I wonder if it is actually her replying because “kinda” isn’t a word I think she would write. I also suspect it’s some ploy to launch something else and not appear as flakey and incompetent as she is?
Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!
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She could of employed marfa to do her work for her
She'll dip in, ask a bunch of leading questions irrelevant to the book ("What's avveryone dyoing this weekand? I'm going to Waterstones!" and "What's your favourite YA mystery about a missing girl where the protagonist is a gifted bookworm who's smarter than avveryone? And what kind of things do the characters say? Asking for a frand.") and then vanish again.
I don't know why the mods there are even entertaining the idea that she'll stay involved after they've been burned so many times. Also how many different random groups and Discords does she have now? What happened with that group for small YouTubers that she started last month that was clearly just a way to farm content ideas from them?
Okay, what I find crazy is that she owns all of the books in her TBR stack. Like I will admit that I buy more books than I should, but I tend to purchase classics and books that I know I'll read again or books by authors I like, because I know that books can be so hit-or-miss for me that I don't want to risk the chance that I've wasted my money on a terrible book. Usually my whole TBR stack is from the library or I'll get an ebook if I really can't wait. Sometimes I don't even read the books in my TBR before I get more books from the library! I guess Ruby could live farther from a library than I do though? I know she lives in a more rural area. Still, imagine buying every book you think you want to read.
Ruby saying that she hopes she won't abandon her book club as if this is something completely out of her control. I think most people there can tell that she'll be gone once she's forget all about it in a matter of days.
Personally I do have a big physical TBR - my local library closed years ago and I don't have an ereader. Most of my books are purchased from charity shops for a couple of pounds (and they'll go back there if I don't see myself rereading them), and I like having a big TBR because I get through books quickly and like to have choices.
Ruby does seem to have a very materialistic approach to books - most of her "bookworm" aesthetic appears to revolve around stroking books in Waterstones and talking about how pretty the covers and her bookshelves are. I'm pretty sure she owns a kindle, which would be much more practical in terms of cost and space (but less aesthetically pleasing!).
Personally I do have a big physical TBR - my local library closed years ago and I don't have an ereader. Most of my books are purchased from charity shops for a couple of pounds (and they'll go back there if I don't see myself rereading them), and I like having a big TBR because I get through books quickly and like to have choices.
She actually buys very few books. Despite her insistence on browsing Waterstones every day while in Exeter, she never actually bought anything.
Most of her books are borrowed from friends/the library, gifted from publishers or stolen from her parents' downstairs bombsite of a library room. Which is fine - it'd be an absolute waste of money to buy books when she clearly never reads them - but then she often plays the performative poverty angle to seem relatable by saying things like, "This book was £12 - SYO AXPANSIVE! I struggled to jostify buying it..." even though she's absolutely swimming in stolen charity money and dodgy ad cash.
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Well, that book club post was a 
plot twist
that I didn't see coming. Glad that she's finally taken responsibility for her actions and apologised for abandoning the group.
plot twist that I didn't see coming. Glad that she's finally taken responsibility for her actions and apologised for abandoning the group.
The fact that she said ‘infer’ instead of ‘imply’ hurts my soul
Ruby definitely does have a posh accent, but I wouldn't say unusually so - when you hear snippets of her talking naturally in vlogs she sounds like any other rich private-school girl from the Home Counties. It is definitely worthy of mocking, but a lot of posh people really do just talk like that. I think she does exaggerate it in videos though, especially when she starts slipping into her Hermione impression. She over-enunciates in a way that's really annoying to me.
She does also pronounce some things wrong or confuses them for similar-sounding words, but I'd guess that comes from a) never being corrected or refusing to be corrected, and b) probably learning most of her vocabulary from books rather than, you know, actually having conversations and talking to people.
That reminds me, the other day I saw a clip of an Emma Watson interview from when she was about 11 and it was almost eerie how much she reminded me of Ruby: her accent, tone, facial mannerisms, everything about the way she talked was almost identical. Ruby’s just copied everything about her childhood idol and she’s been doing it for so long that I don’t know if she even realises it any more. She‘s become this strange 22-year-old tween and it gives me the creeps.
Just checked her IG for the first time in a while there and I struggle to understand why she's still shilling these bird and blend teas. She never does anything to make her audience want to buy them, apart from film herself drinking one with a """meal""" (ed triggering bull on a plate) and unconvincingly exclaiming how they're 'seeeewwwww dellishuuuussss'. Why are they still sponsoring her?
