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We open on a gloomy view of dank squalor. That's right, Ruby's home again!

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She's titled the video 'Christmassy Weekend at Home', although since she never spends a weekend away from home, it seems a bit redundant.

After some establishing shots of Ruby's haunted manor home, we meet the spectral ghoul whose spirit won't leave these cursed grounds: It's Ruby herself!

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She shuffles ghost-like toward the camera, clutching a hot water bottle encased in what appears to be the taxidermied hide of a long-dead family pet. This nightmarishly macabre creation does not appear to have ever been washed. And neither does the thing she's holding.

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She dumps the contents of her animal carcass into the perpetually grimy kitchen sink. Her parents can be forgiven for never cleaning this kitchen, though - it's been deadline season for at least 21 years now.

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Ruby struggles to get access to her morning tea amongst all the clutter and mess haphazardly stacked perilously in the kitchen cupboards. She narrowly avoids knocking the contents of the cupboard all over the kitchen. But in fairness, if she did, who's really gonna notice? What's another drop of mud in a swamp of filth?

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After getting some morning fire hazards burning by lighting candles, ghostly grandma Ruby gets settled in her room.

To celebrate Christmas, Ruby's family seem to have chopped down one of the neighbouring trees and dumped it carelessly and unfurnished at a jaunty angle against her bookcase, with a candle underneath ready to set the whole thing ablaze with the spark of one match. So aesthetic!

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"This morning I was working on my final ass-assment of the term," and then her narration jumps up about 40,000 crackling decibels. "THE LAST FEW WEEKS HAVE BEEN REALLY RATHER HACK-TIC WITH ASS-ASS-MENTS."

Ruby rambles about how time somehow both stands still and doesn't seem to be moving when you have as many uni assignments as she does, but also flies by so fast that it feels like November never happened.

(Reminder: Ruby wastes most days creating unrequested essay assignments and endless busywork for herself that has no value or merit and that nobody asked her to do. She also insists on making 6 hour round trips every single week to flee home at weekends rather than use that time wisely. This often leaves her late for actual uni meetings, seminars and deprives her of an abundance of vital time to do mandatory assignments.)

"BUT THAT ISN'T OKAY!" Ruby moans, despite being the source of all her own problems. "MONTHS SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO JUST SLIP AWAY FROM US. YOU DON'T DESERVE TO LOSE WHOLE MONTHS."

Ruby "lack-churrs" us that we need to appreciate university and embrace academic culture while also enjoying life outside academia. Ruby does neither.

This is basically a "woe is me, I'm so busy!" ramble from someone with immense privilege, zero financial responsibility and endless free time, which she just wastes with redundant planning busywork.

She follows up her waffling nonsense by hurling a barrage of advertising endorsements. Ruby loves October so much that she's keeping it alive with the terrifying sight of her ghoulish grimace:

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Her Fable England plug is swiftly followed by her advertising Bird & Blend once again. She's chosen her most disgusting mug - the one that was actually designed to look like it was used as a makeshift toilet on a construction site to disguise the fact that Ruby never cleans it:

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Her chosen tea is "Chinese pyoo-ratee", or Chinese pu-erh tea to anyone else. The box says it's a ginger spiced blend.

"Today's act of kindness," Ruby chirps as she reads the box, "is to say a big 'thankyou!' to nurses, bus drivers, retail workers and anyone else you meet working today." Ruby says this is perfect, as she's actually going to London. And I'm sure every retail worker at Waterstones is gonna love Ruby coming up to them and saying, "Hello, it's Roobee! And thankyou for your service!" after she's touched every single book in the store.

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"It's very, very gingery," Ruby says as she slurps the tea in what can only be described as anti-ASMR. "Maybe a little too gingery... No! I feel like it's a ginger tea." Master of critical research and analysis Ruby Granger, everyone! If ginger being the main ingredient listed on the box wasn't a dead giveaway, Ruby has Sherlocked this shit and used her keen taste buds to determine that the ginger tea is, in fact, ginger tea.

After her earlier rant about how daunting her workload at uni is, Ruby casually reveals that her current stressful assignment is a poster presentation for the ASS-ay that she's going to be writing in January... Which sounds like the kind of thing they'd give to small children to keep them distracted for a while so the adults can get something done.

