You would have thought a 3rd year English Literature student at a Russell Group uni would have more to say about Dickens than “cool”
Ruby Granger #22 I can’t relate to Sun Tzu, and neither should you.
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I hate to admit it everyone, but I have a confession to make. Today I committed a Roobyism.... I cried over a "bad"-but-not-actually-that-bad uni grade.
However, unlike Roomba, I had some lunch, went for a nap, and then within about two hours from initially getting the grade I was fine. Still a little disappointed, but not lingering on it. Oh and I also didn't upload myself crying to the internet. Amazing how low the bar has been set.
However, unlike Roomba, I had some lunch, went for a nap, and then within about two hours from initially getting the grade I was fine. Still a little disappointed, but not lingering on it. Oh and I also didn't upload myself crying to the internet. Amazing how low the bar has been set.
The review underneath hers on the goodreads page for the book says it was never intended for publication, and that it was extremely personal to Dickens. That and it being for children, you would have thought Ruby would have loved itYou would have thought a 3rd year English Literature student at a Russell Group uni would have more to say about Dickens than “cool”
I used to use Forest (the app) obsessively when I started my degree to count how many minutes per day I worked, until I realised that it was actually distracting me and weirdly I would procrastinate more when the timer was on than when it wasn't. Now, as long as I get everything done on my to-do list for the day, I'm happy. No need to quantify everything if it's all done and dusted (pun intended).
Ah yes, that obscure literary influence, JESUS.
Maybe her Victorian inspired "how I got consumption" video will be the next one we can look forward to.
"level up" Rooby advises in her latest video, not at all quoting Boris Johnson's flagship Tory policy.
Do you think Ruby has read the criticisms about her reviews being too pretentious and wordy and now she's trying to make them less formal/more concise? I like the way she talks about Jesus being 'influential'. Maybe she's noticing parallels between herself and Jesus... her job as an influencer and how Jesus influenced people. Same thing really!
Just noticed this comment under Ruby's latest video and it made me kinda... sad? I don't know... Coming from an alleged teacher...
First, Ruby has seemed as everything BUT the enthusiastic student for the last couple of months. Second, how exactly could promoting unhealthy habits; ineffective study methods; excessively planned out routines and filling the days with mindless busywork, be considered "motivating and inspiring"? How exactly do you become a "better learner" by adopting such manners?
Not at all saying that every single thing that Ruby ever advised was inaccurate or harmful, but her study-persona as a whole is far from having a healthy attitude towards education and the learning process.
I somehow imagined that people professionally involved in education would see right through her, but apparently, that might not always be the case. The saddest thing is, that people, like this commenter, have obvious troubles distinguishing between the illusion of the productive study process that Ruby creates on her channel; and the capabilities of real-life students that can only handle so much. I hope, they don't project these expectations into their students (assuming they have any), because that would totally NOT be a healthy and motivating educational environment.
Actually she gifted the stuff to herself after filling out the form and picking her own entry she stuck to the rules
I wonder if Ruby is panicking because she's realised that 2022 will be the first year that she's not in full time education. She doesn't seem to have a masters programme lined up for September. I expect she'll continue living at home, doing busywork and filming increasingly deranged routines.
I haven't been active lately because I'm having an awful week. On Sunday my close family (like 5 people in total) got together to celebrate my great-grandma's 100th birthday. We took all the precautions we could to be there without putting her in danger, we wore masks, we kept our distance as much as we could, we got tested in the morning to make sure we wouldn't accidentally infect her. My brother and my mother couldn't go because my brother was feeling sick from the vaccine and my mother had just found out she had been in contact with someone who tested positive and didn't want to risk it. They were super sad about it and my great-grandma was too because my brother is basically her favourite grandchild.
On Monday my grandma who lives with her had a mild fever, so my father booked a Covid test for her for later this week. Yesterday she called my father because my great-grandma was feeling sick and couldn't breathe. They managed to get her settled and she went to bed. My dad tested my grandma with one of those home kits and she tested positive, so she isolated herself to the ground floor (thankfully she's fine, she just had a bit of a cold). This morning my great-grandma woke up feeling fine. My dad arranged to get her tested too, but before he could do it she fell ill again this afternoon. They called an ambulance but it was useless and she died a few hours later.
Now I'm at my uni flat because I moved back on Monday, my mom told me I needn't go home because they already sealed the casket due to Covid risk, we don't know if we'll be able to hold a funeral, my grandma couldn't attend anyway because she's under quarantine, and I would not be able to stay at home with my parents since they also had contact with the two of them to take care of them. Thankfully everyone has had their booster dose so even if they did get Covid they should be fine.
On top of that I just spent the last two days stressing because the booster dose I had on Saturday wasn't registered correctly and I couldn't get my green pass, which is needed to take public transport and go to uni. As soon as that was solved and I could take my mind off of it, after literally spending two days not being able to sleep at night, my mom called me because my grandma was feeling ill. I need a break. I want to go to sleep and wake up in 2025 when hopefully the pandemic is over.
On Monday my grandma who lives with her had a mild fever, so my father booked a Covid test for her for later this week. Yesterday she called my father because my great-grandma was feeling sick and couldn't breathe. They managed to get her settled and she went to bed. My dad tested my grandma with one of those home kits and she tested positive, so she isolated herself to the ground floor (thankfully she's fine, she just had a bit of a cold). This morning my great-grandma woke up feeling fine. My dad arranged to get her tested too, but before he could do it she fell ill again this afternoon. They called an ambulance but it was useless and she died a few hours later.
Now I'm at my uni flat because I moved back on Monday, my mom told me I needn't go home because they already sealed the casket due to Covid risk, we don't know if we'll be able to hold a funeral, my grandma couldn't attend anyway because she's under quarantine, and I would not be able to stay at home with my parents since they also had contact with the two of them to take care of them. Thankfully everyone has had their booster dose so even if they did get Covid they should be fine.
On top of that I just spent the last two days stressing because the booster dose I had on Saturday wasn't registered correctly and I couldn't get my green pass, which is needed to take public transport and go to uni. As soon as that was solved and I could take my mind off of it, after literally spending two days not being able to sleep at night, my mom called me because my grandma was feeling ill. I need a break. I want to go to sleep and wake up in 2025 when hopefully the pandemic is over.
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I'm so sorry, that all sounds horrendous. 
I don't have much to add in terms of advice or comfort...it's been a nightmare here too. I just hope you're able to get some rest and things will gradually start to get easier.
I don't have much to add in terms of advice or comfort...it's been a nightmare here too. I just hope you're able to get some rest and things will gradually start to get easier.If this offers any hope, I am currently training for a primary PGCE and have been told I have the “perfect attitude” to learning. I also read this thread, because Ruby symbolises many approaches to education that I find so problematic!
Sorry to be off topic again, am currently catching up, so I wanted to put my thoughts on the blogpost Ruby's mum made about the "crafting day"
"Recently I was invited to my friend Serena's house with my oldest daughter and hers to do some crafting..."
Someone pointed out how they basically set up a playdate for Ruby and Serena's daughter and honestly reading this sentence reminded me about when I was homeschooled and how embarassing I found it, except I was 11-15. Info about my homeschooled life below.
