gossip_guy
VIP Member
This is as close as she'll get to driving a car.
Children don't drive and she's not going to want to start every day with a reminder that she's an adult, so she'll keep buckling herself into the back seat of mummy's car to feel like a kid going to school every day.
CatCafe234
VIP Member
That bonnet costs fifty-five quid. That’s all I’m going to say about that.
Kat5998
VIP Member
Unjaded Jade did exactly the same in one of her videos last year. She did delete it because of backlash, but it was something about saving money as a student and she sat in a cafe all day without buying anything, however she brought her own water bottle in and asked the cafe workers to fill it up for her
peacefulpigeon
Active member
That’s way too many skin cells to name and remember right there…Omg
That thick over two foot long rope will be largely comprised of her skin cells and hair
View attachment 2278743
gossip_guy
VIP Member
Anti-Bullying Week is over, but Ruby's got a new major event video on deck:
Reviewing Overhyped Study Products *honest*
That's right, Ruby is allegedly going to be honest for once, although the fact that she put "*honest*" in the title heavily implies an admission that none of her other reviews are honest.
And if a compulsive liar says they're not lying, can you really trust that they're telling the truth?
It reminds me of the riddle about the lying guards: You're in an unfamiliar room with two doors. Each door has a guard. Behind one door is the escape to safety, behind the other leads certain death. One guard always lies and one guard always tells the truth, but you don't know which is which. You're allowed to ask one question to either guard to determine which door is the safe one.
This is like that, only if the lying guard also kept taking money from charities and wasn't guarding the door on the day in question because she was too busy filling her planner with reminders to wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night to remind herself about guard duty.
But if Ruby's going to be honest for the first time in her life, then this is definitely a can't-miss event for the ages!
The very first frame of the video is a nightmarish image of Ruby's gaping maw and a comically large poppy worn purely to upstage every elderly person on VE Day (probably when this was recorded).
After an intro that was awkwardly stitched together in editing (because Ruby is either too lazy or too inept to get a clean take of herself saying "Hello, it's Roobee and tyooday oiy'm gyowing tyoo bee ree-vyooing overhayhped study products!"), she moves swiftly to yet another montage of old, recycled footage.
She starts out strong for her "honest" video with some visual dishonesty; Ruby presents old footage as though it were new to save herself putting new work and effort into her latest video.
Lie count: 1
The first product shown in this montage is Ruby's Kanken backpack, of which she owns several in the same size for some reason.
Ruby says she's going to highlight and review products that "especially people in the study community rave about, and even though people don't necessarily call them "essentials", there is a tendency for us to think that they are essentials."
While Rubes talks about these "people in the study community" who tout hyped products as if she's not one of them, she ironically reuses footage from her own "Study Essentials" video, where she hyped unneeded products (such as expensive gym memberships and her own overpriced, poorly-made planner) as being essential for students:
And, sure enough, she proudly showed off the Kanken, and has hyped it in multiple videos. Don't talk about a group of people doing something you suddenly find questionable and conveniently neglect to mention that you are one of them and do those exact things, Ruby. A lie of omission is still a lie.
Lie count: 2
Before Ruby even gets into the video, she derails it with an ad break for her own aforementioned planner.
I don't have to point out the irony of Ruby prominently trying to hock her stationery company's marquee product in a video all about honest reviews of overhyped products.
Every time Ruby mentions her planner, she claims it's ESSENTIAL - a designed-from-the-ground-up, academic equivalent to the Swiss Army knife - it'll do everything you need!
(Psst! This you, Rubes?)
Which begs the question why Ruby's also selling To-Do Lists, Stress Trackers, Kindness Journals, and so on. It also raises the question of why she's constantly shilling products that do the same thing as hers (but better) despite her claims that she only uses the Pumpkin Productivity planner that she wants you to buy at inflated prices.
Not one to break tradition, Ruby does not give an honest review of the planner.
There's no mention of the high price to low quality ratio.
No mention of the cheap paper quality.
No mention of the production problems that plagued the last planner (shipping delays, non-deliveries, printing errors that resulted in entire month missing from people's planners, complete radio silence from customer service).
No mention of how this is a product designed specifically for one person (her name rhymes with Shmooby) with such odd, immature and affectational uses of page real estate that precious few people will find it completely useful. Who needs sections for morning and night routines? Who needs sections to note your "aesthetic"?
If Ruby were being honest, she'd say the planner is fan merch only - buy it if you want to give money to your favourite YouTuber for some overpriced tat, but if you want a functional planner, buy any number of the cheaper, blank variants that you can customise to your individual needs and come with higher quality paper, spines and covers with infinitely more choice of colours and styles.
But Ruby's not honest, and a lie of omission is still a lie.
Lie count: 3
(We're not even a minute in, by the way.)
Now, onto the first product up for review: Mildliners.
If you're wondering who is out there cheerleading for mildliners and can't think of a single person besides Ruby, who's always hyping them like a car dealership sign-spinner, then you're not alone. Even Ruby says these aren't overhyped by anyone.
Her review unsurprisingly focuses on aesthetics more than function. At £6 for a 5 pack, it's good value for money according to Rubert (even though they wear down far more quickly than other pens) because the pens are dual-tipped and have a highlighter on one end and a marker on the other.
But most importantly, the colours look really nice and the pens look so aesthetic sat unused in a grimy mug on a windowsill covered in dust, mould and the corpses of insects.
So in this video focusing on "overhyped" products that Ruby's going to give "honest" reviews of, she's so far gave a dishonest advertisement of a product that she personally overhypes to line her pockets, and a rushed review of a product that isn't overhyped by anyone. What the fuck is this video, Rubes? Is your brain okay?
Stupidity count: Unquantifiable
Next product: Whitelines paper (Not sponsored by Grandmaster Flash).
Ruby starts by saying a lot of people used to talk about this a few years ago, but she says it's not overhyped, it's underhyped, if anything. It's like saying "The Microsoft Zune was a product that existed and someone mentioned a long time ago, but I don't think it's overhyped!" in a video exclusively about overhyped tech products.
Ruby loves Whitelines so much to the point where she has to delve into her archive and reuse some footage from her high school study sessions to find any footage of her using it.
Pros: The quality is great and it looks so, so nice and you can back up your notes digitally.
Ruby forgot to include any cons (aside from the major con that is this video) - a lifetime of glossing over any faults or downsides as she lies about products hasn't really made remembering to record a 'cons' section a habit - so she reappears from an indeterminate point in the past or future like a malnourished time traveller, looking tired, dishevelled and lifeless in a spliced, awkward edit:
Cons: Ruby prefers the dotted variant to the lined, which isn't even a con, as they offer both. If there are zero downsides, why don't you use or talk about Whitelines ever?
This "honest" review is barely a review. No mention of limitations of the scanning software - is it a proprietary thing, or can you use it with Evernote or other apps? Does it need a paid subscription? It the cost really good value of money considering it's not reusable, while there are similar reusable products like the Rocketbook? What happened to sustainability, Ruby?
So far, no signs of honesty. Also no overhyped products reviewed.
She's very clearly padding this video with products nobody uses or cares about to avoid burning any sponsor bridges, because the actual overhyped products are going to be the ones that every influencer gets paid to talk about.
