well neither clare bones nor clara raven are outstanding poets but i feel like she poured all her pain into these poems about her marriage. it’s actually painful to read. i don’t think she is very happy to be honest and i actually want to give her a tiny little hug.
This poem genuinely made me sad, especially since I am bi myself (biromantic, but still). I wholeheartedly support anyone who is on their journey to self-discovery and wants to explore their sexuality, but I find this poem somehow upholding the stereotype that bisexuality = confusion and promiscuity. More importantly, I find it really disrespectful towards her family - I wonder what Ruby and Martha (and Daddy Bones!) think about it. Imagine your mum or partner confessing to having a wandering eye, openly expressing their "fantasy" to be (sleep? I guess that too) with another person and saying that they won't cheat only because it would disturb the peace of their marriage. I know that it was Mother Granger who wrote it so it's kind of a special case (I wonder how she would fare on her own... I would love to see her CV), but it's still not a good look. Not to mention how bad her style is :") I cringe when I read it, it's hardly even a poem.
One of the latest pins on her AXEFUD board. "She is intelligent"; "academic validation"; "I always get good grades". Interesting that she made it so blatant what she wants to be seen for there when she pinned this.
“We NEED to normalise going on rainy walks”…. What?
Since when was going out in the rain not “normalized” for someone who lives in the UK? It literally rains for like half of the year lmao. Either you go out in it or you remain shut in your house all day.
I’ve not been on this thread for a while and haven’t caught up with her, but one look at her tiktok tells me that clearly she’s still an absolute melt lol
I do remember getting with someone who took me back to St Hugh’s. I was taken aback by the scenery and was thinking do we haveee to go inside I’d rather look at the gardens than some boring willy
Everyone's been waiting with baited breath for the next instalment in Ruby's dissertation update series to see how little, if any, progress she's made and what happened on her grand, pointless expedition to find lost and unscanned manuscripts.
So, of course, Ruby just uploads some deja-vu crap that's practically interchangeable with every other vlog and routine video she's uploaded over the past two years.
This latest half-assed barrel of bullshit is entitled:
'8:30am Classes & Studying in Cafés *productive*'
Was the "*productive*" necessary? Nope. Should it have been capitalised? Absolutely.
Ruby feels the need to stress that she's being productive while in class and studying. It's entirely redundant. A bit like pointing out that you're still alive while breathing, or that you're a greedy idiot while charging £9 for a poor quality notebook; we already know, you can leave out those unnecessary words.
In case you were expecting anything new and original, Ruby shuts that expectation down faster than Oxford University shut her down with a rejection letter. The first footage we see is timelapse footage of her lazily repositioning her mattress, while one of the four orchestral songs she reuses ad nauseum, regardless of the occasion, plays loudly.
Even after six+ years of making videos for mass consumption as her primary source of income, the self-proclaimed queen of research, preparation and hard work has never bothered improving her filmmaking skills in any way. She never learned the incredibly basic filmmaking technique that a soundtrack is supposed to compliment the visuals to help tell a story, or at least tonally fit what we see onscreen.
Grieg's Morning Mood would've better fit the 'waking up in the morning' scene. Flight of the Bumblebee would've better suited the 'I am rushing around being productive' vibe that Ruby tries to fake with her overreliance on timelapse footage to give the illusion of busyness. Chopin's Funeral March would've accurately conveyed the death of creativity and Ruby's career prospects as it happens before our eyes.
The tiniest bit more effort would make a major difference. But nope, Ruby's just slaps the same four instrumental songs on at random, regardless of the footage, because any more effort than that would be too much for her.
The 'more of the same old shit' vibes keep coming as Ruby slaps a 'morning tea of course' message on-screen.
Because it wouldn't be a rehashed Ruby video without wild exaggeration and blatant lies, she claims her tea is "always" Tetley Green Tea. Even though she's advertising like six new gifted tea brands a week and showing herself drinking pretty much anything but Tetley.
But Ruby just has to claim she ALWAYS does something she never does, because compulsive liars gotta lie compulsively.
And because stupidity is synonymous with Ruby, she shows herself continuing to use a broken mug despite owning a shitload of other mugs, many of them gifted.
