Reading another childhood book and looking like a child...
Ruby Granger #12 The Continuing Adventures of Pie-rott and Muriel
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That clearly shows how stupid she is. Making a total cringe of yourself and destroying your health and relationships for yt money is one of the most lame things you can do. Especially when you're rich from your parents. If she was actually smart she'd get book sponsorships and stuff instead of wasting time on ugly ootds and other tit. But the worst part is she's causing harm to her viewers and sooner or later they will realise what a piece of tit she is and leave her. Especially since there are already much better studytubers (like basically any aesthetic she does she sucks at it) and she's already losing numbers
the general chat in her bookclub discord is talking about the footy (entirely reasonable, I am still somewhat hungover lmao). I bet Ruby’s horrified: “b-b-but you like books, football is like the opposite of books, we’ve clearly been infiltrated by the lower classes. This is bullying!”
Seriously though thinking about the football it really does highlight just how little of a life she has. If you don’t like sport that’s obviously entirely fair, but she just doesn’t have anything. Last night I watched the match with my flatmate, we got drunk and reminisced about previous tournaments, then sang along to all the crappy pop throwbacks (and some legit good music lol) that we grew up listening to, playing at school discos, putting on when drinking cider and alcopops in fields age 14. Now clearly this isn’t going to be for everyone, but I reckon those experiences (and the music for sure) are going to be fairly universal for most people our age. I’ll also probably remember last night all my life, because it was just one of those moments. It really makes me wonder what she’s actually going to remember when she gets older, because ultimately you don’t form memories by sitting at a desk being productive, you form them by doing things, usually with other people. It really doesn’t matter what those things are, but I can’t see her looking back in 10 years time and thinking with huge fondness that time she drove away a new friend by being a head, or camped in her garden metres away from her parents. It makes me kinda sad (except for the fact that her behaviour is bleeping dreadful) that she’s not going to have done anything in her youth that’s actually worth remembering because she’s spent it all behind a desk, ignoring anyone she thinks is beneath her. Especially because she actually has the luxury to do stuff. It’s not like she’s had to prioritise work over fun because otherwise she can’t eat/pay rent/pay uni fees, she actually has the freedom to try new things and pick up time consuming hobbies and go out in the evenings and she just…hasn’t.
sorry for the rant, if you can’t tell I’m feeling very nostalgic
Maybe she's going for the 'malnourished Victorian child' aesthetic, given her fascination with the period and childhood. She also loves to be characters, hence Ruby Granger... It's starting to make sense now!
Oof, it looks bland!
I’ve become so worried about Ruby - she has lost so much weight and has become this childlike person. I’m sure her parent must have noticed and be concerned. She is reading strange childlike books - the Instagram story where she talks about rating the months of the year? It’s all strange behaviour - very childlike and not at all someone who is capable of the independent thinking of a masters and PhD.
there are no jobs anyway for anyone who does a PhD in English and very little funding. My guess is she is struggling with the level of independent thought now needed for a dissertation - I really do worry for her mental health
there are no jobs anyway for anyone who does a PhD in English and very little funding. My guess is she is struggling with the level of independent thought now needed for a dissertation - I really do worry for her mental health
For all I know, she's rubbing her hands together like a pleased little fly because people tell her she looks like a child on this thread, as it seems to be the girl's only real goal.
Ruby, bad news. You can diminish yourself all you want, you can't go back to being a child. Enjoying the things from your childhood is just fine, wishing your 20s away pretending to be a child is not. Hurting yourself to appear as small and juvenile as possible isn't escapism you think it is. Get help girl.
Ruby, bad news. You can diminish yourself all you want, you can't go back to being a child. Enjoying the things from your childhood is just fine, wishing your 20s away pretending to be a child is not. Hurting yourself to appear as small and juvenile as possible isn't escapism you think it is. Get help girl.
Someone may already have mentioned this, but to me it is obvious what's going on with Ruby and her weight loss. It's a pretty well-known trick in theater/acting for an actor to lose a lot of weight in order to get younger acting parts, or to be able to continue to stay acting in younger roles. My guess is that Ruby is losing weight in order to continue to look young, and in that way, be able to continue to create the young content she is known for (and keep her huge following), even though she's getting older. That YT content is her bread & butter, so to speak! 
She hasn't figured out yet that books are not the only source of learning.
This I think is really important for Ruby to focus on. I know she misses childhood but at least she experienced childhood. Honestly Ruby if you read this - you'll massively regret it if you get to your 30s and realize you threw your 20s and your university years away ....
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I don’t get what she is longing for? I was badly bullied at school and do not wish I was a child? Like why is she obsessed with being a child?
Maybe she's longing for the childhood she never had, if the bullying spoiled her 'first attempt'. Although I'm guessing her childhood was pretty idyllic already...
When she did her short "film" on bullying (complete with Daddy Bones holding cutlery in a frankly horrifying way) Rubes was quick to state that she had never experienced bullying but was strongly against it.
