Ruby Granger #26 Ruby Granger is a bad writer

[poppystark]

idk why this looks so funny to me

 

[rubysdeadfly]

This comment on her recent insta..sir pls

 

[gossip_guy]

That coffee post has got to be an ad, I swear Ruby has talked about not drinking caffeine before so only money would get her to go back on that. Also didn't she eat a coffee bean in a really deranged way in a vlog not so long ago?

It 1,000% screams 'undeclared ad'. Making sure the video is mostly clear shots of the brand packaging. Suddenly claiming to love something she's always said she hated (which coincidentally always happens when she's given a gifted product). Lying about having never drank coffee before to exaggerate just how much of an incredible product this is to convert her from being a VARRY SPASHUL and NYOT LOIYKE AHTHURR GURLZ non-coffee-drinker. I'm sure she's had gifted stuff from Alpro before, too (and has declared that it's that ONLY MILK SHE USES, moments before tossing it aside for other gifted milks).

She also continues her weird, alien habit of chewing liquids like a fucking lunatic:

 

[StatusWoe]

Do you think she speaks in her natural way of speaking in interviews or in her bizarre neologistic accent? Oxford interviewers pull no punches and I’d like to be one of her dead flys on the wall/windowsill as they ask her for more depth and analytic thinking.

Me too. I think one ''what do you mean by that?'' would kill her off.

100% agree - I can already see the video titled "oxford university might not be the best time of your life", the "React to my first essay grade at Oxford University" with lots of crying and the "English literature student at Oxford University night routine (very productive!!)" that is filmed in her childhood bedroom and includes a somewhat frantic disclaimer about how she just had to go home for two weeks during term because it was her second cousin's birthday but she is jahnuinely so so happy at Oxford and how she just can't wait to go back and immerse herself in the dark macademia of it all once more...

Yes, and at the moment Ruby can tell herself she didn't have the best time at Exeter, but things would've been so much better had she gone to Oxford. If she went to Oxford and things were still bad, then she'd have to face the fact that no university will fix the deeper issues because you take your problems with you (sadly).

Perhaps it's just me, but I've never understood the obsession with Oxbridge. I know they're considered 'the top' unis in the country (and some of the world's best), but are they really worth the level of fixation that they inspire in people like Jack and Ruby? Is the student experience so much better than student life anywhere else? An Oxbridge place doesn't guarantee success or happiness. In the UK, we're fortunate to have a large number of good unis that are all worth applying to. It seems a shame that Jack etc can't let go of the Oxford dream.

While I'm on this tangent (sorry if this is getting OT), there are other things I wish applicants/studytubers would consider (Hi Ruby if you're reading this!):

Spoiler: Oxbridge Rant

Just because you're 'good enough' for Oxbridge, that doesn't mean you should apply.

• Oxford and Cambridge offer a smaller range of courses and subject combinations than most other universities. This is not good if you don't want to specialise early or prefer a more Liberal Arts style curriculum.
• Some courses are not available, e.g. aspiring marine biologists/oceanographers would be better applying to Southampton because of its facilities, proximity to the ocean and specialist course. If you applied to Cambridge you'd need to wade through the entire Natural Sciences Tripos. Just to use one example from many.
• Research strength doesn't always translate into teaching quality. Many lecturers are more interested in their research than teaching undergrads. Just saying.
• Many of these courses are very traditional which will suit some people but not others. Personally, I'd prefer a more flexible course, even though I appreciate the thoroughness of the Ox/Cam ones. Example: English at Oxford is very chronological in its structure, so if your main interest is in modern, American or foreign lit then its better to apply somewhere different, maybe for a comparative literature course instead.
• The assessments are heavily exam-based. Yes, there's a dissertation for essay subjects, but most of the assessment for arts subjects is based around 3-hour written exams. Again, if you're great at coursework but not timed exams then perhaps reconsider. Having your degree graded on the basis of a final year exam marathon increases the stress SO much more than if you're being assessed throughout your course via a mix of assignments, projects, presentations, essays, etc.
• Short terms and intense workload mean that there's extra stress. Students with mental health conditions will be especially affected by this. I decided against applying to either of these unis for mental health reasons and have no regrets.
• It's harder to have a balance between academic work and student life. Because Oxford/Cam both emphasise the academic side, it might not be possible to take advantage of all the extra-curriculars and student clubs offered at university. I think that's sad.
• Even a first from Oxbridge doesn't mean you'll have good job prospects. To explain: a lot of the newer, less traditional universities are much better when it comes to offering work placements and preparing students for the workplace. This won't be a factor for everyone - some people just want a purely academic degree - but I've definitely known people flounder post-graduation, many ending up overqualified for the work they're doing and frustrated by it, whereas others from less prestigious unis go straight into a job and work their way up.

