Ruby's obsession with dark academia and all those other ~aesthetics~ is so immature. The idea that she is choosing a dissertation topic based on whether or not it fits the dark academia theme makes me cringe so hard!
Hopefully soon she will start to see just how childishly she is behaving, because it's really embarassing...
Also, I'm disappoined that all of the YouTubers that I used to watch in order to motivate me to work hard have let me down.
Who am I supposed to use as inspiration now? Ruby is a complete idiot (and evidently a horrible, selfish person), Holly admittedly works hard but she is in no way a role model and she looks awful these days (there's something really off about her face--she needs some proper food), Jack Edwards is doing a good job with his book content but still has no goals or sense of direction, no personality and no fashion sense (copying Harry Styles is not the same as having "style", it's just called being unoriginal
). Oh, and Unjaded Jade comes accross as depressingly unintelligent too, as well as completely out-of-touch with the world around her. All of these people who studied incredibly hard while they were in school (and who I looked up to) have only served to prove that busywork not only gets you nowhere in life (big surprise), but also inhibits you from developing into a mature, well-adjusted adult... They are the opposite of role-models, and I watch them to remind me to get out of my house, expose myself to as many alternate viewpoints as possible and live a little.
However, I do kind of miss relying on external sources of motivation in order to get myself to be ~productive~...
I probably shouldn't ask here, but if anyone knows of any YouTubers in the same vein as Ruby/Holly/Jade etc. who act like real, functional adults, I would be very grateful if you could drop some recs!