Although imo the Ermimenthola book paints a different picture about her feelings on bullying
My guess would be that she doesn’t really want to leave a world that she was the centre of. When she was younger, she was important at school and she was living in a world where she was clearly praised a lot - everything she did was seen special and important, so special and important in fact that she was able to put it on a YouTube channel and make money from it. She was good at what she was doing academically, and she wasn’t having to cope with the complexity of the adult world, where you’re not always the highest achiever, there isn’t a mark-scheme to follow for 100%, nobody thinks you’re particularly special and showing up, sitting at the front and having a pencil-case full of expensive highlighters isn’t always enough.
I really don’t think she’s got over not getting into Oxford for her undergrad - and not just that, but that being the first time she’d really failed at something (and not got what she wanted) was a huge blow to her confidence. I don’t think she’s ever been really happy at Exeter/university in general or at least, not as happy as she was being Head Girl at school and I think she wants that (or her idealised version of it) back.
I totally agree, and just want to add that it's so dangerous because let's say she continues on in this path, and turns 30. When she looks back at her 20s and sees a sad attempt at holding dearly onto childhood, she'll feel she squandered her 20s, her 'messing about years', in the same way that she feels bullying stripped her of her childhood.
She'll just be in the exact same position - chasing lost time.
I'm not saying she has to live like every other 20 year old, but at the very least live like one at her own pace, and detach from the childhood obsession, or else 10/20/however many years from now she'll look back with regret.
I can sympathise a little with Ruby and struggling with the concept of 'growing up' and 'getting older'. For me, I feel like I'm stuck at a point of 'trauma'.
Up until the age of 17 my life was great; I did well at school, had lots of friends, was outgoing and adventurous and was generally excited for the future. At about 17 and a half I suddenly - and quite unexpectedly, although in hindsight it had always been there - started suffering from anxiety. It massively impacted my life. By the time I turned 18 I was functioning normally again, but the anxiety was still there, just below the surface. I did well in my A-levels, got offers from good unis and my anxiety didn't come back until I was 20. This time it hit me HARD - much harder than the first time. I was also now at uni, who literally didn't care when I asked for help. Nearly 2 years later and I'm honestly in no better a place.
I'm not trying to hold on to my childhood, but I feel like I haven't aged past that moment of 'trauma' when I was 17. Of course it wasn't actually trauma - like a traumatic event or series of events - but I feel like it's the best way to describe it. (I don't actually call it trauma in real life, and I don't want to detract from anyone who has genuinely experienced a traumatic event.) For me, that's a moment in my life that has dictated nearly every moment of my life since. If it wasn't for that moment - if I hadn't experienced anxiety when I was 17 - I would be in a completely different place, doing something completely different to what I am currently doing.
For me, pre-17 year old life was so different to what it is now. My biggest worry was if I was going to miss the bus or did I forget the homework. I didn't pay rent, I wasn't paying for my education, I didn't have to 'adult'. At the age of 17 I was mature and doing 'adult' things - I used a lot of public transport, I cooked, I cleaned. It's not as if I was spoilt and my parents did everything for me. But there's no expectation at 17 - you're not an adult. There's always someone - if you're fortunate - to pick up the pieces. The pandemic hasn't helped either. As with everyone else, I have spent much of it living at home with my parents. When I go home - and this is a common feeling - I often feel like I regress. I lose the independence that I experience whilst living at university; everything from doing my own food shopping to socialising. I haven't been able to grow as a person.
I want to stress that I don't long to be 17 again. When my anxiety is at it's worst I do think back to simpler times or to key moments which have dictated the place I am in now, questioning where it all went wrong and reflecting on the things I took for granted. But I would never regress. I know that there's no point longing for the past. It's done, it's happened and nothing can change that. But I can dictate the future. I just don't think I've grown any more as a person since the age of 17. In fact I have regressed; I am no longer as positive or as outgoing and adventurous or as brave as I was before.
I think it's very dismissive to say that Ruby wants to be a child and is therefore (purposely) damaging her health. I'd argue that she has a health condition which is making her long for childhood, innocence and simpler times. When you're in a difficult headspace, it is very hard to get out of it. I do wonder, as a lot of people have mentioned, if she is on the Autism Spectrum. A lot of people have mentioned autism, but I wonder if she has Asperger's. (I believe terminology has changed fairly recently, so I am sorry if I offend anyone.) A lot of people on the Autism Spectrum often go undiagnosed because they are functioning well enough in their daily life. For example, Ruby has always achieved good marks at school and she almost certainly didn't misbehave, so why should anyone suspect anything was wrong? This is what the website Autism Speaks says about people with Asperger's: they have restricted interests, desire for sameness, distinctive strengths (such as remarkable focus and persistence, aptitude for recognising patterns, attention to detail). I'm not an expert though so it's just a suggestion. I also think the pandemic has been major trigger for Ruby's downfall. It has enabled her to regress, living in a bubble and her imagination. Within the comfort of her own home she is free to live as she pleases, whether it be as a child or a Victorian.
