Ruby Granger #23 Her workload‘s pure spuddle, let’s all twirl in a puddle!

[buflesse]

New thread! Thanks to @CatCafe234 for the title. Does anyone want to recap? Here are some of my highlights...

Ruby randomly declared that after a year, she's returned the Holocaust Memorial Day ad money. There is no proof that this happened.

A couple of days later she revealed a tasteless, poorly thought out Notion page for people to upload stories of Holocaust survivors, coupled with a ridiculous video (now set to private). Ruby has ignored the backlash and put her head in the sand. Her instagram post is filled with Sixteenth employees saying what an amazing job she's doing.

Ruby then posted an ad for On The Edge Conservation, and lied by saying she has to declare it as an ad, even if it's unpaid. This isn't true, so the likelihood is that she was paid.

Ruby is somehow getting high firsts for her mediocre essays, most likely because she relies entirely on Blakeney/critics and the examiners can't be bothered to challenge her on it because of the potential fallout.

She's still posting too many pictures of her window, still ED baiting, and still claiming to read several books a week. Plus ca change!

ETA: she's still struggling to shift the hundreds of remaining yearly planners (lol), and was widely criticised on here for encouraging her young followers to fill in a form with loads of details about themselves, on the off chance that she'll send them something. A GDPR and safeguarding nightmare!

 

[slamvs27]

"I JAN-UINELY LOVED His Dark Materials! The materials could not have been more dark, but the book was syo, syo lyrical and prosaic! My favourite character was the titular man who owned the dark materials. 5/5"

It is filled with words, things with meanings! This makes the book very meaningful!! I will recommend it to my 12 year old self. Speaking of underrated and very smart beings, did you know, bears, an endangered animal, are endangered? They need AH-ER help! Click on this link to donate:
donotstopstealingmoneyfromcharitiesorstop'accidentally'fetishizingtheHolocaust.co

Edit: oops, my very busy-body brain has malfunctioned! It is away at lunch at this time. I realized I have accidentally re-copied my re-re-copied notes from Notion, pwease forgive me!! Click on this link to donate so my brain can have some yummy yummy dollah for lunch:
(null and void)

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I'm running on 3 hours of sleep right now (which is probably how rube's nutritionally brain operates all the time). Reading this back tomorrow and gonna have a shameful chuckle to myself.

 

[justlurkinaround]

One of my general frustrations with a lot of higher education that is reflected here, is the way they put emphasis on using other people's work to build your argument in preference to having any kind of an original take. Literally about 25% of the marks are about referencing: did you do it in the 'right' format, did you use the kind of sources they wanted you to, and by extension did you come to the 'right' conclusions about the material.

This is more pronounced in arts subjects where there isn't one objectively correct answer, but if you ever wonder why universities have historically upheld some really questionable ideas and theories, this is kind of why. If you have an idea or thought that you can't cite, it's worthless, even if it's interesting. I found it demoralising how much is just about regurgitating and rewording thoughts that others have already covered in-depth.

(previous thread was closed literally as I was composing this novella, hope cross-thread posts are okay!)

Wanted to jump in as a current PhD student and teaching assistant in English (in North America, so not Oxbridge). While higher ed and academia are deeply flawed, my personal experience and perspective differs from yours on this matter.

Some undergrad profs are particular about having students cite almost everything because students need to be more well-versed in the subject/ topic. It’s possible, but unlikely, that an undergrad can develop completely original arguments for research-based essays. (Not disparaging undergrads, especially as I was once one too! Objectively, an undergrad is less likely to have spent as much time researching as grad students and profs.) If an undergrad claims something is original and is asked to provide references, their instructors probably believes they didn’t do enough research (thus not realizing their argument isn’t fresh) or suspects they are passing off someone else’s ideas as their own.

As a grad/ PhD student, I can assure you it’s terribly disheartening to stumble upon secondary literature that echoes your ideas precisely. The point of a PhD is to create knowledge, not just to regurgitate other people’s research (except during a lit review, though analysis is still required).

