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Why has she, in her "planner set up" video, clearly put things into the planner (Chemistry and Maths) that are just there to appeal to her A Level audience? She's not studying these (can't speak to her spanish, she might well be studying that.)
She's trying to spin this advertisement into a "haha come use my planner with me" schtick. She could have made a more honest ad. Something like "How I wish I'd used a planner at A Level" and a reflection on her past self. Clearly this planner is no longer set up for her as an adult outside of education.
She's trying to spin this advertisement into a "haha come use my planner with me" schtick. She could have made a more honest ad. Something like "How I wish I'd used a planner at A Level" and a reflection on her past self. Clearly this planner is no longer set up for her as an adult outside of education.
I like the illustrations in the planner but am I the only one that is irritated by the mushrooms in june?? Mushrooms remind me so much of autumn and she put the smack dab in the beginning of summer.
Not to worry, she has ”learn about the world” on her to-do list for her gap yahh, no doubt she’ll know better by this time next year.
Her most recent TikTok is what she wore to her old school’s speech day. I just find it so weird how she’s always going to events at a school she left years ago, she’s completed a degree since then! The one good thing about covid was that I didn’t have to go to mine and she’s voluntarily turning up years later. I do remember we’d have ex students come back to give speeches, however it’d always be because they were doing something properly interesting, like one girl came back to tell us about how she was training to be a pilot. What did Ruby talk about? How she still lives with mummy and daddy and thinks being as academic as possible counts as an actual job. I also think she puts on her accent, she’s definitely posh but not that posh. Also in the video she says her outfit is inspired by Ophelia from Hamlet (sure) and that she thinks it’s a great play but has never actually watched it. Surely someone so into literature they’re giving out plays as book recommendations would take the time to watch plays in their intended format on stage. I’ve never been able to see a Shakespeare play irl but have watched plenty of recordings or film versions.
Ruby: "Oiy've been waahrking on designing this planner for a whole yaaaahr."
It's the exact same planner, Ruby. A planner clearly slapped together by someone at your management company using the default template layouts in some design software. All that's changed is the slight variation in the dull pastel colours, and the doodles, which you didn't create.
Gonna need to see some proof of this "wahhrk" you claim to have done, Ruby, because there's none evident here.
Ruby deciding to show all planners in quick succession does her no favours; it highlights just how lazy each iteration of this mess is.
You also get to see Ruby age like 60 years in 3 seconds like Matt Damon at the end of Saving Private Ryan.
I wonder how often Ruby gets mistaken for random elderly relatives at each new family gathering she attends by people who haven't seen her in a year.
Anyway, so Ruby then pats herself on the back over how great her planner is and how everyone loves it, with no mention of the swift decline in sales as a result of the weeks-long delivery delays, customer service radio silence, consistent product defects and terrible quality of every single product launch.
She leaps into desperate denial and protest mode as she tries to convince people that, YASS, she really DOES use the planners AVVERY SINGLE DAY.
And then immediately struggles to find any consistently filled-in days to show as proof. She shows a whopping 4 pages from her last planner, only 3 and a quarter of which are filled in. Most of these pages have been shown before in her Instagram feed ads, and most of the tasks she's added not been ticked off or amended after she first wrote them down. Then she cuts away since she's clearly not finding any other consecutive days filled in.
Here's that top right page back when she filled it out on camera:
Nothing ticked off after that. She clearly never glanced at it after filming that ad.
It's blatantly obvious that she just fills in a page every now and then to snap a staged picture for Instagram, then puts it back in a drawer for a month until she does it again. She claims to use this daily, yet its in pristine condition even though they're notoriously flimsy quality and you can audibly hear the cheap, stiff card creak whenever she turns a page? Not a bleeping chance.
Ruby explains the thought process that went into her designing this planner that she didn't design herself.
"A lyot of the planners that I used as a teenager--the tyoo-dyoo lists waahr always tyoo short, syo I'd have to myoove to loiyke, a SAPARATE nyotebook to wroite moiy tyoo-dyoo list."
Like a snake eating its own tail, Ruby's nonsensical bull instantly loops back on itself - it's an ouroboros of shilling lies (an ouRubeoros?).
So Ruby claims yet again that she tailor-made this flimsy pile of tit she calls a planner to suit all her needs so that she - and her fans/customers - will never need another external to-do list or notebook ever again.
Hey, Rubes? What's this:
Umm...Ruby? What's this:
Rubert? What in the name of Ernest Hemingway's drunken ghost is this:
Ruby's bull claims that this is the ultimate planner that fits all her needs instantly falls apart as she claims she uses all her own products, which would mean she's using numerous to-do lists of varying sizes alongside Notion and TeuxDeux and god knows how many other redundant busywork platforms and notebooks.