I went to public school for years with anxiety and then dropped out when I was 11 for a few years. I HATED socialising as a homeschooler because even though there were social activities and I liked majority of the people my age, every single social activity was done as if it was a playdate. We couldn't just go to the movies just us, It had to be us, their and my parents, all their siblings ect. We couldn't just go to a cafe just us, it had to be an entire family event. It's not like I have anything against hanging out with my parents either, but when it's every little thing feels like a supervised playdate it's annoying af.
I totally get now as an adult 11 is still young but I was doing all that stuff alone with friends before I was 11, even at that age I found it embarrassing. I remember when I was starting to turn 15 just before I went back to school refusing to go to outings because I was sick of it because if I wanted to do absolutely anything it was set out as if it was a playdate with parents supervision, even when all we wanted to do was go shopping or something.
I get Ruby loves thinking she's younger than she is, but I don't get how she doesn't find that all her social events that are like this, and if it's not supervised by parents it's her cousins or parents friends embarrassing as an adult.
"Recently I was invited to my friend Serena's house with my oldest daughter and hers to do some crafting..."
Someone pointed out how they basically set up a playdate for Ruby and Serena's daughter and honestly reading this sentence reminded me about when I was homeschooled and how embarassing I found it, except I was 11-15. Info about my homeschooled life below.
I went to public school for years with anxiety and then dropped out when I was 11 for a few years. I HATED socialising as a homeschooler because even though there were social activities and I liked majority of the people my age, every single social activity was done as if it was a playdate. We couldn't just go to the movies just us, It had to be us, their and my parents, all their siblings ect. We couldn't just go to a cafe just us, it had to be an entire family event. It's not like I have anything against hanging out with my parents either, but when it's every little thing feels like a supervised playdate it's annoying af.
I totally get now as an adult 11 is still young but I was doing all that stuff alone with friends before I was 11, even at that age I found it embarrassing. I remember when I was starting to turn 15 just before I went back to school refusing to go to outings because I was sick of it because if I wanted to do absolutely anything it was set out as if it was a playdate with parents supervision, even when all we wanted to do was go shopping or something.
I get Ruby loves thinking she's younger than she is, but I don't get how she doesn't find that all her social events that are like this, and if it's not supervised by parents it's her cousins or parents friends embarrassing as an adult.
Tak tsk, you weren’t paying attention. After ”clean your desk”, she said ”leading on from that, tidy your room” which is clearly a completely different thing! Desk and room cannot be dealt with all in one lump like some heathens do! (Then she goes on to say ”penultimately”, and a certain friend of the show creams their pants.)
Also here we go again with face masks as ”conventional self-care”
Why is she so obsessed with face masks being the epitome of self-care? Is it to emphasize how nOt liKe 0tHeR GiRLs she is? Or is she like me, and secretly finds all skincare a bit of a chore, but feels she needs to put on a show of making an effort every once in a while? Or does she really enjoy face masks and therefore restricts them? (lol why am I so obsessed with her )For a soon-to-be Lit grad, she doesn't really use her critical thinking faculties while writing book reviews. I'd get it if she doesn't wanna spend too much time writing lengthy reviews rather than reviewing it. But, at least, show off your credential for a bit, Ruby!
I just had to go and ask for it, didn't I?
"Sioo excited" for a ALMOST 8 full minutes of "iusefool" recycled footage and lies.
nailed it.
"Sioo excited" for a ALMOST 8 full minutes of "iusefool" recycled footage and lies.
nailed it.
It's January, and Holocaust Memorial Day is fast approaching!
It's a dark time for Ruby, not because she gives a crap about anyone but herself, of course, but because other public figures and organisations are announcing their Holocaust Memorial "proj-ackts".
Prince Charles showing that even questionable people can give back to charity and do something for Holocaust Memorial Day:
www.vanityfair.com
Ruby wondering why the Holocaust Day Trust won't give her more money to twirl in her backyard fields:
It's a stark reminder that Ruby swindled a bunch of charity money and pledged to "reinvest it", building "Holocaust memorials" in "underfunded state schools" as a blatantly flimsy brush-off excuse to avoid giving it back.
And that, in turn, is another reminder that Ruby also owes money to numerous other charities which she either took money from, or pledged to donate ad revenue to (after encouraging people to watch her videos and sit through every ad because it was for charity) and then never donated it.
Rather than give all the money back and start the year fresh, Ruby has chosen to distract herself and hopefully others from her toxic brand image problems, dwindling merch sales and floundering academic life and instead make a video about many compulsive study habits that you can try at home. That's right, you too can waste your time and avoid your academic work and general life problems, just like Ruby!
How does this "study habits" video differ from all the other "study habits" videos she's made, like the one she uploaded less than six months ago?
It doesn't.
Ruby's videos:
Her first habit, though she doesn't include this in the actual list for some reason, is:
Use New Yorker Back-Issues as a Multi-Purpose Tool.
Here we see Ruby using this particular New Yorker back-issue as a coaster, a teapot stand, a notepad, a pen rest, an "ass-thatic" decoration piece and a means of trying to show everyone that she's a well-educated scholar and high-society sort of person who only reads the most expensive, highly-regarded magazines/periodicals. (That last one would have more of an effect if Ruby weren't in her fourth year of university and still doesn't know the meaning of the work "mural" or how to pronounce it.)
It's also a handy, lazy shortcut to avoid having to put any kind of post-production effort into your YouTube videos by adding things like on-screen title cards.
Ruby says her "fahhst" habit - and one that is in the top three of everyone's New Year's resolutions lists apparently, which doesn't seem true but whatever - is to:
1. "Drink Mwoaur Woartuh." (Translation: Drink more water.)
She shows that it's not just old New Yorker issues that you can use to avoid learning editing and post-production techniques when making your living a video content creator, but old folded up, annotated essays, too.
Ruby writes a reminder for herself to drink water. But since she's written a "Drink Me" note and put a clock on it, this is a recipe for confusion.
Note to Ruby: You cannot drink clocks.
She gets her daily Fortum & Mason Tory ad in by showing off a F&M drinking jar full of dusty, stagnant water. At least I assume it's water. Considering she shows it next to a ticking clock and a suspicious-looking battery pack with wires trailing out of it, that jar could be full of "ethanol" and this could be the makings of an improvised explosive device. She'll send the bomb to Oxford University when she gets her latest rejection letter.
On the topic of water, budding scientist Ruby says, "GENUINELY* it is so important TO EVERYONE."
Drinking water is not a study habit. It's a "staying alive" habit. Human beings need food, water and oxygen to keep their brains and bodies functioning and not, y'know...die.
Ruby always includes "drink lots of water" on these study habit/academic essentials videos, but never stresses the equal importance of eating regular, substantial, nutritious meals. Why? Because Ruby treats water as a substitute for food. And because Ruby is a thoughtless, toxic, indescribably stupid, wildly irresponsible idiot, she keeps pushing her own dangerous habits onto other people and never encourages healthy eating.
To punctuate her stupidity, Ruby notes how important water is because we concentrate better when hydrated, even though she drinks a lake-full of water a day and her brain is still a deteriorated slurry that won't focus on anything for more than 15 minutes, is constantly confused and struggles to form sentences.
