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Can someone let me know when we've moved on from renting vs buying and are back to talking about Ruby

"Lottie Parton is a straight-A student who loves tea, children's literature and spinning in fields. Her sister, Shaz, is a university drop-out who dyes her hair and drinks ethanol. Lottie felt the pressure to remain perfect in her parent's eyes despite the familial failure."

Ruby Granger #38: It rains, therefore I am

Hi! Long lurker here
This is going to be a long post, but I wanted to take a closer look at her bookshelves... because I have a feeling Ruby is not the passionate, academic muse she tries to sell us.
First, the “classics shelf”, as she claims.

We find a book called “In the Kitchen. Essays on food and Life” that was actually published in 2020. Are we sure, Ruby, that this book belongs near Daphne du Maurier and Huysmans? The same applies to Kurt Vonnegut’s (2005) and Ian McEwan’s (2014). Do you really know what a classic book is?
Then the “contemporary books”:

Now, Ruby, as you are an almost third year English Literature student, you should know that Thomas Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd” (1874) and “The Scarlett Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) are NOT contemporaries… maybe they belong to the upper shelf, with the rest of the 19th century literature. The same applies to, again, Daphne du Maurier’s “Rebecca” (1938) (why she doesn't put books by the same author together is beyond me), sharing space with Neil Gaiman’s “The Ocean…” (2013) and “The Vegetarian” (2007). Oh! And here we can see a Sherwood Anderson's book, bear it in mind.
Let’s continue:

She calls this part “Coffee-table books” … poor “Found in Translation” short-stories collection, isolated, set aside in the leftover shelf. Again, where is the "literary" logic?

Look! Another Brontë book nice old beautiful book! Above Hamlet a nice old beautiful book!

Finally we arrive at the “NICE OLD BEAUTIFUL EDITIONS” station. Let’s see. Another decontextualised Brontë, Mary Shelley, random antique (perhaps without literary value) books, another Sherwood Anderson (remember the other? Why has she decided to put this copy here is a mistery).

Poetry books.
Ruby, Hoffmann's "The Nutcracker" is not poetry, darling...

And finally, at the end of this nightmare, the most strange decision: putting the Penguin Little Black Classics books at the bottom corner. The explanation is simple: at this point we all know that Ruby the Matilda, the Lisa Simpson and the Hermione Granger doesn't know what a classic book is.

The conclusion:
this girl, a self-proclaimed bookworm and literature enthusiast, follows no logical pattern when it comes to placing her books. What's more, she commits inaccuracies and demonstrates that she not only doesn't know literature, but doesn't appreciate details. She loves aesthetics, but below the surface there is only mediocrity and vanity, the worst combination.

(sorry in advance, I'm not a native english speaker!)

Around 8 minutes into the latest video, she's trying to hide her annoyance that the people in her study group don't have Notion. Can you imagine the poor sods getting continuous emails from the already annoying person in the group?

"Hallo, it's Ruby! If you haven't already got Notion, I highly recommend it, our learning will be cohesive and enjoyable!"
"Ruby again, if we all use Notion we won't need a Google document! Have a productive day!"
"Hey guys! I'm in North Devon, surfing in the ocean. You know what rhymes with 'ocean?'
"Ok, you are all really starting to piss me off."

The fact that she as a self proclaimed anti-bullying advocate has had to remove an advice video about bullying due to backlash is actually hilarious ngl

I'm just so angry about this, it's really quite something. I'm a history student and I've done several internships at Holocaust memorial sites so I have some experience with remembrance media/museum exhibitions etc. A couple points that are wrong with this whole thing:

- There is only one (1) person behind this online exhibition/remembrance project (i.e. Ruby) and that person has no family ties/personal ties to Holocaust survivors, no historical training, no relevant expertise at all, and hasn't consulted with anyone else before launching the project (as far as we know).

