teflonpanda
Chatty Member
List of reasons why Dog Granger would make a better studytuber than Ruby:
- calming, sweet demeanour
- excellent sense of fashion
- fun-loving
- genuine, natural curiosity about the world (as evidenced by him sniffing things)
- eats at regular intervals and has a healthy relationship with food
- does not promote toxic productivity
- beautiful, thick coat of hair
- drinks water rather than weird overpriced Birdshit and Blend tea
- does not make overly loud slurping noises
- is attached to the Granger family but not in an unhealthy way
- enjoys going on walks just for the sake of it but doesn't overdo it with exercise either
- knows that taking breaks and resting is important
- makes no pronounciation errors when barking
- has (to my knowledge) never tried to profit off of a Holocaust remembrance charity
anakinskywalkers
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Ruby’s fans are so eloquent and deep 
brings a tear to my eye
brings a tear to my eye 
Scapier88
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I can imagine rubus weekly letter to mother Granger
Dearest mother
Hope you keeping well and haven't fallen down anymore stairs.
My management company told me I had to do a live and donate the money to some war thing that is happening surely I would be better of just sending a strongly worded letter to the people arguing and suggest they should met and discuss there issues over a cup of tea.
See you tomorrow morning at 5.33am.
Your loving daughter
Ruby
Ps who's this Martha person people keep talking about have you got me a new puppy
Dearest mother
Hope you keeping well and haven't fallen down anymore stairs.
My management company told me I had to do a live and donate the money to some war thing that is happening surely I would be better of just sending a strongly worded letter to the people arguing and suggest they should met and discuss there issues over a cup of tea.
See you tomorrow morning at 5.33am.
Your loving daughter
Ruby
Ps who's this Martha person people keep talking about have you got me a new puppy
gossip_guy
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"First-person middle-grade narratives are engaging and intimate, however, no popular third-person novel engages readers as intimately as David Handler."
I...don't know where to begin. Ruby makes a grand, declarative statement about first-person middle-grade narratives, then concludes her sentence by veering off to talk about unrelated third-person novels.
The author of the Lemony Snicket books is Daniel Handler. Ruby didn't just keep getting it wrong in her video. She got it wrong in multiple written drafts of her essay.
David Handler (whoever he may be) is apparently both a man and the world's most engaging and intimate third-person novel, according to Ruby's garbled English.
This is just the first sentence and there are multiple major errors. And she says this was the latest draft, meaning it was still in this much of a mess after several revisions.
She also goes on to announce that the book that she wrote for this module, 'Penelope Peppermint and the Silver-Tipped Octopus', fills a gap in the children's literary market. I guess that's possibly true; I don't know of any other novels for kids about an insufferable 12-year-old Tory girl and an octopus stealing from charities, so she'll be the first.
gossip_guy
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You can tell the grade she got from her smug grin. She wouldn't be happy with anything less than a First.
I hope she sends Blakeney her own £2,000 iMac for carrying Ruby's illiterate, lazy ass through uni.
GoinDowntown
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There's more literature discussion going on in this thread than there is in her book club
gossip_guy
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Ruby's "night" starts at 4:30pm.
"OIY....really like to use a nice nyotebook," Ruby says, not using her Ponkin' Podducktivtee Nyotebook, which says everything, "...and a nice fountain PAN whan oiy'm dyooing wroiyting becozz...it jost makes the whole thing...Seymour Spashul."
I assume Seymour Spashul is one of the new diverse, well-developed, three-dimensional characters in her upcoming masterwork of fiction.
" [AWKWARD EDIT]--ALGHYTVV THE TOIYME oiy think that the pro-sass of dyoing something is jost as impyortant as the thing itsalf."
Ruby's "processes" for doing things are just endless layers of redundant, performative, superficial stupidity. She's more focused on the aesthetics of everything she does than actually getting anything done, which is probably why she's shown no improvement in anything she does in 7 years+. She also looks completely fucking miserable again.
If that's true, then show it, Ruby. For far too long you've encouraged dangerously unhealthy eating habits and lied about anything and everything. If you want to set a responsible example for your mostly young and impressionable audience, then show the full portion of food that you eat. Show yourself eating a full, healthy nutritious meal.
Ruby can't and doesn't do that, because she didn't eat any more than you see here. If anything, she ate less.
What she does show is alarming. Ruby is still of the impression that if you time-lapse footage, that the sped-up playback will fool everyone into thinking a lot happened in that footage that flew by.
She was very busy and definitely not just pacing back and forth across her room. She was very productive and definitely not just staring mindlessly at her monitor for 20 minutes. She ate a lot and definitely didn't just play with the tiny amount of food on her plate.
She's also apparently too fucking stupid to realise that people can just play those timelapse segments back frame by frame.
Spoilers: She just played with the tiny about of food on her plate and ate practically nothing.
She starts by showing herself awkwardly dismantling the small slice of bread she has, tearing the centre out and crumbling it to nothing, taking a tiny bite of what little is left on the crust.
She then picks up a small wedge of cheese, takes the world's tiniest bite, then puts it back:
She puts this olive on her plate:
She picks it up, puts it in her mouth, then puts it back on the plate, completely intact.
After that, she takes the smallest, saddest sliver of lettuce leaf she can get.
Then she decides that, of all the foods available to her, this crumb of bread crust is what she's going to eat:
Her mum hands her some crisps. She eats a couple of the smallest ones, then takes another teensy bite of that cheese wedge.
The tiny cheese wedge after Ruby somehow manages three bites of it:
How? The original piece barely had enough to comprise a single bite's worth, Ruby's playing it out with tiny nibbles.
She eats a couple more tiny crisps, then picks up that olive again, puts in in her mouth again, then spits it back out and puts it back on her plate again. She shoves that olive in her mouth and puts it back four times before finally just chewing and eating it. It's an olive. It's a one-and-done food, not something that requires multiple tries.
She picks up a few crisps at once, not even a baby-sized handful, takes a tiny bite and puts the rest back.
Ruby does that with everything on her plate - plays with her food, rearranges her plate, drags out each tiny bit of food with multiple miniscule bites to give her mum or the audience the impression that she's actually eating. Even sped up, it still looks like she eats nothing, which she's well aware of, hence the protest-too-much disclaimer.
She tops off the ED-baiting bullshit with her dessert - a single square of chocolate. Again, it's a one-bite food. But Ruby does her now-patented "Take a pained, awkward single bite with the camera pointed at face, then wave the remaining food at the camera as if to say 'Lyook, I eat things!' then throw the rest away off-camera" move.
None of this needed to be in here. This is supposed to be a night routine. None of this footage takes place at night.
And if Ruby insists on showing her evening "meal", there was absolutely nothing stopping her from including footage of everything she ate, or her full plate before she started. But she didn't, because there was nothing more to show.
Like she does every single time, Ruby just claims all the proof that she's not a liar and a terrible person but a very productive and healthy genius happened off-screen. She acts like a flimsy, last-second disclaimer will excuse and explain all the problematic shit happening on-screen.
She's been asked numerous times by numerous people to stop doing this shit, to stop cramming footage of her eating disorder into videos where food footage doesn't belong, but she just chooses to ignore it and constantly peddle her dangerous habits to an impressionable audience. What an indescribable piece of shit.
After changing outfits to show that she's successfully starved herself to the point where she can still wear clothes from when she was a child - like her "Bite Back" t-shirt - she shows that her leisure activities exclusively involve watching TV intended only for young children. First it's Mallory Towers, which she watches in "the snog" while drinking "PAPPERMINT TEA" with mummy.