 

[legomaniac2001]

Seems a bit random but this outfit looks okay. I wonder if her management sorted out a stylist for the night or something?
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she looks very pretty here

 

[morganmichelle]

Because life is short and time is precious, I've decided to only recap the new content in Ruby's latest routine video:

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Me: IT'S NOT LOADING! *A few seconds later (in the french Spongebob accent)* Me: Ohhh, nice

 

[cheesecakes]

How are her parents not intervening? Are they in denial? Their daughter has an ED is embarrassing herself worldwide!
No amount of money is worth that

Have you guys ever tried to get in touch with 16th and her parents to report ruby's worrying ED and mental state?

I assume her parents are the type to try and sweep things gently under the rug - ignore what's going on and do whatever they can to persuade themselves that Ruby is fine and doesn't need professional support. So yeah, they're probably in denial. We don't want their precious eldest daughter being ill and ruining their image, now do we?

However, I don't think it would be fair to get in touch with Sixteenth/her parents though - firstly because they both know and don't care, but also because I think that's a major breach of a boundary. We can talk about influencers here, complain and make fun, praise them even, but actually going so far to contact management/family I think is going too far. We're not Ruby's friends, and we don't know her, it would feel far too close to harassment and stalking to contact people close to her even if it could potentially do good (which it wouldn't tbh).

 

[Griftwood]

Ah yes, discourse, the thing about which final year English students know everything

 

[gossip_guy]

Ruby: "I am quite perfectionistic when it comes to academics."
Also Ruby: (Refuses to learn basic things like spelling, grammar and punctuation.)

The title of the video is "Finishing my dissertation & reflecting on hustle culture". She obviously didn't finish her dissertation as much as just gave up and handed in whatever mess she'd made because she had no time left, and she says she'll reflect on hustle culture in another video.

Ruby, unless you're going to sit down, acknowledge your role in that and admit culpability for being a driving force for toxic productivity, then maybe do yourself a favour and don't make a video about hustle culture. Your influencer career is built on a foundation of lies, fabricated achievements and impossible timelines meant to drive naive impressionable young people to feel inferior and work themselves to death trying to chase a completely unattainable goal as they try desperately to emulate you.

The last thing anyone wants is your dumb-as-rocks narcissistic ass performatively moaning about hustle culture like you're not part of the problem. Take that shit into the woods and tell it to the bluebells. Nobody else wants to hear it.

 

[CatCafe234]

Ruby doesn’t seem to have much of an eye for clothes and suffers from that thing of thinking that anything that is ‘old’ works for any period, which is odd given her supposed interest in history. You can see she’s trying to develop her personal style but just goes a bit overboard and puts way too much mismatching stuff together. She’s going for that eclectic vintage style but she just ends up looking like she’s been mugged by an Oxfam donations bag. It’s a shame as she does have some nice pieces but she ends up wearing them all at the same time and it’s too much.

That hat is probably the one her mum wears to weddings. British women love a hat at weddings...

It’s very 90s Home Counties wedding …

 

[springstudy]

Her and Jade annoy me SO much with this SHIT. Like yes just because you guys have finally realised that your way of studying isn't healthy nor normal you're now suddenly coming to the conclusion that "hey there are more important things than studying!!!" when you've been promoting that for years. like... most of us have been juggling jobs and other side things and already knew this. but these sheltered idiots come online and try to preach to us about things like that after sitting in their bubble enjoying being able to do nothing but study.

i can honestly see ruby now completely switching up her attitude just because SHE IS out of education now and suddenly producing videos about how studying isn't everything and grades aren't everything and like jade turn into one of those channels that try and "change the stereotype" of studying. when they are the only ones who have done this and made people want to study that much.

it's so obvious these idiots only wanted to get into oxford and no other university, for prestigious reasons, and since they both couldn't they tried so hard to pretend that they were ok with what uni they went to but absolutely were miserable because they realised they have nothing except being a "top student" image on youtube. so now they want to pretend to everyone else that it doesn't mean anything, just because they can't interact socially and have no other personality except being big headed idiots. i said what i said.