- Her criteria for curating/moderating the page are completely unclear. There is no transparency about who will contribute to this page and who will take care of fact-checking/editing/anything else. At this point, it is as if we were to open a new thread on Tattle, call it "Tattle's big Holocaust remembrance project", and invite everyone with internet access to post life stories of Holocaust survivors that they may or may not be related to and may or may not have asked for permission to post their life story on a public website. It wouldn't be okay if Tattle did that, and it's certainly not okay for Ruby to do it just cause she's a "famous" influencer.

- Also the line between what Ruby posts there and plagiarism seems to be pretty thin; the post about Franziska Mikus' life story is clearly a barely-adapted summary of the page about Franziska Mikus on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust's website; some passages seem to have been copied verbatim and there's no acknowledgement of the source.

- Ruby's theatrical reading of the Franziska Mikus summary post is not only cringey in the extreme, it also goes against the general rule in Holocaust education to 1) give people their own voice back rather than speak for or over them (i.e. Ruby reading out passages from Mikus' diaries/letters would be something different imho, but just reading out loud her summary of the HMD website (i.e. a secondary version of a secondary source) is not great imho. And while emotion in Holocaust education is a complex topic, Ruby's bad acting and over-the-top dramatization of the text is more reminiscent of a primary school teacher reading a children's book story out loud. It's not very helpful or appropriate in this context imho.

God I have so many Thoughts about this mess, but I need to go study now. Also this makes me too angry and this can't be healthy for me.

It makes me angry because Holocaust victims and Holocaust survivors deserve to have their testimony treated with more care and respect than this, and they should be treated as an end in and of themselves, not as the means to an end as Ruby does with this Notion page that feels like a badly executed 8th grade class project at best and a callous attempt to get social media engagement by using shocking survivors' testimonies at worst.

Probably been mentioned already, but did anyone else notice she talks about 'adults' in her video like she isn't one and has been for at least three years now?

Also, as an introvert, I love uni. The idea of uni not being fun or whatever because you don't like parties and introverts are not made for uni is absurd. I love every second of my freedom at uni, because I get to be an introvert now.
At school, I had to go places because school told to or my parents did or you were 'supposed' to do things, but now I get to choose if I spend all day in bed or in the library or cycle to the woods or whatever. I can take long midnight walks in the city and cook for myself and talk to whoever I want to. In my country we don't live on campus, we just live in apartments in the city and it's up to the student to figure it out, so I got to decide where I wanted to live and what I could afford etc. I I can choose to eat nothing but toast for the day without anyone telling me different. And I can tell people I don't want to see them.
To me, this freedom was a large part of growing up because I also realised; everyone is doing this, figuring out who they are and want to be and do at this stage. No one cares if you like or dislike something, because they're all on the same journey as you are.
I think this is especially liberating for an introvert.

Stormweald said:

I know we made fun of Ruby for running out of the house because she heard some noise but my electric toothbrush just turned itself on and now I'm convinced my house is haunted.

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You have summoned the productivity demon. The curse is upon you now.

You will hear the echoes of its spirit calling out in the dead of night "HeLlOoOoOooo, iT's RoOoOooBeEeEeEeee!"

Your toothbrush will move of its own accord, and partially-read children's books will materialise in your bathroom sink.

Everywhere you go, it will always feel cold.

Any candles in the house will tilt to a 45 degree angle of their own accord.

You'll begin to find to-do lists of basic, obvious tasks scratched into your walls.

Your fridge door will contantly open itself.

Grime will fill your kitchen and dishes will become impossible to clean.

Any money in the house will spontaneously disappear and be replaced with cryptic, scribbled IOUs for Holocaust memorials.

After the initial haunting, then the spirit will begin to take control of your body.

You'll begin to forget all your important meetings and train schedules will become impossible to decipher.

You'll start to forget the meanings and spellings of obvious, common words.

Basic 30 minute tasks will take an additional seven days to complete.

You will have the instinctive compulsion to lie and embellish, no matter how small the subject.

You will have the compulsion to say that you ALWAYS do things that you never actually do.

You will lose all interest in age-appropriate entertainment, hobbies and clothing, and will be overcome by the inate need to dress like a Victorian toddler and enjoy nothing above a recommended age of 11.