There's nothing wrong with watching the occasional TV show from your youth for a little nostalgia. There's also plenty of shows/movies that are technically aimed at children but are equally entertaining for adults, like Pixar movies. Mallory Towers isn't either of those things, and the only TV shows, films and books that Ruby actually engages with are ones aimed exclusively at children featuring pre-teen girls.
There's a whole wealth of grown-up movies and TV shows set at boarding schools that would fit the Dark Academia interests she claims to have, but those usually feature mature teenagers and that's not going to cater to her weird fixation on young girls, so Mallory Towers it is.
After Ruby's mummy encourages her childhood fixations again, it's time for her eating disorder to come out to play again. They have "vegan dyonuts", although there's only one small donut cut in half for some reason. It's little more than a mouthful. Ruby takes the tiniest bite possible, to the point where she's just eating a large crumb, which she chews for far longer than necessary.
And then back to the weird regression into childhood.
Ruby claims that after watching something with mummy she usually acts like a big girl and watches something in her room without parental supervision. She's not allowed to stay up too late though, apparently, because she only allows herself to watch "either an appisyode of somm-thing, part of a myooovie or s'myoochyoobe". Watching a feature-length movie in the evening as an adult would be unacceptable and would keep her up far past her 9pm bedtime.
She also won't watch anything intended for over 12s, so she she's going to watch "Dog with a Flog" - her favourite Disney Channel show, apparently, even though she gets the name wrong.
She claims that her absolute favourite show - 'Dobermann on the 'gram', 'Affenpinscher Influencer' or 'Cane Corso: Content Creator', whatever she thinks it might be called - was her inspiration for wearing ties at the age of 12.
To prove it, she shows this picture of herself in a school uniform, aged 20...
Because in her mind, Ruby never stopped being 12.
Ruby is delighted that thanks to Nyord V.P. Anne, she can finally access
There's also lots of grown-up shows and movies on there, too. Like Shark Beach with Chris Hemsworth, in which Thor either fights, rides or saves sharks, which would tie in with Ruby's fake interest in shark conservation. But nope. Kids' shows and only kids' shows.
Ruby goes through her pre-bed cleansing routine, which all seems especially pointless when she's just going to jump into her filthy bed with dirt-and-dust-covered sheets and pillows which have been tossed all over her grimy floor and not changed in forever.
She also says she takes Vitamin D and iron. If she spends as much time outdoors in the sun (without properly-applied sun cream) as she claims, I'm not sure why Vitamin D is necessary. You're also supposed to take it with food, not on an empty stomach.
Ruby films herself loudly slamming doors open and shut to wander around outside while it's pitch black for some reason. "I don't usually do this," she says.
Well then it's not your routine, is it? So it has no place in this video, you dumbass.
After doing "brackfast meal prap" even though she has nothing to get ready for in the morning, she slaps more cleaning products on and then jumps into this bacteria farm of a bed. Mattress exposed yet again. Same filthy bedding she's had on for months. Her bed sheet is hanging off the mattress and draped all over the floor in the same position it was in her video weeks ago, so she hasn't adjusted it or properly made the bed since. But yes, a little Glossier will help keep the Ebola at bay.
REMAMBER, AVVERYONE, SHE'S VARRY JARMAPHOBIC!
lmwfh17
Active member
ruby probably hasn’t made it past rory graduating from high school yet but i can’t wait for her to find out that by the end of the show and revival, rory’s life has ended up an abject failure due to the constant stream of undeserved praise and lack of criticism given to her throughout the series. remind us of anyone? although i kind of expect her to give up on the series when dean and the subsequent bfs become a more prominent feature of rory’s life lol
zoeanned
Active member
She responded to my comment where I said I wasn’t keen on the “Tea Time with Ruby” segment by informing me that the segment was “only 2 minutes 37 seconds long” and that hopefully I’d enjoyed the rest of video
Genuinely slays me every time I remember
While scrolling through the post all I could think of was that I felt like I was violating someone's privacy. It felt wrong that these things could be accessed by anyone. I really hope Ruby got Clare's consent before reading and publishing these because holy shit I'd be mortified to have my marital problems and what is clearly the product of some dark mental health moments put on display for anyone to see. Especially considering that Ruby is an influencer, she has an online presence, and that inevitably puts the whole family into the spotlight.
gossip_guy
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It's January, and Holocaust Memorial Day is fast approaching!
It's a dark time for Ruby, not because she gives a crap about anyone but herself, of course, but because other public figures and organisations are announcing their Holocaust Memorial "proj-ackts".
Prince Charles showing that even questionable people can give back to charity and do something for Holocaust Memorial Day:
www.vanityfair.com
Ruby wondering why the Holocaust Day Trust won't give her more money to twirl in her backyard fields:
It's a stark reminder that Ruby swindled a bunch of charity money and pledged to "reinvest it", building "Holocaust memorials" in "underfunded state schools" as a blatantly flimsy brush-off excuse to avoid giving it back.
And that, in turn, is another reminder that Ruby also owes money to numerous other charities which she either took money from, or pledged to donate ad revenue to (after encouraging people to watch her videos and sit through every ad because it was for charity) and then never donated it.
Rather than give all the money back and start the year fresh, Ruby has chosen to distract herself and hopefully others from her toxic brand image problems, dwindling merch sales and floundering academic life and instead make a video about many compulsive study habits that you can try at home. That's right, you too can waste your time and avoid your academic work and general life problems, just like Ruby!
How does this "study habits" video differ from all the other "study habits" videos she's made, like the one she uploaded less than six months ago?
It doesn't.
Ruby's videos:
Her first habit, though she doesn't include this in the actual list for some reason, is:
Use New Yorker Back-Issues as a Multi-Purpose Tool.
Here we see Ruby using this particular New Yorker back-issue as a coaster, a teapot stand, a notepad, a pen rest, an "ass-thatic" decoration piece and a means of trying to show everyone that she's a well-educated scholar and high-society sort of person who only reads the most expensive, highly-regarded magazines/periodicals. (That last one would have more of an effect if Ruby weren't in her fourth year of university and still doesn't know the meaning of the work "mural" or how to pronounce it.)
It's also a handy, lazy shortcut to avoid having to put any kind of post-production effort into your YouTube videos by adding things like on-screen title cards.
Ruby says her "fahhst" habit - and one that is in the top three of everyone's New Year's resolutions lists apparently, which doesn't seem true but whatever - is to:
1. "Drink Mwoaur Woartuh." (Translation: Drink more water.)
She shows that it's not just old New Yorker issues that you can use to avoid learning editing and post-production techniques when making your living a video content creator, but old folded up, annotated essays, too.
Ruby writes a reminder for herself to drink water. But since she's written a "Drink Me" note and put a clock on it, this is a recipe for confusion.
Note to Ruby: You cannot drink clocks.
She gets her daily Fortum & Mason Tory ad in by showing off a F&M drinking jar full of dusty, stagnant water. At least I assume it's water. Considering she shows it next to a ticking clock and a suspicious-looking battery pack with wires trailing out of it, that jar could be full of "ethanol" and this could be the makings of an improvised explosive device. She'll send the bomb to Oxford University when she gets her latest rejection letter.
On the topic of water, budding scientist Ruby says, "GENUINELY* it is so important TO EVERYONE."
Drinking water is not a study habit. It's a "staying alive" habit. Human beings need food, water and oxygen to keep their brains and bodies functioning and not, y'know...die.