Even this video is, unsurprisingly, a mess of recycled content and footage, and the new footage is filmed across a dozen different days - Ruby couldn't focus her attention enough to film for less than 8 minutes in one day.
Ruby, this is your latest reminder that the body requires nutrients for the brain to function.
*Her constant use of the word "GENUINELY" brings us to another habit which is shown here but didn't make the list:
Say "GENUINELY" a Lot, Especially When You're a Compulsive Liar.
This is one of Ruby's mostest favouritest habits.
If you're a compulsive liar, like Ruby, say the word "GENUINELY" a lot and put hard emphasis on it. This will turn every questionable statement into a charismatic delight of believability and definitely convince people that you're always honest. You can use other substitute phrases, like "Believe me when I say...", "Honestly..." and "And, trust me, I wouldn't just say this..."
To muddy the waters and avoid people catching on to this habit if you lie constantly, be sure to occasionally say it when you're telling the truth as well (rare for Ruby, I know)!
This isn't just a habit for compulsive liars or students, either - you can use it if you just want to be generally annoying and obnoxious!
Try it at home: Insert the word "GENUINELY" into the next dozen statements you make, and just marvel at the results! You'll come off as practically statesmanlike in your public speaking!
Next on Ruby's list:
2. Research Something You're Interested In From Each of Your Modules/Subjects.
Even Ruby struggles to come up with anything to fill this topic, and all it does is prove that Ruby has no understanding of what a habit is.
She whips out the mouldy copy of A Tale of Two Cities that she stole from her parents and claimed as her own.
Ruby's example of a uni module-adjacent subject to research:
"Syo, lat's say, for exahmpull, yoo read A Tale of Tyoo Cit-eeeys. Yoo moight decide tyoo RAHNDOMLY re-sahhch the woine trade during the FrAnch Revolyooshun...BECAUSE OF HOW SIGNIFICANT WINE AND BLOOD IMAGERY ARE IN THAT BOOK."
So, this entry on the list was just an excuse for Ruby to try and flex that she read A Tale of Two Cities and researched the wine trade during the French Revolution, even though neither of those things are true. In fact, this more shines a light on the fact that she used Sparknotes or a similar study guide to avoid reading the book, as highlighting obvious symbolic imagery is a very study guide thing.
She hates reading, but loves people thinking she's smarter than them.
Ruby's lies aside, this entry is stupid.
If you're GENUINELY interested in something, then let your enjoyment and interest lead the way. If you have to force yourself to research something, are you really that interested? And if you are interested and force yourself to research something regularly and "habitually", that sounds like a sure-fire way of workifying it and wringing the fun and enjoyment right out of it.
It also seems especially misguided if you're a student, especially a student who has to work, take care of kids, or juggle any number of responsibilities. Just do the necessary work required to achieve your best, don't go creating additional, time-consuming research projects for yourself if you have to force yourself to do it.
This is yet another "by Ruby, for Ruby" misguided habit which will not apply to and undoubtedly not be useful to anyone but her. Ruby likes to (at least pretend to) turn every aspect of her life into an academic task. She has an unlimited amount of free time outside uni work and no responsibilities, so she fills it with this kind of busywork to make herself feel productive, despite accomplishing nothing.
Naturally, she's always behind or cutting it close with important things, because she wasted all her time on pointless busywork.
As in all things, don't be like Ruby.
And on that note, her next entry on the list:
3. "Set a Monthly Task List."
Of course "tyoo-dyoo" lists are on Ruby's list of recommended habits.
Ruby sings the virtues of monthly to-do lists, even though these demonstratively don't benefit her in any way. She's always late, always right down to the wire with deadlines - she's a disorganised mess. And in her case, it's because of her obsession with to-do lists.
Earlier in this video, she mentions that she ALWAYS stops to fill her water bottle, even if that makes her late to class. If drinking water/filling her water bottle is one of her essential habits, and she's constantly running so behind that even the simple, quick act of filling a water bottle on a campus with ample water fountains and sources of H2O will make her late for a lecture or seminar, then who in their right mind would follow her example?
If to-do lists benefit you, that's great. But keep it simple. Note down just the most important things that you're likely to forget. Don't keep 106 billion different lists of task divided across 467,128 different planners and notebooks, all full of mundane, obvious, easy-to-remember tasks, like waking up or breathing.
Now, buckle up, because Ruby chose this "SACK-shun" "espAshully" to assault everyone with a barrage of lies, misdirects and questionable bullshit.
Ruby is now well aware that people can see what's on her screen when she films her laptop. This is a lesson that took her a ridiculously long time to learn, and she only learned it after countless instances of people on Tattle taking screenshots of her browsing videos and websites encouraging ED habits, showing private information of her own and other people, or unintentionally showing things that disprove lies she was telling in the very same video, etc.
Y'know, like that time she made a sponsored video for Cricut, was claiming that she ALWAYS uses it and that it's GENUINELY so simple and intuitive to use that anyone can pick it up and use it, but in the same video she'd got a tab open with a YouTube video with a simple guide to the basic operation of the Cricut, because Ruby had never used it before and couldn't figure out how to use it. Ahh, fun times...
Anyway, Ruby has learned from this mistake, and has since been a lot more careful to avoid showing her screen, blur stuff out, and only show things that she intends people to see. Observe:
Let's start with the stupid.
In this section about the importance of to-do lists, the only things Ruby has put in her academic goals section is "prepare well for exam" and "be happy with essay before submitting it". Y'know, glaringly obvious things for anyone else that they don't need to waste time and space in to-do lists with.
Onto the rest:
"research internships for next year" - Since the best internship/work experience she could manage in her entire university career has been an 'any monkey could do it' transcription task that took her far too long to complete and she had to split with another person, and that was with the university helping her, I'll say good luck with landing anything solo, Ruby! With a toxic brand, a content platform that shows nothing but lazy half-assery, and a new controversy every week, you're gonna need it.
"letter writing campaign" - There's no further details, but considering her current letter writing campaign is an unmitigated nightmare of child safety and privacy concerns, I'll say cut your losses and restrict your letter-writing to your parents.
And then the blatant lies begin...
"headway with memorials"...
This is clearly inserted to fool people into believing that she'll do anything with the Holocaust Charity money she already spent and will never give back. It will keep getting delayed and brushed away with things like this and never, ever materialise.
But Ruby must be bracing herself for the questions that will be coming with Holocaust Memorial Day incoming, so she shoved this in.
"sort out customer service for Pumpkin Productivity"
Again, another glaringly obvious insert to deflect from her sinking company's massive PR issues and make-believe like she's getting her hands dirty to fix them.
Pumpkin Productivity's problems are systemic, they've always been there and have not improved at any point. Since her management agency own and run the company, Ruby ain't gonna do tit. If you want change, buy your stationery from a reliable company that offers quality products.
"start editing my book"
Ruby, stop, you're killing me here.
You can tell this one's a lie because Ruby doesn't start editing a book until after it's published. (See: Erimentally Challenged and the Case of the Bullying Protagonist.)
