Ruby Granger #21 Dirty kitchen, messy car; I wonder where the planners are?

[buflesse]

i can only see lots of people linking other people (if that's what it's called with facebook) and lots of reactions, maybe that's what they meant

Yeah, I doubt the tagging was happening because people really wanted their friends to learn some new study tips

 

[Ilaariaa]

I feel sorry for her because it's clear she does not fit in at uni due to her social media presence, and I do think the confession post was mean and unnecessary. But at the same time, as an influencer, she does not come across as likeable. She does not seem like someone I personally would like to hang out with. The persona she's constructed for the Internet is rooted in her being different from other girls, old-fashioned, nerdy, just weird in general, basically, and the way she goes about that comes across as pompous, childish and self-absorbed. So I can't really blame other Exeter students for not taking her seriously and not liking her, especially considering that she also accepted a sponsorship from the university, which probably did not help her popularity. Of course, Ruby did not take that into account at the time, because she thinks she's above all of them and their opinion doesn't matter.

 

[gossip_guy]

I remember there used to be an Exeter confessions page where you could do anon submissions and someone wrote this, so I think tbh she’s always been seen as a bit of a joke there. I think this post was too far though.
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Seems more than fair to me.

Aside from her fans, who would be more likely to sign up to her uni already without the paid ads, the average student isn't going to be swayed into signing up by a privileged YouTuber peddling toxic productivity habits in videos full of lies and fabricated schedules. The uni is tarring their reputation by associating with someone like that, and that was before she'd added another dozen shady controversies to her belt.

But more importantly, how many students who don't already have the wealth and social media following that Ruby has got the opportunity to be a paid spokesperson for the university?

It's yet another instance where Ruby didn't need the money, but that opportunity could've made a real difference to someone else. It's another instance where Ruby should've stopped, thought if it was right ("Could someone else use this money more?", "Do I spend enough time here and enjoy it enough to endorse it?", "Is this a conflict of interest? I shouldn't take the money if it'll raise questions of favouritism in my viewers, or affect my ability to be honest about the uni in my content...") and declined.

If I was a parent and my kid was having to work a job alongside uni to pay to stay at their first choice uni, meanwhile the university threw tuition fee money at a rich, spoiled influencer who was vocal about it not being the uni they wanted to go to, who actively spends as little time as they can on campus and actively encourages toxic productivity in students, I'd be bleeping livid about the university's choices.

The university was stupid and senseless to do it. Ruby's fans would've already got all the Exeter University advertising in the world for free through her study vlog content. And the average student isn't going to leap to sign up just because a spoilt, judgemental Hermione impersonator tells them to in ads she got paid to read. That money could've gone towards scholarship programmes, or books and facilities that would benefit everyone. Instead it was more money in Ruby’s Scrooge McDuck hoarded pool of cash.

If anything, it's a massive conflict of interest to pay an influencer enrolled at the university where their grades are assigned to speak favourably about said uni. Warranted or not, it's going to raise lots of questions when the dumb-as-rocks influencer student who gets improbable firsts across the board is a paid employee of the university who never says a bad word about said university in her content.

 

[buflesse]

Is it just me who doesn't think the post was that mean? It calls her mediocre, which I think most of us have agreed she is, in terms of her ability to make good content and what we've seen of her academic output.

 

[influencersmakemewannadie]

Is it just me who doesn't think the post was that mean? It calls her mediocre, which I think most of us have agreed she is, in terms of her ability to make good content and what we've seen of her academic output.

agreed, as a uni student who has had to pay full tuition during the pandemic despite receiving nothing like a normal year (and friends at exeter have said they've had the same experience) I'd be absolutely fuming that my tuition money was going towards sponsoring a spoilt brat like her.

 

[LitNerd]

Seems more than fair to me.

Aside from her fans, who would be more likely to sign up to her uni already without the paid ads, the average student isn't going to be swayed into signing up by a privileged YouTuber peddling toxic productivity habits in videos full of lies and fabricated schedules. The uni is tarring their reputation by associating with someone like that, and that was before she'd added another dozen shady controversies to her belt.

But more importantly, how many students who don't already have the wealth and social media following that Ruby has got the opportunity to be a paid spokesperson for the university?

It's yet another instance where Ruby didn't need the money, but that opportunity could've made a real difference to someone else. It's another instance where Ruby should've stopped, thought if it was right ("Could someone else use this money more?", "Do I spend enough time here and enjoy it enough to endorse it?", "Is this a conflict of interest? I shouldn't take the money if it'll raise questions of favouritism in my viewers, or affect my ability to be honest about the uni in my content...") and declined.

If I was a parent and my kid was having to work a job alongside uni to pay to stay at their first choice uni, meanwhile the university threw tuition fee money at a rich, spoiled influencer who was vocal about it not being the uni they wanted to go to, who actively spends as little time as they can on campus and actively encourages toxic productivity in students, I'd be bleeping livid about the university's choices.