Ruby always includes "drink lots of water" on these study habit/academic essentials videos, but never stresses the equal importance of eating regular, substantial, nutritious meals. Why? Because Ruby treats water as a substitute for food. And because Ruby is a thoughtless, toxic, indescribably stupid, wildly irresponsible idiot, she keeps pushing her own dangerous habits onto other people and never encourages healthy eating.
To punctuate her stupidity, Ruby notes how important water is because we concentrate better when hydrated, even though she drinks a lake-full of water a day and her brain is still a deteriorated slurry that won't focus on anything for more than 15 minutes, is constantly confused and struggles to form sentences.
Even this video is, unsurprisingly, a mess of recycled content and footage, and the new footage is filmed across a dozen different days - Ruby couldn't focus her attention enough to film for less than 8 minutes in one day.
Ruby, this is your latest reminder that the body requires nutrients for the brain to function.
*Her constant use of the word "GENUINELY" brings us to another habit which is shown here but didn't make the list:
Say "GENUINELY" a Lot, Especially When You're a Compulsive Liar.
This is one of Ruby's mostest favouritest habits.
If you're a compulsive liar, like Ruby, say the word "GENUINELY" a lot and put hard emphasis on it. This will turn every questionable statement into a charismatic delight of believability and definitely convince people that you're always honest. You can use other substitute phrases, like "Believe me when I say...", "Honestly..." and "And, trust me, I wouldn't just say this..."
To muddy the waters and avoid people catching on to this habit if you lie constantly, be sure to occasionally say it when you're telling the truth as well (rare for Ruby, I know)!
This isn't just a habit for compulsive liars or students, either - you can use it if you just want to be generally annoying and obnoxious!
Try it at home: Insert the word "GENUINELY" into the next dozen statements you make, and just marvel at the results! You'll come off as practically statesmanlike in your public speaking!
Next on Ruby's list:
2. Research Something You're Interested In From Each of Your Modules/Subjects.
Even Ruby struggles to come up with anything to fill this topic, and all it does is prove that Ruby has no understanding of what a habit is.
She whips out the mouldy copy of A Tale of Two Cities that she stole from her parents and claimed as her own.
Ruby's example of a uni module-adjacent subject to research:
"Syo, lat's say, for exahmpull, yoo read A Tale of Tyoo Cit-eeeys. Yoo moight decide tyoo RAHNDOMLY re-sahhch the woine trade during the FrAnch Revolyooshun...BECAUSE OF HOW SIGNIFICANT WINE AND BLOOD IMAGERY ARE IN THAT BOOK."
So, this entry on the list was just an excuse for Ruby to try and flex that she read A Tale of Two Cities and researched the wine trade during the French Revolution, even though neither of those things are true. In fact, this more shines a light on the fact that she used Sparknotes or a similar study guide to avoid reading the book, as highlighting obvious symbolic imagery is a very study guide thing.
She hates reading, but loves people thinking she's smarter than them.
Ruby's lies aside, this entry is stupid.
If you're GENUINELY interested in something, then let your enjoyment and interest lead the way. If you have to force yourself to research something, are you really that interested? And if you are interested and force yourself to research something regularly and "habitually", that sounds like a sure-fire way of workifying it and wringing the fun and enjoyment right out of it.
It also seems especially misguided if you're a student, especially a student who has to work, take care of kids, or juggle any number of responsibilities. Just do the necessary work required to achieve your best, don't go creating additional, time-consuming research projects for yourself if you have to force yourself to do it.
This is yet another "by Ruby, for Ruby" misguided habit which will not apply to and undoubtedly not be useful to anyone but her. Ruby likes to (at least pretend to) turn every aspect of her life into an academic task. She has an unlimited amount of free time outside uni work and no responsibilities, so she fills it with this kind of busywork to make herself feel productive, despite accomplishing nothing.
Naturally, she's always behind or cutting it close with important things, because she wasted all her time on pointless busywork.
As in all things, don't be like Ruby.
And on that note, her next entry on the list:
3. "Set a Monthly Task List."
Of course "tyoo-dyoo" lists are on Ruby's list of recommended habits.
Ruby sings the virtues of monthly to-do lists, even though these demonstratively don't benefit her in any way. She's always late, always right down to the wire with deadlines - she's a disorganised mess. And in her case, it's because of her obsession with to-do lists.
Earlier in this video, she mentions that she ALWAYS stops to fill her water bottle, even if that makes her late to class. If drinking water/filling her water bottle is one of her essential habits, and she's constantly running so behind that even the simple, quick act of filling a water bottle on a campus with ample water fountains and sources of H2O will make her late for a lecture or seminar, then who in their right mind would follow her example?
If to-do lists benefit you, that's great. But keep it simple. Note down just the most important things that you're likely to forget. Don't keep 106 billion different lists of task divided across 467,128 different planners and notebooks, all full of mundane, obvious, easy-to-remember tasks, like waking up or breathing.
Now, buckle up, because Ruby chose this "SACK-shun" "espAshully" to assault everyone with a barrage of lies, misdirects and questionable bullshit.
Ruby is now well aware that people can see what's on her screen when she films her laptop. This is a lesson that took her a ridiculously long time to learn, and she only learned it after countless instances of people on Tattle taking screenshots of her browsing videos and websites encouraging ED habits, showing private information of her own and other people, or unintentionally showing things that disprove lies she was telling in the very same video, etc.
Y'know, like that time she made a sponsored video for Cricut, was claiming that she ALWAYS uses it and that it's GENUINELY so simple and intuitive to use that anyone can pick it up and use it, but in the same video she'd got a tab open with a YouTube video with a simple guide to the basic operation of the Cricut, because Ruby had never used it before and couldn't figure out how to use it. Ahh, fun times...
Anyway, Ruby has learned from this mistake, and has since been a lot more careful to avoid showing her screen, blur stuff out, and only show things that she intends people to see. Observe:
Let's start with the stupid.
In this section about the importance of to-do lists, the only things Ruby has put in her academic goals section is "prepare well for exam" and "be happy with essay before submitting it". Y'know, glaringly obvious things for anyone else that they don't need to waste time and space in to-do lists with.
Onto the rest:
"research internships for next year" - Since the best internship/work experience she could manage in her entire university career has been an 'any monkey could do it' transcription task that took her far too long to complete and she had to split with another person, and that was with the university helping her, I'll say good luck with landing anything solo, Ruby! With a toxic brand, a content platform that shows nothing but lazy half-assery, and a new controversy every week, you're gonna need it.
"letter writing campaign" - There's no further details, but considering her current letter writing campaign is an unmitigated nightmare of child safety and privacy concerns, I'll say cut your losses and restrict your letter-writing to your parents.
And then the blatant lies begin...
"headway with memorials"...
This is clearly inserted to fool people into believing that she'll do anything with the Holocaust Charity money she already spent and will never give back. It will keep getting delayed and brushed away with things like this and never, ever materialise.
But Ruby must be bracing herself for the questions that will be coming with Holocaust Memorial Day incoming, so she shoved this in.
"sort out customer service for Pumpkin Productivity"
Again, another glaringly obvious insert to deflect from her sinking company's massive PR issues and make-believe like she's getting her hands dirty to fix them.
Pumpkin Productivity's problems are systemic, they've always been there and have not improved at any point. Since her management agency own and run the company, Ruby ain't gonna do shit. If you want change, buy your stationery from a reliable company that offers quality products.
"start editing my book"
Ruby, stop, you're killing me here.