Doors loudly slam and the dog barks uncontrollably in the background, and Ruby doesn't leap out of the window for fear of home invaders, so she's apparently gotten over another of her fictional phobias.

Ruby rambles with a condescending tone that deadline season doesn't have to be stressful, after leaving her assignment until two days before it was due and running home instead of focusing on it. And most people don't leave everything until the last second, and most people's deadlines aren't for children's arts and crafts projects, so it's apples and oranges really, isn't it, Rubuntu?

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(POV: You were holding your cutting board which has a mirror in it for some reason, and you accidentally said 'Ruby Granger' five times, summoning the grimacing productivity demon. The only way to send her back to the depths of Hades is to give her an offering of £9 in exchange for poorly-made stationery.)

"It's soooo cold!" Ruby says. Which is as much her catchphrase as anything at this point. Once again, it's the house's fault, and not the result of massive malnutrition and dangerous weight loss.

"I've come home for Vee's book launch, which she's very, very kindly invited me to." Which doesn't explain every other weekend she's buggered off home. Also Vee didn't actually invite Ruby. Their shared management team did. Everyone repped by Sixteenth was invited.

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Ruby starts getting ready and dabbing on makeup while rambling that she used to believe that wearing makeup was anti-feminist because she read it somewhere. But now she's come to the (already achingly obvious to anyone else) conclusion that women should be encouraged and supported in doing whatever they want with their own bodies. Ruby doesn't clarify if she got this new opinion by reading it somewhere, but it's pretty much a given, since she's incapable of thinking for herself.

Before we can see if Ruby will cover up her fake freckles with makeup and replace them with new ones, she's "interrupted" by a parcel delivery.

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It's from Glossier, one of the few brands that Ruby won't stop advertising for free in hopes of a sponsorship.

"It's funny that this should come right now, because I was just talking about makeup..." Ruby says. No, Ruby. You were talking about makeup because you got a Glossier delivery and decided to fabricate a "surprise" delivery to make it seem spontaneous.

I mean, you supposedly spend almost all your time at uni, right? And your order contains "makeup essentials", so presumably you need them often. So...quick question, Ruberculosis? Why'd you have this delivered to your family house and not uni?

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Doesn't add up.

Ruby unboxes the makeup goods, including a mirror that you got if you "spent over a Saturn amount on their website"...

I did some research into what the fuck she's talking about, but results were inconclusive:

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Ruby complains about the poor quality of this free mirror's surface, before realising that she's left the protective plastic film on it.

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Ruby tries out some flavoured lip balm. She will undoubtedly count this as one of her meals for the day.

After a time-lapsed fraction of a 'getting ready' segment which conveniently skips over the fake freckled area of her fact, she's got to catch the train! Ruby looks like she's about to start crying since she has to travel by herself like an adult:

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There's no other footage on the train, so it's left a mystery as to whether Ruby traversed the carriages dishing out acts of kindness. After all, in one of her previous videos, Ruby claimed that the first question we ask people is "What do you do?", so Ruby absolutely should've been checking people's professions and thanking them for their retail, health care or transportation services.

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Supposedly Covid-phobic Ruby heads to Covent Garden and excitedly runs into every crowd of people that she can like a hyperactive child let loose in a sweet shop.

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"I don't know what my hair is doing!" Ruby wonders in on-screen text. It's receding, Ruby. Malnutrition strikes again!

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At the book launch/Covid spreader event, Ruby hugs whoever she can, then appears to rant at Vee about something:

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Ruby: "I wrote a book, tyoo!"
Vee: "And who are you, again?"

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Ruby jumps at the chance to film people who aren't privileged white Tory women so that she can reuse the footage in later videos and make it seem like she doesn't exclusively associate with privileged white Tory women. Even Holly, Ruby's ED-inspo icon seems confused by Ruby.

After making a brief appearance at the event, Ruby high-tails it when the food is offered.

