Ruby Granger #15 Dustcore

[Griftwood]

I was rewatching Ruby's old Hermione videos and one that really struck me was How To Study Like Hermione Granger - it it, she says things like "study solidly without breaks", "don't ask your teacher for help [...] even if it means spending another hour on it", "never let anyone tell you you're doing too much". This is obviously very dangerous advice to be giving to a young, impressionable audience, and recommends damaging thought patterns and behaviours. I know this video was posted years ago and I think she's grown and realised a lot of this advice is harmful and misguided, but surely she should take the video down? it really doesn't sit right with me that it's still up...

I watched that one a while ago, and I feel like she could do a really cracking video where she revisits it and points out the flaws, and replaces her former advice with better advice. I’m not holding my breath for her to have the self-awareness and maturity to do that, though.

 

[snapesslut]

Well the new video is certainly boring, which isn't anything new.

The trunk was fucking disgusting with the mould in it, and she got the bright idea to plunge her hand into it. Even though she cries about germs and touching gates, she has no problem with putting her hand into a mouldy trunk?

And the nails..
The state of them. If your going to make a video which for the majority of it your hands are shown, would it not occur to you to paint them properly instead of half doing it like everything.

Also OT but looks like their is no sign of that video Martha was meant to be doing with Ruby over a month ago.

Enjoy the picture of Ruby rambling on about her nibs for her pen.

Ruby granger #16 Views sunk, mold in the trunk, daddy bones is a hunk

 

[homebird12]

First time poster, long time lurker found a (possibly dodgy) link to the video where Ruby says she has bought a house:

https://m.bilibili.com/video/BV1J4411L7XA?from=seopage

 

[gossip_guy]

Feminist Housewife

Having lunch with old friends recently, I was told that I am not very feminist because of being super excited about my new 'Hoover' coming today. It is actually a Sebo but I was raised in the seventies and we called all vacuum cleaners 'Hoovers' back then. My friends did point out that it is a...

www.whatapalaver.co

Mother Granger's back to blogging, and she's still just as blatant a bullshitter as her daughter.

"After two years of slogging it out doing all the chores at home while my brood work on 'proper jobs' and uni work around me, I have decided that I might as well enjoy my new role and upgrade my tools accordingly."

"Proper jobs"? Plural? Ruby's mum neglects to mention that only one person in the household has a "proper job", and even then, playing Gordon Gekko and dodging the taxman stretches the definition quite a bit.

"I am quite slapdash and happy for the house to look overall clean and tidy."

Spoilers: It doesn't.

"There are spider webs up high in the nooks and crannies, plus plain old free-range ones but housework is time consuming and back-breaking enough when having to do the daily grind of washing up, washing clothes, cooking, cleaning the bathroom, 'Hoovering', mopping, gardening and tidying up without the added job of Spring cleaning too."

There's no evidence that any of those things happen in that house.

But at least we have a reason for why Ruby's house always looks like a squalid, festering swamp: Ruby's mum is so busy thinking about all the things that could potentially be keeping her from cleaning that she doesn't do anything at all.

 

[gossip_guy]

For some reason Ruby using her issue of the New Yorker as scrap paper to introduce new ideas in the video really annoys me. Why not use a blank piece of paper and save the New Yorker issue for rereading? What a waste

In order to reread things, Ruby would have to bother reading them to begin with.

Her obsession with the New Yorker is limited entirely to using it as a prop as part of her nebulous dark academia aesthetic, or just glueing it all over her kitchen cabinets.

 

[3calico3]

I think that's the trouble with casual magic and telling people to love and appreciate every little thing: it's ridiculously unrealistic and toxic.

If I stub my toe, my first thought isn't going to be "Ooh I'm so amazed by how sturdy and solid that table leg is", I'm going to be internally cussing and feeling pain. There isn't anything positive about it, and not being able to see the negative in situations (i.e. the balance of life) isn't a good thing.

 

[Griftwood]

I have the current thread title on both Ruby and Jade.....where's my book deal?