Based on Ruby’s feature-length book review, I doubt she is ready for an MA/ MSt/ MPhil, much less a PhD/ DPhil. Book reviews don’t even need to be well-researched. They only require that you’ve read the books and can cogently articulate your thoughts/ feelings about them. Bonus points for originality, though Ruby seems to struggle with that too?

 

[CatCafe234]

New thread! Thanks to @CatCafe234 for the title. Does anyone want to recap? Here are some of my highlights...

Wow, my first thread title, I’m very flattered

 

[StatusWoe]

@Ilaariaa mentioned the His Dark Materials books before the last thread was locked so just adding thoughts:
You'd think Ruby would like them because they tick a lot of her boxes - young adult lit, plucky girl protagonist, steampunk vibes, set in an Oxford college - but she hasn't mentioned the trilogy afaik.

If you're interested, Philip Pullman is currently writing another trilogy which acts as a sequel to His Dark Materials. I've read the first two, La Belle Sauvage and The Secret Commonwealth, but not the third (because he's still writing it lol). Worth checking out.

I still want to make a book thread but don't know a) if that's allowed and b) where to put one. Oh well.

she's still struggling to shift the hundreds of remaining yearly planners (lol)

And don't forget the ribbon bookmarks! Actually they're just ribbons...expensive ribbons. She's still trying to get rid of them too.

 

[Chickpea9]

@Ilaariaa mentioned the His Dark Materials books before the last thread was locked so just adding thoughts:
You'd think Ruby would like them because they tick a lot of her boxes - young adult lit, plucky girl protagonist, steampunk vibes, set in an Oxford college - but she hasn't mentioned the trilogy afaik.

I think she said a while ago that she was reading one of the books (The Subtle Knife I think) for the first time as she hadn’t read them when she was younger. I’ve no idea whether she liked it or not or if she read all three.

 

[Ilaariaa]

@Ilaariaa mentioned the His Dark Materials books before the last thread was locked so just adding thoughts:
You'd think Ruby would like them because they tick a lot of her boxes - young adult lit, plucky girl protagonist, steampunk vibes, set in an Oxford college - but she hasn't mentioned the trilogy afaik.

If you're interested, Philip Pullman is currently writing another trilogy which acts as a sequel to His Dark Materials. I've read the first two, La Belle Sauvage and The Secret Commonwealth, but not the third (because he's still writing it lol). Worth checking out.

I still want to make a book thread but don't know a) if that's allowed and b) where to put one. Oh well.



And don't forget the ribbon bookmarks! Actually they're just ribbons...expensive ribbons. She's still trying to get rid of them too.

I don't think Ruby would like Lyra that much because she's pretty much an anti-Hermione in the first book lol (tomboy, would rather play in the mud and run around roofs instead of reading books, doesn't listen to her lecturers, constantly lies and breaks the rules)

 

[Magpie02]

@Ilaariaa mentioned the His Dark Materials books before the last thread was locked so just adding thoughts:
You'd think Ruby would like them because they tick a lot of her boxes - young adult lit, plucky girl protagonist, steampunk vibes, set in an Oxford college - but she hasn't mentioned the trilogy afaik.

If you're interested, Philip Pullman is currently writing another trilogy which acts as a sequel to His Dark Materials. I've read the first two, La Belle Sauvage and The Secret Commonwealth, but not the third (because he's still writing it lol). Worth checking out.

I still want to make a book thread but don't know a) if that's allowed and b) where to put one. Oh well.



And don't forget the ribbon bookmarks! Actually they're just ribbons...expensive ribbons. She's still trying to get rid of them too.

Thank you for the book recommendation!!

 

[Underjoyed]

I found the golden compass full of hypothetically great storylines, but poorly executed tbh. Don't really get the hype.

 

[pembapup]

I know I'm late on the topic, but I really think the entire holocaust scandal is completely unforgivable. She's 21 years old.