I'm counting this blatant bending of the video rules to give a glowing review to a product she doesn't use as a lie. Sorry, Rubes, must try harder.
Lie count: 4
Next up: The Remarkable.
Ruby reappears again, still looking gaunt and bleary-eyed, but in a different outfit this time.
Outfit count: 3
(We're barely two minutes into the video.)
Ruby narrowly avoids another lie on the board.
In her 'day in the life' videos, she constantly lies about having 46 wardrobe changes in a day to hide the fact that the "day" was recorded over several weeks to make it seem like she accomplished more in 24 hours than she actually did.
At least here this isn't a daily vlog, but it does beg the question of just how long an how many times she's ran home from uni to have this many new shots of different outfits at home for a video she started filming two weeks ago.
(Edit: After 2 minutes of research, which is more work than Ruby put into this video, Ruby asked for people's overhyped product suggestions on August 29th. She's been filming and editing this video for three fucking months, and it's still a shitshow of irrelevant padding, recycled footage and horrendous, jarring edits.
Laziness count: 1,000%)
Ruby stresses on-screen that this is a "completely honest review." We'll fucking see about that, Rubes...
Ruby throws on an old lady shawl and complains about how cold it is in her university house, as opposed to literally everywhere else in every season that Ruby is also too cold. Ruby's life is like a re-enactment of Goldilocks and the Three Bears that never gets past the first act: Ruby eats nothing but porridge and it's always too cold.
Ruby always claims that it's the fault of the building she's in that she's always cold, and neglects to consider that it's a result of her obvious prolonged malnutrition. Lying to yourself is still lying, Ruby.
Lie count: 5
Ruby cuts from to a shot of her writing and she's suddenly wearing a grey sweater:
Outfit count: 4
Then immediately cuts back to her wearing the previous outfit:
When faced with criticism that she was all about the "aesthetics" and didn't care about substance, she argued that she naturally focused on aesthetics in her videos to make them look more visually appealing. What's the story here, then, Rubes? Why do your videos constantly looks like they were edited with a chainsaw from reels of unrelated footage filmed at random points in time?
You had several months to film this, and couldn't get a close-up shot of yourself writing on the tablet while wearing that first outfit, even though you were writing on the tablet at the time? Or if you forgot, you couldn't just swap outfits during the filler shot for visual consistency? That shouldn't have been too hard for someone who claims they change outfits dozens of times a day anyway, right?
As she talks about the Remarkable, she simply repeats over and over again that it is supposed to feel like writing on paper and it does feel like writing on paper and when you're writing on paper it's a lot like the Remarkable, but writing on paper is like writing on paper, and so too, does the Remarkable feel like writing on paper. It's like writing on paper. That feeling you get when writing on paper? That's equal to the feeling of writing on the Remarkable, because it really does feel like writing on paper. All work and no feeling like writing on paper makes Ruby a dull paper.
She doesn't mention any other functions, features or selling points. But her first instinct, she claims, is that even though she expected it to feel like writing on paper and it feels like writing on paper, it was very overhyped and she punctuates this with a dead-eyed, stone-faced glare:
I think this is supposed to be her "honesty" face, but since she's never honest and we've never seen her truth-face before, who knows?
But if you even had a moment's doubt whether she would give an honest or negative review to a sponsored product that she got sent for free, then don't worry - after using it for two days, she absolutely loved it. Shocker.
Pros: Did she mention that it feels like writing on paper? No glare. No notifications (which is a bizarre 'pro', since notifications can be turned off on essentially every other tablet). Easy synching to/from laptop.
But she'll run through some cons, because "there are some cons!" Ruby stresses excitedly, as though she's expecting praise and reward for finally being up-front about a sponsored/gifted product. Such a novelty!
Cons: It's very expensive! e-ink display has slow-ish refresh rate (but that's okay as it never bothered Ruby!. No colour screen - only black and white. And that's it!
Ruby doesn't compare any of the cheaper alternatives, like the Repaper, Rocketbook, or other smart notebook alternatives.
She conveniently avoids mentioning that there's a subscription required for cloud saving of documents.
She avoids mentioning that the more convenient, intuitive eraser function is hidden behind an extra purchase, and you have to buy an upgraded extra pen to use it.
Copious downsides that Ruby deliberately steers clear of to avoid giving too negative an opinion of the £300 product that she got for free. In what sense is that an honest review, Ruby?
Lie count: 6
Next up:
Now, here Ruby has an easy, softball product, with free license to be as honest as she wants - Apple products are indeed massively overhyped, and she's in no danger of talking herself out of a sponsorship deal as Apple will never sponsor her. It's an easy option. No points for taking hard stances here.
Outfit count: 5
Ruby rants that she loves the iPad but doesn't see the point in buying an iPad Pro as her current model does everything that she wants. So her very critical argument is that Apple designed a product so great the first time that they never needed to iterate on it.
Outfit count: 6
Cable knots that need untying: 1
Ruby says you probably don't need an iPad if you already have any other tablet or laptop. Again, no points for honesty here - lets see you be forthright about a sponsored or gifted product, or one which you're hoping for a sponsorship from.
She also doesn't mention the Apple Pencil (her most favourite unnecessary accessory) at all, despite it taking up half the title card - no pros, no cons, no mention of the price point.
A lie of omission to avoid being honest and critical is still a lie, Ruby.
Lie count: 7
During another onslaught of recycled footage as rustling wind distorts her choppily-edited narration, Ruby is so lazy that she uses footage from another video with (completely unrelated to the current video) on-screen text in place. So she isn't just dropping raw footage in from old hard drives, she's deliberately snipping footage from completed videos, with no regard for how or if they'll fit.
It looks and sounds woefully amateurish, especially for a content creator who has been doing this for seven years. But Ruby only focuses on aesthetics above substance to make videos look professional and visually pleasing, right?
Video production quality grade: F
Next up: Paperlike screen protector.
This is, by no means, an overhyped product. It's a widely disliked product by the few people who've heard of it. I'm beginning to think that Ruby might actually believe that "overhyped" means "a product for sale".
If the Paperlike sounds familiar, it might be because Ruby featured this back in August as part of an "antique stationery haul". She bought it on a whim for £34(!) because of her obsession over things feeling like writing on paper.
Reviews for the product aren't particularly favourable, and most people immediately point out the screen's poor quality, tendency to bubble and scratch easily, and most damningly, that it wears down the nib of your Apple Pencil very quickly.
Ruby didn't check any reviews before casually dropping £34 on this trash, which only makes any time she performatively complains about spending more than £10 being too much money to pay for a book that she needs for uni all the more unbelievable.
Ruby eventually encountered all the same problems that she would've been warned about had she actually read any reviews, and was incredibly disappointed by the product.
But it's blatantly obvious that Ruby's only bringing up this shitty product that she was stupid enough to buy because it'll make gifted product Remarkable look even better by comparison, because it feels like writing on paper.
Outfit count: 7
"So there are so many people hyoo rave about the Paperlike screen protackt-ah and say it's one of the best things they ever bought," Ruby says.
Lie count: 8
And because the accent gets faker by the day:
Lie count: 9
"It is £30," Ruby says.