 

[Scapier88]

I'll have you know that Ruby is watching them all in ten minute sections whilst also reading and trampolining at the same time

I highly doubt Ruby Granger watched six seasons of Downton Abbey since she can’t get through one episode of tv #fakefan
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[rubella]

On a separate note, I went to Exeter and I was in first year when Roobee was in first year studying philosophy. I never actually spoke to her but I knew someone who was an acquaintance of hers. They told me that they went to a premiere showing of some movie (can't remember what) which was showing at midnight and Rubiks Cube confessed that it was her first time staying up that late, ever.

 

[rubysdeadfly]

Lol! Also, your username made me laugh. Who knew Ruby's dead fly would be reincarnated as a Tattle user?!

She didn't even give me a proper burial her mum binned me one day whilst Ruby was at uni

 

[Redrose97]

Not sure of it's me but that hat looks far too big for her head, makes it look like she has a loaf of bread on her head . Just looks like it would just fall off at any moment as it's perched on her head than her actually wearing it.

 

[Deeznutslol]

I also don't think that she's bad at sports. Obviously not a great champion or anything but she is a lot more athletic than I would have guessed.

But yeah, worried about her not eating lots and exercising. She looked very skinny and pale in that video.

By the way I found this old gem "How to be like Hermione at the beach" (honestly loved these when I was younger) and it is just crazy how much she has changed. She looked so much healthier (thicker hair, healthy skin):

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She’s off her head in this one wtf, ‘she wouldn’t play games, she would practise her swimming’ jesus christ losen up a bit!! Why did she aspire to be the most insufferable version of hermione?!

 

[Deeznutslol]

Roobee has made my favourite kind of post, which is namely that kind in which there can be found atrocious grammar and random shots of buildings, not to mention an old pic of her just to fuck with the timeline. Stop it, Rumbaba, Oxford already said they don’t want you.

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This is just sad tbh. In her head she is still a little girl looking up at the gates of Oxford, dreaming of doing her matriculation and starting a degree there, when in reality she is a 3rd year student who is literally about to finish her degree and graduate… give your head a wobble and move on from it!! I think it’s so important to have goals and dreams, but this whole Oxford hang up she’s got is really holding her back lmao

 

[irunforfun]

All I see is…

 

[teflonpanda]

Omg she sounds SO damn smug and pleased with herself about finishing her dissertation in that video, it's quite something. "I have spent so much time on this", "I wanted to make the most of these last few days" (making it sound like she's gonna die or sth, so unnecessarily dramatic), "it is so satisfying to be able to tick something so big off my todo list", "but of course you didn't just work on it one day, you've been working so hard on it for such a long time", "the dissertation has been one year in the making" (!)...

Maybe I'm just in a foul mood today, but it just makes me sick how self-congratulatory she is here and how much she pats herself on the back for the grand achievement of spending a whole year working on an undergrad diss that's like what, 10k words? And all that while not having a thing in the world to worry about, not having to work a job to make rent (no, chewing Bird and Blend tea on camera once a week does not count as a regular job in my mind, I'm sorry). Not having to worry about money at all, in fact. Not having to worry about sick parents, or having to care for anyone else, not having to do her own laundry most likely, not volunteering or being politically active or doing literally anything else besides sitting at her desk drinking expensive, non-fairtrade tea and writing out draft after draft after draft of her dissertation.

I mean, good for her if she's so damn proud of the grand achievement of being able to spend her life that way, I guess. But something about the way she goes on and on about how great she is and how she was working syo syo hard on perfecting every little detail of that stupid dissertation just makes me irrationally angry.

 

[gossip_guy]

I really want to know what her argument is overall - I'm really not sure how she's been able to think of anything useful or relevant, past linking it to a wider literary context (which is just basic level stuff tbh)

I don't think even she knows. It's just a kitchen sink of tangential nonsense.