I had thread titles on Ruby and Holly a few weeks back! Maybe we can collaborate on a kindness planner, we can include pages for marathon training, meal planning (half a page will do) and casual magic

 

[bunnys]

And she wasn't even bullied. By all accounts, her "bullying" amounted to people just not wanting to be friends with her in school and maybe making passive-aggressive comments to her because she was a judgemental, conceited little buzzkill who actively made her fellow students' days worse by encouraging and reminding teachers to assign homework to everyone. Her "bullying" was so intense that, according to her, she forgot/didn't realise that she'd been "bullied" until years later.

i got bullied when i was younger (around middle school age), but i didn't realise it was bullying. because i'm autistic i thought the boys making fun of me were actually my friends. rather than realising they were laughing at my interests, i thought they really did care about about the video games i was into. i thought that kids yelling at me across the classroom and boys harassing me in the hallways and people making fun of pictures i took with my friends on instagram "happened to everyone." and i didn't find out until later that the girl who used to screenshot all my snapchat stories/forward them to other people was actually sending my selfies into a class groupchat to laugh at me.

bullying isn't always incredibly obvious, and it's not always beating someone up or calling them nasty names. for me, it would have been fairly hard to report a lot of the bullying i went through. rather than being made up of specific events, it was just a series of continuous actions taken by my classmates to make me feel excluded, lonely and weird. it's ignorant for ruby to compare her experiences to horrific events, of course. but to say that everyone must know when they're being bullied or else it didn't really happen fails to recognise how bullying and abuse can feel on the receiving end.

 

[snom4444]

It's very blatantly written to be as vague as possible since she has never read the book, but she wanted to jump on the CMBYN popularity bandwagon and sound intelligent, so she shoved in a bunch of misused or invented flowery words. It's meaningless word soup that's so vague and ambiguous it could apply to almost any book. It's a classic "I got called on to do a book report but didn't do the reading" tactic. And she does it a lot.

I made the mistake of wondering - how bad could the review really be? I think that 'meaningless word soup' is about the politest thing you could call the review also 'intercept', holy shit, this girl is an English Literature student but you wouldn't guess it. And I could be wrong but I'm sure she describes a lot of different books with stuff about the past and future intersecting... like yes, Ruby, that is how timelines work. And how can a book be 'etched' with memories?? There's so much to unpack here!!

tl;dr - *slaps roof of book review* this bad boy can fit so much absolute bullshit in it

 

[passiflorae]

I can feel so much stress and anxiety radiating off her in her new video. Such a difference looking back on other vlogs of her laughing, talking with a genuine smile, and getting excited over little things. I can just sense this feeling of forced authenticity and it's very off-putting. And her obsession with fall is starting to become odd. Like...I thought you're supposed to "live in the moment" "and appreciate life as it comes to you." This is coming from someone who used to watch her videos religious and idolized her. Oh and of course we have the multiple clothing changes. For someone who wants to be kind to the earth and live simply, she sure wastes a lot of water with excess laundry.

She is definitely anxious. The faces she pulls...

Ruby stressing herself because she has "work" to do, it's 9:20 and she has to empty the dishwasher.

Ruby stressing herself because "it's 9:30 oh my goodness" and the best thing to do when you are stressed is to set a 45 min timer to "see how much you can read in that time".

This girl needs to throw away the watch and the planners in order to heal, it's pure obsession, even during summer.

 

[emmer_moans]

I've seen a few stories in papers recently where people born and raised in villages in idyllic areas like Cornwall are priced out of their village by people buying second homes or landlords buying multiple properties. People like Ruby. Instead these villagers either have to inherit a home in their area or pay astronomical rent, or buy a house at inflated price just to stay where they have always lived, where their friends are, etc. It's disgusting.

Ruby really needs to learn how privileged she is because she really doesn't relate to 99% of her audience.

 

[Griftwood]

So she prepared for next year by reading one (1) children’s book, making notes on Father Christmas, and taking 40 minutes to come up with reasons why her dissertation topic is relevant (meaning she definitely hasn’t got it approved yet), and her ”day in the life” was filmed about a month ago (before the planner went on sale). Gotcha.

 

[Griftwood]

She's just gearing up for part 2 of the video:

"Unfortunately no matter how very most carefulest you are, sometimes your candles will set your house ablaze. Studying in the wild outdoors can be very distracting, this is why a second home is my number one academic essential for when your first house burns down."

Seriously, her lack of common candle skills is what most grates on me. When you have a taper (NOT a ”candlestick”) that doesn’t quite fit your candlestick (NOT ”candlestick holder”), you either 1) shave it down at the base if it’s too big or 2) drop some melted wax on the bottom of the candlestick if your candle is too small, and affix your taper to that so that it’s upright. What you DON’T do is put the taper in the candlestick loose at a 30° angle and position it near a curtain or other flammable material.