Lie count: 10
Pros: "It does kind of feel like writing on paper."
Cons: It doesn't feel as much like writing on paper as the Remarkable, which feels like writing on paper!
As predicted, this whole section was just an excuse to paint the Remarkable in a more glowing light:
And since the whole shoehorned charade is so blatant, I'm awarding her another one:
Lie count: 11
Other cons: It makes the screen blurry. Also, after buying it, Ruby heard reports that the screen wears down the Apple Pencil nib, but this never happened to her because she barely uses it. Not sure how that's a con in your eyes if it didn't happen to you, Rubes, but I'll give you a pass for finally considering other people's experiences.
Onto the next product:
Or, according to Ruby: "Cry-ulla Supatips". This is just... How?
Like, does Ruby know what a crayon is? And how does she pronounce the word "crayon"? Cry-unh? Nobody can possibly pronounce it like that.
I'm sorry, I have to:
Lie count: 12
I mean, Cray-oh-la are a prolific stationery brand, but when I think of Crayola, I think "crayons". Kids' drawing utensils. Not overhyped study stationary essentials. But Ruby lives in a different world, evidently, as Crayola Supertips are apparently the world's most overhyped calligraphy pens?
I thought the title of this video was "Reviewing Overhyped Study Products *honest*"? We know that the "overhyped" and "honest" parts of the title have been thrown out the window with every product, but what does calligraphy have to do with studying? It's another aesthetic over content choice from Ruby, and this whole pen section was likely chosen because she had a lot of footage of random pens and her own scribblings.
She says they're good for writing titles, but not as brush pens, but recommends them for calligraphy beginners. Again, what that has to do with studying, unless you're studying calligraphy, who knows?
Onto adult drawing utensils:
Ruby loves Tombow and Zebra Sarasa pens unreservedly mainly because the colours are really nice (big surprise).
She thinks Muji Pens are so, so overhyped, though. They're apparently too uncomfortable and the nibs are twisty.
I don't know jack about calligraphy pens, so I can't say if these are overhyped brands, but again, I'm unsure how those brush pens are general study products, unless you're studying art or graphic design?
Also Ruby suggests buying Stabilo Fineliners because she likes all the colours (shock) but they do bleed through paper sometimes.
Onto a more universally-hyped product:
Ruby mentions that you've probably seen this everywhere online, and she owns two (evidently not counting the other ones she's bought and either sold on Depop or shoved in a closet) - the 15 inch and the 13 inch laptop variants in frost green.
"I still use this twice a week and then I use this the other five days a week," she says over a close-up shot of the 15 inch bag. But Ruby still hasn't figured out how narration works, since the video doesn't cut away from the 15 inch Kanken and we have no clue which bag she's talking about in which context.
Ruby starts out with the pros:
It's waterproof.
Ergonomic design.
Looks nice. (Of course.)
It's "sustainable".
Now, Ruby's definition of "sustainable" is generally "any things that I want to buy and then feel superior about". She says the idea with a sustainable bag is that you'd buy one as opposed the replacing it every few years. Ruby says this without pointing out the irony that, in this very video, she mentions owning two near-identical bags.
She also neglects to mention that she's owned multiple of these Kankens, and replaces them often.
Let's remind Ruby of the time she sold a red Kanken purely because she wanted to buy more Kankens.
It was a long time ago, though, so it's understandable that she'd forget. Why, it was way back in the bygone days of August 2021... Y'know, when she started recording this video.
She also couldn't be bothered cleaning the soiled bag she was selling and painted it as a selling point in the description that the buyer could clean it themselves if they bought it.
Lie count: 13
Sustainability score: F
Seller rating: Disgusting
Cons: Not enough pockets. Loses its shape after a while.
Ruby abruptly cuts away instantly. Two softball cons is enough for the beloved Kanken, and she won't address if they're overhyped or not, despite admitting that they don't really meet her functional needs and she clearly owns multiple purely for the brand cachet and the aesthetic value.
A lie of avoidance is still a lie, Ruby.
Lie count: 14
Onto another Apple product: Ruby's beloved MacBook Pro:
Laptop screen: Filthy
Laptop keys: Greasy
Desktop: Cluttered
Desk: Grimy
Conclusion:
Ruby says a laptop is the one thing she'd "tentatively" say is a study essential.
Which is odd, since she's made videos about "study essentials" that featured many more products and services that she deemed "essential" despite their varying degrees of pointlessness - everything from multiple calendar apps to her own planners to Notion.
So which is it, Rubes? Are you lying now, or were you lying then? Either way, you know what this means:
Lie count: 15
"I can't provide an unbiased review of this laptop because I've only ever used Apple laptops," Ruby says.
Um... Hey, Rubes? This you?
What about this?
I mean, we already knew you lied about loving the LG Gram laptop to get some sponsor money and immediately reverted back to using the MacBook Pro straight after telling all your impressionable fans should consider buying themselves an LG Gram. But now that you're admitting to never using it, this shit's definitely going to demand some explaining.
In the meantime, a lie's a fucking lie:
Lie count: 16
Ruby says there's nothing the MacBook does that other laptops can't, and there's definitely lighter laptops... You mean like the LG Gram, Rubella? She conveniently avoids naming other laptops.
Ruby swiftly moves on to the Beats wireless headphones, which Ruby shoves into almost every video and aren't a study product.
She starts by saying these are pricey, but if you wait for a sale they'll be cheaper, naturally. Ruby says she got hers for "40 pre-cent off".
Ruby says the big pro is that they're noise cancelling, which is a common feature in a lot of headphones, but anyway. She says that the noise cancellation quality is so good that people often wander into her room without her knowing, which is a definite upside for someone allegedly terrified of spontaneous home invasions like Ruby claims to be.
But if you're outside, you can turn off the noise cancelling so that you're "safer on roads, ecks-setra".
Ruby:
They also have a long battery life but don't turn off automatically.
Other pros/cons:
Pros: They're comfortable because of the padding.
Cons: They're uncomfortable despite the padding.
After a seemingly endless parade of contradictory lies and bullshit, Ruby states that we should remember that none of these products are essentials. Despite featuring many of them in her "study essentials" videos.
Ruby, you have to stop:
Lie count: 17
Those might not be deemed essentials by Ruby anymore, but her variety of poor quality, overpriced and largely worthless stationery products definitely are - it says so right on the main page of the website.
Ruby excitedly announces her latestscam giveaway. She claims you could be in with the chance of winning every single product that her site has for sale. And hearing her rattle off the products she sells - meal planners, kindness journals, stress trackers, only points out how pointless they all are.
Not only that, but if the planner contains everything someone needs, why bother giving the rest away, let alone selling them? Are you now saying people need to have all the other non-planner planners and trackers? If so, why wasn't the planner designed to incorporate those trackers? It doesn't work both ways. Either the planner has everything you need, and the rest is extraneous trash, or the planner that you claim has everything, actually doesn't.
You know what this means, right, Rubes? Stupidity and greed are no excuse for lies and deception.
Lie count: 18
Ruby holds up a Master To Do List from October, in which she claims to have read Romeo & Juliet.
