Yeah I did. She used to be a lot more high energy in her old videos, it's like she's trying to be overly soft spoken now. If anyone wants see what she was like during that time she was discussed on lolcow.farm quite a lot
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As c505 else said, she was very high energy and acted a bit like an excitable child towards food and food challenges. There's a recovery Youtuber called Elzani and she was pretty much a clone of her tbh. I remember on low cow there was a lot of people accusing her of exaggerating/faking her ED because of the way she acted
Ooh interesting! I wonder why she decided to delete all those videos and rebrand...
WOW. Today I learned Molly has a youtube channel. It's like an early xmas morning. #grateful
She deleted them because she discovered lolcow and what they were posting about her ( pretty mean stuff tbh) and they were even posting about her family on there. But then she came back on Youtube as a Ruby clone this time
I googled lolcow and Molly Jones and while yes, a lot of the comments are mean/harsh but this one stayed with me:
If Molly pretended/faked to have an ED then that's just gross.
If Molly pretended/faked to have an ED then that's just gross.
I also found Molly at the beginning of her recovery and I genuinely thought that she was 16. She acted very childishly and she seemed really different. She never once spoke of literature back then. I know that everyone's recovery is different, but Molly's recovery seems odd to me. It's like one day she was completely in tears in front of a piece of toast and the next week she deleted everything, had no fears and was a literature nerd going to Oxford.
I don't want to assume that Molly pretended or faked her ED. places like /snow/ and /lolcow/ can be bleeping brutal for no good reason, and alot of the users for that Pro ana forum were heavily projecting onto these girls online and being downright cruel and witchy.
Any unhealthy behaviours or coping mechanisms in old videos that documented her recovery have now been taken down, and I think she was criticized for certain things that she owned up to and removed from her channel. If she was problematic before to a more serious degree, that's been addressed and removed. (This is me just talking about her own behaviour on her old videos, not her currently problematic association and promotion of Ruby and her eating disorder-esque behaviour.)
I have issues with her seemingly 180 degree shift into Oxford literature nerd, but she has been showing various clips in almost all her videos pre-Oxford of her taking notes and annotating books and doing research. Unlike Ruby, I don't think Molly's interest in English is a farce.
Any unhealthy behaviours or coping mechanisms in old videos that documented her recovery have now been taken down, and I think she was criticized for certain things that she owned up to and removed from her channel. If she was problematic before to a more serious degree, that's been addressed and removed. (This is me just talking about her own behaviour on her old videos, not her currently problematic association and promotion of Ruby and her eating disorder-esque behaviour.)
I have issues with her seemingly 180 degree shift into Oxford literature nerd, but she has been showing various clips in almost all her videos pre-Oxford of her taking notes and annotating books and doing research. Unlike Ruby, I don't think Molly's interest in English is a farce.
I don't think her interest in English lit is fake either but I wonder if perhaps her ED wasn't as bad as she portrayed it? Maybe she did have ED tendencies and was inspired by Elzani and decided to make videos like her but didn't like the negative feedback and scrubbed everything to come back as a Ruby 2.0...
Maybe, but that seem to didn't help Ruby, Jade, Jack or Eve who all come from varying degrees of upper-middle-class privilege. All of them failed to get in, primarily because they all adopted the same ultimately worthless brand of busywork "productivity" and memorisation-based study, which seems to be a big red flag for Oxbridge interviewers.
So Molly's background probably didn't hurt any, and it's possible she had people more experienced with Oxford's interview and acceptance criteria coaching her with her application (and she actually listened to them, unlike the StudyTubers, who thought they knew better) but she likely got in by virtue of having a more balanced education and being a more naturally intelligent person.
I quite like her videos, but can't help and notice that she isn't showing her true personality. It's like she saw it worked well for Holly and Ruby and decided to behave and do similar things as them, just to gain followers and views.
I may be biased since I never saw Molly's old videos, but I don't have any reason to think she was actually faking an ED considering she had to take time out of uni because of it? Maybe she might have overdramatised how bad it was, but that's not uncommon - a lot of "ED recovery" stuff online is just covert pro-ana content, and a lot of people will exaggerate their condition because they want to be seen as sicker/"better" than other people with eating disorders. Anorexia has a horrible competitive element to it sometimes.
Molly did say somewhere (Instagram I think?) that she took down her old recovery videos because it's a part of her life she wants to leave behind and not be associated with online. That could mean anything - it might be because she's embarrassed by them, associates them with bad memories, or because she regrets promoting unhealthy behaviours. Whatever her reasoning, it was probably a smart decision to get rid of the videos and start afresh, so I can't fault her for it.
Molly did say somewhere (Instagram I think?) that she took down her old recovery videos because it's a part of her life she wants to leave behind and not be associated with online. That could mean anything - it might be because she's embarrassed by them, associates them with bad memories, or because she regrets promoting unhealthy behaviours. Whatever her reasoning, it was probably a smart decision to get rid of the videos and start afresh, so I can't fault her for it.
Out of curiosity was anyone following Molly before the YouTube? I started following her when she had just started posting on her recovery insta.
Wondering if anyone else here was around that time - before she then deleted pics, then came back and then started YouTube
Wondering if anyone else here was around that time - before she then deleted pics, then came back and then started YouTube
Molly's saccharine theatre-kid act is a bit too much at times, but I must confess I have been enjoying her videos lately. I think in some ways Ruby has started to copy Molly as well, particularly her new (performative) fondness for "independent" small businesses. Molly repeatedly shows that she buys secondhand clothes from thrift stores; she makes sustainable outfit videos, etc. Unlike Ruby who only pays lip service to an abstract ideal of environmentally concerned, ethically mindful shopping that never really materializes, Molly actually seems to enjoy her thrift-shop finds.
Completely agree - regardless of the way that she's portraying her ED, I don't think it's fair to accuse her of faking. Anorexia and social media are a horrible combination, but that's no reason to uncritically believe accusations thrown around on lolcow.
I've just watched a random Moya Mawhinney video for the first time and oh man Molly really does copy almost everything she does 
Although tbf Moya probably wasn't first either!
Although tbf Moya probably wasn't first either!Does anyone know about Molly’s background? I’m still shocked from when she said she had never really thought about going to a place like Oxford until a teacher suggested it and she decided to apply on a whim. Last time I checked, it’s pretty hard to get into one of the most prestigious universities in the world after applying on a whim
I think she's probably playing it down - you definitely can't apply on a whim, because the application deadline is months before other universities and I expect for English Lit she would have had to submit written work (which afaik other unis don't require - it can be a random sample of A Level work but obv it's an extra thing to think about). Maybe by applying spontaneously she means that she made the decision at the start of Year 13 rather than having the intention to apply for years.
People like her love to make it seem like they just applied at the last minute because someone told them to and they easily got in because they’re so smart. They don’t like to admit that they put in months (and years) of hard work to have a chance at a school like that. It’s an ego thing
I googled 'Molly Jones Oxford' and if I got the same Molly, she was one of three people from her school to get into Oxford for English. The school has very impressive results!