Up until the age of 17 my life was great; I did well at school, had lots of friends, was outgoing and adventurous and was generally excited for the future. At about 17 and a half I suddenly - and quite unexpectedly, although in hindsight it had always been there - started suffering from anxiety. It massively impacted my life. By the time I turned 18 I was functioning normally again, but the anxiety was still there, just below the surface. I did well in my A-levels, got offers from good unis and my anxiety didn't come back until I was 20. This time it hit me HARD - much harder than the first time. I was also now at uni, who literally didn't care when I asked for help. Nearly 2 years later and I'm honestly in no better a place.
I'm not trying to hold on to my childhood, but I feel like I haven't aged past that moment of 'trauma' when I was 17. Of course it wasn't actually trauma - like a traumatic event or series of events - but I feel like it's the best way to describe it. (I don't actually call it trauma in real life, and I don't want to detract from anyone who has genuinely experienced a traumatic event.) For me, that's a moment in my life that has dictated nearly every moment of my life since. If it wasn't for that moment - if I hadn't experienced anxiety when I was 17 - I would be in a completely different place, doing something completely different to what I am currently doing.
For me, pre-17 year old life was so different to what it is now. My biggest worry was if I was going to miss the bus or did I forget the homework. I didn't pay rent, I wasn't paying for my education, I didn't have to 'adult'. At the age of 17 I was mature and doing 'adult' things - I used a lot of public transport, I cooked, I cleaned. It's not as if I was spoilt and my parents did everything for me. But there's no expectation at 17 - you're not an adult. There's always someone - if you're fortunate - to pick up the pieces. The pandemic hasn't helped either. As with everyone else, I have spent much of it living at home with my parents. When I go home - and this is a common feeling - I often feel like I regress. I lose the independence that I experience whilst living at university; everything from doing my own food shopping to socialising. I haven't been able to grow as a person.
I want to stress that I don't long to be 17 again. When my anxiety is at it's worst I do think back to simpler times or to key moments which have dictated the place I am in now, questioning where it all went wrong and reflecting on the things I took for granted. But I would never regress. I know that there's no point longing for the past. It's done, it's happened and nothing can change that. But I can dictate the future. I just don't think I've grown any more as a person since the age of 17. In fact I have regressed; I am no longer as positive or as outgoing and adventurous or as brave as I was before.
I think it's very dismissive to say that Ruby wants to be a child and is therefore (purposely) damaging her health. I'd argue that she has a health condition which is making her long for childhood, innocence and simpler times. When you're in a difficult headspace, it is very hard to get out of it. I do wonder, as a lot of people have mentioned, if she is on the Autism Spectrum. A lot of people have mentioned autism, but I wonder if she has Asperger's. (I believe terminology has changed fairly recently, so I am sorry if I offend anyone.) A lot of people on the Autism Spectrum often go undiagnosed because they are functioning well enough in their daily life. For example, Ruby has always achieved good marks at school and she almost certainly didn't misbehave, so why should anyone suspect anything was wrong? This is what the website Autism Speaks says about people with Asperger's: they have restricted interests, desire for sameness, distinctive strengths (such as remarkable focus and persistence, aptitude for recognising patterns, attention to detail). I'm not an expert though so it's just a suggestion. I also think the pandemic has been major trigger for Ruby's downfall. It has enabled her to regress, living in a bubble and her imagination. Within the comfort of her own home she is free to live as she pleases, whether it be as a child or a Victorian.
Has Ruby responded to the discord football chat
Which is weird because she's embraced every opportunity to mention that she was bullied in true 'woe is me' fashion in a lot of her videos. It's almost like everything she says is lies, or completely delusional.
She even made a whole video about how being "bullied" made her who she is, and another about how she forgave her "bullies" because she's a saintly sort, that Ruby - a video where she actually, with a straight face, compares her being "bullied" at school to being put in a Nazi concentration camp.
In reality, her biography-in-all-but-name 'Erimenthusiastic About Extra Homework' is the biggest indicator that her getting "bullied" amounted to her being a spoiled little brat and making her classmates' lives miserable until they couldn't take it anymore and one of them lashed out and rightfully called her a dick. She embellished wildly from there. From everything she's said and shown, she was the bully, she's just too self-centred to notice.
She's made no less than a dozen videos about being bullied, and has mentioned it countless more. Not to diminish the impact of bullying, but Ruby hasn't experienced it - it's a joke that she's out there talking to kids who've actually been bullied as if it's something she's been through. It also speaks to how much the poster child for sheltered, white upper-middle-class privilege she is that being bullied at school is the only serious cause she's outspoken about (unless she's getting paid to advertise a charity.)
She has a big platform to speak about and raise awareness of major issues, but the most she can muster is "I was bullied once, and the trauma lives on to this day."
Ruby being bullied is kids giving her side eye when she tells the teacher "you forgot to assign homework"
Just wanted to say, Autism Speaks is absolutely awful.
And the term Asperger's syndrome is no longer used. No offence taken though! Just sharing from the point of view of someone with ASD, plus an ED unfortunately.
I agree with a lot of your post.
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