And since we know that Ruby merely reads the Sparknotes summary and lies about reading the actual texts:
Lie count: 19
Ruby claims that if you comment on the video "sharing your number one main motivation for studying", you'll be in with a chance of winning. Not a handy way of flooding her YouTube comments with study stories to drown out any critical comments at all, naturally. But since there's never been a single confirmed winner for any of her giveaways, and she always claims to contact winners directly to avoid accountability...
Lie count: 20
She finishes off by thanking everyone for supporting Pumpkin Productivity as it's been a dream of hers since childhood to design her own stationary.
Since she's put absolutely zero effort or creative work into any of the limited array of shitty products she sells at inflated prices, I just can't buy that these crappy planners and trackers that look like the templates found in free image editing software are somehow a labour of love.
Look, 20 was a nice round number, but...
Lie count: 21
(That's 1.17 lies per minute for this video.)
In conclusion, this video titled "Reviewing Overhyped Study Products *honest*" ironically was full of new lies, shed light on old ones, barely reviewed any of the products and avoided being critical of any sponsored products or any that Ruby might potentially get sponsored by in future. Most of the "overhyped" things were only overhyped by Ruby in previous videos.
It also highlighted yet again the deceptive nature of her entire editing process - a lazy, slapdash mess of jarring cuts and recycled footage which somehow took months despite looking like it was cobbled together in an hour. Ruby creates her videos the same way she writes her essays.
Much like how she comes up with borrowed ideas from other sources and builds an essay around that without doing any real original work, Ruby makes videos not by coming up with an idea and filming new footage for it, but by building a video around all the endless unrelated footage she already has lying around to put in as little effort as possible.
This whole video is one giant cacophony of decet, bullshit and ineptitude. And since the title itself was one giant clickbait lie, I'm adding another to the count.
In honour of the new lie count, enjoy:
www.youtube.com
Reviewing Overhyped Study Products *honest*
That's right, Ruby is allegedly going to be honest for once, although the fact that she put "*honest*" in the title heavily implies an admission that none of her other reviews are honest.
And if a compulsive liar says they're not lying, can you really trust that they're telling the truth?
It reminds me of the riddle about the lying guards: You're in an unfamiliar room with two doors. Each door has a guard. Behind one door is the escape to safety, behind the other leads certain death. One guard always lies and one guard always tells the truth, but you don't know which is which. You're allowed to ask one question to either guard to determine which door is the safe one.
This is like that, only if the lying guard also kept taking money from charities and wasn't guarding the door on the day in question because she was too busy filling her planner with reminders to wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night to remind herself about guard duty.
But if Ruby's going to be honest for the first time in her life, then this is definitely a can't-miss event for the ages!
The very first frame of the video is a nightmarish image of Ruby's gaping maw and a comically large poppy worn purely to upstage every elderly person on VE Day (probably when this was recorded).
After an intro that was awkwardly stitched together in editing (because Ruby is either too lazy or too inept to get a clean take of herself saying "Hello, it's Roobee and tyooday oiy'm gyowing tyoo bee ree-vyooing overhayhped study products!"), she moves swiftly to yet another montage of old, recycled footage.
She starts out strong for her "honest" video with some visual dishonesty; Ruby presents old footage as though it were new to save herself putting new work and effort into her latest video.
Lie count: 1
The first product shown in this montage is Ruby's Kanken backpack, of which she owns several in the same size for some reason.
Ruby says she's going to highlight and review products that "especially people in the study community rave about, and even though people don't necessarily call them "essentials", there is a tendency for us to think that they are essentials."
While Rubes talks about these "people in the study community" who tout hyped products as if she's not one of them, she ironically reuses footage from her own "Study Essentials" video, where she hyped unneeded products (such as expensive gym memberships and her own overpriced, poorly-made planner) as being essential for students:
And, sure enough, she proudly showed off the Kanken, and has hyped it in multiple videos. Don't talk about a group of people doing something you suddenly find questionable and conveniently neglect to mention that you are one of them and do those exact things, Ruby. A lie of omission is still a lie.
Lie count: 2
Before Ruby even gets into the video, she derails it with an ad break for her own aforementioned planner.
I don't have to point out the irony of Ruby prominently trying to hock her stationery company's marquee product in a video all about honest reviews of overhyped products.
Every time Ruby mentions her planner, she claims it's ESSENTIAL - a designed-from-the-ground-up, academic equivalent to the Swiss Army knife - it'll do everything you need!
(Psst! This you, Rubes?)
Which begs the question why Ruby's also selling To-Do Lists, Stress Trackers, Kindness Journals, and so on. It also raises the question of why she's constantly shilling products that do the same thing as hers (but better) despite her claims that she only uses the Pumpkin Productivity planner that she wants you to buy at inflated prices.
Not one to break tradition, Ruby does not give an honest review of the planner.
There's no mention of the high price to low quality ratio.
No mention of the cheap paper quality.
No mention of the production problems that plagued the last planner (shipping delays, non-deliveries, printing errors that resulted in entire month missing from people's planners, complete radio silence from customer service).
No mention of how this is a product designed specifically for one person (her name rhymes with Shmooby) with such odd, immature and affectational uses of page real estate that precious few people will find it completely useful. Who needs sections for morning and night routines? Who needs sections to note your "aesthetic"?
If Ruby were being honest, she'd say the planner is fan merch only - buy it if you want to give money to your favourite YouTuber for some overpriced tat, but if you want a functional planner, buy any number of the cheaper, blank variants that you can customise to your individual needs and come with higher quality paper, spines and covers with infinitely more choice of colours and styles.
But Ruby's not honest, and a lie of omission is still a lie.
Lie count: 3
(We're not even a minute in, by the way.)
Now, onto the first product up for review: Mildliners.
If you're wondering who is out there cheerleading for mildliners and can't think of a single person besides Ruby, who's always hyping them like a car dealership sign-spinner, then you're not alone. Even Ruby says these aren't overhyped by anyone.
Her review unsurprisingly focuses on aesthetics more than function. At £6 for a 5 pack, it's good value for money according to Rubert (even though they wear down far more quickly than other pens) because the pens are dual-tipped and have a highlighter on one end and a marker on the other.
But most importantly, the colours look really nice and the pens look so aesthetic sat unused in a grimy mug on a windowsill covered in dust, mould and the corpses of insects.
So in this video focusing on "overhyped" products that Ruby's going to give "honest" reviews of, she's so far gave a dishonest advertisement of a product that she personally overhypes to line her pockets, and a rushed review of a product that isn't overhyped by anyone. What the fuck is this video, Rubes? Is your brain okay?
Stupidity count: Unquantifiable
Next product: Whitelines paper (Not sponsored by Grandmaster Flash).
Ruby starts by saying a lot of people used to talk about this a few years ago, but she says it's not overhyped, it's underhyped, if anything. It's like saying "The Microsoft Zune was a product that existed and someone mentioned a long time ago, but I don't think it's overhyped!" in a video exclusively about overhyped tech products.
Ruby loves Whitelines so much to the point where she has to delve into her archive and reuse some footage from her high school study sessions to find any footage of her using it.
Pros: The quality is great and it looks so, so nice and you can back up your notes digitally.