Near as I can interpret from all the bits she's shown, her dissertation is something like:

1. How Lewis Carroll's letters are works of literature in their own right and a VARRY KOIND gift to others.
2. [Irrelevant tangent about nonsense poetry.]
3. All letters are gifts.
4. [Irrelevant tangent about the Coronavirus.]
5. Victorians sent lots of letters and had lots of rules of ATTICAT for correspondence.
6. [Irrelevant tangent about the Victorian era unrelated to letters.]
7. Society also has many different cultures of gift-giving.
8. [Irrelevant tangent about Cicero.]
9. Gifts are VARRY KOIND.
10. [Irrelevant tangent about bereavement correspondence.]
11. Kindness is VARRY important
12. [Irrelevant tangent about genetic editing.]
13. LATTERS are THE MOST MOSTLIEST FORM OF KOINDNESS.
14. [Irrelevant tangent about literary dedications.]
15. Lewis Carroll was a VARRY KOIND MAN and also VARRY IMPORTANT.
16. [Irrelevant tangent about the history of the artistic muse] Section deleted.
17. [Irrelevant, inaccurate tangent about the history of Alice in Wonderland with no mention of Lewis Carroll being a diddler of children.]
18. In conclusion, KOINDNESS IS VARRY GUD AND LATTERS ARE VARRY KOIND AND LEWIS CARROLL SEND LYOTS OF LATTERS AND THAREFORE LEWIE WAS A VARRY GUD AND KOIND MAN. He inspires MANNY PEEPUL TYOO BEE KOIND TYOO THIS VARRY DAY, WITH COMPANIES LOIYKE PONKIN' PRODOCKTIVTEE OFFERING VARRY KOIND PRODUCTS AND PRICES. THE AND.

Ruby can't even figure out how capital letters, punctuation and consistent titling work, there's no way she'll be able to have a coherent, intelligent and literate thesis run for 10,000 words.

The titles of the three videos in this series:

'Study With Me (a week of daily study with mes) + giveaway'
'a productive study day #2'
'A Study Day with Me + sharing an extract I had to cut '

What a dunce.

Ruby has definitely been reading Tattle again. @Griftwood mentioned the blurring of pages, but the timelapse footage is full of contemptuous, demonic glares at the camera, as though she knows we're going to be going through frame by frame.

It also does nothing to convince people that she's remotely on-track with getting this handed in and having it be in anything resembling readable quality, let alone worthy of the First she's expecting.

(Pictured: Ruby doing "a littull bit mwoar wahhrk" on her final assignments", which looks suspiciously like a lot of last minute panicked rewriting.)

She casually mentions that she's just going through and noting things which she still needs to research, or things she's added which are unsubstantiated. "Because sometimes as you're reading it, you realise you've written something which maybe you should cite your source for."

I don't know what's more hilarious:

1. That Ruby is on at least her 8th draft and still hasn't cited her references.
2. That Ruby is 8+ drafts deep and is offering up something as integral as the idea of citing your sources as a hidden secret to essay-writing.
3. That Ruby talks about this in the 2nd person, stating that "YOU" are doing these things, as though she thinks that fucking up her dissertation to this extent and not bothering to research and cite references throughout her entire dissertation until the last second is perfectly natural and done by everyone else, too.

This dissertation is an unmitigated disaster. Just when you think the car wreck is over, a plane crashes into it from out of nowhere.

Her process only gets more ludicrous. Rather than just finally edit her fucking dissertation once and for all, Ruby decides that she's going to procrastinate and overcomplicate things even more by annotating her entire disseration for the 372,946th time and colour-coding the whole thing by category of what needs changing.

And, of course, she has to introduce redundant planners and to-do lists into the mix, too.

Not only is this entire endeavour completely unnecessary when she could've just read through her dissertation and edited as she went, this whole thing is rendered especially pointless because it's only a three-colour system:

1. Sections where Ruby has poorly phrased things (I can't see how the whole damn document's not coated in layers of pink pen given Ruby's illiteracy and fragile grasp of the English language).
2. Sections that need researching.
3. Sections that need moving to earlier or later in the essay.

