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Marie_10

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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...
 
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GrayNovember said:
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
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She has a MASSIVE london house and went to a pretty good state school so she's absolutely playing it down. In many ways she's a typical Oxford student - rich parents who think they're too left wing to send their child to a private school.
 
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I googled lolcow and Molly Jones and while yes, a lot of the comments are mean/harsh but this one stayed with me:

imagine having nothing better to do than spending your time creating an online persona and pretending that you suffer from a life-threatening mental illness in order to gain ass-pats, followers and likes for being a #recoverywarrior. minimising and invalidating the struggles of genuine eating disorder sufferers by using your platform to present recovery as a simple, black and white journey of simply saying "so scary" and then shovelling down all the food and more. they desperately need to find a life outside of over-dramatising questionable symptoms and milking them in order to prey on vulnerable people who are desperate to escape the true hell that is their life.
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If Molly pretended/faked to have an ED then that's just gross.
 
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roobee

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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.
 
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GrayNovember

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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
 
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Griftwood

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gossip_guy said:
Yeah, I hope she's doing well. With it coming directly after the Christmas break I'd guess it might be her just wanting to focus on uni and get the final year done and dusted and she might return after graduation with a clean social media slate.
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She’s redoing her first year currently.
 
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Oh no, that’s odd! I didn’t even realize it’s been that long since she posted a video/on insta. I really hope she’s okay...
 
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Randomer123

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You would have thought she could have done a simple "bye I'm leaving social media" post on Instagram...
 
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Randomer123

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Griftwood said:
I know this thread is just about dead and Molly understandably wants her privacy, but Google has just revealed to me that she played Toby in a 00 Productions production of Sweeney Todd in Oxford this past February. Pics here in case anyone’s interested: https://www.00productions.co.uk/gallery

So it looks like she’s doing well, just choosing not to be on social media.
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Oh that's good to know. I wonder if she'll ever pop up in Ruby's videos again...
 
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Caladan

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I just read some of the comments about Molly on lolcow and I don't think she is as innocent or as authentic as she presents herself. Which is a shame, because I had really enjoyed her book videos and I had a good impression of her. In fact, I think she might be just as fake as Ruby or worse.

TW: ED Behaviours

I didn't know about her before she started hanging out with Ruby, so I didn't actually watch any of her recovery videos but they are described with a lot of detail on lolcow and they had many screenshots of her posts. Someone had found some pictures of her from a theater group from the start of the year where she developed anorexia and it looks like she went from healthy to anorexic and back to healthy again in the span of a few months (by healthy I mean both weight restored and mentally. Of course there is no real way to know whether she was actually mentally recovered but when she posted on instagram she spoke of her ED in the past tense like she was already over it).

I refuse to believe she had an actual eating disorder, because no one recovers that quickly. If she had claimed to have bulimia, or binge eating, or any other eating disorder that was not restrictive anorexia it would have been much more believable. Now, I know you can't tell if someone has an ED based on their weight (in fact, most people I met in treatment looked completely normal, because they didn't have anorexia), but the combination of having recovered extremely fast, never really looking underweight and posting videos where she ate normal portions of all kinds of foods with no issue makes me think she was faking it for views or at least exaggerating.

From what I read she also had stuff on her instagram bio like "I know I look 12 haha" and she always referred to herself as a child, so in that sense she's just as childish and weird as Ruby.
 
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Fastgirl154

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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
 
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ggacc

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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!