After overly familiar scenes of her chugging water alongside her tea and timelapse footage of ticking clocks, Ruby whispers that she's "gyoing to opyen some assay feedback". She has to whisper because she doesn't want Blakeney to hear what grade Ruby got for stealing all her ideas.
She gives the world's least convincing portrayal of 'nervousness' and 'shock':
Then she humblebrags that the grade is much higher than she was expecting.
We know this is a lie. Ruby very clearly checked her grades off-camera. Her lies are confirmed by two things:
Ruby always expects a First.
She says she "JANuinely" was expecting a lower grade. This is one of Ruby's patented poker tells - if she says she 'GENUINELY' anything, it's bullshit.
So this footage serves no purpose other than for Ruby to brag about her high grades and pretend to be humble because she was only expecting a low First. She says she got a 74, but shows no proof and reads out no feedback.
"Hallo, it's Roobee, and tyooday, oiy'm gyowing tyoo bee FLOGGING."
Ruby mentions that the video, in which Ruby will apparently torture people in worse ways than just talking to them, is sponsored by NordVPN. If you weren't familiar with NordVPN, this intro won't shed any more light, as she abruptly cuts mid-sentence while explaining what the service is and then just moves on to other things. NordVPN are gonna want their money back.
NordVPN is yet another service that Ruby never uses or mentions unless she's being paid to.
Speaking of ads, in another predictable Ruby habit, she shoehorns in yet another undeclared ad for a snack bar brand.
Just like last time, and so many times before that, at no point does Ruby mention that this is a gifted product:
If it weren't blatantly obvious by the way Ruby shoehorns a clear shot of the snack bar package and logo in almost every single video she makes (whether it's Perkier, Misfits or nu+cao bars), this is a gifted product that she's advertising.
Perkier have sent her boxes of these in the past and continue to do so. Even if she were currently paying for them, that past relationship with the brand needs to be declared.
Ruby, declare your ads, you lying, shilling shitweasel.
Ruby walks to campus and goes off on a nature fetish tangent, somehow amazed that the sun is still "VARRY low in the sky" first thing in the morning. No shit, Copernicus, that's kinda how the sun works.
She explains that her first seminar is on tropes and world-building in children's fiction. This could be "varry" helpful for Ruby, since even after a lifetime of compulsive lies, she's still no more convincing a creator of childish fictional events than she ever has been, so she needs all the pointers she can get.
Blakeney tries her best to outpace Ruby and get the fuck away from her, but it's no use.
On their way to a "dissertation WARKshop", they gaze in awestruck wonder at a building on campus that they haven't been to before. It looks like your average ramshackle public building.
Ever the wordsmith, Ruby announces that "it looks VARRY 1970s...like VARRY VARRY..."
Blakeney points out how big the trees are and adds that it's "like a whole new world".
Y'know, like that scene in Aladdin where Aladdin promises to show Princess Jasmine all the wonders that the world holds, only here those magical wonders are represented by a building on the same campus they've frequented for 3-4 years that looks like a block of council flats.
I have no idea what would get discussed in a dissertation workshop considering each student is writing about a wildly different topic, and Ruby's in no mood to shed any light either since she skips straight past it to go to Boston Tea Party again.
On the way, she says she's finishing listening to 'Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance' by Angela Duckworth on Audible.
Ruby rated this 5 stars on Goodreads, which is usually a great indicator that she didn't read or listen to it. She did not review it beyond the rating. The synopsis says this is a book about how "the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called grit", which is the opposite of Ruby's whole approach to life. She never tries at anything, cuts corners wherever possible and believes she's innately gifted and entitled to everything.
To hammer home her entitlement and lack of effort, Ruby chooses to once again take up a whole table in a busy café and order a single drink (which, to be fair, is better than taking up a table and ordering nothing at all like she often does). She then tries to shoehorn in the sponsor who paid her money for a professional featured ad, but delivers it as amateurishly as possible. She whispers that she's going to quickly change her VPN address to make sure "the server is PROTACKTED", and is almost completely drowned out by loud background noise.
She switches to recorded narration thereafter, but it's not much more professional as she reads out ad copy provided by the company while filming a poorly-lit view of her disgustingly grimy laptop screen. Some of the specks of dirt encrusted on-screen look like additional icons on the NordVPN map interface.