Ruby forgot to include any cons (aside from the major con that is this video) - a lifetime of glossing over any faults or downsides as she lies about products hasn't really made remembering to record a 'cons' section a habit - so she reappears from an indeterminate point in the past or future like a malnourished time traveller, looking tired, dishevelled and lifeless in a spliced, awkward edit:
Cons: Ruby prefers the dotted variant to the lined, which isn't even a con, as they offer both. If there are zero downsides, why don't you use or talk about Whitelines ever?
This "honest" review is barely a review. No mention of limitations of the scanning software - is it a proprietary thing, or can you use it with Evernote or other apps? Does it need a paid subscription? It the cost really good value of money considering it's not reusable, while there are similar reusable products like the Rocketbook? What happened to sustainability, Ruby?
So far, no signs of honesty. Also no overhyped products reviewed.
She's very clearly padding this video with products nobody uses or cares about to avoid burning any sponsor bridges, because the actual overhyped products are going to be the ones that every influencer gets paid to talk about.
I'm counting this blatant bending of the video rules to give a glowing review to a product she doesn't use as a lie. Sorry, Rubes, must try harder.
Lie count: 4
Next up: The Remarkable.
Ruby reappears again, still looking gaunt and bleary-eyed, but in a different outfit this time.
Outfit count: 3
(We're barely two minutes into the video.)
Ruby narrowly avoids another lie on the board.
In her 'day in the life' videos, she constantly lies about having 46 wardrobe changes in a day to hide the fact that the "day" was recorded over several weeks to make it seem like she accomplished more in 24 hours than she actually did.
At least here this isn't a daily vlog, but it does beg the question of just how long an how many times she's ran home from uni to have this many new shots of different outfits at home for a video she started filming two weeks ago.
(Edit: After 2 minutes of research, which is more work than Ruby put into this video, Ruby asked for people's overhyped product suggestions on August 29th. She's been filming and editing this video for three fucking months, and it's still a shitshow of irrelevant padding, recycled footage and horrendous, jarring edits.
Laziness count: 1,000%)
Ruby stresses on-screen that this is a "completely honest review." We'll fucking see about that, Rubes...
Ruby throws on an old lady shawl and complains about how cold it is in her university house, as opposed to literally everywhere else in every season that Ruby is also too cold. Ruby's life is like a re-enactment of Goldilocks and the Three Bears that never gets past the first act: Ruby eats nothing but porridge and it's always too cold.
Ruby always claims that it's the fault of the building she's in that she's always cold, and neglects to consider that it's a result of her obvious prolonged malnutrition. Lying to yourself is still lying, Ruby.
Lie count: 5
Ruby cuts from to a shot of her writing and she's suddenly wearing a grey sweater:
Outfit count: 4
Then immediately cuts back to her wearing the previous outfit:
When faced with criticism that she was all about the "aesthetics" and didn't care about substance, she argued that she naturally focused on aesthetics in her videos to make them look more visually appealing. What's the story here, then, Rubes? Why do your videos constantly looks like they were edited with a chainsaw from reels of unrelated footage filmed at random points in time?
You had several months to film this, and couldn't get a close-up shot of yourself writing on the tablet while wearing that first outfit, even though you were writing on the tablet at the time? Or if you forgot, you couldn't just swap outfits during the filler shot for visual consistency? That shouldn't have been too hard for someone who claims they change outfits dozens of times a day anyway, right?
As she talks about the Remarkable, she simply repeats over and over again that it is supposed to feel like writing on paper and it does feel like writing on paper and when you're writing on paper it's a lot like the Remarkable, but writing on paper is like writing on paper, and so too, does the Remarkable feel like writing on paper. It's like writing on paper. That feeling you get when writing on paper? That's equal to the feeling of writing on the Remarkable, because it really does feel like writing on paper. All work and no feeling like writing on paper makes Ruby a dull paper.
She doesn't mention any other functions, features or selling points. But her first instinct, she claims, is that even though she expected it to feel like writing on paper and it feels like writing on paper, it was very overhyped and she punctuates this with a dead-eyed, stone-faced glare:
I think this is supposed to be her "honesty" face, but since she's never honest and we've never seen her truth-face before, who knows?
But if you even had a moment's doubt whether she would give an honest or negative review to a sponsored product that she got sent for free, then don't worry - after using it for two days, she absolutely loved it. Shocker.
Pros: Did she mention that it feels like writing on paper? No glare. No notifications (which is a bizarre 'pro', since notifications can be turned off on essentially every other tablet). Easy synching to/from laptop.
But she'll run through some cons, because "there are some cons!" Ruby stresses excitedly, as though she's expecting praise and reward for finally being up-front about a sponsored/gifted product. Such a novelty!
Cons: It's very expensive! e-ink display has slow-ish refresh rate (but that's okay as it never bothered Ruby!. No colour screen - only black and white. And that's it!
Ruby doesn't compare any of the cheaper alternatives, like the Repaper, Rocketbook, or other smart notebook alternatives.
She conveniently avoids mentioning that there's a subscription required for cloud saving of documents.
She avoids mentioning that the more convenient, intuitive eraser function is hidden behind an extra purchase, and you have to buy an upgraded extra pen to use it.
Copious downsides that Ruby deliberately steers clear of to avoid giving too negative an opinion of the £300 product that she got for free. In what sense is that an honest review, Ruby?
Lie count: 6
Next up:
Now, here Ruby has an easy, softball product, with free license to be as honest as she wants - Apple products are indeed massively overhyped, and she's in no danger of talking herself out of a sponsorship deal as Apple will never sponsor her. It's an easy option. No points for taking hard stances here.
Outfit count: 5
Ruby rants that she loves the iPad but doesn't see the point in buying an iPad Pro as her current model does everything that she wants. So her very critical argument is that Apple designed a product so great the first time that they never needed to iterate on it.
Outfit count: 6
Cable knots that need untying: 1
Ruby says you probably don't need an iPad if you already have any other tablet or laptop. Again, no points for honesty here - lets see you be forthright about a sponsored or gifted product, or one which you're hoping for a sponsorship from.
She also doesn't mention the Apple Pencil (her most favourite unnecessary accessory) at all, despite it taking up half the title card - no pros, no cons, no mention of the price point.
A lie of omission to avoid being honest and critical is still a lie, Ruby.
Lie count: 7
During another onslaught of recycled footage as rustling wind distorts her choppily-edited narration, Ruby is so lazy that she uses footage from another video with (completely unrelated to the current video) on-screen text in place. So she isn't just dropping raw footage in from old hard drives, she's deliberately snipping footage from completed videos, with no regard for how or if they'll fit.
It looks and sounds woefully amateurish, especially for a content creator who has been doing this for seven years. But Ruby only focuses on aesthetics above substance to make videos look professional and visually pleasing, right?
Video production quality grade: F
Next up: Paperlike screen protector.
This is, by no means, an overhyped product. It's a widely disliked product by the few people who've heard of it. I'm beginning to think that Ruby might actually believe that "overhyped" means "a product for sale".
If the Paperlike sounds familiar, it might be because Ruby featured this back in August as part of an "antique stationery haul". She bought it on a whim for £34(!) because of her obsession over things feeling like writing on paper.