But Ruby wants to give the appearance that she definitely has things in the pipeline, everyone! Her life after graduation definitely isn't going to be a downhill spiral of stupidity and Victorian children's cosplay.
The book thing is important, since her YouTube section shows that her mind is a creative wasteland and she has no ideas for her channel.
"send out a letter to a viewer every week" - That will definitely end well.
"post a book-related video" - I'd say this is the most exciting one, since the prospect of a book review would be AMAZING considering the hoops Ruby would have to jump through on-screen to hide that she didn't read the book. But it'll just be a recycling of one of her previous videos and so: "Here's ten books which I definitely read and have BEAUTIFUL COVERS, enjoy this footage of me touching the covers of every book at Waterstones. DID I MENTION WATERSTONES YET?! And the books were good, no follow-up questions, please. The End."
"post a study tips video" - This one is somehow not ticked off, even though Ruby has already uploaded this video several times already.
"post at least three reels on Instagram" - Ruby is apparently incapable of understanding how section headers work, since this is an 'Instagram' goal in her 'YouTube' section. Again, another great sign that she has a lot of creative ideas is that she has to force herself to upload three reels, and they'll inevitably be footage of her lighting a candle or frolicking outside.
Speaking of her Notion section headers and splitting goals and such into sections, Ruby claims she "got this tip from Vee's book Empowered" and shows off the cover:
This is an outright lie. Ruby has always split her goals, tasks, and to-do lists into those distinct sections in Notion.
For example, here's a screengrab from her 'Notion Tour' video from a year ago:
You'll find those kind of layouts in all her Notion footage. She's always split things into sections like University/Academic/YouTube/Admin/General. She loves doing it because she can reward herself multiple times for tasks that crossover into each section.
She also has not read Vee's book.
Here, she flicks through it and it's pristine and unread.
Of course, the dead giveaway was when she and Jack Edwards both posted equally vague glowing reviews on Goodreads at almost the exact same time, even though they'd had the book for weeks at that point. Each review contained no more information than the back cover blurb, and they'd both clearly never read it.
They also both blatantly avoided declaring their ties to Vee in their reviews - they're all managed by the same agency. They all know each other. Ruby and Jack were invited to a lavish book launch event and given free copies of the book (and probably Covid, since nobody at that enclosed indoor party wore masks).
Here, again, Ruby inserts an absolutely blatant undeclared advertisement for that same book. She lies and says she read it. She lies and says she got study specific study tips from it, despite already doing the things she claimed she learned for months and years before. And, once again, she does not declare her ties to Vee.
She continues showing her Notion sections, full of tasks which she'll believe will fool people into thinking she's a conscientious, well-organised person when really this is everyday tit that people shouldn't need reminding of or fake entries that she'll never accomplish, meant to assuage criticism.
"Re-Read A Little Princess", because reading something new, meant for adults is never going to happen with Ruby.
"deep clean bedroom"
And then more 'academic' goals, which are a mixture of more obvious tasks that no student should need a reminder for, and just bafflingly stupid ones.
"stay up to date with reading"? Ruby, what happened to all the claims that you did all the reading months in advance? Why you so behind? Does it maybe have something to do with filling your days with time-wasting busywork instead of important uni work?
"research eyesight" - Ruby out here thinking she's gonna be a future optometrist all of a sudden when she can't even use an iron.
"come up with a concrete essay plan for dissertation" - Well, at least the dissertation's going well...
"read paper by diss superviser (and be familiar with her work to see if there's anything which might be useful or interesting to talk about)" - And Ruby couldn't stop herself (or spell "supervisor" correctly).
In her eyes, this is probably her showing how conscientious and proactive she is. In actuality, it's another glaring reminder that she's the same weaselly, conniving little suck-up she was in primary school.
Ruby, your tutors and supervisors are not your friends. They are not your peers. Most importantly, they are not future employers. They are academic professionals who will see right through this bullshit.
You should not be researching and reading their papers, which you clearly have no interest in, to find a forced topic of conversation. You should not be wasting meeting time by sucking up. You should be asking them their thoughts on your ideas, not trying to find a way to turn their ideas into your dissertation.
And it should go without saying, but you should not be using social engineering on them to try to curry their favour when they're supervising/grading your work.
This is nothing new for Ruby. She does this with every essay: Sends an ass-kissing email full of leading, mostly irrelevant questions to try to get the lecturer to provide enough ideas and thoughts to turn into a skeleton for her essay. But this is bleeping blatant.
Onto the next entry:
4. Plan a Reset Day.
To everyone else, a Reset Day is a day in which you take a break from all work and either do all the tit you don't usually get time to do, to tie up all those dangling loose ends and unburden yourself of it all. Or maybe it's a day in which you shove everything aside and just mentally decompress and unwind.
For Ruby, it's neither of those things. For Ruby, it's an entire day spent digitally decluttering your laptop.
I don't know what the duck she's doing with her laptop that she needs an entire bleeping day to clear her desktop, and that she needs a day for it so often that it's a "habit". I'd say it's probably because she has extra laptops, which is multiplying the amount of digital clutter. But it can't be that - we know she never actually uses the LG Gram laptop she got paid to advertise.
This isn't a bad idea, per se, but it's something that should take an hour every month or two, not a day every week.
5. "Use a Planner and Write a To-Do List Every Single Day."
Of course she did.
Already recycling ideas from other entries on the list, Ruby tries to encourage her counter-productive planner compulsion and her terrible stationery products.
"Also LEVELLING UP your tyoo-dyoo list--" *COUGH*TORY*COUGH
Ruby wanders off-piste with this one and starts rambling how we need to set specific time limits for all our tasks and goals because Parkinson's Law says that if you don't, you'll spend the rest of your life writing a single essay.
Parkinson's Law is almost complete nonsense, but Ruby loves to quote it often to justify her shoving all tasks into a 15 minute to 1 hour time window.
This does Ruby no good, and won't help anyone else, either.
She's always falling behind, her professional work is always a half-assed mess, her business is a disaster, she can never summon the energy to read more of a book than a synopsis and a cover blurb, she never finishes a film, and there's nothing in her life that seems to bring her joy beyond lying and getting money.
If she spent more time on any given thing, she'd improve at any of them. But Parkinson's Law is a tight, strangling noose around the neck of growth, self-improvement, creativity and quality of work the way she applies it.
6. Do a Piece of Extra Critical Reading Every Week
Ruby says you need to be setting yourself a goal of reading one "acks-tra" piece of critical reading and more if you have time.
This shouldn't be a goal or a habit.
If you're writing an essay, you're going to need to be looking at critical material for supporting quotes. That's part of the assignment.
Apart from that, no, you don't need to be wasting time reading extra tit you'll never need to use. Ruby only has time to read all the critical material because she doesn't read the main texts.
7. "Set Social Media Time."
Reminder: Ruby made multiple videos in which she claims to have stopped procrastinating on social media forever. Her Instagram is still a landfill of wasted time and inane, repetitive content.
Ruby claims she enjoys social media more when she sets it as a task. No tit. As previously mentioned, Ruby loves to workify everything, so she's able to tick a box when she's done. This is a guaranteed way to wind up hating everything you do, which explains why Ruby doesn't seem to actually enjoy a single thing in her life.