"I'm gonna miss my train," Ruby complains. This is what happens when you spend most of your day cataloguing meaningless, obvious crap in multiple planners and to-do lists instead of noting just important things, like meeting times and rooms, or train times. Ruby is somehow constantly screwing up train times and getting them mixed up, while claiming to be an oracle of productivity and planning advice. And to add to the irony: Ruby has done paid, sponsored ads for Trainline before, despite being completely incapable of checking and remembering train times.

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Ruby manages to make her train. She said she's "feeling empowered" after the event and decided to "read" the book right away (by which she means "skim a few paragraphs and consider it complete") instead of leaving it until after Christmas. A glowing endorsement. "I was gonna just dump your book on a shelf and forget all about it, but I'll do you one better and pretend to read a few pages, Vee!"

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It's the next morning, or possibly a month earlier or three days later. At this point, who the fuck knows with Ruby?

She's dressed like she's just come back from audition for a British reboot of The Golden Girls, where she was rejected for looking too old to play an octogenarian.

Ruby says she's still working on the poster presentation, and if you're shocked that there's somehow multiple days of work required for something as Mickey Mouse as a poster presentation, then you're not alone. Ruby says she's doing this now because she likes to get her most "biggest, most stressful tasks" done in the morning...

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Ruby claims she's aware of her privilege, yet somehow defines a task as trivial as a poster presentation as "stressful". I can't even. Send this clown to work in the mines already.

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After changing into her second outfit of the day, Ruby backtracks and says the poster "ass-assment" is actually "low pressure". It's only worth 15 "pruh-cent" of her grade. After somehow working on this fluff, nonsense project for multiple days, Ruby claims she's "nearly finished", but is going to take a break anyway.

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Ruby says she's going to decorate the tree that was dumped in her room, using decorations that her family deemed were too shitty for the main tree.

But first, more tea, because Ruby has to substitute food with something:

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"Okay, what is it?" Ruby asks, confused what flavour it is, even though it says 'CANDY CANE' right fucking there. "Candy Caneeee!"

Today's act of kindness: "Arrange to spend time with the person who makes you laugh most, even if it's on the phone."

"That's a really good idea. I'm gonna sent a message to a friend," she says, as though she has multiple friends to choose from.

Ruby says the tea doesn't smell like candy canes, but she also says she doesn't know what candy canes smell like. According to Ruby, it smells like vanilla, with an "undercurrent of PAPPERMINT".

After her tea break, Ruby actually decides to return to her flimsy project and finish it. Somehow it takes her an additional 90 fucking minutes.

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Ruby shows off the disgusting tape slapped onto her webcam, along with the dirt and crusty crud it has collected.

Rubes, these exist:

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They cost next to nothing, you stick them over your webcam and they look sleek and minimal. You can open and close them when you need to use your webcam. Better than that, they don't attract all manner of disgusting dirt, hair and grime.

While Ruby's struggling to figure out which of her files to upload for the assessment, her mother screams up the stairs: "ARE YOU READY TO--"

Ruby cut here, rather than 5 seconds earlier. Then she's off the wander the grounds of their palatial estate with her parents.

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Ruby's dad is dressed like the drunk gardener of a Russian diplomat.

Ruby's mother looks like what you'd expect the first image result to be if you did a Google search for "Tory tea cosy".

Mother Granger says this is her "mad cat lady" look. Ruby's dad stresses that the coat was actually second hand, because the apple didn't fall far from the tree when it comes to rich Tories in their family using performative poverty to try to be relatable.

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Ruby shouts about how cold it is, as she does in all climates and situations. Her parents point out that it's not cold at all, because neither of them are severely malnourished like Ruby.

Note that this is also Ruby's third outfit of the "day".

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They go for lunch, and Ruby tries to blur out either the name of the restaurant or the ingredients list on one of her multiple drinks. With her terrible editing skills, it's hard to tell.

Ruby takes a single bite of a fry while awkwardly blurring out half the background.

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"haha" Riveting stuff, Ruby!

Ruby "decorates" her tree, and like everything she does, it's a half-assed, hilariously messy shit-show:

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She says she moved the tree away from her bookcase because she couldn't see her books. She's not going to read any of them, of course, but Ruby buys books just to look at them on a shelf, so she needs to get her money's worth!