The only way to rid yourself of this curse is to form a pentagram of Perkier bars within the sacred grounds of a Waterstones and place an LG Gram laptop in the centre of it. Cover the laptop in an item of Miss Patina clothing and burn it on a full moon while chanting "October is probably my favourite month".

#PrayForStormweald

That's fucking peach fuzz, you'll live. I have more hair than the average man because balkan genes and no one fucking cares about that.

Ruby's still only slightly done with damage control over the last anti-bullying week video she posted, so what better time to add another train to the tracks to collide with the smouldering wreck that is her public image?

This time around, we're subjected to another of her "Responding to your Assumptions" video, in which Ruby very selectively cherry-picks the softball topics that flatter her or give her a chance to show how 'not like other students' she is. And if she doesn't get enough of those, she'll make some up herself.

Why does she make a video unrelated to bullying and all about herself for anti-bullying week? Well, her textbook narcissism is the obvious answer, but Ruby has a different excuse.



She kicks off the video - in which she responds to assumptions she asked fans to send to her - by saying she believes that all assumptions are a major form of bullying. There's a crumb of logic in there but her reasoning isn't great, and she explains it with trademark incoherence.

If Ruby had said something like, "Bullies often target those who are different, and stereotypes might seem like a minor issue, but that casual stereotyping can be a dangerous thing, especially when we casually accept stereotypes based on race or sexuality," then that'd be the solid beginnings of a point.

She could throw in one of her trademark GCSE "ass-ay"-level quotations in for added pretentiousness. Something like, "It's widely said that we fear what we don't understand, and that's too often the seed from which hate and prejudice grow. As Marie Curie once said, "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

Only despite having a year to prep and write this video, the only dumb, blunt and generalised point she can throw out is that all assumptions are bad, assuming is bullying and we should challenge all our assumptions about everything.

She conveniently doesn't address her own dismissive assumptions, big and small, like her generalised stereotypes of extroverted people, people who watch TV a lot, people who drink and go to parties. It's only bullying when you're assuming things about Ruby, evidently.

She clearly has no understanding of what bullying is, but she starts out on fine form by alluding that since all assumptions are an act of bullying, anyone who sent in an assumption is actively bullying her.


(Pictured: Anti-Assumption Advocate Ruby enduring a savage, brutal bout of assuming.)

Now, onto the bullying assumptions:




The first two are related questions, and the obvious, easy ones that crop up in every single assumptiom video that all influencers make. Personally, I couldn't care less about Ruby's sexuality or who she dates or whether she never wants to date anyone. Good for her, whatever the case.

She addresses both by saying that she's not dating anyone, and a relationship isn't on her periphery at the moment, purely because it doesn't interest her at the moment.

She says it isn't because it'll distract from her goals, but she does have unspecified goals which are more important. Those goals evidently being to accumulate more sponsor/charity money and find a way to re-enroll as a student at primary school.



Another obvious one, and one which Ruby was sure to include some blatant misspellings and textspeak abbreviations to make it seem like she's not writing all these herself.

Ruby says the assumption that Blakeney is her only friend isn't quite true - she has family friends (so...not friends then), and a friend called Tasha back home, who sounds like the equivalent of a Canadian girlfriend - she definitely exists, but she's just never seen by anyone ever. But even so, Blakeney is who she spends all her time with (#prayforblakeney). So, an assumption that's pretty dead on the money. What happened to all assumptions being false and bullying, Rubes?

She says she's fine not having a lot of friends as she enjoys spending a lot of time by herself, and that would be great, if it were true. This is another obvious lie, as evidenced by her crippling inability to not be with either her parents or Blakeney every hour of the day and to flee from uni responsibilities at the drop of a hat to ensure that she's never by herself.

Yet again, Ruby moans that society is designed for extroverts, and success is rewarded to the people with the most friends, and the more friends you have, the better a person you'll be in the eyes of society. I say this as an introvert - it's complete horseshit.