Spend as much time as you want on social media if you enjoy it. If it starts to impact you negatively, spend less time on it or take a prolonged break. It's not rocket science, and you don't need to devise timetable systems and check-boxes to limit your social media time without reason.
8. "Write Down and Reflect on 1-3 Things That You've Learned Each Day."
Ruby has shown zero growth or improvement as a person, an influencer, a student, a content creator or as someone who claims to speak English as a first language in the past 7 years. If anything, all her already dubious skills are deteriorating and she's only gotten lazier and more incompetent.
"What did you learn today?"
Ruby's answer should be the same every single day:
Next up:
9. "Go Outside Every Day."
Yes, going outside is definitely a good thing. Fresh air and sunlight are good for you. Vitamin D is good for you.
What's not good for you is taskifying your outdoor activity.
At the start of the academic year, Ruby said she wanted to force herself to go out on a morning walk every day.
This is Ruby "enjoying" her now-routine morning walk a few months later:
The results speak for themselves!
If you turn anything into an habitual, routine grind, you're almost guaranteed to end up hating it. Ruby has never learned that lesson, and likely never will.
10. "Make Time for Movement."
Another valid one. Another excuse for Ruby to lie, not that she seems to need one.
Ruby claims she NEVER used to do this, but recently she makes time to get up, walk around, have a break for movement, whether that's yoga, stretching, ballet fit, or twirling and frolicking in fields like she's in an advert for feminine hygiene products.
Only...Ruby has always done this.
Her daily routines always show her doing terrible yoga, almost injuring herself with uncoordinated gymnastics and running around the grounds of her manor estate like a runaway child.
This is just a flimsy excuse to show recycled footage of herself doing awkward, limb-flailing yoga so that she can get compliments in the comments for how "impressive" her yoga moves are and howstarved and emaciated "skinny" she looks.
Reminder: Ruby is a terrible person and should be nobody's role model in any way.
11. "Meditation."
"I treat my morning walks as a form of mediation," she says, stressing that you don't have to sit down and meditate.
Again, mindfulness and meditation have their benefits, but not the way Ruby does it.
If you're rigidly setting a time to meditate, doubling it up with other tasks and making it part of a strict, time-window routine, that doesn't seem at all mindful or meditative.
And there's nothing mindful or meditative about taking a camera on your walk with you to stop every ten feet and set up a camera to film yourself walking in different directions.
12. "Clean Your Desk Once a Week."
Ruby's desk is constantly covered in wax drippings, dirt, ash, grime and the desiccated corpses of an entire family tree of flies.
This is a task she never does.
Even Ruby can't fully bring herself to lie about this one.
She films herself awkwardly spraying a can of cleaning spray or possible insect killer spray. She holds it and sprays it as if she's never used a cleaning product in her entire life and is worried it may explode.
"Have a deep clean, disinfect your desk...DUST..." Ruby realises the subject of dust is not something she should've brought up and her voice drops about twelve volume levels as she mutters, "...Uhh, which...honestly I don't dust that often and I probably should..."
She sprays the main surface of her windowsill, pokes at the corner of a window with a rag and that's all her cleaning done forever!
This entire video is 90% old, recycled and repurposed footage, but Ruby even recycles footage from her last video as she says it's also important to declutter your room before you go to bed, because getting the underbed dust circulating before you breathe it in all night sounds like a wonderful idea, Ruby.
"PENULTIMATELY..."
13. "Go to Sleep and Wake Up at the Same Time."
Ruby words that poorly, and makes it sound like you should just wake up the instant you fall asleep. So refreshing!
But she says that it doesn't matter what time you go to sleep or wake up, just as long as it's consistent every day to maintain a healthy sleep schedule.
You know what? I'll actually give Ruby some credit here. Not only is the sentiment of this true, this is also better, less muddy advice than her usual bizarre obsession over morning and night routines instead of emphasising the importance of just getting a good night's sleep.
It's still not great and not all-encompassing, though. It's advice given by someone who has the benefit of nothing but free time and no real responsibilities, who never takes a day off.
Sometimes you work with the sleep you have on working days and the healthiest thing is to not maintain that sleep schedule when you have days off and instead catch up on sleep. Which isn't ideal, but it's healthier than depriving yourself of sleep to stay consistent.
And since Ruby has to use an app designed to make her solve a complex system of escape room puzzles to turn it off because she has no willpower to wake up otherwise and her body desperately wants more sleep, it sounds like her sleep is anything but healthy.
And lastly (Even though there's supposed to be 15 items in this list):
14. "Switch Off."
Ruby says she wants to use every Sunday this year as a "Self-Care" day, which she defines as "face masks", "reading for pleasure" and "spending time with family".
Confirmation, where none were needed, that Ruby plans to be home every weekend for the rest of the year.
Ruby clearly doesn't read anything, let alone for pleasure, so that's bullshit, and her idea of switching off is "all the same things I do/pretend to do usually". But I guess at least the core idea is a good one.
And that's it for another video full of lies, undisclosed ads, recycled footage, terribly lazy filmmaking and occasional good advice that Ruby's mostly twisted into bad through her obsession with box-ticking busywork.
After awkwardly sniffing the outside of her mouldy window frame, Ruby reuses her ancient outro and we're done!
It's a dark time for Ruby, not because she gives a crap about anyone but herself, of course, but because other public figures and organisations are announcing their Holocaust Memorial "proj-ackts".
Prince Charles showing that even questionable people can give back to charity and do something for Holocaust Memorial Day:
Prince Charles Announces a Major Project to Memorialize Holocaust Survivors
Following in Kate Middleton’s footsteps, the future king has commissioned portraits of seven living survivors of Nazi concentration camps.
Ruby wondering why the Holocaust Day Trust won't give her more money to twirl in her backyard fields:
It's a stark reminder that Ruby swindled a bunch of charity money and pledged to "reinvest it", building "Holocaust memorials" in "underfunded state schools" as a blatantly flimsy brush-off excuse to avoid giving it back.
And that, in turn, is another reminder that Ruby also owes money to numerous other charities which she either took money from, or pledged to donate ad revenue to (after encouraging people to watch her videos and sit through every ad because it was for charity) and then never donated it.
Rather than give all the money back and start the year fresh, Ruby has chosen to distract herself and hopefully others from her toxic brand image problems, dwindling merch sales and floundering academic life and instead make a video about many compulsive study habits that you can try at home. That's right, you too can waste your time and avoid your academic work and general life problems, just like Ruby!
How does this "study habits" video differ from all the other "study habits" videos she's made, like the one she uploaded less than six months ago?
It doesn't.
Ruby's videos:
Her first habit, though she doesn't include this in the actual list for some reason, is:
Use New Yorker Back-Issues as a Multi-Purpose Tool.
Here we see Ruby using this particular New Yorker back-issue as a coaster, a teapot stand, a notepad, a pen rest, an "ass-thatic" decoration piece and a means of trying to show everyone that she's a well-educated scholar and high-society sort of person who only reads the most expensive, highly-regarded magazines/periodicals. (That last one would have more of an effect if Ruby weren't in her fourth year of university and still doesn't know the meaning of the work "mural" or how to pronounce it.)