You can tell this one's a lie because Ruby doesn't start editing a book until after it's published. (See: Erimentally Challenged and the Case of the Bullying Protagonist.)
But Ruby wants to give the appearance that she definitely has things in the pipeline, everyone! Her life after graduation definitely isn't going to be a downhill spiral of stupidity and Victorian children's cosplay.
The book thing is important, since her YouTube section shows that her mind is a creative wasteland and she has no ideas for her channel.
"send out a letter to a viewer every week" - That will definitely end well.
"post a book-related video" - I'd say this is the most exciting one, since the prospect of a book review would be AMAZING considering the hoops Ruby would have to jump through on-screen to hide that she didn't read the book. But it'll just be a recycling of one of her previous videos and so: "Here's ten books which I definitely read and have BEAUTIFUL COVERS, enjoy this footage of me touching the covers of every book at Waterstones. DID I MENTION WATERSTONES YET?! And the books were good, no follow-up questions, please. The End."
"post a study tips video" - This one is somehow not ticked off, even though Ruby has already uploaded this video several times already.
"post at least three reels on Instagram" - Ruby is apparently incapable of understanding how section headers work, since this is an 'Instagram' goal in her 'YouTube' section. Again, another great sign that she has a lot of creative ideas is that she has to force herself to upload three reels, and they'll inevitably be footage of her lighting a candle or frolicking outside.
Speaking of her Notion section headers and splitting goals and such into sections, Ruby claims she "got this tip from Vee's book Empowered" and shows off the cover:
This is an outright lie. Ruby has always split her goals, tasks, and to-do lists into those distinct sections in Notion.
For example, here's a screengrab from her 'Notion Tour' video from a year ago:
You'll find those kind of layouts in all her Notion footage. She's always split things into sections like University/Academic/YouTube/Admin/General. She loves doing it because she can reward herself multiple times for tasks that crossover into each section.
She also has not read Vee's book.
Here, she flicks through it and it's pristine and unread.
Of course, the dead giveaway was when she and Jack Edwards both posted equally vague glowing reviews on Goodreads at almost the exact same time, even though they'd had the book for weeks at that point. Each review contained no more information than the back cover blurb, and they'd both clearly never read it.
They also both blatantly avoided declaring their ties to Vee in their reviews - they're all managed by the same agency. They all know each other. Ruby and Jack were invited to a lavish book launch event and given free copies of the book (and probably Covid, since nobody at that enclosed indoor party wore masks).
Here, again, Ruby inserts an absolutely blatant undeclared advertisement for that same book. She lies and says she read it. She lies and says she got study specific study tips from it, despite already doing the things she claimed she learned for months and years before. And, once again, she does not declare her ties to Vee.
She continues showing her Notion sections, full of tasks which she'll believe will fool people into thinking she's a conscientious, well-organised person when really this is everyday shit that people shouldn't need reminding of or fake entries that she'll never accomplish, meant to assuage criticism.
"Re-Read A Little Princess", because reading something new, meant for adults is never going to happen with Ruby.
"deep clean bedroom"
And then more 'academic' goals, which are a mixture of more obvious tasks that no student should need a reminder for, and just bafflingly stupid ones.
"stay up to date with reading"? Ruby, what happened to all the claims that you did all the reading months in advance? Why you so behind? Does it maybe have something to do with filling your days with time-wasting busywork instead of important uni work?
"research eyesight" - Ruby out here thinking she's gonna be a future optometrist all of a sudden when she can't even use an iron.
"come up with a concrete essay plan for dissertation" - Well, at least the dissertation's going well...
"read paper by diss superviser (and be familiar with her work to see if there's anything which might be useful or interesting to talk about)" - And Ruby couldn't stop herself (or spell "supervisor" correctly).
In her eyes, this is probably her showing how conscientious and proactive she is. In actuality, it's another glaring reminder that she's the same weaselly, conniving little suck-up she was in primary school.
Ruby, your tutors and supervisors are not your friends. They are not your peers. Most importantly, they are not future employers. They are academic professionals who will see right through this bullshit.
You should not be researching and reading their papers, which you clearly have no interest in, to find a forced topic of conversation. You should not be wasting meeting time by sucking up. You should be asking them their thoughts on your ideas, not trying to find a way to turn their ideas into your dissertation.
And it should go without saying, but you should not be using social engineering on them to try to curry their favour when they're supervising/grading your work.
This is nothing new for Ruby. She does this with every essay: Sends an ass-kissing email full of leading, mostly irrelevant questions to try to get the lecturer to provide enough ideas and thoughts to turn into a skeleton for her essay. But this is fucking blatant.
Onto the next entry:
4. Plan a Reset Day.
To everyone else, a Reset Day is a day in which you take a break from all work and either do all the shit you don't usually get time to do, to tie up all those dangling loose ends and unburden yourself of it all. Or maybe it's a day in which you shove everything aside and just mentally decompress and unwind.
For Ruby, it's neither of those things. For Ruby, it's an entire day spent digitally decluttering your laptop.
I don't know what the fuck she's doing with her laptop that she needs an entire fucking day to clear her desktop, and that she needs a day for it so often that it's a "habit". I'd say it's probably because she has extra laptops, which is multiplying the amount of digital clutter. But it can't be that - we know she never actually uses the LG Gram laptop she got paid to advertise.
This isn't a bad idea, per se, but it's something that should take an hour every month or two, not a day every week.
5. "Use a Planner and Write a To-Do List Every Single Day."
Of course she did.
Already recycling ideas from other entries on the list, Ruby tries to encourage her counter-productive planner compulsion and her terrible stationery products.
"Also LEVELLING UP your tyoo-dyoo list--" *COUGH*TORY*COUGH
Ruby wanders off-piste with this one and starts rambling how we need to set specific time limits for all our tasks and goals because Parkinson's Law says that if you don't, you'll spend the rest of your life writing a single essay.
Parkinson's Law is almost complete nonsense, but Ruby loves to quote it often to justify her shoving all tasks into a 15 minute to 1 hour time window.
This does Ruby no good, and won't help anyone else, either.
She's always falling behind, her professional work is always a half-assed mess, her business is a disaster, she can never summon the energy to read more of a book than a synopsis and a cover blurb, she never finishes a film, and there's nothing in her life that seems to bring her joy beyond lying and getting money.
If she spent more time on any given thing, she'd improve at any of them. But Parkinson's Law is a tight, strangling noose around the neck of growth, self-improvement, creativity and quality of work the way she applies it.
6. Do a Piece of Extra Critical Reading Every Week
Ruby says you need to be setting yourself a goal of reading one "acks-tra" piece of critical reading and more if you have time.
This shouldn't be a goal or a habit.
If you're writing an essay, you're going to need to be looking at critical material for supporting quotes. That's part of the assignment.
Apart from that, no, you don't need to be wasting time reading extra shit you'll never need to use. Ruby only has time to read all the critical material because she doesn't read the main texts.
7. "Set Social Media Time."
Reminder: Ruby made multiple videos in which she claims to have stopped procrastinating on social media forever. Her Instagram is still a landfill of wasted time and inane, repetitive content.
Ruby claims she enjoys social media more when she sets it as a task. No shit. As previously mentioned, Ruby loves to workify everything, so she's able to tick a box when she's done. This is a guaranteed way to wind up hating everything you do, which explains why Ruby doesn't seem to actually enjoy a single thing in her life.
Spend as much time as you want on social media if you enjoy it. If it starts to impact you negatively, spend less time on it or take a prolonged break. It's not rocket science, and you don't need to devise timetable systems and check-boxes to limit your social media time without reason.