Sure, there will be times where you'll have to step outside and socialise to get shit done and progress in life depending on the path you choose. In some careers, networking is crucial. But introversion hasn't had that kind of crippling stigma that Ruby claims in a very long time, and almost nobody views people that way outside works of fiction. It's a massive, sweeping generalisation from Ruby, and a massive unfounded assumption.

Weren't you just saying those were bad and a form of bullying, Rubes? What about the extroverted people who're watching this video who work their asses off for what they have, while introverted Ruby is enjoying easy wealth for shilling products she never uses and enjoys the fruits of her parents' privilege? Do you think they might feel a bit attacked right now after you said they have it easy, Ruby? Almost...bullied?

And on the topic of wealth and privilege, the next assumption: "You come from a well-off, academic family."


(Pictured: Ruby's frazzled, malnourished brain struggling to find an answer for this question that makes her seem humble and relatable.)

Ruby says her family is rich, but not as rich as you might think! This is probably because half their family's wealth is hidden in an off-shore tax haven. They're just "financially stable", according to Ruby. Which I think she means quite literally; on the grounds of their massive property, all their finances are stashed in a stable. Their home has a living room for every month in the year. This isn't baseline financial stability, Rubes, and saying so only shows how sheltered and dishonest you are.

She says she's so, so aware of the privilege she has and the opportunities she's been given as a result, which is weird because she was just saying extroverts get all the breaks in life.

Her family isn't academic, though, and neither her parents or grandparents went to university. Which adds up, since all evidence points to her parents being illiterate, ignorant half-wits, and Ruby got her feeble grasp of language from them. But as Ruby proves, going to university has no bearing on ignorance and stupidity, as she's on her fourth year of uni and still just as much of a puddle-brained moron as ever.



Ruby claims she definitely has days where she feels too anxious to do anything, but you never see them because she doesn't film them. Which is fine, but maybe you shouldn't have waited until now to start mentioning that.

Neglecting to talk about the days where you do fuck all and decompress because they'll detract from your fabricated image of always being productive and studious is only going to lead impressionable young viewers to think they're doing something wrong if they're taking days off. Burying the message that downtime is valuable is a damaging thing, and that's before considering that your depiction of your "productive" days are all smoke and mirrors as well, filmed across weeks and months, with obvious lies and shortcuts everywhere.

She says she has "realised over the past few years" that downtime is important, despite showing no evidence of this or attempting to deliver this message to viewers over the past view years.

And speaking of fabricated personas and videos full of lies, we move on to the next assumption:



Faced with the accusation that she doesn't read as much as she claims, Ruby laughs nervously.

"Probably not, it's a really hard one to answer actually." It's really not, Rubes. There's no real debate as to whether she doesn't read as much as she claim. All evidence points to her fudging the numbers on what she reads to inflate the book count and her ego online. Her 'I read 7 books in a day' video was glaring evidence of this.



Those seven books were a combination of very short children's books, novellas, short stories and small sections of unfinished books. Ruby counted them all as "read", to give the appearance that she'd read seven entire books in a single day, then basked in the ill-gotten praise in the comments. And that's just one example.

There's the popular "viral" books she's claimed to have read to jump on the bandwagon and then never spoken about, or reviewed them with such vague nonsense that she'd clearly never read the book.


(Pictured: A review from someone who clearly read the book and knows what words mean.)

See also: Song of Achilles, which Ruby kept mentioning she was reading and kept showing off for the camera because she knew it was very popular with her fans, then she claimed to finish it, banged a 5 star score on Goodreads and never actually spoke of the contents of the book or her opinions of it. Because she can't form opinions on books she's never read.

She's also freely admitted in the past to skipping entire major subplots that don't interest her (subjects that don't interest her include: romance, human drama, realistic portrayals of human beings, books that don't feature schools or children, books that don't take place in Victorian London, and real teen issues in books about teenagers) but she still considers them read to completion. That's like me claiming to have swum the Danube because I tipped a toe in the water, or that I left the planet because I jumped three feet in the air.