The university was stupid and senseless to do it. Ruby's fans would've already got all the Exeter University advertising in the world for free through her study vlog content. And the average student isn't going to leap to sign up just because a spoilt, judgemental Hermione impersonator tells them to in ads she got paid to read. That money could've gone towards scholarship programmes, or books and facilities that would benefit everyone. Instead it was more money in Ruby’s Scrooge McDuck hoarded pool of cash.

If anything, it's a massive conflict of interest to pay an influencer enrolled at the university where their grades are assigned to speak favourably about said uni. Warranted or not, it's going to raise lots of questions when the dumb-as-rocks influencer student who gets improbable firsts across the board is a paid employee of the university who never says a bad word about said university in her content.

I used to work as a Student Ambassador for my uni. It was a paid job and we worked on open days but also school visits both in the uni and external and travelled the country it was a job that you got out what you put in and we were paid. It was literally my part time (nearly full time) job during uni and it’s bloody hard work if you want to get the max out of it between memorising, networking and learning to manual labour of five days setting up open days and two days packing them down, travel and nine hours on your feet delivering hour long campus tours to upwards of 40 guests, and it is something you can build into a career… then to see one of Ruby’s slap dash videos (yes the production was a little better in her first year than it is now but still) get promoted far and wide by the uni themselves and likely paid for it… I don’t know with my experience it just feels like a little bit of a slap in the face? I know the outreach team probably chose her which is the team student ambassadors come under but if you’re trying your best at something like that it just feels a bit meh

Also highly recommend checking out PaigeY’s latest IG post about her New Years goals from last year and if she achieved them, she’s always been my favourite studytuber but good god the difference in independence, actual obtainable goals perfectly balancing big dreams and being realistic (eg she mentions working out just once a week and that she’s done it sometimes but not all the time and that’s fine) - the difference is just absolutely outstanding and going from Ruby twirling around to that is such a breath of fresh air

 

[Deeznutslol]

Nah the content of the post wasn’t mean, it was facts! I just think it was a dick move from the admin of that page to post that tbf

 

[Phoebe Weatherfield]

Also highly recommend checking out PaigeY’s latest IG post about her New Years goals from last year and if she achieved them,
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It will be interesting to compare how Ruby deals with the transition from university. Paige got a job, was studying as part of the requirements of her job, and subsequently decided to move out of home and into a flat with friends. I can't see Ruby having the wherewithal to do anything like that. She'll move back to her parents' home and continue to bother these poor llamas by reading poetry to them on her daily twirling walk.

 

[marmalade1]

i can only see lots of people linking other people (if that's what it's called with facebook) and lots of reactions, maybe that's what they meant

Idk it’s just the way these random people who don’t even know ruby are tagging their friends (which reminds me of when people tap others on the shoulder to laugh at someone? Maybe I’m overreacting ) and saying how Ruby’s their “favourite person”, all comes across very patronising and snide

not saying ruby doesn’t deserve some of these reactions, but I can’t imagine this helps with her confidence. No wonder she spends all her time with Blakeney, and it’s maybe why her attitudes towards socialising have changed. She used to be quite open to it in her first year (like the freshers week vlog)

for some reason it isn’t loading for me. can you post a screenshot or direct link? i’m interested in what other students have to say about her

Sorry for some reason I can’t post the direct link! Here are some screenshots of what I mean

 

[Ilaariaa]

I think it's mean to put someone on blast like that on a page where all of their peers and people they know IRL will see it. True, they didn't say anything that wasn't true, but still. Not to mention the person who did that did so anonymously. So yeah imo it says more about them than it does Ruby.
Not that I'm heartbroken over someone calling Ruby mediocre lol far from it. I just think it was in poor taste

 

[CatCafe234]

Also highly recommend checking out PaigeY’s latest IG post about her New Years goals from last year and if she achieved them, she’s always been my favourite studytuber but good god the difference in independence, actual obtainable goals perfectly balancing big dreams and being realistic (eg she mentions working out just once a week and that she’s done it sometimes but not all the time and that’s fine) - the difference is just absolutely outstanding and going from Ruby twirling around to that is such a breath of fresh air

I have a lot of respect for Paige - she just comes across as so ’normal’ (in a good way) and it’s so refreshing. I also think that in terms of her brand she‘s handled the transition from student to working adult really well, and with such common-sense and maturity.

 

[buflesse]

I struggle to feel sorry for Ruby because if she's alienated people, it's her own fault. Erimentha is a genuinely unpleasant character who gives us an insight into the kind of person Ruby is. And she's not exactly a retiring wallflower - she's pushy, overconfident, she harrasses lecturers, she controls Blakeney eg not allowing her to have her own fridge magnets on the fridge, she is more interested in hoarding money than making friends. There's no smoke without fire. I think the problem is that she was brought up to believe she was some kind of special golden girl and that being academic mattered more than friendships. Uni would have come as a big shock to her.