Reviews for the product aren't particularly favourable, and most people immediately point out the screen's poor quality, tendency to bubble and scratch easily, and most damningly, that it wears down the nib of your Apple Pencil very quickly.
Ruby didn't check any reviews before casually dropping £34 on this trash, which only makes any time she performatively complains about spending more than £10 being too much money to pay for a book that she needs for uni all the more unbelievable.
Ruby eventually encountered all the same problems that she would've been warned about had she actually read any reviews, and was incredibly disappointed by the product.
But it's blatantly obvious that Ruby's only bringing up this shitty product that she was stupid enough to buy because it'll make gifted product Remarkable look even better by comparison, because it feels like writing on paper.
Outfit count: 7
"So there are so many people hyoo rave about the Paperlike screen protackt-ah and say it's one of the best things they ever bought," Ruby says.
Lie count: 8
And because the accent gets faker by the day:
Lie count: 9
"It is £30," Ruby says.
Lie count: 10
Pros: "It does kind of feel like writing on paper."
Cons: It doesn't feel as much like writing on paper as the Remarkable, which feels like writing on paper!
As predicted, this whole section was just an excuse to paint the Remarkable in a more glowing light:
And since the whole shoehorned charade is so blatant, I'm awarding her another one:
Lie count: 11
Other cons: It makes the screen blurry. Also, after buying it, Ruby heard reports that the screen wears down the Apple Pencil nib, but this never happened to her because she barely uses it. Not sure how that's a con in your eyes if it didn't happen to you, Rubes, but I'll give you a pass for finally considering other people's experiences.
Onto the next product:
Or, according to Ruby: "Cry-ulla Supatips". This is just... How?
Like, does Ruby know what a crayon is? And how does she pronounce the word "crayon"? Cry-unh? Nobody can possibly pronounce it like that.
I'm sorry, I have to:
Lie count: 12
I mean, Cray-oh-la are a prolific stationery brand, but when I think of Crayola, I think "crayons". Kids' drawing utensils. Not overhyped study stationary essentials. But Ruby lives in a different world, evidently, as Crayola Supertips are apparently the world's most overhyped calligraphy pens?
I thought the title of this video was "Reviewing Overhyped Study Products *honest*"? We know that the "overhyped" and "honest" parts of the title have been thrown out the window with every product, but what does calligraphy have to do with studying? It's another aesthetic over content choice from Ruby, and this whole pen section was likely chosen because she had a lot of footage of random pens and her own scribblings.
She says they're good for writing titles, but not as brush pens, but recommends them for calligraphy beginners. Again, what that has to do with studying, unless you're studying calligraphy, who knows?
Onto adult drawing utensils:
Ruby loves Tombow and Zebra Sarasa pens unreservedly mainly because the colours are really nice (big surprise).
She thinks Muji Pens are so, so overhyped, though. They're apparently too uncomfortable and the nibs are twisty.
I don't know jack about calligraphy pens, so I can't say if these are overhyped brands, but again, I'm unsure how those brush pens are general study products, unless you're studying art or graphic design?
Also Ruby suggests buying Stabilo Fineliners because she likes all the colours (shock) but they do bleed through paper sometimes.
Onto a more universally-hyped product:
Ruby mentions that you've probably seen this everywhere online, and she owns two (evidently not counting the other ones she's bought and either sold on Depop or shoved in a closet) - the 15 inch and the 13 inch laptop variants in frost green.
"I still use this twice a week and then I use this the other five days a week," she says over a close-up shot of the 15 inch bag. But Ruby still hasn't figured out how narration works, since the video doesn't cut away from the 15 inch Kanken and we have no clue which bag she's talking about in which context.
Ruby starts out with the pros:
It's waterproof.
Ergonomic design.
Looks nice. (Of course.)
It's "sustainable".
Now, Ruby's definition of "sustainable" is generally "any things that I want to buy and then feel superior about". She says the idea with a sustainable bag is that you'd buy one as opposed the replacing it every few years. Ruby says this without pointing out the irony that, in this very video, she mentions owning two near-identical bags.
She also neglects to mention that she's owned multiple of these Kankens, and replaces them often.
Let's remind Ruby of the time she sold a red Kanken purely because she wanted to buy more Kankens.
It was a long time ago, though, so it's understandable that she'd forget. Why, it was way back in the bygone days of August 2021... Y'know, when she started recording this video.
She also couldn't be bothered cleaning the soiled bag she was selling and painted it as a selling point in the description that the buyer could clean it themselves if they bought it.
Lie count: 13
Sustainability score: F
Seller rating: Disgusting
Cons: Not enough pockets. Loses its shape after a while.
Ruby abruptly cuts away instantly. Two softball cons is enough for the beloved Kanken, and she won't address if they're overhyped or not, despite admitting that they don't really meet her functional needs and she clearly owns multiple purely for the brand cachet and the aesthetic value.
A lie of avoidance is still a lie, Ruby.
Lie count: 14
Onto another Apple product: Ruby's beloved MacBook Pro:
Laptop screen: Filthy
Laptop keys: Greasy
Desktop: Cluttered
Desk: Grimy
Conclusion:
Ruby says a laptop is the one thing she'd "tentatively" say is a study essential.
Which is odd, since she's made videos about "study essentials" that featured many more products and services that she deemed "essential" despite their varying degrees of pointlessness - everything from multiple calendar apps to her own planners to Notion.
So which is it, Rubes? Are you lying now, or were you lying then? Either way, you know what this means:
Lie count: 15
"I can't provide an unbiased review of this laptop because I've only ever used Apple laptops," Ruby says.
Um... Hey, Rubes? This you?
What about this?
I mean, we already knew you lied about loving the LG Gram laptop to get some sponsor money and immediately reverted back to using the MacBook Pro straight after telling all your impressionable fans should consider buying themselves an LG Gram. But now that you're admitting to never using it, this shit's definitely going to demand some explaining.
In the meantime, a lie's a fucking lie:
Lie count: 16
Ruby says there's nothing the MacBook does that other laptops can't, and there's definitely lighter laptops... You mean like the LG Gram, Rubella? She conveniently avoids naming other laptops.
Ruby swiftly moves on to the Beats wireless headphones, which Ruby shoves into almost every video and aren't a study product.
She starts by saying these are pricey, but if you wait for a sale they'll be cheaper, naturally. Ruby says she got hers for "40 pre-cent off".
Ruby says the big pro is that they're noise cancelling, which is a common feature in a lot of headphones, but anyway. She says that the noise cancellation quality is so good that people often wander into her room without her knowing, which is a definite upside for someone allegedly terrified of spontaneous home invasions like Ruby claims to be.
But if you're outside, you can turn off the noise cancelling so that you're "safer on roads, ecks-setra".
Ruby:
They also have a long battery life but don't turn off automatically.
Other pros/cons:
Pros: They're comfortable because of the padding.
Cons: They're uncomfortable despite the padding.
After a seemingly endless parade of contradictory lies and bullshit, Ruby states that we should remember that none of these products are essentials. Despite featuring many of them in her "study essentials" videos.
Ruby, you have to stop:
Lie count: 17
Those might not be deemed essentials by Ruby anymore, but her variety of poor quality, overpriced and largely worthless stationery products definitely are - it says so right on the main page of the website.
