Ruby granger #2 it’s acadaymia not acadeemia

[Lola123]

Did anyone else catch that at 4:58 she listens to audio books in fast forward? (it's not sped up as her hand movement is still normal speed)
Probably not productive enough to listen to it at a normal speed tbh, god knows how she can take it in when it's that quick

I’ll defend her here, that’s what I do, some books you can’t do it with but a lot you can, once you get used to it, it’s really easy, I do it so I can get through them in a week because I’m busy but a lot of people who listen to audiobooks do it

 

[themachine]

My biggest takeaway from that video is that Ruby's surface-level interest in things is perfectly exemplified in how she claims Timothée Chalamet is her favorite actor, yet she doesn't even know his name (calls him Timothy Chamalet).

 

[lizzie2707]

Oh god she's dressed up as a 17th century theatregoer for a presentation...I feel so sorry for the other people in her class/her tutor, this is so cringe

 

[gingerteacup]

I read the Erimentha novel and very much got that impression of the main character. I don’t know how autobiographical that novel was (it felt like a combination of that and a fair bit of wish-fulfilment) but it did make me wonder. I have a relative who’s on the spectrum and they remind me a bit of Ruby, in the way that they managed well at school and home where they could create and follow a routine and have quite a lot of control, but when they went to uni they really struggled with the changes and schedules and never really settled. They came home every weekend and it just wasn’t a positive experience for them, kind of a failure to launch. They came home after uni and have never really done anything since, no real jobs or relationships. They’re happy enough in the world they’ve built but it’s hard on the family. I don’t think Ruby’s on the same level at all but I do see similarities.

I agree with this - I think she has high functioning autism, or perhaps aspergers. I could well be wrong but the need for routines, the fact she seems to struggle maintaining friendships / displaying annoyance and disapproval at behaviours of others, fear of behaviours e.g. thinking someone’s always trying to break in, focused obsessions e.g. constant hand washing, desire to be Harry Potter characters, not coping well with the transition to becoming an adult and always stating she still very much wants to be a child... it does have me thinking. I think seeing her in tears over the seminar where she couldn’t find the book / people had discussed points she wanted to mention really resurfaced this thought for me... Especially as autism is largely undetected in females in comparison to males...

Also, the book writing video... I found it quite difficult to hear her talk about the countryside. It upsets me how sheltered she really is...coming from a city area and seeing peoples experience of the lock down, loads of families sharing a single room, no access to the garden etc, then she demands she would never want any different. I know Ruby can’t help her background but hearing her spout on about blackberry jam and romanticising every little part of her day for inspiration... she lives a very idyllic lifestyle - I think she’ll really struggle without her incredibly crafted and protective bubble. I think she’d really benefit from solo travelling, she really needs to open her horizon and have a better understanding of differences on a human level...

 

[3calico3]

Also I think she only misses school because she was head girl and prefect or whatever and probably got a LOT more praise then than she does now. She definitely seems to struggle with accepting uni marks and having video chats with her lecturers is just an excuse to fish for praise I bet.

She is definitely trying the same 'suck-up' tactics with her lecturers as she did with her teachers: sending her seminar leaders Christmas cards and thank you gifts etc. Luckily academics at university level are a lot more cynical, so probably see right through it.

She seems just the type of student to hand back after lectures to 'chat' to her lecturers, hog lecturers' office hours simply to 'chat' about the subject (when there are actually more needy students who require office hours to discuss their assessments), and go to every revision session when she has little need for them. I had people like that in my cohort at university, and they were absolutely insufferable - even though they never said it outright, I got the vibe that they thought they were far above everyone else for 'making use of every opportunity to learn', whilst making it more difficult for others to have the same opportunities.

Also, she was describing the masters she wants to study, and it sounds more like she wants to do a MRes (master of research) than a taught masters, but the way she described researching one topic for a year. Maybe I interpreted that wrong though...

 

[lilynovember]

One of the most wild things to me watching that video is that her Dad actually went out and bought thoughtful, personalised gifts for her of his own accord. Maybe it says more about my family situation than it does hers but I don’t think my Dad would have the first bloody clue which books I would want lol

So I found it a bit of a guilty pleasure to watch in that way; it’s lovely to see they have such a good relationship. But maybe not the most appropriate thing to share with hundreds of thousands of people at the moment.

 

[CatCafe234]

Once again highlighting that she has quite a limited understanding of words and their usage, and despite the intelligent and well read impression she tries to give us of herself, a lot of it is quite superficial

I’ll admit I’m old, tired and not down with the youth, but one thing that gets me with a lot of the studytubers is that they’ll say that something’s ‘aesthetic’ when they just mean ’I like the way that looks’. It‘s one of those small things that makes my teeth itch as it’s a bit pretentious and I don’t think that’s a correct way to use the word - something can have an aesthetic but saying that something is aesthetic doesn’t really mean anything.

 

[blmrqslm]

I think that's exactly her intent: to look as young as she possibly can. I have a feeling that she thrives reading comments like "oh Ruby, you look so young, you look like a 12 year old" and so on.
Maybe people pointing out that she is a 20 year old woman makes her feel uncomfortable.