8. "Write Down and Reflect on 1-3 Things That You've Learned Each Day."
Ruby has shown zero growth or improvement as a person, an influencer, a student, a content creator or as someone who claims to speak English as a first language in the past 7 years. If anything, all her already dubious skills are deteriorating and she's only gotten lazier and more incompetent.
"What did you learn today?"
Ruby's answer should be the same every single day:
Next up:
9. "Go Outside Every Day."
Yes, going outside is definitely a good thing. Fresh air and sunlight are good for you. Vitamin D is good for you.
What's not good for you is taskifying your outdoor activity.
At the start of the academic year, Ruby said she wanted to force herself to go out on a morning walk every day.
This is Ruby "enjoying" her now-routine morning walk a few months later:
The results speak for themselves!
If you turn anything into an habitual, routine grind, you're almost guaranteed to end up hating it. Ruby has never learned that lesson, and likely never will.
10. "Make Time for Movement."
Another valid one. Another excuse for Ruby to lie, not that she seems to need one.
Ruby claims she NEVER used to do this, but recently she makes time to get up, walk around, have a break for movement, whether that's yoga, stretching, ballet fit, or twirling and frolicking in fields like she's in an advert for feminine hygiene products.
Only...Ruby has always done this.
Her daily routines always show her doing terrible yoga, almost injuring herself with uncoordinated gymnastics and running around the grounds of her manor estate like a runaway child.
This is just a flimsy excuse to show recycled footage of herself doing awkward, limb-flailing yoga so that she can get compliments in the comments for how "impressive" her yoga moves are and howstarved and emaciated "skinny" she looks.
Reminder: Ruby is a terrible person and should be nobody's role model in any way.
11. "Meditation."
"I treat my morning walks as a form of mediation," she says, stressing that you don't have to sit down and meditate.
Again, mindfulness and meditation have their benefits, but not the way Ruby does it.
If you're rigidly setting a time to meditate, doubling it up with other tasks and making it part of a strict, time-window routine, that doesn't seem at all mindful or meditative.
And there's nothing mindful or meditative about taking a camera on your walk with you to stop every ten feet and set up a camera to film yourself walking in different directions.
12. "Clean Your Desk Once a Week."
Ruby's desk is constantly covered in wax drippings, dirt, ash, grime and the desiccated corpses of an entire family tree of flies.
This is a task she never does.
Even Ruby can't fully bring herself to lie about this one.
She films herself awkwardly spraying a can of cleaning spray or possible insect killer spray. She holds it and sprays it as if she's never used a cleaning product in her entire life and is worried it may explode.
"Have a deep clean, disinfect your desk...DUST..." Ruby realises the subject of dust is not something she should've brought up and her voice drops about twelve volume levels as she mutters, "...Uhh, which...honestly I don't dust that often and I probably should..."
She sprays the main surface of her windowsill, pokes at the corner of a window with a rag and that's all her cleaning done forever!
This entire video is 90% old, recycled and repurposed footage, but Ruby even recycles footage from her last video as she says it's also important to declutter your room before you go to bed, because getting the underbed dust circulating before you breathe it in all night sounds like a wonderful idea, Ruby.
"PENULTIMATELY..."
13. "Go to Sleep and Wake Up at the Same Time."
Ruby words that poorly, and makes it sound like you should just wake up the instant you fall asleep. So refreshing!
But she says that it doesn't matter what time you go to sleep or wake up, just as long as it's consistent every day to maintain a healthy sleep schedule.
You know what? I'll actually give Ruby some credit here. Not only is the sentiment of this true, this is also better, less muddy advice than her usual bizarre obsession over morning and night routines instead of emphasising the importance of just getting a good night's sleep.
It's still not great and not all-encompassing, though. It's advice given by someone who has the benefit of nothing but free time and no real responsibilities, who never takes a day off.
Sometimes you work with the sleep you have on working days and the healthiest thing is to not maintain that sleep schedule when you have days off and instead catch up on sleep. Which isn't ideal, but it's healthier than depriving yourself of sleep to stay consistent.
And since Ruby has to use an app designed to make her solve a complex system of escape room puzzles to turn it off because she has no willpower to wake up otherwise and her body desperately wants more sleep, it sounds like her sleep is anything but healthy.
And lastly (Even though there's supposed to be 15 items in this list):
14. "Switch Off."
Ruby says she wants to use every Sunday this year as a "Self-Care" day, which she defines as "face masks", "reading for pleasure" and "spending time with family".
Confirmation, where none were needed, that Ruby plans to be home every weekend for the rest of the year.
Ruby clearly doesn't read anything, let alone for pleasure, so that's bullshit, and her idea of switching off is "all the same things I do/pretend to do usually". But I guess at least the core idea is a good one.
And that's it for another video full of lies, undisclosed ads, recycled footage, terribly lazy filmmaking and occasional good advice that Ruby's mostly twisted into bad through her obsession with box-ticking busywork.
After awkwardly sniffing the outside of her mouldy window frame, Ruby reuses her ancient outro and we're done!
It's a dark time for Ruby, not because she gives a crap about anyone but herself, of course, but because other public figures and organisations are announcing their Holocaust Memorial "proj-ackts".
Prince Charles showing that even questionable people can give back to charity and do something for Holocaust Memorial Day:
Prince Charles Announces a Major Project to Memorialize Holocaust Survivors
Following in Kate Middleton’s footsteps, the future king has commissioned portraits of seven living survivors of Nazi concentration camps.
Ruby wondering why the Holocaust Day Trust won't give her more money to twirl in her backyard fields:
It's a stark reminder that Ruby swindled a bunch of charity money and pledged to "reinvest it", building "Holocaust memorials" in "underfunded state schools" as a blatantly flimsy brush-off excuse to avoid giving it back.
And that, in turn, is another reminder that Ruby also owes money to numerous other charities which she either took money from, or pledged to donate ad revenue to (after encouraging people to watch her videos and sit through every ad because it was for charity) and then never donated it.
Rather than give all the money back and start the year fresh, Ruby has chosen to distract herself and hopefully others from her toxic brand image problems, dwindling merch sales and floundering academic life and instead make a video about many compulsive study habits that you can try at home. That's right, you too can waste your time and avoid your academic work and general life problems, just like Ruby!
How does this "study habits" video differ from all the other "study habits" videos she's made, like the one she uploaded less than six months ago?
It doesn't.
Ruby's videos:
Her first habit, though she doesn't include this in the actual list for some reason, is:
Use New Yorker Back-Issues as a Multi-Purpose Tool.
Here we see Ruby using this particular New Yorker back-issue as a coaster, a teapot stand, a notepad, a pen rest, an "ass-thatic" decoration piece and a means of trying to show everyone that she's a well-educated scholar and high-society sort of person who only reads the most expensive, highly-regarded magazines/periodicals. (That last one would have more of an effect if Ruby weren't in her fourth year of university and still doesn't know the meaning of the work "mural" or how to pronounce it.)
It's also a handy, lazy shortcut to avoid having to put any kind of post-production effort into your YouTube videos by adding things like on-screen title cards.
Ruby says her "fahhst" habit - and one that is in the top three of everyone's New Year's resolutions lists apparently, which doesn't seem true but whatever - is to:
1. "Drink Mwoaur Woartuh." (Translation: Drink more water.)
She shows that it's not just old New Yorker issues that you can use to avoid learning editing and post-production techniques when making your living a video content creator, but old folded up, annotated essays, too.
