myself (when my dad did it, it was still paper applications and the perception of what unis were "good" has shifted a fair bit since then) and I don't think many people are really prepared for what uni is like. Nowadays there's plenty of help and information online, so you don't have to rely on your parents or school being savvy to get an edge.

 

[Wickedtown]

uni was a different experience 20/30 years ago, what does it matter if your parents went or not? More to the point, who doesn’t know what to “expect” at uni, like I’m struggling to understand what he thought was going to happen that’s so unexpected that he had to write a whole ass book about it you move away from home and google tit like how long to boil an egg and what setting to put the washing machine on, nobody needs a book for that

 

[flutterby1999]

This is the thing right, like I'm not first gen either. But my mum went to KCL in 1987 to do a totally free nursing degree, UCAS didn't exist and her halls experience was 30 nursing students sharing one kitchen. It's nothing like the experience I had at uni. Being a "first gen student" isn't really a Thing unless it's middle class students trying to make out they aren't privileged.

 

[Lalisa_mb]

Hey jack, since you’re reading here and blocked me without replying to you
Well I had a lot to say yet I’ll let you sit this one through

 

[Welshgal]

He should just stop with the long messaging. It makes him look desperate.

And btw I’m first gen and from another country, so not even my teachers or friends could help me
in any way and I still made it just fine. Maybe I should also write a book?

 

[nrs264]

He is so desperate to classify himself as special in some way, he's reaching very far. You don't need a label, especially ones that are essentially meaningless. He might as well keep saying he's a Libra. Also, being first gen means nothing - even if a sibling or parent went to uni before me, everyone's experience is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. It's not like I truly experienced uni before just because they went.

The fact that he felt that he had to send a tirade of messages (DMs I might add) in response to a tweet shows that he's pretty defensive about things. I wouldn't be surprised if he mentions it in an upcoming video about how mean people are.


I have no doubt that he will be exactly the same.

I do feel its possibly slightly generational too, a lot of his generation and below seem obsessed with labels (either sexuality, background, race etc). Whereas for me (in my 30s) growing up we did everything we could to shake off being labelled and not be defined by certain things and it's so depressing to seemingly heading back to everyone having to label themselves.

Also the victim role and having a 'journey' is very popular these days especially on social media, it feeds narcissism and encourages sympathy and comments and attention. The downside to mental health awareness is now everyone things they have it and it excuses any questionable behaviour and they are beyond criticism and people should 'be nice'

 

[Magallanes]

what he says about ibz mo in your DMs reminds me of this video (min 1:32)

if you don't want to get them views, basically there is a fan assumption that says: "jade and jack are jealous of ibz and eve because they got into oxbridge", and both jade and jack respond they are not jealous because they were not competing for the same place, they study different courses, therefore ibz and eve did not "took" their place from oxbridge...
that is EXACTLY what he says in your DMs, that there is no comparison between his case and ibz's because they pursue different careers

it looks like a very rehearsed answer they've been spilling out for years and years to assure people that they are not jealous of those who got into oxbridge...jack, i think it's time to look for a better answer next time, you're repeating yourself!

 

[nrs264]

Also being different courses has f all to do with it. Jealousy doesnt have to be about the same course, jack wanted to go to oxford, a competitor in the same niche got in. That's enough to be jealous of. He is also insinuating the that if it had been the same course the other person wouldnt have got in.

 

[Merpedy]

Did he even enjoy Durham? Like I cannot imagine enjoying my time at a uni when my whole dream and success is based on getting into Oxford, and since he doesn't seem to be keen on English Lit either so like... what is he actually getting out of uni that he does enjoy?

 

[vintageclara]

Triggered

I just can't with his profile picture

 

[3calico3]

Also being different courses has f all to do with it. Jealousy doesnt have to be about the same course, jack wanted to go to oxford, a competitor in the same niche got in. That's enough to be jealous of. He is also insinuating the that if it had been the same course the other person wouldnt have got in.

Exactly. You are allowed to be jealous - as long as it's not extreme, then it's natural to feel that way. Denying it is silly, as it insinuates he's 'better' than those who do feel jealousy.

 

[DietGossip]

I do feel its possibly slightly generational too, a lot of his generation and below seem obsessed with labels (either sexuality, background, race etc). Whereas for me (in my 30s) growing up we did everything we could to shake off being labelled and not be defined by certain things and it's so depressing to seemingly heading back to everyone having to label themselves.

Also the victim role and having a 'journey' is very popular these days especially on social media, it feeds narcissism and encourages sympathy and comments and attention. The downside to mental health awareness is now everyone things they have it and it excuses any questionable behaviour and they are beyond criticism and people should 'be nice'

I think it is a Gen Z thing that's trickled over from America's obsession with having some kind of a background/label/culture to identify yourself with. I'm definitely concerned about Gen Z's need to feel like they're the most oppressed, because let me tell you it's not actually all that fun.

 

[nrs264]

Yeah I agree. Every generation has its struggles. I wont deny the current crop of students have had a very tough time but they also have way more opportunities than the 'boomers' and they havent had to survive a war like the war generation.

They seem to have been trained to blame generations before them, but that isn't necessarily always fair or accurate. We learn more as time goes by and there will be things they are doing that their children will sham them for. that's just the way it is.

I think this issue with generations coming through is they are taught life should be fair and equality etc. Which is all well and good to a point, but life isnt fair and never will be. There will always be something. there seems to be this entitled assumption that our way of life will remain forever. But wars, pandemics etc do still happen.

I should point out it's not everyone, but as a collective there are patterns of behaviour.

 

[RalphEBeans]

His new place is HUGE.

 

[whatshesaid123]

That flat must be costing loads!!! Also he hasn’t talked about his girlfriend for a while, are they still together?

 

[Lola123]

That flat must be costing loads!!! Also he hasn’t talked about his girlfriend for a while, are they still together?

I think they might be, im sure he was with her on the tube the other day

 

[fwooper]

His new place is HUGE.

My jaw actually dropped, for a London apartment it's gigantic. Pretty jealous of all that space. He must be earning way more than I thought through YT/his products - unless there's something seriously wrong with the flat it must be at the very least £1000 per person pcm.