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Ruby says she's currently writing Christmas cards to viewers, and will be adding an option on her store to opt in for the chance to maybe get a surprise Christmas card from her.

Because that's exactly what people want after making the regretful decision of buying her flimsy, overpriced crap - to get a Christmas card in late June full of inane, indecipherable ramblings from a complete basket case, when all you really want is a refund.

"There'll be details about this in the description box," she says.

Spoilers: There's not.

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And because it's been at least a week since her last scam, she announces another "giveaway" where she will "cheese" some of her favourite teas and send them and a planner to some poor bastard.

Reminder: There has never been a single confirmed winner or recipient of any of Ruby's giveaways. She refuses to announce winners publicly, and each contest is a blatant scam to attract more subscribers and commenters during product launches. No prizes are ever sent out.

This time around, she asks people to comment with their favourite Christmas tradition or ritual. Again, this is a scam. It has the distinct benefit of flooding Ruby's comments with comments about Christmas to drown out any constructive criticism she might get for all the things she keeps dodging accountability.

She notes that the planners are still in stock, because people aren't falling for her crap anymore and she's struggling to get rid of this year's planners (she's only sold half so far).

And that's it!
 
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Erimentha arrives for PE before her peers as she now wishes to demonstrate her physical superiority. She hears her classmates talk about 'meaningless' things such as TV shows and weekend plans.

They start playing tennis and her serve is perfect, because of course it is.

There's a bit of back and forth between her and the others.

Suddenly, everything goes white

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No, she's not dead, it would be God meeting her at the gate anyway, not some amateur like St. Peter.

She's concussed and the school nurse is there.

Kimberly hit her with the tennis ball. Her mum is on her way to take her to hospital.

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She's in A&E and having a wonderful time observing the sick people around her. She guesses a man has a broken arm by looking at his ulna bone and notes how much pain he is in. You stay away from him, Erimentha Shipman!

Her mum bought some things to the hospital - not packed by her, because in this novel, she is mentally regressing at an alarming rate, she wouldn't be able to pick the right stuff - Erimentha had already procured an Emergency Hospital Supplies Kit. This is not a joke.

The doctor marvels at Erminetha, telling her she's the most medically-informed child she has ever met, because that's what most NHS doctors have time to do. Ruby needs to read House of God and understand the meaning of the word GOMER

Erimentha passes the broken-arm man on the way out, offering her condolences and hoping he recovers quickly and painlessly. Never, ever, let this girl near you with a syringe.
 
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EllaEm87

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Why is she touching every single book in Waterstones in the middle of a pandemic? I hope she sanitized her hands before entering. 😬
Not to be pedantic but we aren’t really in the middle of a pandemic anymore. No rules are in place anymore in England and she’s double vaccinated. As long as she’s washing hands frequently or using gel, and not overly touching her face she should be fine. We can’t limit ourselves forever and one of the joys of book shopping is picking them up and reading the blurb! Each to their own but now it’s kinda just do what you feel comfortable with.
 
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nissigossips

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I'm sorry but this whole "gypsy" discussion seems absolutely ridiculous to me. People in the UK don't need to conform to US cultural norms hahaha.

It's literally impossible to conform to every countries norms (ie. some countries its rude to finish everything on your plate, some its rude to leave food on your plate!) so why specifically should people in England have to do what Americans do?! We're a completely different country!
 
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gossip_guy

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Fellow tattlers I apologise I missed the all important premiere of Ruby's ground breaking new video as I had to go to this place called work where you turn up work hard for 12hours then they pay you money at the end off the month
Please keep things on-topic here; actually working for money is a completely irrelevant subject in the thread about Ruby Granger.
 
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hkcurly

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LADS, IT'S TEA TIME

You can imagine my utter joy when I received my tea in the post today. I bought the 50g pouch because unlike our Ro0bs, I'm not made of money.

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Here it is in all its glory

Here's a closer look at the ingredients:
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I was surprised Ruby okayed something with natural flavours in. It doesn't bother me and I guess they are ✨ natural ✨ but adding flavourings at all instead of just other dry ingredients seemed an odd move given her general obnoxiousness brand.

Here's a pic of the tea itself
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And my mug because it's a great mug
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(Also what 🦘🐝 thinks she is)
((kangaroo bee?? Geddit???)