Ruby writes a reminder for herself to drink water. But since she's written a "Drink Me" note and put a clock on it, this is a recipe for confusion.
Note to Ruby: You cannot drink clocks.
She gets her daily Fortum & Mason Tory ad in by showing off a F&M drinking jar full of dusty, stagnant water. At least I assume it's water. Considering she shows it next to a ticking clock and a suspicious-looking battery pack with wires trailing out of it, that jar could be full of "ethanol" and this could be the makings of an improvised explosive device. She'll send the bomb to Oxford University when she gets her latest rejection letter.
On the topic of water, budding scientist Ruby says, "GENUINELY* it is so important TO EVERYONE."
Drinking water is not a study habit. It's a "staying alive" habit. Human beings need food, water and oxygen to keep their brains and bodies functioning and not, y'know...die.
Ruby always includes "drink lots of water" on these study habit/academic essentials videos, but never stresses the equal importance of eating regular, substantial, nutritious meals. Why? Because Ruby treats water as a substitute for food. And because Ruby is a thoughtless, toxic, indescribably stupid, wildly irresponsible idiot, she keeps pushing her own dangerous habits onto other people and never encourages healthy eating.
To punctuate her stupidity, Ruby notes how important water is because we concentrate better when hydrated, even though she drinks a lake-full of water a day and her brain is still a deteriorated slurry that won't focus on anything for more than 15 minutes, is constantly confused and struggles to form sentences.
Even this video is, unsurprisingly, a mess of recycled content and footage, and the new footage is filmed across a dozen different days - Ruby couldn't focus her attention enough to film for less than 8 minutes in one day.
Ruby, this is your latest reminder that the body requires nutrients for the brain to function.
*Her constant use of the word "GENUINELY" brings us to another habit which is shown here but didn't make the list:
Say "GENUINELY" a Lot, Especially When You're a Compulsive Liar.
This is one of Ruby's mostest favouritest habits.
If you're a compulsive liar, like Ruby, say the word "GENUINELY" a lot and put hard emphasis on it. This will turn every questionable statement into a charismatic delight of believability and definitely convince people that you're always honest. You can use other substitute phrases, like "Believe me when I say...", "Honestly..." and "And, trust me, I wouldn't just say this..."
To muddy the waters and avoid people catching on to this habit if you lie constantly, be sure to occasionally say it when you're telling the truth as well (rare for Ruby, I know)!
This isn't just a habit for compulsive liars or students, either - you can use it if you just want to be generally annoying and obnoxious!
Try it at home: Insert the word "GENUINELY" into the next dozen statements you make, and just marvel at the results! You'll come off as practically statesmanlike in your public speaking!
Next on Ruby's list:
2. Research Something You're Interested In From Each of Your Modules/Subjects.
Even Ruby struggles to come up with anything to fill this topic, and all it does is prove that Ruby has no understanding of what a habit is.
She whips out the mouldy copy of A Tale of Two Cities that she stole from her parents and claimed as her own.
Ruby's example of a uni module-adjacent subject to research:
"Syo, lat's say, for exahmpull, yoo read A Tale of Tyoo Cit-eeeys. Yoo moight decide tyoo RAHNDOMLY re-sahhch the woine trade during the FrAnch Revolyooshun...BECAUSE OF HOW SIGNIFICANT WINE AND BLOOD IMAGERY ARE IN THAT BOOK."
So, this entry on the list was just an excuse for Ruby to try and flex that she read A Tale of Two Cities and researched the wine trade during the French Revolution, even though neither of those things are true. In fact, this more shines a light on the fact that she used Sparknotes or a similar study guide to avoid reading the book, as highlighting obvious symbolic imagery is a very study guide thing.
She hates reading, but loves people thinking she's smarter than them.
Ruby's lies aside, this entry is stupid.
If you're GENUINELY interested in something, then let your enjoyment and interest lead the way. If you have to force yourself to research something, are you really that interested? And if you are interested and force yourself to research something regularly and "habitually", that sounds like a sure-fire way of workifying it and wringing the fun and enjoyment right out of it.
It also seems especially misguided if you're a student, especially a student who has to work, take care of kids, or juggle any number of responsibilities. Just do the necessary work required to achieve your best, don't go creating additional, time-consuming research projects for yourself if you have to force yourself to do it.
This is yet another "by Ruby, for Ruby" misguided habit which will not apply to and undoubtedly not be useful to anyone but her. Ruby likes to (at least pretend to) turn every aspect of her life into an academic task. She has an unlimited amount of free time outside uni work and no responsibilities, so she fills it with this kind of busywork to make herself feel productive, despite accomplishing nothing.
Naturally, she's always behind or cutting it close with important things, because she wasted all her time on pointless busywork.
As in all things, don't be like Ruby.
And on that note, her next entry on the list:
3. "Set a Monthly Task List."
Of course "tyoo-dyoo" lists are on Ruby's list of recommended habits.
Ruby sings the virtues of monthly to-do lists, even though these demonstratively don't benefit her in any way. She's always late, always right down to the wire with deadlines - she's a disorganised mess. And in her case, it's because of her obsession with to-do lists.
Earlier in this video, she mentions that she ALWAYS stops to fill her water bottle, even if that makes her late to class. If drinking water/filling her water bottle is one of her essential habits, and she's constantly running so behind that even the simple, quick act of filling a water bottle on a campus with ample water fountains and sources of H2O will make her late for a lecture or seminar, then who in their right mind would follow her example?
If to-do lists benefit you, that's great. But keep it simple. Note down just the most important things that you're likely to forget. Don't keep 106 billion different lists of task divided across 467,128 different planners and notebooks, all full of mundane, obvious, easy-to-remember tasks, like waking up or breathing.
Now, buckle up, because Ruby chose this "SACK-shun" "espAshully" to assault everyone with a barrage of lies, misdirects and questionable bullshit.
Ruby is now well aware that people can see what's on her screen when she films her laptop. This is a lesson that took her a ridiculously long time to learn, and she only learned it after countless instances of people on Tattle taking screenshots of her browsing videos and websites encouraging ED habits, showing private information of her own and other people, or unintentionally showing things that disprove lies she was telling in the very same video, etc.
Y'know, like that time she made a sponsored video for Cricut, was claiming that she ALWAYS uses it and that it's GENUINELY so simple and intuitive to use that anyone can pick it up and use it, but in the same video she'd got a tab open with a YouTube video with a simple guide to the basic operation of the Cricut, because Ruby had never used it before and couldn't figure out how to use it. Ahh, fun times...
Anyway, Ruby has learned from this mistake, and has since been a lot more careful to avoid showing her screen, blur stuff out, and only show things that she intends people to see. Observe:
Let's start with the stupid.
In this section about the importance of to-do lists, the only things Ruby has put in her academic goals section is "prepare well for exam" and "be happy with essay before submitting it". Y'know, glaringly obvious things for anyone else that they don't need to waste time and space in to-do lists with.
Onto the rest:
"research internships for next year" - Since the best internship/work experience she could manage in her entire university career has been an 'any monkey could do it' transcription task that took her far too long to complete and she had to split with another person, and that was with the university helping her, I'll say good luck with landing anything solo, Ruby! With a toxic brand, a content platform that shows nothing but lazy half-assery, and a new controversy every week, you're gonna need it.
"letter writing campaign" - There's no further details, but considering her current letter writing campaign is an unmitigated nightmare of child safety and privacy concerns, I'll say cut your losses and restrict your letter-writing to your parents.