 

[billybobbobbob]

I think Ruby's striving to be the top of the class teacher's pet she was at school, receiving praise for every good idea and grade. I understand it would be difficult for her to transition from that environment to university where there's rarely, if ever, praise handed out on a silver platter for a decent idea the lecturers have heard every year they've been teaching. But she's been in university for long enough now to have grasped she won't get that. However I think she keeps working harder and harder and looking for that one unique thought no one's ever had before that would set her apart from her classmates and get a member of staff to notice her and give her a gold star. Her immaturity shines through in every aspect of her life but especially when it comes to interacting with those she wants praise from.

 

[wastelandbaby]

I know these videos have been done on YouTube for years, but I can't help think that if you feel the need to do such a big disclaimer at the beginning of a video, you shouldn't be doing it anyway. The thing she said about being hesitant about doing the video but doing it because of the number of people who had requested it - I wish she'd stuck with her gut! In the real world you wouldn't sit and show someone everything you'd been given for Christmas as an adult. I've seen a couple of posts on social media where people have shown one present that they really love, which I quite enjoy, but to sit and go through them all just sits uncomfortably right now. I've heard the 'I'm not bragging, this was requested' disclaimer used and reworded so many times by so many people that it's just lost meaning.

 

[Lola123]

Just saw her exam mark reaction video, and it was clear that she was disappointed with the mark she got (I won't say what it was in case you haven't watched it yet).

Not the type of spoiler I thought someone would ever be interested in

 

[sitkx]

She’s so pretentious...saying she likes astrophysics is like me saying I love “fashion theory” cause I wear clothes, or I love “biochemistry” because I read some pop-science book. Trying to inflate her sense of self by equating very mundane interests to some important scientific or academic field.

 

[Bookperuser]

On the subject of Christmas, I find it rather insufferable that someone as old as her (or anyone over the age of, say, 10) still makes videos listing all the things they've been gifted for the holidays or their birthday. Putting a disclaimer saying that she's not trying to show off, and that she's just grateful for all the things she has received is extremely tone deaf. It's still showing off, it's still promoting hyper-consumerism, and even though I come from a relatively privileged background for my country, my parents would have been mortified if I published something like that on the internet.

SAAAME! But she’s always like, it’s a ‘highly requested video’. When I first discovered her and saw some of her Christmas gift videos, I was in shock. The amount of money from one of her stockings is pretty much the budget for my Christmas gifts. Don’t get me wrong, I love every single one of my gifts, but that amount is just... unreal. Like, I don’t even think that you could be grateful for every single item when you have a constant stream. Honestly, the more I watch her, the more condescending, privileged and upper class she seems to get (even if she doesn’t seem to realise it).

 

[gingerteacup]

Might be controversial to say, but I wouldn’t take two cents from the grades she gets... Exeter use her for advertising and she has several paid ads with them...

Yes exactly this!

I'm all for being direct if the teacher or lecturer doesn't really provide constructive feedback but we've all seen that Ruby challenges them.

I can't imagine that going down well with the Professor's at Oxford.

Don't be afraid to question something but don't think you're smarter than everyone else which is the impression she gives out.

She comes across stuck up and entitled. If she doesn’t get the marks she deserves she goes into defence mode. Learning to accept criticism is a basic life skill.

 

[peanutbuttervibes]

all i could focus on in that video was how obnoxious i find jade’s mannerisms, sorry

 

[xoxoxo13]

As someone who lives in a country with regular power outages, it is infuriating to see Ruby romanticize "reading by candlelight". It ruins your eyesight, it's annoying and it makes your life so much harder. The fact that she has energy 24/7 that doesn't randomly cut off whenever there's a strong wind, or sometimes just because, yet chooses to turn her lights off. She is so stupidly privileged that she makes her life more difficult just for the sake of it.

 

[ECH]

I normally don’t get too ticked off w ruby, but when she practically yelled at the camera in her most recent video about turning on mics and cameras it really pissed me off. My largest class is 30 people and two of them cold call on the regular, so I always have my camera on unless I’m signaling my prof that I’m going to the bathroom or something, but I’m also sharing a workspace with my sister and constantly dreading us both being called on at the same time. Not everyone has the luxury of having a desk in their bedroom Ruby! I can’t imagine how she’d react to the people in my classes who zoom lying down in bed...why can’t she comprehend the exhaustion of very one feels or at least that their might be extenuating circumstances for someone to have their cameras off???

Exactly! I've had to go to class zooms whilst looking after my nephews. If anything, it's more distracting if I turned my camera on and had a kid hitting me on the head with a Barbie. I can understand that it is beneficial, but it's not also possible for everyone. Jade has made similar comments and I just feel like these YouTubers get what life is like without their privilege.

 

[CatCafe234]

I always find it a bit annoying when a lot of the popular ’aesthetics’ involve fetishising things that are actually a bit crap if you have to do them. It’s a real sign of privilege to play at poverty. Like the minimalist trend, it’s great to glamorise living with very little when your route to that involves getting rid of lots of things and then buying other things that fit the aesthetic. Loads of people live minimalist lives in the real world because y’know, they can’t actually afford the things they need. The difference is they don’t Instagram it and call it an aesthetic.

 

[nissigossips]

Ah yes, she is definitely this smart If you're going to lie at least choose something vaguely believable

 

[nissigossips]