ON TO THE TASTE TEST

There was no advice on the packet about water temp but as it seems to be mostly black tea I went for just boiling and I brewed it for 3 minutes.

Without milk:
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With milk:
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VERDICT

Okay, hear me out...

It's actually quite nice.

It's a little sweet with the coconut but not too much. I don't like black tea sweet at all but I think having a blend of teas helps balance it out a little. The coconut flavour isn't overwhelming and thankfully isn't too artificial, I'm guessing they've just relied on the dessicated coconut for the flavour, or they were very light handed with any coconut flavourings.

I preferred it with milk (I used cow's milk, soz Rubers), but that was actually more of a texture thing than a taste thing as the milk didn't really affect the flavour.

TASTE: 3.75/5.

I have genuinely enjoyed my cup of this. It's not dissimilar to other teas with coconut in that I've had before, I think actually from B&B if I remember rightly. It's not ground breaking, but it's nice, and I will probably finish the packet.

Would I buy it again? No, but mostly because I don't really drink very much tea these days, and it's expensive, and I'd rather spend my £12 (including shipping) on snacks.

HERE'S THE THING THO:

IT DOESNT TASTE LIKE A FUCKING CANDLELIT LIBRARY.


I don't understand why they've called it that. To me, I head "candlelit library" I expect a rich, smoky tea. I expect to see some lapsang in there or some other smoky tea. Something to ground it.

There's no smokiness to it. Sure, the coconut gives it some richness in a way that isn't overpowering, but it just all feels a bit.. light? I don't get the kind of heavy, cosy feeling you'd imagine from a cup of tea you're going to have next to you in an old library while you're up studying all night, which is what the name suggests, and would be very on brand for Rewbea.

Honestly this tea should've been released in spring/summer and branded as something to have by you while you sit outside and write pretentious letters to your underage fans friends

(also Im aware I sound like I'm talking out of my ass here - trying to convey taste in text is fucking hard ok. I'm not a tea snob I swear)

ONE LAST THING
It's interesting to me that THREE of the four teas in this blend are very commonly associated with claims of weight loss or "stimulating the metabolism."
Do with that information what you will.
 
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Satisfying Click

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Hallo! We've hit the bottom of the post-box!

Previous thread:

Congratulations to @Chickpea9 on receiving the most votes for the thread title. Your prizes include: a 2022 planner [arriving mid-March], a Bird & Blend teabag [used] some Glossier products [handed down] and a DVD of Love Actually [broken in half]

Special mention to @gossip_guy for the amusing and witty recaps. You will receive some random pens wrapped in brown paper, on advice from management as a gift.

Have a productive thread!
 
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Erimentha is off to the retirement village to see Grandmama. (You didn't think she was going to refer to her as something as perverse as Nan, did you?) - she says the family rarely accompanies her.

Grandmama is a bookworm and a polyglot. It's the kind of wholesome and warm retirement home you'd find in American Christmas movies. Erimentha hopes her children will send her to a similar one (by the time our generation is infirm, Erimentha, we'll be given vouchers for the 'Twilight Village' and it's a brief one-way journey)

They go for a walk, they talk Shakespeare. Erimentha asks Grandmama if she has any friends. Nope, acquaintances, "True friends are a stack of books and a loving family." I'd want to be a fly on the wall during family therapy.

Grandmama mentions she hasn't always lived a morally perfect life - I wanted tea spilled on Grandmama's corrupt youth, but it goes as far as pinching her sister. They pick pinecones.
 
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CatCafe234

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What the fuck. There's some weird videos on that list. "being exceptionally British for a day" - I'm assuming she's just going to drink more tea, but that sounds weirdly nationalistic...
I just saw this and what on earth does that mean? 6am, wake up and drink tea. 7.30am, go and colonise next door’s garden ...
 
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Ilaariaa

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I graduated with honors from my Master's degree today! And I managed to do it without 4 outfit changes, 8 to-do lists in different formats and 11 cups of tea per day.
 
