Dance of the Little Swans.
Undeclared ads.
Waterstones sponsor-chasing.
Shameless Academic Planner shilling.
Small portions of food shoehorned into a video unrelated to food.
Awkward, unpleasant footage of Ruby taking a pained single bite out of food and immediately cutting away.
Inane, dumb-as-
duck "review" of gifted tea. ("THIS CHOCOLATE DIE-JAST-IFF TEEEA TASTES LIKE CHOCOLATE DIE-JAST-IFF.")
Recycled footage.
Shoddy editing, with multiple mid-word edits per sentence.
Fake posh accent cranked to 11.
Blatant lies.
Embellished accomplishments.
Humble-bragging (based on fabricated accomplishments).
Blakeney mention. (No sign of Blakeney.)
"I WANT TO BE AN AUTHOR NOW! THAT IS MY DREAM!"
"DIYJOO KNOW I HAD A BARTHDAY THIS YAAH?"
"YOU SHOULD DYO MORE TO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!
I DON'T, BUT
YOU SHOULD! NOW EXCUSE ME WHILE MY ENTIRE FAMILY VOTES FOR THE TORIES WHO UNDERFUND EVERY LOCAL LIBRARY."
Spontaneous lisping.
Pretentious quoting of academic/author to try to validate her bad habits/Peter Pan complex.
Mispronouncing common words (excerpt = ACKS-SAPT).
Mispronouncing famous author names. ("BOULDER-LAIR!")
Misnames "favourite books" - "The PECULIAR HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN series."
Defensive, protesting comments (likely aimed at Tattle) and doubling down on lies.
Reading pre-prepared book comments (likely taken from someone else) from an off-camera script.
Unmade bed with unchanged sheets and exposed mattress in view.
Honesty.
Intelligence.
Talent.
Charisma.
Effort.
Yep, it's another Ruby video.
"Befwore we start this vidyeeyow, oi've...got moiysalf somm teeea, OFF CWORSE. BECAUSE...[Ruby slips into her stilted "acting" voice]...I feel loike you can't have a vidyeeyow twalking about bocks...without tea."
Why does this
tit sound so familiar?
Oh, right, she's literally just remaking her own videos now without even pretending to do something new.
She said almost the exact same thing at the beginning of this video, in an equally fake and pompous, rehearsed voice.
This is her third time discussing some of these books. She's very clearly gone online to compile other people's thoughts into a script on her laptop which she keeps looking off-screen at:
She has nothing interesting to say, certainly nothing that she's thought up herself.
A Room of One's Own is the best example, since she pretended to read it for her recent readathon video. She had no real thoughts to offer immediately after reading, when it was fresh in her mind. She had nothing of value or insight to offer in the days-later recap after she'd had time to think about the books she'd clearly not read in full. And now, weeks later, she's tossed together some notes from study guides - she has a little more to say, but it's still parroted, rehearsed yammering.
Some of them she's studied at uni, and is no doubt just reading out lecture handouts and stolen seminar notes. Some, like Once Again to Zelda, she just rewords a cover summary and provides no review or real in-depth information.
With the We Were Liars prequel book, she prefaces by saying PLEASE DYON'T read this until you've read the first book and she doesn't want to spoil anything, then proceeds to talk about the book as though we're already familiar with all the characters.
"This is abwout wan of Kadee's aunts - it's Johnny's motha, Carrie - and a somma in the nointeen savanties with her sisters."
Everything she says is just so dull.
The only real fun of this video is watching Ruby squirm since she's obviously been reading Tattle and knows she'd been caught faking her accomplishments. There's been a lot of out-of-character disclaimers all over her content lately that feels directed squarely at the constant criticism she gets on here. This video has even more of that.
She huffs her way through an excuse-filled diatribe that, yes, she has read a lot of children's books, and these are short books, and she's begun to not count some of the books she hasn't read in full as complete this year. We know this just isn't true. And Ruby herself can't help but immediately start lying again the second she starts half-acknowledging criticism.
She says she only read children's books for a uni module, despite reading almost exclusively kid's books for her entire adult life before that module. And then she also defensively claims that it's ACKSHUALLY OKYAY for adults to read nothing but children's books because C.S. Lewis said so.
"REMAMBER WHAT OIY SAD ABOUT C.S. LEWIS!" Ruby defensively says the second she pulls out a Lemony Snicket book.
When she's talking about A Room's of One's Own, she's quick to say, "I read that in my readathon. You SAW me reading it." No, Ruby. We saw you flipping through random pages making inconsistent progress in a faked "one day readathon" video. We also saw you change outfits 9 times in a video supposedly depicting a single day. Your village apparently gets 59 hours of midday sun per day. It was lies, and you made a bunch of
tit up to embellish your accomplishments to get an unearned ego boost from gullible children on the internet. Until you stop doing it, you will not stop getting called out for it.
She says she fell into a trap of only reading books because she felt obligated to, and AWLwHaYS had to read all the way to the end before she marked them complete. "If oiy started a bock but didn't loike it, I'd still finish it because only then could I count it as having read it."
But THIS YEAR, she's apparently recognised that that approach is VARRY superficial, so now she says she hasn't counted many books she's only partially read. It's just more lies and gaslighting. It's well documented, even from Ruby herself, that if she doesn't like something, she'll skip and skim through it and still mark it complete and add it to the list of books she read in full. We've seen her do it this year. Her readathon video was from this year, and that was full of lies, fabricated timescales and clearly unfinished books that Ruby struggled to provide even cursory thoughts about.
And wrapped in her lie is another bragging, fake accomplishment. "I've STILL RAD 56 BOOKS THIS YAAH." And the implication from Ruby is that alongside those 56 books (which is clearly utter horseshit and lies), she read EVEN MWOAR and just didn't count it!
God, what a boring pile of lies and drivel. She claims she loves YA now, and adds some to her favourite books of the year list. She enjoys romance in books now, even though she immediately says she doesn't like romance in books because it's sappy. She's definitely not reading these books to plunder them for ideas and content for her own book. Her eyes light up when she explains that The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks is structured like a police report, and you just know that she'd going to steal that gimmick for her own book.
She caps it off by announcing that the academic planner will release mid-July. It's been a long time in the making, she says. Previously she's claimed that she started work on this one before the last one even launched. Yet it looks identical to the last, with a lazy colour-swap and some slightly different
crappy doodles. It also launches in mid-July, for a planner that starts in August. The company has logistical issues, defects and shipping delays with every single product launch. Yet they're launching this stupidly close to the date you need to start using it, so you won't get it by August 1st. Nothing has been learned and this will be another disaster. Nobody should be buying this. Don't fall for this scam again.
Like the tea equivalent of ASMR.