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Jack Edwards (YouTuber)
English YouTuber (born 1998) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jack Benjamin Edwards (born 18 October 1998) is an English YouTuber, social media influencer and author.[3] He has built an online following posting videos about books, popular culture and university life since 2016, and is associated with the internet sub-communities of BookTube, BookTok[4][5][6] and EduTube.[7][8][9] As of July 2024 he has over 1.38 million subscribers on YouTube and over 1.1 million followers across TikTok and Instagram.
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Early life and education
Edwards is from Brighton and studied English Literature, Politics, and History at A-level, the results of which he opened on camera on his channel.[10] Edwards was invited to interview at Oxford University for the English Q300 undergraduate degree. He attended the University of Durham to study English literature in the Q300 program.[11][12][13] During his time there, he was a member of St Cuthbert's College. He was the first member of his family to attend university.[12]
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Edwards began documenting his experiences at university on YouTube in 2016. The dean of his college attributed a rise in applications to the college he attended to Edwards' channel, calling it "the Jack Edwards effect".[8]
He now has over one million subscribers on his main channel @jack_edwards, and nearly 500,000 on his second channel @jack_in_the_books. He is known for posting about popular culture, including reading the book recommendations of popular actors, musicians, and reality stars.[14] He is also active on TikTok and Instagram. Edwards is signed by the Sixteenth talent agency.[15] He published The Uni-Verse: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving University with Harper Collins in 2020.[16][17]
In 2021, Edwards launched Ink Outside the Box, a stationery company.[18] In 2023, Edwards announced that he would be closing down the company.[19]
In 2023, Edwards was announced as a "thinker in residence" for that year's Hay Festival, focusing on digital storytelling and online media.[20] As part of his role, he interviewed Alice Oseman.[21] That year he also hosted the 2023 Booker Prize official livestream at Oxford University.[22][23]
Edwards appeared as a panellist on series eight of Between the Covers. His episode aired on BBC Two on 19 November 2024.
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