It's also a handy, lazy shortcut to avoid having to put any kind of post-production effort into your YouTube videos by adding things like on-screen title cards.
Ruby says her "fahhst" habit - and one that is in the top three of everyone's New Year's resolutions lists apparently, which doesn't seem true but whatever - is to:
1. "Drink Mwoaur Woartuh." (Translation: Drink more water.)
She shows that it's not just old New Yorker issues that you can use to avoid learning editing and post-production techniques when making your living a video content creator, but old folded up, annotated essays, too.
Ruby writes a reminder for herself to drink water. But since she's written a "Drink Me" note and put a clock on it, this is a recipe for confusion.
Note to Ruby: You cannot drink clocks.
She gets her daily Fortum & Mason Tory ad in by showing off a F&M drinking jar full of dusty, stagnant water. At least I assume it's water. Considering she shows it next to a ticking clock and a suspicious-looking battery pack with wires trailing out of it, that jar could be full of "ethanol" and this could be the makings of an improvised explosive device. She'll send the bomb to Oxford University when she gets her latest rejection letter.
On the topic of water, budding scientist Ruby says, "GENUINELY* it is so important TO EVERYONE."
Drinking water is not a study habit. It's a "staying alive" habit. Human beings need food, water and oxygen to keep their brains and bodies functioning and not, y'know...die.
Ruby always includes "drink lots of water" on these study habit/academic essentials videos, but never stresses the equal importance of eating regular, substantial, nutritious meals. Why? Because Ruby treats water as a substitute for food. And because Ruby is a thoughtless, toxic, indescribably stupid, wildly irresponsible idiot, she keeps pushing her own dangerous habits onto other people and never encourages healthy eating.
To punctuate her stupidity, Ruby notes how important water is because we concentrate better when hydrated, even though she drinks a lake-full of water a day and her brain is still a deteriorated slurry that won't focus on anything for more than 15 minutes, is constantly confused and struggles to form sentences.
Even this video is, unsurprisingly, a mess of recycled content and footage, and the new footage is filmed across a dozen different days - Ruby couldn't focus her attention enough to film for less than 8 minutes in one day.
Ruby, this is your latest reminder that the body requires nutrients for the brain to function.
*Her constant use of the word "GENUINELY" brings us to another habit which is shown here but didn't make the list:
Say "GENUINELY" a Lot, Especially When You're a Compulsive Liar.
This is one of Ruby's mostest favouritest habits.
If you're a compulsive liar, like Ruby, say the word "GENUINELY" a lot and put hard emphasis on it. This will turn every questionable statement into a charismatic delight of believability and definitely convince people that you're always honest. You can use other substitute phrases, like "Believe me when I say...", "Honestly..." and "And, trust me, I wouldn't just say this..."
To muddy the waters and avoid people catching on to this habit if you lie constantly, be sure to occasionally say it when you're telling the truth as well (rare for Ruby, I know)!
This isn't just a habit for compulsive liars or students, either - you can use it if you just want to be generally annoying and obnoxious!
Try it at home: Insert the word "GENUINELY" into the next dozen statements you make, and just marvel at the results! You'll come off as practically statesmanlike in your public speaking!
Next on Ruby's list:
2. Research Something You're Interested In From Each of Your Modules/Subjects.
Even Ruby struggles to come up with anything to fill this topic, and all it does is prove that Ruby has no understanding of what a habit is.
She whips out the mouldy copy of A Tale of Two Cities that she stole from her parents and claimed as her own.
Ruby's example of a uni module-adjacent subject to research:
"Syo, lat's say, for exahmpull, yoo read A Tale of Tyoo Cit-eeeys. Yoo moight decide tyoo RAHNDOMLY re-sahhch the woine trade during the FrAnch Revolyooshun...BECAUSE OF HOW SIGNIFICANT WINE AND BLOOD IMAGERY ARE IN THAT BOOK."
So, this entry on the list was just an excuse for Ruby to try and flex that she read A Tale of Two Cities and researched the wine trade during the French Revolution, even though neither of those things are true. In fact, this more shines a light on the fact that she used Sparknotes or a similar study guide to avoid reading the book, as highlighting obvious symbolic imagery is a very study guide thing.
She hates reading, but loves people thinking she's smarter than them.
Ruby's lies aside, this entry is stupid.
If you're GENUINELY interested in something, then let your enjoyment and interest lead the way. If you have to force yourself to research something, are you really that interested? And if you are interested and force yourself to research something regularly and "habitually", that sounds like a sure-fire way of workifying it and wringing the fun and enjoyment right out of it.
It also seems especially misguided if you're a student, especially a student who has to work, take care of kids, or juggle any number of responsibilities. Just do the necessary work required to achieve your best, don't go creating additional, time-consuming research projects for yourself if you have to force yourself to do it.
This is yet another "by Ruby, for Ruby" misguided habit which will not apply to and undoubtedly not be useful to anyone but her. Ruby likes to (at least pretend to) turn every aspect of her life into an academic task. She has an unlimited amount of free time outside uni work and no responsibilities, so she fills it with this kind of busywork to make herself feel productive, despite accomplishing nothing.
Naturally, she's always behind or cutting it close with important things, because she wasted all her time on pointless busywork.
As in all things, don't be like Ruby.
And on that note, her next entry on the list:
3. "Set a Monthly Task List."
Of course "tyoo-dyoo" lists are on Ruby's list of recommended habits.
Ruby sings the virtues of monthly to-do lists, even though these demonstratively don't benefit her in any way. She's always late, always right down to the wire with deadlines - she's a disorganised mess. And in her case, it's because of her obsession with to-do lists.
Earlier in this video, she mentions that she ALWAYS stops to fill her water bottle, even if that makes her late to class. If drinking water/filling her water bottle is one of her essential habits, and she's constantly running so behind that even the simple, quick act of filling a water bottle on a campus with ample water fountains and sources of H2O will make her late for a lecture or seminar, then who in their right mind would follow her example?
If to-do lists benefit you, that's great. But keep it simple. Note down just the most important things that you're likely to forget. Don't keep 106 billion different lists of task divided across 467,128 different planners and notebooks, all full of mundane, obvious, easy-to-remember tasks, like waking up or breathing.
Now, buckle up, because Ruby chose this "SACK-shun" "espAshully" to assault everyone with a barrage of lies, misdirects and questionable bullshit.
Ruby is now well aware that people can see what's on her screen when she films her laptop. This is a lesson that took her a ridiculously long time to learn, and she only learned it after countless instances of people on Tattle taking screenshots of her browsing videos and websites encouraging ED habits, showing private information of her own and other people, or unintentionally showing things that disprove lies she was telling in the very same video, etc.
Y'know, like that time she made a sponsored video for Cricut, was claiming that she ALWAYS uses it and that it's GENUINELY so simple and intuitive to use that anyone can pick it up and use it, but in the same video she'd got a tab open with a YouTube video with a simple guide to the basic operation of the Cricut, because Ruby had never used it before and couldn't figure out how to use it. Ahh, fun times...
