Ruby slaps that on-screen as she comes out with the same nonsensical brain-addled rambling, alien cadence and weird pauses she does every time she speaks. How is this any different from the usual, Ruby?
"I wahhkred SYO HAHHRD ON...the dissartayshun...AND...I really enjoyed dyooing it AND...I koiynd of took a little bit of a punt in dyooing what I did..."
If by "enjoying doing it", you mean, "looking miserable and defeated at all times", and by "taking a punt with the dissertation", you mean "ignoring all academic instruction and basic common sense to just kitchen sink this motherfucker", then sure. You tossed every bit of unrelated tangential drivel into an essay with no structure and no grounding in the subject at hand.
"I was wroyting about LATTERS, nyot a nyovel...Latters ARE literature. I don't think scholarship rackognoises enoff that LATTERS in thamsalves are pieces of literature."
Ruby is already on a soapbox crusade of denial before she's even opened her grades - it's the scholarship's fault if she gets a bad grade, since those stuffy, narrow-minded academics simply don't recognise her expansive and VARRY CORRACKT view of what constitutes literature. This is the same shit she pulls every time she's disappointed in a result; despite all the time she claims to devote to "REFLACKSHUN", she never admits fault and there's always some excuse.
Ruby handed in a pile of rambling, incoherent nonsense for her dissertation, somehow got a SEVENTY-FUCKING-FOUR for it, and still pulls a "Welp, I have been brutally victimised once more" face. It's no shock that she expected 80-90+ for this shit. She felt entitled to it. She was talking about how her work would impact future scholarship even as she wasted an entire year shoehorning in completely unrelated bullshit. She thought it would be a publishable piece of work just because she went on a time-wasting, inconsequential Dark Academia trip to the archive collection with mummy holding her hand the whole way. So it's no shock that she's not satisfied with a low First. But good lord, the entitlement.
Ruby says she wanted it to be higher because she spent so long on it. This is not how academia works, Ruby. You don't get rewarded for wasting more time than you needed to spend because you didn't plan properly.
Ruby somehow got an 80 for her creative writing. We've seen the quality of her writing. We've seen samples of what she handed in ("WHAT A DEPACLE!"). They at least called her out for that mistake in her feedback. But then Ruby says, "I misspelt "tappackle". I don't know how." She clearly doesn't know how the word is spelt or pronounced. And that wasn't even only the lone, glaring issue in that assignment. The structure was a mess, ping-ponging between rhyming, just repeating the same words in lieu of a rhyme, and then just abandoning rhyming structure altogether. It was inconsistent and lazy.
She mispronounces numerous words in this video alone. "Precentages." "Specicifity." And those glaring language mistakes are consistent, too regular and too numerous to list with her.
She got a 76 for her Dickens module, when this sloppy, barely-thought-out mess was one of the assignments which was worth a substantial percentage of her grade:
I don't see her getting a real job after uni, at all. She'll probably turn this channel into a "history" channel and indulge her Victorian cosplays to her heart's content. I bet she has dreams of becoming a Bernadette Banner kind of character, who basically live for the aesthetics. But I...
tattle.life
And yes, she later showed that she really did just weaponize her privilege and get her YouTube fanbase to try help her get a higher grade, even though the assignment should stand on its own merits.
What the Christ is going on with Exeter Uni's grading standards?
Oh, right. Grade inflation.
After a few days to stew in the grades that she was somehow disappointed with despite being rewarded highly for coasting by on the work of others, she comes out with another lip-service disclaimer about the dangers of fixating on grades. It really just feels like excuses for why she wasn't rewarded with a 97+ grade and a building named after her at AXATAR University to acknowledge her genius and hard work.
"Yooooou could hand the same piece of wahhrk to tyoo...LACKTURERS...and...one moight give yoooou TAN MARKS higher than the othha one."
There it is. That's what Ruby's been telling herself to explain why she "only" got a 74 - if only another LACKTURER had graded it, they would've seen her true brilliance. It's also nonsense. There's some amount of subjectivity in grading, sure, but final projects are graded by two different markers who confer on a final grade. She literally reads out the feedback from two different lecturers for one piece of work in this video.
"We need grades so that employers know what level we tend to work at."
How to tell me you've never had a job without telling me you've never had a job.
Ruby contradicts herself right away - "don't worry if you only got a 74, even though I'm devastated, because at the end of the day, a first is still a first if it's a 74 or a 99, but those numbers are needed for employers to know how smart you are." I can't even with this nonsense.
No employers are ever going to ask or want to know what score you got for your uni modules. Next to no employers are going to care what your overall degree grade way, and the overwhelming majority of them won't care if you have a degree at all and will place much more value on your work ethic and experience. If you got a degree of any grade, that's an advantageous extra - an employer will know you can stick something out for 3 years and work to a schedule. But they aren't going to brutally bully you or fire you for getting less than an 80 on your dissertation.
Even as she's trying to downplay the importance of grades, she's massively embellishing their worth in the real world, not helped by her having zero experience in the real world.
Ruby emphasises that the grade is "JOHST A NOMBA!" Which is great and all, but as in all of her lip service disclaimers about the dangers of toxic productivity, romanticising academia, fixating on grades, etc., she always approaches it like she's an innocent victim. "We all do this," she says, as if she's just one of you guys, toiling away in academia as the system pressures her with unfair expectations and propagates an unhealthy mindset towards grades.