I guarantee you, if her landlady saw her candle setup, there would be no more live candles allowed at her uni accommodation.

 

[CatCafe234]

I couldn’t get over the courgette porridge, that was literally oats, courgette and milk? Water? Who knows? I’m all for bland food in the mornings but no sugar or spices? I was heaving a bit with that recipe.

 

[yayadumpling]

StudyTube and the fetishisation of productivity — Ebb Magazine

During a global pandemic that is exposing the contradictions of global capitalism, StudyTube instead re-frames this as an opportunity to accelerate one’s own productive potential. Ruby Granger, it seems, is committed to going down with the ship of capitalist realism, even as its edifice begins to cr

www.ebb-magazine.com

Just found this article, it makes a lot of good points and is aimed mainly at Roobee

"Granger’s content is a spectacle it is difficult to look away from: a horror-cocktail of white middle-class culture."

 

[gossip_guy]

I like how she’s not even pretending she’s going to be on time with anything ever Newsflash for you, Roobee: by the time January rolls around, I’ll have owned my 2022 Hobonichi (with an Animal Crossing cover tyvm) for four months. I’m pretty sure everyone else will have their yearly planners on the go, too.

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"You want us to restock a popular product? Get the fuck outta here. What do we look like, a business?"

The contest winners still haven't materialised, surprising no-one, yet Ruby managed to send free copies to all her online friends. In the ultimate expression of shade, Molly posted a picture of herself using a planner, and it's not Ruby's, she's just using a Moleskine instead like someone who's not a complete moron.

 

[gossip_guy]

Okay, this 100% has to be a troll account.

 

[groundcontrol]

I literally made an account to jump in here on the whole productiveness conversation, because I was really moved by the post that she made about how she normally wouldn’t take a relaxing vacation bc she viewed it as unproductive. I used to be JUST like her, and bc of that, I hypothesize that her need to be productive stems from insecurity. I never had many friends growing up, I wasn’t outstanding at sports (I’m in the USA where that has a lot more purchase), but the thing I was good at was school. So because that was the only area in my life where I received praise, I thought that was all I was good for, and the moment I stopped being good at school I would be worthless as a person. Because I was shy and didn’t have friends or people who seemed to like me for who I was, I felt that I needed to make up for that, to prove that I deserved to exist. So I filled my days with “productive” things similar to what Ruby does because that’s all I had going for me. It wrecked my mental health because I viewed EVERYTHING that wasn’t academic as a waste of time, even something like shopping with my parents, because I would come out of those experiences with “nothing to show” for them and I needed something to show for the things I did, because I had spent so long trying to fit in and had nothing to show for that. It got to the point where my parents would beg me to STOP doing my homework lol. I’m in a MUCH better place in my life now and I’ve gotten so much better with these things, and it’s because of that that Ruby saddens me so much. If she thinks the way I once thought, that would make a lot of sense as to why she behaves the way she does.

 

[Ilaariaa]

I have no words.

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Funniest thing I've ever read. The pretentiousness is real. The last few lines sound like the monologue of a mentor in a children's fantasy movie. "Within you, Ruby Granger, there beats the heart of a true knight".

 

[missmina]

I was in the shower and, because Ruby Granger lives rent free in my mind (lol) I started thinking about the baffling lack of compassion and the selfishness that she shows.
I've been "following" her for years at this point (I'm not subscribed to her channel anymore but I keep an eye on her). Correct me if I'm wrong, but has she ever raised money for a cause? Donated money? Shared a GoFundMe page her fans could donate their pocket money to? Donated her possessions?
Granted, she may have done charity in private and not talked about it on her channel, but I doubt it. This is someone who expects praise because she held the door open for someone. And even if she did, considering the massive following she has, it would literally be detrimental to a cause if she just donated and not shared it on social media.
The past couple years have unfortunately been full of disasters. Everyone else I follow has done something about at least one of them. Either organised a fundraiser themselves or donated to an existing one and urged their followers to do the same. Ruby is out there buying houses with her revenue from Youtube, her family lives in a literal mansion, her father drives an Aston Martin, and she won't even donate her old clothes. So much for being "an ambassador for kindness" and "aligned to the values of Christianity". I guess she skipped the lecture about giving everything you have to the poor.

Excuse me she founded multiple Holocaust memorials for underfunded schools duhh. The fact there's no trace of them doesn't mean she didn't do it - she's such a busy bee after all. Poor Roobee.
Also she's selling her old gifted clothes on depop not for the full price!