Anyway, Ruby has learned from this mistake, and has since been a lot more careful to avoid showing her screen, blur stuff out, and only show things that she intends people to see. Observe:
Let's start with the stupid.
In this section about the importance of to-do lists, the only things Ruby has put in her academic goals section is "prepare well for exam" and "be happy with essay before submitting it". Y'know, glaringly obvious things for anyone else that they don't need to waste time and space in to-do lists with.
Onto the rest:
"research internships for next year" - Since the best internship/work experience she could manage in her entire university career has been an 'any monkey could do it' transcription task that took her far too long to complete and she had to split with another person, and that was with the university helping her, I'll say good luck with landing anything solo, Ruby! With a toxic brand, a content platform that shows nothing but lazy half-assery, and a new controversy every week, you're gonna need it.
"letter writing campaign" - There's no further details, but considering her current letter writing campaign is an unmitigated nightmare of child safety and privacy concerns, I'll say cut your losses and restrict your letter-writing to your parents.
And then the blatant lies begin...
"headway with memorials"...
This is clearly inserted to fool people into believing that she'll do anything with the Holocaust Charity money she already spent and will never give back. It will keep getting delayed and brushed away with things like this and never, ever materialise.
But Ruby must be bracing herself for the questions that will be coming with Holocaust Memorial Day incoming, so she shoved this in.
"sort out customer service for Pumpkin Productivity"
Again, another glaringly obvious insert to deflect from her sinking company's massive PR issues and make-believe like she's getting her hands dirty to fix them.
Pumpkin Productivity's problems are systemic, they've always been there and have not improved at any point. Since her management agency own and run the company, Ruby ain't gonna do tit. If you want change, buy your stationery from a reliable company that offers quality products.
"start editing my book"
Ruby, stop, you're killing me here.
You can tell this one's a lie because Ruby doesn't start editing a book until after it's published. (See: Erimentally Challenged and the Case of the Bullying Protagonist.)
But Ruby wants to give the appearance that she definitely has things in the pipeline, everyone! Her life after graduation definitely isn't going to be a downhill spiral of stupidity and Victorian children's cosplay.
The book thing is important, since her YouTube section shows that her mind is a creative wasteland and she has no ideas for her channel.
"send out a letter to a viewer every week" - That will definitely end well.
"post a book-related video" - I'd say this is the most exciting one, since the prospect of a book review would be AMAZING considering the hoops Ruby would have to jump through on-screen to hide that she didn't read the book. But it'll just be a recycling of one of her previous videos and so: "Here's ten books which I definitely read and have BEAUTIFUL COVERS, enjoy this footage of me touching the covers of every book at Waterstones. DID I MENTION WATERSTONES YET?! And the books were good, no follow-up questions, please. The End."
"post a study tips video" - This one is somehow not ticked off, even though Ruby has already uploaded this video several times already.
"post at least three reels on Instagram" - Ruby is apparently incapable of understanding how section headers work, since this is an 'Instagram' goal in her 'YouTube' section. Again, another great sign that she has a lot of creative ideas is that she has to force herself to upload three reels, and they'll inevitably be footage of her lighting a candle or frolicking outside.
Speaking of her Notion section headers and splitting goals and such into sections, Ruby claims she "got this tip from Vee's book Empowered" and shows off the cover:
This is an outright lie. Ruby has always split her goals, tasks, and to-do lists into those distinct sections in Notion.
For example, here's a screengrab from her 'Notion Tour' video from a year ago:
You'll find those kind of layouts in all her Notion footage. She's always split things into sections like University/Academic/YouTube/Admin/General. She loves doing it because she can reward herself multiple times for tasks that crossover into each section.
She also has not read Vee's book.
Here, she flicks through it and it's pristine and unread.
Of course, the dead giveaway was when she and Jack Edwards both posted equally vague glowing reviews on Goodreads at almost the exact same time, even though they'd had the book for weeks at that point. Each review contained no more information than the back cover blurb, and they'd both clearly never read it.
They also both blatantly avoided declaring their ties to Vee in their reviews - they're all managed by the same agency. They all know each other. Ruby and Jack were invited to a lavish book launch event and given free copies of the book (and probably Covid, since nobody at that enclosed indoor party wore masks).
Here, again, Ruby inserts an absolutely blatant undeclared advertisement for that same book. She lies and says she read it. She lies and says she got study specific study tips from it, despite already doing the things she claimed she learned for months and years before. And, once again, she does not declare her ties to Vee.
She continues showing her Notion sections, full of tasks which she'll believe will fool people into thinking she's a conscientious, well-organised person when really this is everyday tit that people shouldn't need reminding of or fake entries that she'll never accomplish, meant to assuage criticism.
"Re-Read A Little Princess", because reading something new, meant for adults is never going to happen with Ruby.
"deep clean bedroom"
And then more 'academic' goals, which are a mixture of more obvious tasks that no student should need a reminder for, and just bafflingly stupid ones.
"stay up to date with reading"? Ruby, what happened to all the claims that you did all the reading months in advance? Why you so behind? Does it maybe have something to do with filling your days with time-wasting busywork instead of important uni work?
"research eyesight" - Ruby out here thinking she's gonna be a future optometrist all of a sudden when she can't even use an iron.
"come up with a concrete essay plan for dissertation" - Well, at least the dissertation's going well...
"read paper by diss superviser (and be familiar with her work to see if there's anything which might be useful or interesting to talk about)" - And Ruby couldn't stop herself (or spell "supervisor" correctly).
In her eyes, this is probably her showing how conscientious and proactive she is. In actuality, it's another glaring reminder that she's the same weaselly, conniving little suck-up she was in primary school.
Ruby, your tutors and supervisors are not your friends. They are not your peers. Most importantly, they are not future employers. They are academic professionals who will see right through this bullshit.
You should not be researching and reading their papers, which you clearly have no interest in, to find a forced topic of conversation. You should not be wasting meeting time by sucking up. You should be asking them their thoughts on your ideas, not trying to find a way to turn their ideas into your dissertation.
And it should go without saying, but you should not be using social engineering on them to try to curry their favour when they're supervising/grading your work.
This is nothing new for Ruby. She does this with every essay: Sends an ass-kissing email full of leading, mostly irrelevant questions to try to get the lecturer to provide enough ideas and thoughts to turn into a skeleton for her essay. But this is bleeping blatant.
Onto the next entry:
4. Plan a Reset Day.
To everyone else, a Reset Day is a day in which you take a break from all work and either do all the tit you don't usually get time to do, to tie up all those dangling loose ends and unburden yourself of it all. Or maybe it's a day in which you shove everything aside and just mentally decompress and unwind.
For Ruby, it's neither of those things. For Ruby, it's an entire day spent digitally decluttering your laptop.
I don't know what the duck she's doing with her laptop that she needs an entire bleeping day to clear her desktop, and that she needs a day for it so often that it's a "habit". I'd say it's probably because she has extra laptops, which is multiplying the amount of digital clutter. But it can't be that - we know she never actually uses the LG Gram laptop she got paid to advertise.
This isn't a bad idea, per se, but it's something that should take an hour every month or two, not a day every week.
5. "Use a Planner and Write a To-Do List Every Single Day."