And there's her admitted history of suspiciously reading Sparknotes summaries and critical material long before reading the books, and compiling her own cheat sheet of characters and plot in Notion to blatantly avoid reading the actual book. Or she'll get Blakeney to read critical essays and make notes for her, as she's said outright that she does.

She deliberately misses the point and claims that the reason she appears to read so much is because she just happens to film herself reading a lot, and people know her from book readatons and 200 book recommendation videos, but there are many times when she's not reading, these just aren't filmed. And even though she records videos of her reading a book a day or whatever, that's not something she always does.

Hell, last week she was so, so busy with coursework that she didn't have time to read anything for fun because she was reading books for uni. We know that didn't happen, Rubes.

It's a blatant dodge. Selective ignorance to avoid responding to the fact that she lies about everything to make herself feel more superior with fake accomplishments.

People aren’t misled by her always holding a book on social media. They're misled by Ruby lying about finishing books she hasn't read a single word of, and by claiming to have read far more books than she has.

Ruby, the only correct response to "You don't read as much as you say you do" is "No. I really don't. I lie about most of it."



"You often watch movies or documentaries."

Nobody assumed this. Ruby's just clearly making shit up. Ruby only pretends to watch films and documentaries when NordVPN are paying her to act likes she uses their service.



When faced with the assumption that Ruby focuses only on aesthetics and not actual studies, she dismisses it.

"Of course I focus on ass-thetics when filming videos," Ruby says, passive-aggressively. Her argument is that she needs to make studying more aesthetically pleasing to the viewer. Which doesn't explain why her videos are always low-effort messes free from even a modicum of effort when it comes to editing and production, but still.

Ironically, even in her addressing of this criticism, she only focuses on the surface-level aesthetics. People aren’t critical of her for trying to make her videos look all fancy. They're critical of her because in all things - not just studying, but interests she claims to have, books, societal issues, and so on - she only focuses on the surface. The most she has to say about most books is how pretty the covers are. Despite her apparent obsession with DARK MACADEMIA she's never actually showed any understanding of what it is, but likes the Pinterest boards about it.



And then there's her actual studying, where she appears to do everything she can to avoid doing the work or using her own thoughts, opinions and ideas in favour of lots of cheating shortcuts and insane amounts of to-do lists and planner busywork that give her a productivity placebo when she ticks things as done despite not actually accomplishing anything.

She loves the appearance of being a studious, accomplished, well-organised bookworm, but there's next to no evidence that any of that is who she is or something she actually enjoys doing.



Again, another question that nobody has ever assumed about Ruby, whose entire life is one big performance and who always wants to be the centre of attention.

And right on cue, Little Miss Me-Me-Me then she makes the entire question about how she just did a photoshoot her soon-to-be-released overpriced, poor quality planner.



Next up:



Now, we know Ruby can't possibly scroll mindlessly through social media. After all, she released an entire video about how she stopped procrastinating on social media forever.



Ruby confesses that she sometimes scrolls social media mindlessly, so that clickbait video title was a lie (especially since she was wasting time on social media the day after it went up).



Does Ruby cringe at past versions of herself? "The person I am now is very different than I was," Ruby says, despite not growing as a person or improving as a content creator in seven years of doing it.

She rambles about how being an influencer for years means people can access both past and present version of herself in content simultaneously, which she doesn't want.

Which makes sense, because comparing her old content and new does no favours to her current self. If anything, she was healthier and more coherent years ago. She's actively tried to regress into childhood over the past year and a half, so I'm not sure why she'd pretend to be embarassed by her teen self and not, y'know, her adult self who yoinks money from charities and lies about every single thing.



And wrapping things up with another fluff question that Ruby likely invented, someone apparenltly assumes that Ruby is a fast walker.

And that's true. She can't powerwalk away from responsibility and culpability fast enough, as evidenced by this video, in which she dodges all genuine criticism like a champion athlete.

She says this ties into an assumption which she didn't bother answering, which is that she's always on time for things. She drops the shocking revelation that she's actually often late for things.