And then the blatant lies begin...
"headway with memorials"...
This is clearly inserted to fool people into believing that she'll do anything with the Holocaust Charity money she already spent and will never give back. It will keep getting delayed and brushed away with things like this and never, ever materialise.
But Ruby must be bracing herself for the questions that will be coming with Holocaust Memorial Day incoming, so she shoved this in.
"sort out customer service for Pumpkin Productivity"
Again, another glaringly obvious insert to deflect from her sinking company's massive PR issues and make-believe like she's getting her hands dirty to fix them.
Pumpkin Productivity's problems are systemic, they've always been there and have not improved at any point. Since her management agency own and run the company, Ruby ain't gonna do shit. If you want change, buy your stationery from a reliable company that offers quality products.
"start editing my book"
Ruby, stop, you're killing me here.
You can tell this one's a lie because Ruby doesn't start editing a book until after it's published. (See: Erimentally Challenged and the Case of the Bullying Protagonist.)
But Ruby wants to give the appearance that she definitely has things in the pipeline, everyone! Her life after graduation definitely isn't going to be a downhill spiral of stupidity and Victorian children's cosplay.
The book thing is important, since her YouTube section shows that her mind is a creative wasteland and she has no ideas for her channel.
"send out a letter to a viewer every week" - That will definitely end well.
"post a book-related video" - I'd say this is the most exciting one, since the prospect of a book review would be AMAZING considering the hoops Ruby would have to jump through on-screen to hide that she didn't read the book. But it'll just be a recycling of one of her previous videos and so: "Here's ten books which I definitely read and have BEAUTIFUL COVERS, enjoy this footage of me touching the covers of every book at Waterstones. DID I MENTION WATERSTONES YET?! And the books were good, no follow-up questions, please. The End."
"post a study tips video" - This one is somehow not ticked off, even though Ruby has already uploaded this video several times already.
"post at least three reels on Instagram" - Ruby is apparently incapable of understanding how section headers work, since this is an 'Instagram' goal in her 'YouTube' section. Again, another great sign that she has a lot of creative ideas is that she has to force herself to upload three reels, and they'll inevitably be footage of her lighting a candle or frolicking outside.
Speaking of her Notion section headers and splitting goals and such into sections, Ruby claims she "got this tip from Vee's book Empowered" and shows off the cover:
This is an outright lie. Ruby has always split her goals, tasks, and to-do lists into those distinct sections in Notion.
For example, here's a screengrab from her 'Notion Tour' video from a year ago:
You'll find those kind of layouts in all her Notion footage. She's always split things into sections like University/Academic/YouTube/Admin/General. She loves doing it because she can reward herself multiple times for tasks that crossover into each section.
She also has not read Vee's book.
Here, she flicks through it and it's pristine and unread.
Of course, the dead giveaway was when she and Jack Edwards both posted equally vague glowing reviews on Goodreads at almost the exact same time, even though they'd had the book for weeks at that point. Each review contained no more information than the back cover blurb, and they'd both clearly never read it.
They also both blatantly avoided declaring their ties to Vee in their reviews - they're all managed by the same agency. They all know each other. Ruby and Jack were invited to a lavish book launch event and given free copies of the book (and probably Covid, since nobody at that enclosed indoor party wore masks).
Here, again, Ruby inserts an absolutely blatant undeclared advertisement for that same book. She lies and says she read it. She lies and says she got study specific study tips from it, despite already doing the things she claimed she learned for months and years before. And, once again, she does not declare her ties to Vee.
She continues showing her Notion sections, full of tasks which she'll believe will fool people into thinking she's a conscientious, well-organised person when really this is everyday shit that people shouldn't need reminding of or fake entries that she'll never accomplish, meant to assuage criticism.
"Re-Read A Little Princess", because reading something new, meant for adults is never going to happen with Ruby.
"deep clean bedroom"
And then more 'academic' goals, which are a mixture of more obvious tasks that no student should need a reminder for, and just bafflingly stupid ones.
"stay up to date with reading"? Ruby, what happened to all the claims that you did all the reading months in advance? Why you so behind? Does it maybe have something to do with filling your days with time-wasting busywork instead of important uni work?
"research eyesight" - Ruby out here thinking she's gonna be a future optometrist all of a sudden when she can't even use an iron.
"come up with a concrete essay plan for dissertation" - Well, at least the dissertation's going well...
"read paper by diss superviser (and be familiar with her work to see if there's anything which might be useful or interesting to talk about)" - And Ruby couldn't stop herself (or spell "supervisor" correctly).
In her eyes, this is probably her showing how conscientious and proactive she is. In actuality, it's another glaring reminder that she's the same weaselly, conniving little suck-up she was in primary school.
Ruby, your tutors and supervisors are not your friends. They are not your peers. Most importantly, they are not future employers. They are academic professionals who will see right through this bullshit.
You should not be researching and reading their papers, which you clearly have no interest in, to find a forced topic of conversation. You should not be wasting meeting time by sucking up. You should be asking them their thoughts on your ideas, not trying to find a way to turn their ideas into your dissertation.
And it should go without saying, but you should not be using social engineering on them to try to curry their favour when they're supervising/grading your work.
This is nothing new for Ruby. She does this with every essay: Sends an ass-kissing email full of leading, mostly irrelevant questions to try to get the lecturer to provide enough ideas and thoughts to turn into a skeleton for her essay. But this is fucking blatant.
Onto the next entry:
4. Plan a Reset Day.
To everyone else, a Reset Day is a day in which you take a break from all work and either do all the shit you don't usually get time to do, to tie up all those dangling loose ends and unburden yourself of it all. Or maybe it's a day in which you shove everything aside and just mentally decompress and unwind.
For Ruby, it's neither of those things. For Ruby, it's an entire day spent digitally decluttering your laptop.
I don't know what the fuck she's doing with her laptop that she needs an entire fucking day to clear her desktop, and that she needs a day for it so often that it's a "habit". I'd say it's probably because she has extra laptops, which is multiplying the amount of digital clutter. But it can't be that - we know she never actually uses the LG Gram laptop she got paid to advertise.
This isn't a bad idea, per se, but it's something that should take an hour every month or two, not a day every week.
5. "Use a Planner and Write a To-Do List Every Single Day."
Of course she did.
Already recycling ideas from other entries on the list, Ruby tries to encourage her counter-productive planner compulsion and her terrible stationery products.
"Also LEVELLING UP your tyoo-dyoo list--" *COUGH*TORY*COUGH
Ruby wanders off-piste with this one and starts rambling how we need to set specific time limits for all our tasks and goals because Parkinson's Law says that if you don't, you'll spend the rest of your life writing a single essay.
Parkinson's Law is almost complete nonsense, but Ruby loves to quote it often to justify her shoving all tasks into a 15 minute to 1 hour time window.
This does Ruby no good, and won't help anyone else, either.
She's always falling behind, her professional work is always a half-assed mess, her business is a disaster, she can never summon the energy to read more of a book than a synopsis and a cover blurb, she never finishes a film, and there's nothing in her life that seems to bring her joy beyond lying and getting money.
If she spent more time on any given thing, she'd improve at any of them. But Parkinson's Law is a tight, strangling noose around the neck of growth, self-improvement, creativity and quality of work the way she applies it.
6. Do a Piece of Extra Critical Reading Every Week
Ruby says you need to be setting yourself a goal of reading one "acks-tra" piece of critical reading and more if you have time.
This shouldn't be a goal or a habit.