Of course she did.
Already recycling ideas from other entries on the list, Ruby tries to encourage her counter-productive planner compulsion and her terrible stationery products.
"Also LEVELLING UP your tyoo-dyoo list--" *COUGH*TORY*COUGH
Ruby wanders off-piste with this one and starts rambling how we need to set specific time limits for all our tasks and goals because Parkinson's Law says that if you don't, you'll spend the rest of your life writing a single essay.
Parkinson's Law is almost complete nonsense, but Ruby loves to quote it often to justify her shoving all tasks into a 15 minute to 1 hour time window.
This does Ruby no good, and won't help anyone else, either.
She's always falling behind, her professional work is always a half-assed mess, her business is a disaster, she can never summon the energy to read more of a book than a synopsis and a cover blurb, she never finishes a film, and there's nothing in her life that seems to bring her joy beyond lying and getting money.
If she spent more time on any given thing, she'd improve at any of them. But Parkinson's Law is a tight, strangling noose around the neck of growth, self-improvement, creativity and quality of work the way she applies it.
6. Do a Piece of Extra Critical Reading Every Week
Ruby says you need to be setting yourself a goal of reading one "acks-tra" piece of critical reading and more if you have time.
This shouldn't be a goal or a habit.
If you're writing an essay, you're going to need to be looking at critical material for supporting quotes. That's part of the assignment.
Apart from that, no, you don't need to be wasting time reading extra tit you'll never need to use. Ruby only has time to read all the critical material because she doesn't read the main texts.
7. "Set Social Media Time."
Reminder: Ruby made multiple videos in which she claims to have stopped procrastinating on social media forever. Her Instagram is still a landfill of wasted time and inane, repetitive content.
Ruby claims she enjoys social media more when she sets it as a task. No tit. As previously mentioned, Ruby loves to workify everything, so she's able to tick a box when she's done. This is a guaranteed way to wind up hating everything you do, which explains why Ruby doesn't seem to actually enjoy a single thing in her life.
Spend as much time as you want on social media if you enjoy it. If it starts to impact you negatively, spend less time on it or take a prolonged break. It's not rocket science, and you don't need to devise timetable systems and check-boxes to limit your social media time without reason.
8. "Write Down and Reflect on 1-3 Things That You've Learned Each Day."
Ruby has shown zero growth or improvement as a person, an influencer, a student, a content creator or as someone who claims to speak English as a first language in the past 7 years. If anything, all her already dubious skills are deteriorating and she's only gotten lazier and more incompetent.
"What did you learn today?"
Ruby's answer should be the same every single day:
Next up:
9. "Go Outside Every Day."
Yes, going outside is definitely a good thing. Fresh air and sunlight are good for you. Vitamin D is good for you.
What's not good for you is taskifying your outdoor activity.
At the start of the academic year, Ruby said she wanted to force herself to go out on a morning walk every day.
This is Ruby "enjoying" her now-routine morning walk a few months later:
The results speak for themselves!
If you turn anything into an habitual, routine grind, you're almost guaranteed to end up hating it. Ruby has never learned that lesson, and likely never will.
10. "Make Time for Movement."
Another valid one. Another excuse for Ruby to lie, not that she seems to need one.
Ruby claims she NEVER used to do this, but recently she makes time to get up, walk around, have a break for movement, whether that's yoga, stretching, ballet fit, or twirling and frolicking in fields like she's in an advert for feminine hygiene products.
Only...Ruby has always done this.
Her daily routines always show her doing terrible yoga, almost injuring herself with uncoordinated gymnastics and running around the grounds of her manor estate like a runaway child.
This is just a flimsy excuse to show recycled footage of herself doing awkward, limb-flailing yoga so that she can get compliments in the comments for how "impressive" her yoga moves are and how
Reminder: Ruby is a terrible person and should be nobody's role model in any way.
11. "Meditation."
"I treat my morning walks as a form of mediation," she says, stressing that you don't have to sit down and meditate.
Again, mindfulness and meditation have their benefits, but not the way Ruby does it.
If you're rigidly setting a time to meditate, doubling it up with other tasks and making it part of a strict, time-window routine, that doesn't seem at all mindful or meditative.
And there's nothing mindful or meditative about taking a camera on your walk with you to stop every ten feet and set up a camera to film yourself walking in different directions.
12. "Clean Your Desk Once a Week."
Ruby's desk is constantly covered in wax drippings, dirt, ash, grime and the desiccated corpses of an entire family tree of flies.
This is a task she never does.
Even Ruby can't fully bring herself to lie about this one.
She films herself awkwardly spraying a can of cleaning spray or possible insect killer spray. She holds it and sprays it as if she's never used a cleaning product in her entire life and is worried it may explode.
"Have a deep clean, disinfect your desk...DUST..." Ruby realises the subject of dust is not something she should've brought up and her voice drops about twelve volume levels as she mutters, "...Uhh, which...honestly I don't dust that often and I probably should..."
She sprays the main surface of her windowsill, pokes at the corner of a window with a rag and that's all her cleaning done forever!
This entire video is 90% old, recycled and repurposed footage, but Ruby even recycles footage from her last video as she says it's also important to declutter your room before you go to bed, because getting the underbed dust circulating before you breathe it in all night sounds like a wonderful idea, Ruby.
"PENULTIMATELY..."
13. "Go to Sleep and Wake Up at the Same Time."
Ruby words that poorly, and makes it sound like you should just wake up the instant you fall asleep. So refreshing!
But she says that it doesn't matter what time you go to sleep or wake up, just as long as it's consistent every day to maintain a healthy sleep schedule.
You know what? I'll actually give Ruby some credit here. Not only is the sentiment of this true, this is also better, less muddy advice than her usual bizarre obsession over morning and night routines instead of emphasising the importance of just getting a good night's sleep.
It's still not great and not all-encompassing, though. It's advice given by someone who has the benefit of nothing but free time and no real responsibilities, who never takes a day off.
Sometimes you work with the sleep you have on working days and the healthiest thing is to not maintain that sleep schedule when you have days off and instead catch up on sleep. Which isn't ideal, but it's healthier than depriving yourself of sleep to stay consistent.
And since Ruby has to use an app designed to make her solve a complex system of escape room puzzles to turn it off because she has no willpower to wake up otherwise and her body desperately wants more sleep, it sounds like her sleep is anything but healthy.
And lastly (Even though there's supposed to be 15 items in this list):
14. "Switch Off."
Ruby says she wants to use every Sunday this year as a "Self-Care" day, which she defines as "face masks", "reading for pleasure" and "spending time with family".
Confirmation, where none were needed, that Ruby plans to be home every weekend for the rest of the year.
Ruby clearly doesn't read anything, let alone for pleasure, so that's bullshit, and her idea of switching off is "all the same things I do/pretend to do usually". But I guess at least the core idea is a good one.
And that's it for another video full of lies, undisclosed ads, recycled footage, terribly lazy filmmaking and occasional good advice that Ruby's mostly twisted into bad through her obsession with box-ticking busywork.
After awkwardly sniffing the outside of her mouldy window frame, Ruby reuses her ancient outro and we're done!
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