Ruby excitedly announces her latest
Not only that, but if the planner contains everything someone needs, why bother giving the rest away, let alone selling them? Are you now saying people need to have all the other non-planner planners and trackers? If so, why wasn't the planner designed to incorporate those trackers? It doesn't work both ways. Either the planner has everything you need, and the rest is extraneous trash, or the planner that you claim has everything, actually doesn't.
You know what this means, right, Rubes? Stupidity and greed are no excuse for lies and deception.
Lie count: 18
Ruby holds up a Master To Do List from October, in which she claims to have read Romeo & Juliet.
And since we know that Ruby merely reads the Sparknotes summary and lies about reading the actual texts:
Lie count: 19
Ruby claims that if you comment on the video "sharing your number one main motivation for studying", you'll be in with a chance of winning. Not a handy way of flooding her YouTube comments with study stories to drown out any critical comments at all, naturally. But since there's never been a single confirmed winner for any of her giveaways, and she always claims to contact winners directly to avoid accountability...
Lie count: 20
She finishes off by thanking everyone for supporting Pumpkin Productivity as it's been a dream of hers since childhood to design her own stationary.
Since she's put absolutely zero effort or creative work into any of the limited array of shitty products she sells at inflated prices, I just can't buy that these crappy planners and trackers that look like the templates found in free image editing software are somehow a labour of love.
Look, 20 was a nice round number, but...
Lie count: 21
(That's 1.17 lies per minute for this video.)
In conclusion, this video titled "Reviewing Overhyped Study Products *honest*" ironically was full of new lies, shed light on old ones, barely reviewed any of the products and avoided being critical of any sponsored products or any that Ruby might potentially get sponsored by in future. Most of the "overhyped" things were only overhyped by Ruby in previous videos.
It also highlighted yet again the deceptive nature of her entire editing process - a lazy, slapdash mess of jarring cuts and recycled footage which somehow took months despite looking like it was cobbled together in an hour. Ruby creates her videos the same way she writes her essays.
Much like how she comes up with borrowed ideas from other sources and builds an essay around that without doing any real original work, Ruby makes videos not by coming up with an idea and filming new footage for it, but by building a video around all the endless unrelated footage she already has lying around to put in as little effort as possible.
This whole video is one giant cacophony of decet, bullshit and ineptitude. And since the title itself was one giant clickbait lie, I'm adding another to the count.
In honour of the new lie count, enjoy:
Taylor Swift - 22
Music video by Taylor Swift performing 22. (C) 2013 Big Machine Records, LLC. ►Exclusive Merch: https://store.taylorswift.com ►Follow Taylor Swift OnlineInst...
Last edited:
gossip_guy
VIP Member
"I'm gonna put someImagine Ruby getting bullied by Bully Maguire
While we're on the subject of mind-boggling stupidity and Ruby's house of putrid squalor:
Inside Flood
Some friends were due to come over for a movie night and so I was running about trying to make the house look tidier and clean up before they arrived. I set the Roomba off downstairs and was soaking some dishes in the sink when my mobile rang. I answered but could hardly hear a word, so shut...
Ruby's mother's latest blog is up and...as usual, there's a lot to digest.
"Some friends were due to come over for a movie night and so I was running about trying to make the house look tidier and clean up before they arrived. I set the Roomba off downstairs and was soaking some dishes in the sink when my mobile rang. I answered but could hardly hear a word, so shut myself in another room to take the call. Minutes passed and by the time I emerged, there were a couple of inches of water covering the kitchen floor. Argh! I had left the tap running."
As always with Ruby and her mother, stupidity causes a problem that they then wildly and blatantly embellish, but they're never to blame. Her mother's frequent bouts of dangerous idiocy are always framed as someone or something else's fault. Here she was simply too damn busy juggling all that cleaning, getting ready for another Tory Covid-spreader get-together, when some inconsiderate person decided to call her. "Argh!" indeed.
Let's unpeel the layers of stupidity here. "Soaking some dishes" generally means...well, soaking them - leaving them in a still body of soapy water. "Soaking some dishes" does not cranking the taps, standing back and having a glass of wine, which is what is being described as happening here for this whole thing to happen.
Now, we've seen this family's kitchen. We know that zero cleaning takes place. But this tall tale of allegedly unavoidable disaster raises obvious questions.
They have a dishwasher. This is the whole point of owning a dishwasher - for the convenience of being able to load it up and walk away. They're the laziest, most spoilt toffs who ever dodged their taxes. There is zero possibility that given the choice between the option of soaking dishes in the sink before hand-washing them, or just shoving them all in the dishwasher and letting nature take its course, that Ruby or her mother would choose the former.
To prove this point: Mother Granger previously posted a self-congratulatory blog about how she bought - (Gasp!) - an upright vacuum cleaner.
Feminist Housewife
Having lunch with old friends recently, I was told that I am not very feminist because of being super excited about my new 'Hoover' coming today. It is actually a Sebo but I was raised in the seventies and we called all vacuum cleaners 'Hoovers' back then. My friends did point out that it is a...
This is evidently used as nothing more than a novelty decoration/beret holder in that house, since Ruby's mother sends a poor underpowered and unprepared Roomba up against the mountainous piles of dirt, grime, dust and god knows what else instead of vacuuming. It's a bit like putting a butter knife in the hands of a malnourished child and sending up against the entire Roman legion alone; that poor bastard is gonna die in seconds.
(Ruby's Roomba, praying for the sweet release of death.)
The fact that Ruby's family let a Roomba handle all their household cleaning explains a lot about how constantly filthy that house is, considering they aren't known to work great on hard surfaces and Ruby's home is all tile and hardwood. But regardless, it's very clearly the lazy option, instead of mopping the kitchen floor or hoovering the living room(s). So the idea that Mother Granger would willingly do dishes by hand when there's a more convenient/lazy option available doesn't make sense. Either she's lying (most likely) or she's an idiot (also a given). It's definitely both.
Now, from the sounds of it, Mother Granger was alone in the kitchen. So what was making so much noise that Mother Granger had to flee the room? Was the noise on the other end of the phone, and Ruby's mother's just a complete moron trying to escape it by changing her location? Or is cleanliness such an alien concept in their house that the sound of running water is apparently so unfamiliar and abrasive to Ruby's mother that she had to run away and put a closed door between her and it to be able to hear a phone call?
"The Roomba was stranded roller deep, so I scooped it up and put on the radiator to dry off - not sure that is recommended in the manual."
So...Ruby's mother had the Roomba cleaning the kitchen? Roombas generally don't seem to be especially loud, and there's the obvious solution: If it's making noise and you want it to stop, just switch it off for a few minutes.
And putting plastic objects on old, piping hot steel radiators is always a smart decision that never ends badly.
If Ruby's mother's attention span and object permanence are so non-existent that she'd run away leaving free-flowing water filling a plugged sink and shut herself in another room long enough for the kitchen to flood with water two inches deep on the floor, then it's easy to see where Ruby's complete life incompetence comes from.
"I grabbed some old dog towels and threw them about to soak up the access spillage, when the doorbell rang. I let in my guests, who hardly battered an eyelid when they saw the chaos in front of them."