The lone drink that Ruby orders is a Mango Lassi.
Ruby claims it's "one of their smyoothies which is made with mangooo and avocadooo and cyoconut".
Boston Tea Party's menu says that's not true:
After Ruby finishes her smoothie and the pocket avocado she apparently added to it, she switches to plain, free table water.
It's long past noon at this point, but she's eaten nothing all day.
She claims in the title and timeline heading that this she's 'café studying'. Other than Ruby bringing up a Notion page, there's no evidence of any studying, and she seems to do anything but.
She fucks around with the VPN for like an hour, clearly having no idea how it works despite ALWAYS using it ALL THE TOIYME.
She writes a letter to her cousin (who Ruby stresses HAD RECENTLY SENT HER A "LATTER").
She has to fill out a mysterious form related to her archive visit - presumably a liability form so the archive can bill her for all the peanut-butter-finger-smeared damage she did to the documents.
All that and no studying.
After a quick trip to Superdrug to buy coconut toothpaste, Ruby shoves in some desperate sponsor-chasing. Since the video's almost halfway over and she hasn't mentioned Waterstones yet, she films at Waterstones and mentions that she's at Waterstones and also that she's at Waterstones, just in case you didn't know that she's at Waterstones goes to Waterstones ALL THE TIME.
If this were an independent bookshop, she'd be like "and here I am at some nameless bookshop". But Waterstones have deep pockets, and Ruby wants to shove her grimy hands in there if it's the last thing she does. At this point, the only money she's getting out of Waterstones is if she pulls a Mother Granger and pretends to fall down the stairs, then slaps in a compensation claim.
Basic editing effort took a back seat to Ruby's blatant sponsor-chasing, and she cuts in some narration that begins mid-word, mid-sentence:
"--nntrmeet Sasha and Blakeney fooor lunch..."
Reminder: This is a sponsored video. A company paid to have their service featured in this fucking mess.
Ruby goes to the No 1 Polsloe Café that we saw in her Instagram posts earlier this week for "brunch".
I'm not sure what she thinks brunch is, but she apparently sat down in Boston Tea Party at noon:
She then showed that it was 12:35 while she was trying to figure out what a VPN is:
She was messing around with that for long after, then wrote a letter, filled out a form, allegedly did studying for her children's literature module. So taking her at her word, she left BTP at least an hour or two after, then went shopping for toothpaste, went to Waterstones to browse for books, and then went to a café which Ruby herself says is "twenty minutes outside Exeter City Centre."
If you plot all the places she mentions into Google Maps, that's a 26 minute walk from door to door:
That's not counting all the time she spent in each place before getting to her final destination.
So by this time, it isn't brunch. This is supper. Three weeks later.
Ruby seriously expects people to actually believe this audacious bullshit.
She orders the vegan Greek yoghurt pancakes, the diameter of which is barely bigger than her small water glass. So all she's had to eat all day is a small dessert.
After that, it's time for 'Tea Time with Ruby', because Blakeney's clearly had enough of her and noped the fuck out.
She brews her tea using a glass tea pot that she doesn't seem to have cleaned since she got it, in a kitchen that looks just as dirty as it did in her videos a week ago.
If you were somehow still clinging to any doubt that Ruby is lying her ass off about the timescales of her videos and combining multiple days' worth of footage into one fabricated day to massively embellish the amount that she can get done in a day, then consider this:
At this point, after a lengthy study session in a café starting at noon, followed by a shopping trip for toothpaste, a browse of the books at Waterstones, a 20+ minute walk, a "brunch" meal and then a walk home, it's apparently only 3:34pm:
She swills the tea around her mouth and attempts to chew it. She smacks together her lips in what can only be described as anti-ASMR while muttering nonsense about the tea.
It smells like banana and also tastes like banana but not like banana but it also tastes A LOT LOIKE BANANA. It contains honey and tastes like honey, but Ruby's not a fan of honey, so why she claims to have purchased a tea called "HONEY BEE BEAUTIFUL" is a fucking mystery.
Ruby reveals that, alongside the dissertation that she's failing completely at, she's chosen to do a creative writing module...