In particular, the vile video she made about the victim of the eugenics programme. So many of us still live with the consequences of it. The name of my disability was the name of a nazi-cooperator who selected children with my disability to be tortured, assaulted and murdered in the eugenics programme. He lined children up and decided which were worth less, and which could be 'saved' (still medically tortured, but not killed). I have to live every single day knowing that I am branded - in the eyes of others - with his label. I constantly have to refer to myself with the term created by a monster in order to avoid discrimination, because it still has the connotation of 'less disabled' and hence 'worth saving', despite it being inaccurate. A large portion of my family was murdered in the programme and the camps, and I and many others still have to use the terms they were labelled with that took them to their deaths.

The holocaust and the eugenics programme was not a game, or fiction to be utilised for a dramatic reading on YouTube. The expressions when she was talking about sterilisation, forced abortion etc made me sick. These aren't mythical torture methods - they happened. They are still happening. Disabled people are not sources of pity-porn to be used for a quick buck.

I got rejected from Cambridge the other day (very relieved honestly lol) and for a moment was scared I would enter a Rooby-era. But now I no longer have to worry, because she has proven time and time again that nobody in their right mind could be as inconsiderate, uneducated and terrible. I think in my first post here I wrote that I don't think she's a bad person, but that's definitely changed. She may be sick, but she's caused so much harm at this point. So, so done with her now.

 

[Phoebe Weatherfield]

Wow, my first thread title, I’m very flattered

Yes but you did work VARY hard at it, even more so than usual, and that's really saying something! (now you should grin repulsively and generally behave insufferably because you ARE better than everyone else*.)

*Taken from the Rooby handbook of 'entitlement and success'

 

[CatCafe234]

Yes but you did work VARY hard at it, even more so than usual, and that's really saying something! (now you should grin repulsively and generally behave insufferably because you ARE better than everyone else*.)

*Taken from the Rooby handbook of 'entitlement and success'

I did indeed. In fact, I worked harder on this title than I’ve EVARR worked on any other title, and I normally work so, so hard on all of my titles. In fact, I’m about to launch my newest ‘Write titles with me’ video on YouTube, complete with multiple outfit changes and a completely honest* very visible clock, so come and tell me how fab I am in the comments! #sponsorednotsponsored

*it’s not

 

[irunforfun]

Well done @CatCafe234 on such an incredible world class and world beating effort on creating this title. I know you work at such a top of world class level all the time but this was definitely world beating. You are the best title writer in the whole world.
To this lesser mortal, can anyone explain to me how she thinks the ridiculous placement of the clock is a good idea to be repeated at the most bizarre times during her videos? Does she not realise that she often places it in her way so she must then move it to do all that super hard studying and faffing so we know all the time lapses must be BS?

 

[Flo10]

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting but I thought I'd throw in my two cents

I graduated from Exeter last year, and was actually in one of Ruby's lectures back when she was doing philosophy. I do not think that she is being honest about her grades - I always found the grading system to be completely fair (and quite a few lecturers are very tough markers), and I have never spoken to anyone else that seems to effortlessly achieve high firsts like Ruby does. You can tell the ones that are getting good grades, because they are absolutely brilliant. Of course it could be different in the English department, but considering my own course was spread across multiple departments I don't think there can be that much of a difference.

I think she realised in first year that she wasn't achieving the grades she wanted to, and started being less than truthful about them so that she would still be seen as a good studytuber. I think that might also be a reason why she switched courses, perhaps thinking that she wasn't suited to the course rather than that just being how university grading systems work.

If she is being truthful, I want to see some more advanced study tips than 'write a to-do list' and 'get some exercise'

 

[Phoebe Weatherfield]

I did indeed. In fact, I worked harder on this title than I’ve EVARR worked on any other title, and I normally work so, so hard on all of my titles. In fact, I’m about to launch my newest ‘Write titles with me’ video on YouTube, complete with multiple outfit changes and a completely honest* very visible clock, so come and tell me how fab I am in the comments! #sponsorednotsponsored

*it’s not

Is there a planner I can buy while I watch the not sponsored ad revenue you are rolling in? I can then tick off "get scammed by Rooby" box, which I would love you to have as a permanent feature on every page of the planner. Thanks.