No fucking shit. If they'd visited your home before, they're undoubtedly well aware of the putrid state of squalor your house is perpetually in. They're more likely to be shocked that anyone in the family was pretending to do housework.
And how many "dog towels" do they own that we're to believe that she mopped up most of a two inch kitchen flood with them?
"Cathy offered to mop up but I said not to worry, as it would most probably evaporate overnight or while we watched the film - she looked dubious."
The state of horrifying mess and filth that infests their home is so commonplace that even the guests are offering to clean, because the people who live there clearly won't.
Ruby's mother believed that two inches of water would just evaporate overnight - if not in two hours - in a house with no modern heating system in the dead of winter.
Again, either she's lying her ass off and this two inch high flood of water was actually a small puddle, or just didn't exist, or she's a colossal moron. It's still both.
"I had hardly a clue what was going on during the latest Bond."
Ruby's mother, to no surprise, is easily confused by a relatively straightforward popcorn action movie.
Another week, another wildly embellished tale of disaster that (if it even happened) was the result of stupidity, but is blamed on the unfair whims of outside forces. This family is too dumb to function.
gossip_guy
VIP Member
Ruby either legit dodging the question or being the world's biggest idiot - either is entirely possible.
"Which vaccine did you get, Ruby?"
"I got the injection one."
"No, I mean, which type of vaccine injection did you get?"
"It was the Covid vaccine."
"Right, but which manufacturer? AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna?"
"Yes."
"Which one?"
"That's right."
bublifuk
Active member
What really irritates me is the "modern double bed" phrase. Next thing you know she's gonna swap out the "modern" mattress and pillows with sacks of hay and use a potato sack as a cover.Why would you change to a single bed? I’ve never had a double bed and really want one!
Also, her room hasn’t changed since she was 11?? Do we think going to a single bed is another regression to childhood?
gossip_guy
VIP Member
Scapier88
VIP Member
Or Blakeney and molly were already there and all they heard was hello its robeee
Last edited:
gossip_guy
VIP Member
It's absolutely Blakeney's influence. Ruby has no individual style or personality, so dresses/acts exactly like whoever she's closest to.
At home where she has no friends around, it's been whatever internet fad aesthetic is most prominent and a succession of fictional characters (for most of her teens it was Hermione, for a while now it's been Anne of Green Gables from Anne With an E.)
At Exeter she started dressing exactly like Blakeney the second she was back with her - Ruby has suddenly bought a tonne of new dungarees and t-shirts/ringer tees, not-so-coincidentally that's Blakeney's usual style.
Spoilers: It'll be titled "Productive University Camping Morning Routine (Slow Living + Cottagecore)"
Here's a sneak preview:
"Hello, it's Ryoobee and tyooday, oiym gyowing tyoo bee showing you my morning routine while camping.
"I've been camping with Blakeney to make the most of the byootiful summer weather we've been having, it makes me so, so inspired and grateful, and it always reminds me that great, inspirational historical figures like William Shakespeare, Mahatma Gandhi, Anne Frank and Albus Dumbledore all looked up at the same bright sun as I do now, and that always makes me so fulfilled as I think they'd be smiling down at me and proud of all I've accomplished. I only do that for a while though, as my head starts to hurt from staring at the sun for too long.
"While camping, Blakeney and I danced and sang and talked and drank tea, and we had such a lovely time."
(10 seconds of sped-up, silent camping footage.)
"When I'm back home, I wake up later than usual at 6:15 and drink a gallon of water as I get so, so thirsty, and then I brush my teeth while reading two books at once..."
(From here it'll just be 15 minutes of reused footage from old routines slapped on the opening 20 second bit about her camping trip.)
Deeznutslol
VIP Member
I remember there used to be an Exeter confessions page where you could do anon submissions and someone wrote this, so I think tbh she’s always been seen as a bit of a joke there. I think this post was too far though.
Honestly I think Ruby has just never had a close friendship like this before. The way she looks at Blakeney, the way she puts on a different voice, her exaggerated reactions, reminds me of how I used to act (as a child) around older girls I looked up to. Because Blakeney like reading and tea as much as she does, I think Ruby's just holding onto her hard. It's nice that she has a friendship like that but she's noticeably more intense with it than Blakeney is, who seems just generally more healthy and well-adjusted. I don't think Ruby's mentally mature enough to really have a crush on Blakeney, I think she just looks up to her and wants to be like her.
Satisfying Click
VIP Member
Usual disclaimer applies, I would warn readers however that this chapter contains some Golden Child/Black Sheep dynamic at play, it might be triggering to those who have grown up with it.
Erimentha decides to stay home for the day after the PE incident, and they walk Nathan to school. He's not shoved into oncoming traffic but they race to the end of the road, he wins. She patronisingly pats him on the back, allowing this little victory, but soon asserts her authority as the dominant child.
"Did you know..."
He cuts her off. "No more facts!"
Mum, with a few working synapses left, tells him off for 'being mean'. "We love Erimentha's little factoids."
This is all very uncomfortable. It's the reason Nathan will one day change his name to Lewis and lie to his girlfriend that his parents are dead.
Erimentha talks about how her parents met at university during exam season, which is completely irrelevant and Erimentha is very critical of the idea of love (her emphasis). Nathan also finds it cringe, because he's a stereotypical eight year old (yes reader, sadly he is also regressing, by age - although this might be better for him, one day he'll be a random sperm living in blissful ignorance)
Erimentha notes that given her height, she could pass for Year 5 in her old school.
She sees her former teacher - who forgets her duty of care to a classroom of children and chats with Erimentha, and she's convinced something is wrong. She notes that her teacher seems like a maternal figure due to her oversized glasses and wrinkles. Ouch #bekind, Erimentha Wintour! The teacher encourages her to tell her parents or the teachers at the school, but Erimentha seems to think being bullied = weakness.
"Did you know..."
He cuts her off. "No more facts!"
Mum, with a few working synapses left, tells him off for 'being mean'. "We love Erimentha's little factoids."
This is all very uncomfortable. It's the reason Nathan will one day change his name to Lewis and lie to his girlfriend that his parents are dead.
Erimentha talks about how her parents met at university during exam season, which is completely irrelevant and Erimentha is very critical of the idea of love (her emphasis). Nathan also finds it cringe, because he's a stereotypical eight year old (yes reader, sadly he is also regressing, by age - although this might be better for him, one day he'll be a random sperm living in blissful ignorance)
Erimentha notes that given her height, she could pass for Year 5 in her old school.
She sees her former teacher - who forgets her duty of care to a classroom of children and chats with Erimentha, and she's convinced something is wrong. She notes that her teacher seems like a maternal figure due to her oversized glasses and wrinkles. Ouch #bekind, Erimentha Wintour! The teacher encourages her to tell her parents or the teachers at the school, but Erimentha seems to think being bullied = weakness.
xoxoxo13
VIP Member
she was the youtube poster kid for hustle culture up until five days ago. fuck her.
Deeznutslol
VIP Member
Nahhh guys, I’m actually going to have to sit this one out and just wait for the @gossip_guy review. There is no fucking way I can sit through 16 minutes of Ruby giving fashion advice 