This is yet more of Ruby's productivity placebo busywork - adding extra steps to accomplish nothing but wasted time, but because she added an extra step, she felt like she did more. All this when she could've just saved a new draft on her laptop and edited it directly as she went.

And pro-tip: if you can yank an entire section of your dissertation and drop it in a different place without turning the whole thing into a disjointed, directionless mess, then it's already a directionless, disjointed mess.

"And then I was feeling a bit foggy-headed, syo I went outside for a walk."

Spoiler: TW: Ruby's "Food"

Let's recap Ruby's food for this day.

Breakfast:

A ghastly slurry of watery milk, carrot shavings, a third of a chopped banana and some unidentifiable slop in the corner. It's barely enough to fill a quarter of a small bowl.

A "snack":

A fucking ramekin full of cereal, yoghurt and frozen fucking peas.

After feeling light-headed and foggy-brained, the sum total of what she eats is this:

Four fucking grapes and a digestive biscuit.

Of course your brain's turned to sludge, Ruby. You aren't eating anything. Not only that, you're still encouraging others to follow your lead and imitate your dangerous habits, you utterly despicable cretin.

This puddle-brained dimwit then goes on a ramble about how much she loves bluebells, and in predictable Ruby fashion, proclaims them to be quite possible her FAVOURITE flower, because she likes that it's only here for a short time. I mean, that's the case with most flowers. But childhood's only there for a short time, too, and Ruby loves that so much she's spend the past decade trying to extend it, so maybe this is an extension of that.

She says she spent some time watching study vlogs (because nothing she claims to do can stray too far from her superficial academia obsession).

"I HONESTLY watch these ALL THE TIME," she lies, claiming to get an "AXTRA BYOOST OF MYOTIVATION" from them. At the myoment I'm loving 'love, nika''s videeyowsss, they're varry gud."

Now that's the face of someone loving what they're watching and imbued with a sudden burst of motivation.

Ruby moans that she's had to cut a big section about the history of the muse in Greek mythology. She says it's really painful to have to cut it after working on it so much and spending so much time researching it. Somehow it didn't occur to her the second she started researching it, or at any point until now, that this has no relevance to her dissertation degree in any way. But the same's true of most of the crap she's shoehorned in.

"And THANNN I did a littull bit mwoar wahhrk on chapter tyoo of moiy dissertationnnn AND THAN I did a littull bit mwoar wahhrk I think this toiyme on the introductionnn tyoo moiy dissertationnn--[awkward cut mid-breath]"

This is a complete thing that she says. Her brain, feeble as it was, is gone.

She downplays this as a "littull bit mwoar wahrrk" to make it seem like this is a mere drop in the bucket compared to her immensely productive achievements. Look at the fucking state of that, in what should be the last draft. What a mess. It's wonderful.

"haha?" One day, Ruby will learn to human. In the meantime, she isn't a fan of things that taste like anything, but she is a fan of replacing meals with water.

After failing to eat again, Ruby states that the key to motivation when your brain is flagging is just to change study locations. Why not go study in your student kitchen or family kitchen? You know, places were there is definitely no thoroughfare of people wandering through and it absolutely won't distract and inconvenience everyone involved. Speaking of inconveniencing people, why not swap rooms/desks with your sibling? (There are all genuine suggestions that she offers.)

Ruby moves to one of her 4,963,595 musky, dust-filled spare rooms full of junk shop clutter and the sudden surge of motivation is immediately evident:

Daddy Bones can be seen angrily attacking the grounds of the estate with a strimmer, and it's clear that having Ruby back home indefinitely is causing him to go full Jack Torrance.

Ruby relocates to the kitchen and, again, motivation is visibly off the charts:

Ruby's mother has also seemingly taken to the idea of replacing food with work; a 'Clare's Cafe' menu on the wall outlines a to-do list of household chores that she to-didn't.

The Roomba has been crossed off and given a tick, replaced with 'hoover', which goes unchecked. This is the Roomba that Ruby's mum drowned while flooding the kitchen, so it's no shock that it's out of action.

She also writes out chickens as "chooks" - oh, what a lark, to pretend to be one of the common folk while voting Tory and living with a tax-dodging crook and a charity thief!

Another day down and she's still no closer to salvaging this disaster.