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gossip_guy

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yeah, suspicions confirmed. she has still not actually lost that much weight- it's all in the angles. in that (weird) clip of her running away from the camera she looks like a completely normal 20 year old girl. cut out the attention-seeking crap, ruby. may i remind this thread that there's a difference between exhibiting disordered eating habits and actually suffering from an ed??
She's visibly lost a lot of weight, and it shows most clearly in her face. But she's also being very deceptive in what she shows since the backlash started (while still going out of her way to post triggering food content.)

When she grabbed an old "daily vlog" from out of nowhere that was recorded around the time of Molly's visit and uploaded it weeks later and put up what looked like an old "gymnastics" Insta story, I theorised that she's started "banking" videos to upload further down the line and recycling old content to give the illusion that her weight loss isn't as bad as it is.

She intends it to be a sign to all the critics that she's clearly healthier than ever - she's backflipping and suddenly her face looks less gaunt, so there's nothing to worry about.

She's still doing that. All of today's Insta stories are from at least two weeks ago.

This was uploaded today:

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This was uploaded two weeks ago (and I believe was likely filmed before that):

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Many of the other videos have the same wavy hairstyle and unevenly-trimmed hair, so they were clearly shot on or near the same day.

Then there's this from today, where her face looks fuller and she looks much healthier:

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Want to know when that was actually shot? June 2020:

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She's clearly lost a tonne of weight, but she's now going to great lengths to hide that and project an image of a healthier figure to throw people off by not posting up-to-date images and uploading a mix of weeks-old pictures/videos and some that are months old. It's likely why we haven't seen the video of her and Jade in London go up - she'll release it weeks later and her weight loss will look less pronounced than it is at that stage in reality.

She thinks her critics will see these and think "Oh, I guess her weight loss isn't actually as bad as I thought" and her fans will see it and wonder why people are asking about weight loss when she's clearly super healthy. And she gets the compliments and acknowledgements that she wants as well because all her fans are fawning over how skinny she is, regardless of how healthy or unhealthy she looks.

Textbook gaslighting. Don't believe her.
 
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babyspice1996

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Oooh what did your friends say about their interactions with Ruby? How is it to be on a course/ in seminars with her?
There was a pretty memorable moment in first year when she whipped out a quill and ink in a lecture but apart from that she’s just this really small quiet girl. She always sits at the front right in the middle and stays to talk to the lecturers afterwards. And if someone swears or says anything she thinks is inappropriate she won’t talk to them again lol. And she does contribute a lot in seminars, I’ve never seen her interrupt a lecture though
 
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figgypud

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These are very personal, delicate matters and if I were Ruby and my sister made a public pinterest board explicitly about my eating disorder, I'd feel very betrayed. Obviously Ruby's behaviour is harmful and she needs to stop with the borderline pro ana shit but this isn't the way to go about it.

I don't even understand how making a pinterest board is supposed to help Ruby or make her realize what she's doing. Imo Martha is just doing it for attention or maliciously.
To me it looks like it's intended to help Ruby - Martha just should have made it private, and that's more oversight than maliciousness. Ruby has talked about pumpkin being one of her favourite flavours and the rest of encouraging quotes and infographs, there's nothing triggering on there.

As a younger sister, I feel like this is Martha doing what she can to reach out to Ruby in a way she knows how without being confrontational or having difficult conversations, especially if it was made whilst Ruby was in Exeter and Martha was in Sheffield. I imagine it must be really difficult to want to help somebody from afar without constantly texting "eat, have you eaten, you should eat" when Ruby will likely have been getting that from other avenues as well.

It's not like Martha can be hands on like a professional can be or like their parents should be, she's 19 years old. So I don't think anything indicates malicious intent so we shouldn't assume that it is malicious when what we've seen of Martha towards Ruby is generally quite gentle and thoughtful (in her gifts) and in the video they did together a couple of months ago, yes there's banter but Martha came across almost like an older sister who wants to guide Ruby a bit. At worst she's just not made the board private, and Ruby hasn't even made her own recovery playlist private on Spotify so I don't think it warrants being too hard on Martha. Maybe she's a bit pretentious but I think there are a lot of assumptions made based on her appearance (dare I say aesthetic) whilst forgetting she's a 19 year old girl and lots of people are obnoxious and loud and over the top well past that age.
 
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