Ruby Granger #15 Dustcore

[snom4444]

Ahhh, thanks! I don’t actually care to watch her videos lool

What did she get?

76 for second year overall, which is a solid mark for a UK humanities degree, but she seemed disappointed. Mostly mid-80s for seminar participation marks, and mid-low-70s for exams.

 

[snapesslut]

The jeans. They are so baggy and just unflattering. With all the money they have, surely she could get a proper fitting pair.

 

[CatCafe234]

The advert for that Alice exhibition popped up in my FB feed a while back and I have to admit I did a double take as I was convinced it something to do with Ruby - it was all back views of long-haired girls in quasi-Victorian dresses tiptoeing slowly though corridors and it looked just like one of Ruby’s videos (if Ruby‘s videos had a production value …)

 

[pomegranate_seeds]

Pyromania. She's been trying to burn down her house for the insurance money for months.

I mean, that's one way of achieving the authentic orphaned Victorian child vibe

 

[yayadumpling]

Ruby's fans appear to have very quickly forgotten about that blatant scam contest that she ran for her planner. Predictably, she never announced winners and nobody's tagged her or Pumpkin Productivity in any posts to say they’d won. She's just complete pondscum.

did she ever mention how long it would be until she announced the winners?

 

[ECH]

As he's from the US it's pronounced Capohtea or /kəˈpoʊti/ in case you're familiar with IPA. If not then hover over the letters and it *should* show the pronunciation. Here's a (self-described) friend of his introducing Capote on his talk show in 1972 . Other show hosts use the same pronunciation.

Another word that blew my mind when I learned the pronunciation of it was "Yosemite".

Maybe it's a British tendency to use the French pronunciation in these circumstances? ie. "-te" is pronounced, "t"? Please correct if I'm wrong as I've never actually studied English pronunciation.

I'm not really sure I get what you're saying at the end - it's pronounced Yoh-sem-it-ee, not Yoh-semi-ite.

 

[macaroon]

When was it that she bought the cottage? Was it the 2018 date? I noticed this on the rightmove listing (not the rental one) which shows it was sold in June 2019 - did she re-sell or have I got my dates muddled?

If I remember correctly it was in 2019 since she was in her university dorm, but not entirely sure

 

[Kettleoffish]

They are notes though? Aren't notes meant to be rough? If she took the time to make them neat people would criticise her for poor time management.

That video is also incredibly revealing. Obviously nothing has changed at all in her atrocious time management and organisational skills. She's still making a show of complaining that she has so much to do and not enough time, after wasting an hour on making a pointless timetable.

But she says she reads Sparknotes synopses for the books she's assigned before reading the actual book, then shows herself copying almost all of the Sparknotes information into Notion (while complaining that she struggles to remember the characters before even reading the book). Not only is this an insanely baffling, backwards way to learn anything, it's incredibly telling of how she "reads": She doesn't. Even academically, she cheats, the same way she does with the books she pretends to read for personal enjoyment. She reads a synopsis, skims through bits of the actual text to highlight quotes and cobbles together her thoughts based on a Frankensteined list of material she found online.

Tbf, I'm not sure where you got the "hour" from on the timetable. I found the part of the video you meant and I could write that in 2-3 minutes, and it would help me personally. If I don't plan a work day it is easy for me to spend way too long on one task, and just giving a quick estimation of how long each task should take will make me hurry up if I realise it is taking too long.

 

[Ilaariaa]

I read it in January and while I enjoyed, it was mainly due to nostalgia. It’s repetitive, self-indulgent and shallow, and I’m guessing it has an appeal for Ruby because she likes to imagine she, too, was an overachiever in school. (As I do lol)

Roobee’s list of fave books speaks volumes about the kind of person she is, and how that person is nowhere near the image she tries to project.

It's just so childish and repetitive. Doesn't she get bored reading about white teen girls in the Victorian/Edwardian era?

 

[Lola123]

She really doesn’t have any skills, does she? She doesn’t play an instrument, doesn’t do a craft or draw/paint, can’t cook or bake.apart from unappetising things where she’s eliminated sugar and fat. Her only hobby outside of studying is flopping around on her trampoline or airtrack and looking like she’s two seconds away from breaking her neck.

She would have at school though, the school she went too doesn’t just let them do nothing when the other kids are at sport

 

[cukiesandcreme]

Has Ruby disclosed her grades/marks for this years exams yet?

 

[DubVar]

These are sure signs of its being one of the worst pieces of narrative fiction their is. I don’t need to read it to see that.