 

[pembapup]

Aside from the fact that this isn't a poster and quite evidently a printed picture that has been messily cut out, why has she taped it on the wall (?) and then put a frame around it?? It isn't even straight - the left side is touching the frame. Christ her ineptitude is shocking, though I'm sure it's intentional.

 

[3calico3]

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Aside from the fact that this isn't a poster and quite evidently a printed picture that has been messily cut out, why has she taped it on the wall (?) and then put a frame around it?? It isn't even straight - the left side is touching the frame. Christ her ineptitude is shocking, though I'm sure it's intentional.

It looks like she's taped it over an existing framed picture/photo. I wonder if she thinks slapdash presentation is a rustic aesthetic?

 

[gossip_guy]

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Aside from the fact that this isn't a poster and quite evidently a printed picture that has been messily cut out, why has she taped it on the wall (?) and then put a frame around it?? It isn't even straight - the left side is touching the frame. Christ her ineptitude is shocking, though I'm sure it's intentional.

She did the same thing with the same frame and a "Polar Acks-prass" poster a week ago - it looked very much like she just taped it to the outside of the frame, and with how this one is waving and bowing, it doesn't look like it's under glass either, but taped over top.

Also "I loved this painting so much when I saw it at the Tate Modern that I decided not to buy a poster to financially support the museum, but to print and cut it out myself with the art skills of a drunk sleepwalker" is classic Ruby.

 

[pembapup]

Apologies for the double post, but I'm sure we're all very excited to see Ruby's review for one of the 'best books' she has read this year. Keep in mind this is a third year English and a fourth year university student.

Ah.

'this story recognises the characteristics we must prize most as human beings' - right... What are those characteristics? Who knows. Seems like Ruby herself doesn't. How does the book recognise them?

'(Mary) learns a very important lesson' - well, yes Ruby. As do most protagonists in children's literature. That's kinda the point. Again, what is the lesson? Perhaps kindness and generosity, but if so Ruby does not seem to have grasped it. Oh well.

'a very secret garden' - ladies and gentlemen, the insight of a third year English student. That is the title, Ruby. But thank you for making sure us uneducated peasants grasp that.

And finally, we seem to be having a mild continuity issue, as Ruby posted on IG in March of 2020 using a quote from the Secret Garden and expressing her excitement for the film adaptation (it won't let me post the picture). You only read it this January, supposedly. Or rather, you finally read it after realising that you can only use it for aesthetic purposes for a while before your lack of knowledge actually shows. Not only is the quote she used misspelled, but I would also recommend not quoting books you haven't read. We all remember the 1984 incident.

Edit to add: also, blindly using children / child characters for your aesthetic is slightly weird.

 

[Ilaariaa]

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Apologies for the double post, but I'm sure we're all very excited to see Ruby's review for one of the 'best books' she has read this year. Keep in mind this is a third year English and a fourth year university student.

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Ah.

'this story recognises the characteristics we must prize most as human beings' - right... What are those characteristics? Who knows. Seems like Ruby herself doesn't. How does the book recognise them?

'(Mary) learns a very important lesson' - well, yes Ruby. As do most protagonists in children's literature. That's kinda the point. Again, what is the lesson? Perhaps kindness and generosity, but if so Ruby does not seem to have grasped it. Oh well.

'a very secret garden' - ladies and gentlemen, the insight of a third year English student. That is the title, Ruby. But thank you for making sure us uneducated peasants grasp that.

And finally, we seem to be having a mild continuity issue, as Ruby posted on IG in March of 2020 using a quote from the Secret Garden and expressing her excitement for the film adaptation (it won't let me post the picture). You only read it this January, supposedly. Or rather, you finally read it after realising that you can only use it for aesthetic purposes for a while before your lack of knowledge actually shows. Not only is the quote she used misspelled, but I would also recommend not quoting books you haven't read. We all remember the 1984 incident.

Does she realize that a review is not the same thing as the blurb you would read on the back of the book

 

[gossip_guy]

Does she realize that a review is not the same thing as the blurb you would read on the back of the book

Considering the back cover blurb is all she ever actually reads of books, it's easy to see why she gets confused.

 

[MGB01]

so I’m really ill and my bf came in with this as it’s All I can stomach and we’ve lovingly dubbed it “ruby granger core”
Got me feeling like a Medevil present idk how she does it

 

[WishingWellxx]

As I mentioned I received my planner but have just received an email from pumpkin productivity apologising for the delay and offering the digital version for free.
I find it a strange time to send this surely it would of been better earlier in the month.