Her base accent's pretty common (Martha's accent is presumably the baseline for what Ruby's accent would be without all her vocal affectations layered on - essentially a posh Cockney), but whatever she's done from there has turned it into an accent that nobody else has ever used in the history of vocal chords.
Like others have mentioned, most of her accent comes from her trying desperately to imitate Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in the first Harry Potter movie. But in that film, it was a relatively inexperienced child actor playing a snooty, smarter-than-thou bookworm, so there's lots of head waggling, brow furrowing and over-annunciating overacting going on. There it made sense, because it's an 11 year old child actor who hadn't found her footing yet playing an 11 year old character who's kind of a smug, desperate-to-impress mole at first, and both the actress and the character grew better over the next movie or two. But Ruby adopted that 11 year old, awkwardly-acted smug child's persona at the age of 16 without any trace of irony or awareness, and she never grew past that Year 1 Hermione - the "insufferable know-it-all".
She took that awkward caricature Hermione impression and made it her persona for her entire life to date, but cranked up the "poshness" to 10,000%. The problem is that she's inherently stupid and has a feeble grasp of English for a native speaker, and she's also just pretty inept at everything she does. In her quest to sound even posher and smarter, her already fake-as-duck accent then evolved into a new language of stupidity, and she started just randomly swapping vowel sounds. "E" sounds become "A" sounds, like whenever she says "AXATAR" instead of "Exeter", "O" sounds become "E" sounds, like when she says "CHEESE" instead of "choose". She puts a hard "Y" sound before every "oo" sound as well, so "Ruby" become "Ryoobee" and "today" becomes "tyooday".
She puts hard emphasis on completely random words, raises and lowers the volume of her voice at random (a problem independent of - but not helped by - her shoddy editing chopping her sentences to bits) and she takes unnecessary dramatic pauses before random words, but especially the word "I". Like "Tyooday, OIY'M...[dramatic pause]...gyowing tyoo dyoo this, AND THAN OIY'M...[dramatic pause] gyowing tyoo dyoo SOMMETHING ALSE." Her natural language mistakes and some of the odder vocal weirdness might pass by unnoticed if she was just speaking in a regular, generic Home Counties accent, but the fake way Ruby awkwardly annunciates along with her weird, alien cadence putting hard emphasis on random words just shines a light on her errors and draws direct attention to all her stupid vocab mistakes and mispronunciation. She constantly sounds like a natural idiot trying desperately to be the smartest person in the room.
lol Really? I don't think she speaks like her.
I think she sounded like a sophisticated ad for french wine on her Paris' vlog.
I think she's just trying to sound like an intellectual.
Actually i think she doesn't do it on purpose, i think she just speaks like that cause she's just pretentious af.
And she probably only interacts with pompous ppl like her.I've seen tons of ppl on Tv speak in that exact same intellectual genius af way. It's so irritating. lol.
I think every year she sounds more and more pretentious. Maybe someday she'll think she's too good for Youtube and retire.
I’m not sure where people are from so I hope not to offend anyone. I grew up very close to where Ruby lives and no one spoke like that. No one. And when you hear “upper class/super posh” people speaking the Queen’s English, they still sound nothing like Ruby’s cultivated and incredibly peculiar accent. The older she’s got, the more extreme it has become and the more her spoken word has revealed how she doesn’t understand many of the 6+ letter words she uses. I just don’t think she is especially clever and she’s stalled at a-level standard, where it is primarily about rote learning and regurgitation. She’s found a way round uni - learning by rote, only not just text but other peoples notes and ideas. She’s selected modules that have structured essay questions where she can gather everyone else’s work and reword it. And the one piece that requires self-guided, analytical and critical thought and prose, has been exceptionally hard and challenged her identity. Hence the downplaying of the importance of education/study…the very basis on which every single blog up to this time has been about.
That was a bit of a splurge - sorry. Clearly grumpy about going to work tomorrow after the 4 day weekend.
That was a bit of a splurge - sorry. Clearly grumpy about going to work tomorrow after the 4 day weekend.
Nah same, I grew up in the south around a range of southern accents and I’ve never in my life heard anyone speak the way she does, apart from Emma Watson in the HP movies. To me it seems as if it’s more her speech patterns which make her sound so strange rather than just the accent, she tends to stress certain words and sounds which are not normally stressed and it’s just a very odd way of speaking.
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