 

[snom4444]

To this lesser mortal, can anyone explain to me how she thinks the ridiculous placement of the clock is a good idea to be repeated at the most bizarre times during her videos? Does she not realise that she often places it in her way so she must then move it to do all that super hard studying and faffing so we know all the time lapses must be BS?

During her study-with-me videos from A-levels, she was a lot more likely to position the camera where you could see both the clock and her computer, almost looking over her shoulder. It showed that she didn't get distracted or do anything other than what she said she did, even if it was still pointless busywork. Now the clock looking directly at the camera seems more like a 'duck-you' to people who question her than anything else.

 

[CatCafe234]

Is there a planner I can buy while I watch the not sponsored ad revenue you are rolling in? I can then tick off "get scammed by Rooby" box, which I would love you to have as a permanent feature on every page of the planner. Thanks.

Absolutely. Just send me ALL of your personal and contact details, and you too can be entered into a competition to possibly, maybe, one day, win one of my academic YARH planners, which covers all eleven months of the year (including October twice, because I love autumn) and all six days of the week. Have a productive week!

 

[Ilaariaa]

Every now and then I come across her latest video and she looks so unhappy in the thumbnail. I'm sure we all pull that face every now and then while we're studying but like...normally when people do study with me vlogs they choose a still where they look more positive and excited for the thumbnail, or they don't show themselves at all and use a picture of their desk or something. Ruby looks so miserable, stressed, uncomfortable in her outfit. It does not really put you in the mood for studying.
It's probably because other Youtubers take separate pictures for their thumbnails, while Ruby just can't be bothered and uses shots from the video itself.

 

[Phoebe Weatherfield]

Absolutely. Just send me ALL of your personal and contact details, and you too can be entered into a competition to possibly, maybe, one day, win one of my academic YARH planners, which covers all eleven months of the year (including October twice, because I love autumn) and all six days of the week. Have a productive week!

I have filled out your questionnaire as requested:

(1) Do you like old-fashioned things?

• Victorian child labour and syphilis
• Colonial expansionism
• The rise of fascism and the holocaust

I love all of these and have some opera glasses once owned by Eva Braun which she used to inspect her husband's crown jewel(s) with. Master race my arse!


(2) What do you love most about tea?

• The ASSTHATIC of drinking out of filthy silverware and cups that the bellow-stairs have neglected to wash
• It's cheaper than mouth rinse and can be used to perform exactly the same task
• The fact that (not sponsored by) Bird & Blend send me freebies which I ALWAYS enjoy so much, even although when I'm drinking the tea my face spasms into the sort of horror one expresses on learning that a nasty working Northern Person is moving in next door.

I like the fact that you are gloriously unaware of where your tea comes from and the exploitation of the women tea pickers in Bangladesh and other countries means nothing at all to you, you utter abomination.

Please send me planner so I can award myself some more pats on the back.

 

[yukka_]

Hi everyone, this is my first time posting but I thought I'd throw in my two cents

I graduated from Exeter last year, and was actually in one of Ruby's lectures back when she was doing philosophy. I do not think that she is being honest about her grades - I always found the grading system to be completely fair (and quite a few lecturers are very tough markers), and I have never spoken to anyone else that seems to effortlessly achieve high firsts like Ruby does. You can tell the ones that are getting good grades, because they are absolutely brilliant. Of course it could be different in the English department, but considering my own course was spread across multiple departments I don't think there can be that much of a difference.

I think she realised in first year that she wasn't achieving the grades she wanted to, and started being less than truthful about them so that she would still be seen as a good studytuber. I think that might also be a reason why she switched courses, perhaps thinking that she wasn't suited to the course rather than that just being how university grading systems work.

If she is being truthful, I want to see some more advanced study tips than 'write a to-do list' and 'get some exercise'

I can't lie I did think this too, I have done a couple of Philosophy modules and the marking is notoriously hard and very harsh