If you're writing an essay, you're going to need to be looking at critical material for supporting quotes. That's part of the assignment.
Apart from that, no, you don't need to be wasting time reading extra shit you'll never need to use. Ruby only has time to read all the critical material because she doesn't read the main texts.
7. "Set Social Media Time."
Reminder: Ruby made multiple videos in which she claims to have stopped procrastinating on social media forever. Her Instagram is still a landfill of wasted time and inane, repetitive content.
Ruby claims she enjoys social media more when she sets it as a task. No shit. As previously mentioned, Ruby loves to workify everything, so she's able to tick a box when she's done. This is a guaranteed way to wind up hating everything you do, which explains why Ruby doesn't seem to actually enjoy a single thing in her life.
Spend as much time as you want on social media if you enjoy it. If it starts to impact you negatively, spend less time on it or take a prolonged break. It's not rocket science, and you don't need to devise timetable systems and check-boxes to limit your social media time without reason.
8. "Write Down and Reflect on 1-3 Things That You've Learned Each Day."
Ruby has shown zero growth or improvement as a person, an influencer, a student, a content creator or as someone who claims to speak English as a first language in the past 7 years. If anything, all her already dubious skills are deteriorating and she's only gotten lazier and more incompetent.
"What did you learn today?"
Ruby's answer should be the same every single day:
Next up:
9. "Go Outside Every Day."
Yes, going outside is definitely a good thing. Fresh air and sunlight are good for you. Vitamin D is good for you.
What's not good for you is taskifying your outdoor activity.
At the start of the academic year, Ruby said she wanted to force herself to go out on a morning walk every day.
This is Ruby "enjoying" her now-routine morning walk a few months later:
The results speak for themselves!
If you turn anything into an habitual, routine grind, you're almost guaranteed to end up hating it. Ruby has never learned that lesson, and likely never will.
10. "Make Time for Movement."
Another valid one. Another excuse for Ruby to lie, not that she seems to need one.
Ruby claims she NEVER used to do this, but recently she makes time to get up, walk around, have a break for movement, whether that's yoga, stretching, ballet fit, or twirling and frolicking in fields like she's in an advert for feminine hygiene products.
Only...Ruby has always done this.
Her daily routines always show her doing terrible yoga, almost injuring herself with uncoordinated gymnastics and running around the grounds of her manor estate like a runaway child.
This is just a flimsy excuse to show recycled footage of herself doing awkward, limb-flailing yoga so that she can get compliments in the comments for how "impressive" her yoga moves are and how
Reminder: Ruby is a terrible person and should be nobody's role model in any way.
11. "Meditation."
"I treat my morning walks as a form of mediation," she says, stressing that you don't have to sit down and meditate.
Again, mindfulness and meditation have their benefits, but not the way Ruby does it.
If you're rigidly setting a time to meditate, doubling it up with other tasks and making it part of a strict, time-window routine, that doesn't seem at all mindful or meditative.
And there's nothing mindful or meditative about taking a camera on your walk with you to stop every ten feet and set up a camera to film yourself walking in different directions.
12. "Clean Your Desk Once a Week."
Ruby's desk is constantly covered in wax drippings, dirt, ash, grime and the desiccated corpses of an entire family tree of flies.
This is a task she never does.
Even Ruby can't fully bring herself to lie about this one.
She films herself awkwardly spraying a can of cleaning spray or possible insect killer spray. She holds it and sprays it as if she's never used a cleaning product in her entire life and is worried it may explode.
"Have a deep clean, disinfect your desk...DUST..." Ruby realises the subject of dust is not something she should've brought up and her voice drops about twelve volume levels as she mutters, "...Uhh, which...honestly I don't dust that often and I probably should..."
She sprays the main surface of her windowsill, pokes at the corner of a window with a rag and that's all her cleaning done forever!
This entire video is 90% old, recycled and repurposed footage, but Ruby even recycles footage from her last video as she says it's also important to declutter your room before you go to bed, because getting the underbed dust circulating before you breathe it in all night sounds like a wonderful idea, Ruby.
"PENULTIMATELY..."
13. "Go to Sleep and Wake Up at the Same Time."
Ruby words that poorly, and makes it sound like you should just wake up the instant you fall asleep. So refreshing!
But she says that it doesn't matter what time you go to sleep or wake up, just as long as it's consistent every day to maintain a healthy sleep schedule.
You know what? I'll actually give Ruby some credit here. Not only is the sentiment of this true, this is also better, less muddy advice than her usual bizarre obsession over morning and night routines instead of emphasising the importance of just getting a good night's sleep.
It's still not great and not all-encompassing, though. It's advice given by someone who has the benefit of nothing but free time and no real responsibilities, who never takes a day off.
Sometimes you work with the sleep you have on working days and the healthiest thing is to not maintain that sleep schedule when you have days off and instead catch up on sleep. Which isn't ideal, but it's healthier than depriving yourself of sleep to stay consistent.
And since Ruby has to use an app designed to make her solve a complex system of escape room puzzles to turn it off because she has no willpower to wake up otherwise and her body desperately wants more sleep, it sounds like her sleep is anything but healthy.
And lastly (Even though there's supposed to be 15 items in this list):
14. "Switch Off."
Ruby says she wants to use every Sunday this year as a "Self-Care" day, which she defines as "face masks", "reading for pleasure" and "spending time with family".
Confirmation, where none were needed, that Ruby plans to be home every weekend for the rest of the year.
Ruby clearly doesn't read anything, let alone for pleasure, so that's bullshit, and her idea of switching off is "all the same things I do/pretend to do usually". But I guess at least the core idea is a good one.
And that's it for another video full of lies, undisclosed ads, recycled footage, terribly lazy filmmaking and occasional good advice that Ruby's mostly twisted into bad through her obsession with box-ticking busywork.
After awkwardly sniffing the outside of her mouldy window frame, Ruby reuses her ancient outro and we're done!
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emmer_moans
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To prove I am not being hyperbolic...
I present Barefoot, in Dust
I present Barefoot, in Dust
ilovetrashtv
Chatty Member
Guys, chill. UK universities call over 25s ‘mature students’, it’s not a term Roobs has coined herself. More often than not, they all band together in a group because they have more similar priorities and common goals/interests other than going to the pub and they will usually refer to themselves ‘mature students’.
strawberrylemonade514
New member
"I wake up between 6 and 7. But this particular morning, I actually woke up at 4:30."
I usually wake up somewhere around 6-7 too. If I wake up at 4:30, I'll go back to sleep
Some times I can't believe I would literally idolize her and think "What would Ruby do?
" Now I'm just like...I don't even think she knows what she's doing.
I usually wake up somewhere around 6-7 too. If I wake up at 4:30, I'll go back to sleep
Some times I can't believe I would literally idolize her and think "What would Ruby do?
" Now I'm just like...I don't even think she knows what she's doing.MyNameIsInigoMontoya
Well-known member
I haven't watched her latest video in full yet, but I just had to drop in to say that the Pizza Express Rubee and Mother Granger went to for lunch is THE Pizza Express favoured by Prince Andrew.
3calico3
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Ruby reminds me a lot of Rory Gilmore (thanks to my recent Gilmore Girls re-watch). Rory took any criticism extremely personally, ended up drifting and not getting into journalism in the way she imagined - i.e. walking into any job she could ever want, because she was always told she was so brilliant, and presumed every employer must be champing at the bit to employ her. She never demonstrated any real initiative other than an obsession with academics, and frequently used her privileged position to get what she wanted even if she didn't want to admit it.
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