Her assignment for this module is to write and illustrate a picture book, meaning Ruby will try to hand in that children's picture book that Blakeney self-published last year, but with Blakeney's name scribbled off and Ruby's written on instead.
Luckily for Ruby, this particular assignment is formative submission, so she probably won't be graded on it. Even so, that won't be the case with all her assignments, so by insisting on copying Blakeney's module options, she's really fucked herself over on this one.
This is another module that will focus on independent thought and creativity, which are her worst skills. Ruby is already floundering with the dissertation that relies heavily on those qualities, and now she has another to add to the table. Make the most of those grades from last semester, Ruby, because all signs point to you being completely screwed going forward.
She shows that she's keeping all her uni handouts for the year in a Matilda folder, as though pretending she's 10 will somehow protect her from adulthood pummelling her in the face with disappointment over the next year.
After some more timelapse footage of a clock, Ruby reveals her planner for the day:
See if you can spot the obvious problem/s...
You might wonder why meticulous planner Ruby neglected to include half the day's plans on her planner which she "ALWAYS" uses.
You might also wonder why her planner says the day in question is Wednesday 2nd Feb, when Ruby's café brunch visit with Blakeney and Sasha happened a week later, on Wednesday 9th Feb...
Some of these comments/commenters are creepy af Oh look, it's penultimate again. I can't believe Ruby changed her post to say 'coincided' instead. Did anyone call her out in the comments? If not, she must read here all the time to respond so quickly to criticisms! Has Ruby specified the...
tattle.life
Ruby's new lie-logic is apparently that if you only combine footage from multiple Wednesdays, then you're not lying because it technically happened on the same day.
Ruby returns to the tea and says she doesn't like it at all, which must be embarrassing for her as the one time she's critical about something, she uploads the video just after Bird & Blend finally gift her something. Whoops!
She keeps smacking her lips for an inordinate amount of time and it's entirely repugnant. This should not be included in a video without a content warning or reimbursement for the cost of the ensuing therapy.
There's even more timelapse footage of her clock as Ruby says that for the creative module Ruby has to submit a portfolio including the picture book and a 4,500 word extract of an original middle-grade or YA book. Ruby notes that this structure is "a really cool prAMise". This is 100% going to be a trainwreck.
And naturally, Ruby wastes time fucking around with Notion.
She starts to explain that she's going to go food shopping, but in her continued ineptitude, she cranks the instrumental music she's laid over the footage to the point where it drowns out whatever she's saying.
Of course, she's gone to Waitrose once again - supermarket of choice for wealthy Tories.
She does a grocery haul, which is 95% fruit, a small sweet potato and a tin of chickpeas.
While she's cooking "dinner", sustainability queen Ruby leaves the fridge open for the duration:
I'd say this is a result of her brain being ravaged by malnutrition, but there's been so many occasions where Ruby shows a blatant disregard for energy saving practices that this is likely just her being a wasteful, thoughtless fuckwit once again.
She does some uncoordinated "yoga" while cooking her "food".
She serves her food in a wide, shallow bowl to give the illusion that there's more than there is. Aside from some grapes that were eaten off-screen, there's no evidence that she's eaten anything else, since the brunch pancakes were eaten a week later. She takes a single bite and then cuts and the bowl has vanished.
After even more timelapse footage of Ruby staring blankly at her screen while the clock ticks by, Ruby claims that in just over an hour, she's written a dissertation plan for "all three chapters", a "mini thesis" for each chapter, the "TAXTS" that she'll look at for each, the "SACKondary comparative material" that she's going to look at, the critics she wants to look at and then "a list of things to include in that chapter". And for one chapter, she's included an "essay plan and the research question".
If we've learned anything from this and all other videos Ruby makes, it's that she lies her ass off about absolutely everything, but especially her timescales and accomplishments.
There are many options that would explain Ruby's claims.
1. She rushed all of the above, so it's a half-assed, Notion page bullet-point mess.
2. She already had the above done, and spent an hour copying it into Notion.
3. She has none of the above done and she's lying to make it seem like she's not floundering and making no progress.
The truth is, unsurprisingly, not a valid option.