It's all bullshit - she's the biggest proponent of that toxic mindset I've ever seen on YouTube or elsewhere. She includes sections in the overpriced, poor quality planners where people can add their dream grades to strife for (and be disappointed when they don't get them). She's visibly disappointed for all to see with every high grade she gets, even knowing she didn't work for it. She coasted on her privileged situation and shortcutted her way through. She skipped the required reading, relied almost entirely on her roommate's work, monopolised her tutors' time and reverse-engineered essays from other people's ideas. That work wasn't hers, and the only thing she has to be proud of is that she gamed the system and never got penalised for it.
She turns everything into a numbers game - "I read 496 books in 2 hours!", "I did all these things in 1 day!" - and every single time, she lies and fabricates daily vlogs which show her accomplishing more in a day than is physically possible, all to breed admiration and jealousy in young fans too naïve and trusting to see through her lies. It cultivates a clear message to her impressionable fans: Work yourself to death trying to accomplish the impossible. Never eat. Grades are everything. High grades are disappointing, you should only be happy with the highest. Academia is the defining point of your life and there is nothing else. If you aren't keeping up with me, you're doing something wrong.
It's absolutely sickening. These sanctimonious lectures she gives will never mean anything until she acknowledges her major part in cultivating that mindset and stops doing it. But she never has and never will.
Ruby puts on her melodramatic acting voice to say that the "really important and valuable thing about ADDYOOKAYSHUN is learning new things and broadening out horizons. Y'know, the things that Ruby worked harder on avoiding than she ever did on any essay. She learned nothing from university. She's coming out of it the same lazy, incompetent, barely-literate, toxic dumbass she went in.
If there's anything to take away from Ruby's experience, it's that. She devoted all her waking hours to busywork and the pretence of studying. She wasted four years of her life pretending to be smart, while copying other people's work. She didn't socialise. She never got to know anyone different from herself. She didn't expand her knowledge. She didn't read. She didn't immerse herself in extracurriculars and broaden her work experience. She didn't learn to be independent. It was four years of wasted time to come out with a degree that she didn't earn, that won't open any new doors for her, and that she's still not happy with. It's not a signifier of her intelligence. It's just an eternal reminder that Blakeney carried her ass.
If you have an expanse of free time, no money worries, an intelligent best friend willing to do all the required reading and critical reading for you and are quite happy wasting years of your life not learning anything for yourself, then you, too, can get an easy First. And I hope it eats away at Ruby that she didn't earn those grades. I hope it really stings that Exeter hands out Firsts to 40% of their students (likely even more this year) and she's no big fish in a small pond. I hope she knows that all the students who got 2:2s and 2:1s likely have much more reason to be proud than she does, because they actually worked for it and likely got a much more well-rounded experience of socialising, actually learning things, becoming more independent and expanding their horizons.
If you worked hard, be proud of the results you got, regardless of the grade. You're a fucking rockstar.
If you scammed the system and shortcutted your way through, congrats on not getting caught, but the only person you cheated was yourself.
I love writing. I write scripts and stories. But I also have a job I attend. I can’t make time for writing everyday. Yes it is negotiable Ruby if you have OTHER COMMITMENTS!! Which you don’t have.
Observations in my Writer's Notebook:
1) It might be possible to die from uncontrollable laughter.
2) Ruby has discovered some special mushrooms growing in her garden.
3) Observations that you 'just think' are also known as 'thoughts' and most people experience these during the day.
4) If there is no connection between two things, perhaps it's best to make your peace with this fact and move on with your life.
5) There is a cove in Italy containing both rocks and cucumber (in fragments).
6) Best enjoyed on warm afternoons.
7) If you go down to the cove today, you're sure for a big surprise.
8) Time shrinks all cucumbers
I will make more insightful notes as they occur to me. Right now, my brain is both quiscent and dormant, abstract and carnal, mangled and shining, dazed and bemused, as clear as the sun on the Tuscan Sea, as lyrical as the moonlight on a muddy puddle, breathless like the interior of a mouldy trunk, silent as an abandoned book club, productive as a pumpkin, generous as a vending machine, intercepted by baguettes, their warm crisp softness exemplifying in tangible culinary form the abstract essence of friendship. #rubywrites
Anyone actually going hard with these celebrations is an absolute melt tbh, like has everyone suddenly forgotten that this year the Queen has spent literally millions of pounds funding her weirdo sons legal battle? Why would you want to celebrate her, especially at this time just enjoy the bank holiday and be done with it…
Dark academia summer activity = getting drunk out of your mind on absinthe and going into the woods at midnight to find an obscure mushroom that will unalive your enemies (i.e. academic rivals) without leaving a trace, but you run into them on the way there and decide to just unalive them right there and then, using the Pelikan 800 series fountain pen your estranged father gifted you for graduating top of your class and somehow didn’t demand to have back when you decided to major in art history instead of civil engineering.
Mentioning inebriation?? Ruby gone wild!!!
Edit: I think she deleted this definitely not proper enough for her audience!! can’t believe I caught it. Just goes to show she’s probably not as uptight as she makes herself out to be online.
View attachment 1337954Mentioning inebriation?? Ruby gone wild!!!
Edit: I think she deleted this definitely not proper enough for her audience!! can’t believe I caught it. Just goes to show she’s probably not as uptight as she makes herself out to be online.
also who says "units of alcohol" when talking about how pissed their friends/family are? wouldn't you just say "guess how many drinks she's had"?? she talks like a robot
I love writing. I write scripts and stories. But I also have a job I attend. I can’t make time for writing everyday. Yes it is negotiable Ruby if you have OTHER COMMITMENTS!! Which you don’t have.
ENN SAMBLAY
just enjoy the bank holiday and be done with it…
Ruby gone wild!!!
definitely not proper enough for her audience!! can’t believe I caught it. Just goes to show she’s probably not as uptight as she makes herself out to be online.
?-2022