This should come as no surprise to anyone paying attention, since she is often crying about being late for things, not planning ahead to order books for the required reading, misreading train times, misreading building locations for seminars, and so on.


(Pictured: Ruby crying after not being able to get a book she needed for uni after leaving it until the last second despite having the reading list weeks/months prior.)

She wastes all her time filling her planners and schedules and rewarding herself for waking up and brushing her teeth, to the point where she has no time to focus on all the stuff she actually needs to plan for, resulting in a complete dumpster fire of disorganisation.

Ruby finishes up by repeating most of her rambling nonsense from the ladt (now deleted) bullying video, about how bullying doesn't just happen in schools, but in adulthood, too. Again, this is only news to Ruby, who has spent most of her life in the mindset of a rich, sheltered child in a posh private school, and clearly hasn't matured past that mentality.

The things that people have addressed the most in her comments, and no doubt flooded her assumptions inbox that she's conveniently ignored:

You have an eating disorder.

You post toxic food content in videos and posts unrelated to food.

You ignore and delete comments that are remotely critical to avoid addressing them.

You took money from multiple charities despite not needing it.

You lie constantly about your plan to reinvest that ill-gotten charity money to avoid just giving it back.

You often lie about using products and services in exchange for money (where's the LG Gram laptop, Rubes?)

Your "daily routine" videos are filmed across multiple days, and you lie about it to make it seem like you accomplish more than anyone can possibly do in a day.

The list goes on.

But Ruby confessed that she walks fast, so I guess the important things were addressed.

studytubesnarker said:

Sooo, is she pretending that this is going to be a solo trip or will she admit immediately that her parents are coming?

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Her dad has some business at the Eiffel Tower and her mum just happens to be going that way to get croissants, so it just makes sense for them to all go together!

CleverLittleThoughts said:

Well. Now we know why she got the pearls and the flowers for her birthday. They were props. lmao I almost died when she had that straw bonnet on. Um, that style is from the Georgian period, not the Victorian! The rest of her outfit looked like it belonged to a child from the 1930's. So much for accuracy!

Why doesn't she swing her arms when she walks? She is so freaking stiff, but she does this all the time. Her parents look like they are playing house with her. There is no reality in what they do and it looks ridiculous. This is what you do when you are making plays in early Elementary grades or babysitting little kids, not the behavior of a 21 year old college student! God help us!

I just need to stop watching her, waiting for a ray of wisdom to shine down on her stupid head, wake her up and mature her. She will never grow out of this insane childishness. It just gets worse every single day. If I did something like this I would be absolutely ashamed to go back to uni and face my peers. Can you imagine what they must think of her? OMG

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Her father is secretly wishing his daughter smoked weed and scrolled TikTok like everyone else her age as he sips bland pea broth and cuts vegan meat substitute because he's the "man of the house"

POV: you're sat on a park bench in exeter when you suddenly spot studytube megastar and cottagecore slow living thrifty hygge victorian vintage pea eating handkerchief owning entrepreneurial icon THEE ruby granger strut past in her stunning low pony and totally sustainable non-depoppable miss patina skirt.. this is the very most aesthetic moment of your life

"From literature." One of the quotes is from a film review by Roger Ebert, one is from a Guardian interview with musician Niles Roberts and the other is a joke telegram sent to the New York Times by actor/columnist Robert Benchley.

By "some of my favourite quotes about Venice from literature", she means, "I Googled 'quotes about Venice' and couldn't be bothered to double-check who/where they were from". SOCH A PARFACKSHONIST! WHAT A BOCKWARM! THE RESAARCH AND HARD WAAARK SHE POTS INTYOO AVVERYTHING IS ASTRONIMICAL!

Funny how she had to make sure to mention that she already read it at the tender age of thirteen to remind everyone what a mature, progressive prodigy she was.

Can someone let me know when this goes back to the Ruby thread or do I need to go to the jkr thread and start talking about Ruby

I didn't know they had almond milk in Victorian times.