And then Ruby claims to edit from 8:30pm for "a few hours". To prove it, she films a clock. Again, considering how much she lies about the timescales of her videos, this proves nothing except that Ruby filmed a clock that can easily be adjusted. There's no evidence in any of Ruby's videos that she's ever spent more than a few minutes assembling anything in editing.
After ending the video, more footage surprisingly appears, like the mid-credits scene of a Marvel movie, only instead of getting a sneak peek at the next Avengers movie, we get to see Ruby pretending that she reads while brushing her teeth.
It's somehow less realistic and believable than a movie about someone getting superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider.
She also makes sure to clearly show the packaging and logo of the toothpaste multiple times in the same footage, which makes me believe that she's either sponsor-chasing again, or this was gifted and the footage of herself picking it up off the shelf to buy it was staged.
With all the other fabricated bullshit in this video, anything's possible.
Edit: Oh fuck, there's a post-credits scene, too! This really is like a Marvel movie! No Doctor Strange here, though, just Captain Hollowskull and her continued schemes to swindle money. It's an ad for Pumpkin Productivity.
Don't forget, the "yaahrly planner" is still available, as is the "farstaahl notebook". I don't know what that is, but is sounds sinister and Lovecraftian. Better steer clear.
Oh, lovely, the 4,697,395th Ruby routine video, a.k.a. 'Ruby had some sponsor/ad deadlines and so crammed a pointless video full of them, while desperately pretending she's very busy with lots of nebulous, unexplained "WAAHRRK"'.
Take a shot anytime she says she "JANUINELY" or "HONNASTLEEE" does, thinks or feels something that's clearly a lie.
Ruby pretends she works a 9 to 5 job without giving any details. After getting home from this "WAAAHRK" which she JANUINELY DOES, HONNASTLEE, she claims that every day as part of her post-work routine, she somehow has enough time before sunset to:
Get changed into a new outfit.
"Decomprass" and read a book.
Go on a long walk.
Unpack and wash (ha!) her waaahrk stuff.
Pack her bag again.
Do "a copple of hours of YEESHYOOB WAAHRK".
Cook a "syeep" (or "soup", to people without embarrassing fake accents) from scratch.
Autumn sunset is at 6:30pm in the UK.
Even last month when this was filmed, sunset was 7:30pm and this shit still isn't remotely believable.
This was filmed on Monday 16th September:
That's the same Monday from her recent "Weekly Vlog" wherein she was slobbing around the house all day and claimed it was her "DASIGNATED STODDY DAY" and she JANUINELY did lots of waaaahrk on her imaginary curriculum (i.e. leafing through old lecture handouts and pretending she did something worthwhile):
In this video, she claims she JANUINELY worked a 9-5 on that Monday. Whoops.
Another Ruby video, another lazy collection of ads, lies and unbelievable staged nonsense.
Well, she's the only wealthy Studytuber who takes money from charities and refuses to return it, so she's at least blazing her own path on that front. Of course, she probably gets that from her Tory MP heroes, so maybe not!
Don't worry, if you skip this one, there's one potentially coming every fortnight, and they'll all be identical. Victorian videos are the new routine videos!
I also love how she's constantly coming up with inane "kindness" acts like littering public property and serving gruel to her family, instead of doing something meaningful, like donating to charity, not taking money from charities, or returning the money she already took from charities.
I think my dictionary must be out of date, because it has a different definition of "kindness" than Ruby's. And most other words, too, from the looks of it.
Literally this. Rich people love being ‘kind’ by doing useless shit like writing nice notes, smiling at a stranger or complimenting someone. They’ll never actually do anything genuinely selfless or kind like giving money or volunteering lmaooo. She is honestly exhausting to watch these days, she lives in this rich person fantasy world, constantly indulging in her own interests and as a result she has literally no clue as to how the world really works.
Just a reminder (this is also a bit of a reminder for myself too because I really struggle with my appearance) please don’t let ruby’s “influencing” impact your own eating habits. I promise, you don’t need to copy Ruby. You are all beautiful and everyone in recovery, I am so so proud of your progress, don’t let Ruby and her baby food ruin things! Her food looks absolutely rank and it’s not worth getting jealous about her weight loss, when you could be enjoying all amazing food that actually tastes nice and is enough for your body. Ruby please get some help. You know it’s bad when even the tattlers are being triggered by it. I love you all stay strong
Checked the video again after she posted that comment and got hit with ads. Still monetised.