Good thing you had Ruby's example to follow or you might have used that word incorrectly. Imagine the embarrassment

 

[Magpie02]

So, I was watching one of her videos from last autumn while I had my lunch (chili and rice, the equivalent of two weeks of Roobee meals I’m sure). It was this one:

Brushing aside the obvious facts that she looks healthier and eats actual food with actual nutritional value, I thought the interesting part in this was the speech she had to give and apparently totally failed at, because she was crying afterwards. So I did a little frame-by-frame sleuthing of her notes, and apparently it was a speech on ”digital learning” that Exeter had asked her to give. I’m not surprised at all that it didn’t go well, because her notes reveal that she went from ”how I got to be a successful influencer” to ”how to curate your own social media platform” to then talking about how difficult it is to adapt to online learning and how it’s important to have a good study space and dress up for lectures. Oh what I wouldn’t give to have seen this trainwreck as it was happening

Man, the formatting of her notes drives me nuts. Why is the capitalization/non-capitalization of each word after the bullet point all over the place? Sloppy!

 

[abcd22]

Ruby added this to her Goodreads recently. Considering her recent behaviour and I know make bully jokes but I wonder if she actually thinks she is just being shamed for shits and giggles?

loads of people have been reading this book recently or putting it on their tbr. the "public shamings" it is about are also much, much bigger scale than anything ruby came ever close to experiencing, so i'm not sure what you are wanting to say?

 

[missmina]

Can we find the house tour video somewhere there too? (would be muuuch appreciated! )

Ok if someone's interested - she shows bits from 4:45! But she does mention at 5:10 that she filmed a video of herself staying there for the night and I do remember something like that!

 

[missmina]

That’s… an oversized denim shirt of some kind. Can’t imagine throwing £100 away on that.

Also, maybe this is just me being dense, but why is she putting that weird-ass filter on everything? If you’re trying to sell something at a ridiculous price, wouldn’t you want to put up an accurate picture instead of some filtered to hell shots of a crumpled-up piece of clothing?

For some reason kids buy it. Same as thousands of dumb aesthetics nowadays

 

[justcantbearit]

Did anyone else think it was really sad on Instagram when she said how she didn't used to accompany her parents to the GARDEN CENTRE in termtime because she felt it wasn't productive and therefore should be a holiday treat? Honestly that is so worrying, I feel like someone should have intervened and locked her books away one day a week at least!

I’m surprising myself with what I’m about to write but during my A level year (many moons ago) I didn’t go out during the day (because I went out at night!) so wouldn’t go to places like that with my parents - especially when it is 1.5 hours drive away (I used to live near Roobee). But I think it’s more disturbing because she probably didn’t do anything else at all- like seeing friends in the evenings or house parties at weekends, or sports or arts or anything that wasn’t “academic”

 

[it'sraining]

The concept of slow living is actually pretty cool: consume less (as in buying stuff, not a nod to EDs) and take a slower approach to life. By this it means eliminating busywork, and not packing your calendar with social events you feel obligated to do but aren't looking forward to.
Some of my slow living friends also say that giving back to your local community, and helping to nurture that sense of community is also part of the movement, but I'm not sure I've seen that represented as much on YT channels.

Side note: the slow living movement grew out of the slow food movement which started in Italy in the 80s as a reaction to fast food. Slow food just means trying to eat locally grown produce, and traditional dishes instead of fast food.

Ruby's interpretation of 'slow living' with her endless buying/ being gifted lots of new clothes, never-ending busywork, and emphasis on cramming in as many books she can 'read' in a year just for the sake of numbers really irks me. Those things all go against the slow living ethos.

Hope this helps a bit!

Ah thanks for explaining!

 

[yayadumpling]

New member here and so glad I found this place!
I thought it was just me who had started to find her insufferable but I’m not alone! When she mispronounced Truman Capote as an almost third year English Lit student I knew there had to be some other like minded folks who would of been equally outraged!


Quick side note, and I apologise if this has already been bought up in previous threads, does anyone know what happened to that cottage she was buying?

It must be over two years ago now, she put up a vlog about how she was buying this cottage and even stayed a night in it, however a few days later it was gone and she hasn’t breathed a word since? I’ve even seen the odd YouTube comment asking about it but obviously she never responds.

Does anyone know what happened? Because it drives me mad !

how did she pronounce Truman Capote?? i wanna know haha

 

[pletkininke]

Would something like this have a dark academia vibe? Sorry for so many questions, I'm very curious about this whole dark academia thing