If it were me, and the biggest cause of controversy and backlash was me posting sponsored, paid ads about the Holocaust, I'd make damn sure that I'd turned off monetisation for any Holocaust-related videos I were stupid enough to upload afterwards to avoid further backlash.
The fact that she can't keep her story straight even now between "It's not my fault! YouTube automatically monetise and there's no way for me to use my brain to think which videos it's not appropriate to get paid for!" and "I've never monetised any Holocaust-related videos! I would never! Nobody would even know about Holocaust Memorial Day if it weren't for me and my hard work! Nothing to see here!"
The correct response here would've been "I forgot to turn off automatic monetisation for this video. I can only apologise as this was a very thoughtless and insensitive oversight given the important, sensitive nature of the content. I have now demonetised the video and made a donation above and beyond the amount earned. Please see the below link for proof."
Lying and gaslighting only confirms in my eyes that this was entirely intentional and she's kept every penny of all the charity money she's taken.
I lived with someone at uni who also claimed not to notice things like this, I almost moved out over it because I had to basically act like his mother, telling him whenever he'd made a mess in the kitchen or bathroom. It turned out that his mum had done everything for him growing up so it genuinely didn't occur to him that he had to clean communal spaces. I wonder if this applies to Ruby and Martha in some sense, we never really seem to see Ruby helping around the house (except when in scullery maid cosplay).
The fact is there are many different ways to be intelligent, and there are many different ways to be dumb. Ruby can be both. All of us can. I know I am both intelligent and stupid in various ways, you all will be too. I am not surprised in the slightest that she's getting consistently high marks considering it's her whole life. I don't understand why people don't think she deserves her grades, you may dislike her but you can't deny the effort she puts in, however much of that is over the top and fussy and time inefficient. Ruby is intelligent. She's getting better grades than most of us. But we know this is because she has a seemingly very poor life balance. I know someone has said in regards to essay writing that being able to edit and write out other peoples opinions isn't exceptionally clever, but actually it is. This is why it's a degree. It's a valuable life skill and something many people use in their careers. It's also just one type of intelligence, sure. Ruby isn't flexible, but actually synthesising arguments from other people and communicating effectively in terms of structure and eloquence is hard. I feel like people are becoming blinded by hatred of her and are doing mental gymnastics to explain why nothing she does has any value (like her grades) which isn't just a bit too far, but also is insulting to the rest of us who study her degree and go to her university.
I'm mostly just glad students from Exeter have been given a chance to defend themselves and their universities reputation. I'm personally getting a bit sick of hearing people tell us literature students who don't go to Oxbridge that we have it easy and the way we are assessed and graded isn't valuable. It's just feeding this ridiculous stereotype that English Literature is an easy subject and has no use in the real world.
This made me feel a bit sad for her, I feel like we’ve all been in the position of feeling shy and sitting on our own. Really hope she makes some friends.
It’s hard to feel completely sorry for her when we know she doesn’t always help herself (skipping the first social and spending the first weekend with your parents doesn’t exactly say “let’s be friends!”). Curious if she’ll find a new Blakeney at Oxford…
Ruby seems to forget that there are other cultures outside of Britain. She barely engages with European literature, she never reads Latin American, Asian, African, or literature from native peoples. When she speaks about American literature, she talks about Dickinson and Little Women and that is it. She completely ignores the Harlem Renaissance, which is one of the most exciting literary periods ever. She lacks a well-rounded education.
It makes me so angry that, at a time when ballet and opera are increasingly inaccessible financially to so many people, Ruby has been 'gifted' a ticket to see Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House. The performances are all sold out so it's not like they needed the publicity. She's such a shameless grifter.
When I was watching her make breakfast I thought she was gonna do a cool carrot cake baked oats type thing and was quite intrigued THEN SHE JUST PUT A SPOON IN AND STARTED EATING WTAF
Reminds me of when you’ve washed dishes and have to deal with to food bits caught in the plug
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