I mean, Ruby's definitely that stupid, but it's obvious lies - she might waste almost all of her time with busywork, but she doesn't use the products she sells. But if we take her at her word and entertain her lies for a second...
Just look at this mess. She's had to create additional tickboxes all over the place, while ignoring clearly useless sections in the layout. So instantly it's clear that none of this serves whatever imaginary purpose she wants.
She shows off a new and laughably pointless spread: Academic Reflections, which is almost entirely devoted to telling yourself how much you love yourself and not at all related to reflecting on your progress in the academic year. It's childish nonsense.
And, hey, maybe you find positive affirmations helpful, and that's awesome. But they belong in a diary or journal, or on a post-it note stuck on your desk. It has no relation specifically to academic planning. And if Ruby thought it did, she should've added an 'Affirmations' section instead of taking up 3/4ths of an several unrelated spreads with a big, flimsy, ego-boosting excuse to get her family to write down how special she is, like an attention-seeking child.
Ruby shows off yet another filled-in section that she's shown before in Instagram posts and then her self-congratulatory lies are interrupted by the sounds of her room collapsing around her.
Something crashes onto the floor behind her. Ruby seems completely unperturbed by the sounds of disaster and destruction, which I guess makes sense if her mother is accidentally collapsing into, falling over or completely destroying a new part of the house every day with her apparently catastrophic inability to function in life.
"CANDLESTICK," Ruby says (by which she means "candle"), as if to reassure viewers that nothing serious was damaged.
Not to worry, that was just one of the sources of open flame that Ruby insists on leaving perched precariously at a 45 degree angle all over her room like a disaster-courting dipshit. It wasn't on fire this time, but it's just a matter of time before firebug Ruby finally succeeds in burning her family home to ashes.
After that brief moment of narrowly-averted arson, Ruby reveals that Anna, who did the doodles for her planner (presumably for zero reimbursement, since Ruby's not in the habit of parting with money) went to school with Ruby. Didn't she used to say she had no friends as school and was bullied mercilessly in all kinds of inconsistent, fictional ways that she invented after the fact?
Anyway, she shows off her planner and it's the same tit as every other year. Big shock.
Now, this is the untouched planner. Ruby says she has yet to "set this up", although like every year, I'm still highly confused what "setting up" a planner requires.
So, Ruby shoved this tit in the pointless "motivation quotes" section. This being the fresh, unused planner that she's apparently done nothing to yet gives the stark implication that the planner will come with this crap pre-printed in your planner, rendering 75% of this section useless to you.
Want to add different quotes that are more meaningful to you? Tough tit. Ruby got there first.
And because her ineptitude is boundless, she made the text so tiny that it's impossible to read the name of the person who offered up this greeting card bit of hollow wisdom.
She's also not in academia anymore, so god knows why she's filling this out herself other than to desperately cling to her rapidly-vanishing youth and try yet again to claw her way back into childhood. This could've been a 5 minute video in which she quickly flips through the pages, points out what's new, then tests a few inks on the paper to prove that it won't bleed though. That's it. Instead it's nearly 25 minutes long for no reason.
She fills in her planner with more lies and nonsense, like how much she yearns to learn, grow and improved, despite getting actively stupider, more incompetent and more ignorant with each passing day.
Her other greatest motivation is the "possibility" of doing something meaningful. Not doing something meaningful, mind you. Just the mere possibility of doing something is more than enough to satisfy Ruby. Like, she could give back all the charity money she owes, but the mere thought of the possibility of her doing that is enough to alleviate any sliver of guilt or obligation that Ruby might feel.
She continues her delusions of youth by pretending she's taking all her high school classes again. She confirms that, yes, that motivational quote is actually printed in there, and she cheerfully says she's done that kind of bull throughout the planner to rob any unfortunate customers of valuable page real estate.
So Ruby says she's added nearly 50 extra pages, but with tit like this, she's deprived her customers of about that just with her stupid, egotistical practice of filling a huge chunk of their planners in for them, permanently.
She adds another meaningless platitude: "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Similar "profound" thoughts probably rattling around in the desiccated husk that is Ruby's brain:
And she then glues a bunch of newspaper clippings all over the damn thing, because nothing says "I'm proud of this design" quite like having to disguise it with taped-on scrap paper, and nothing makes a crappy product look better than just slapping a bunch of trash onto it.
The contents page show again that this is the same tit as every other planner. The designs throughout look generic and cheap. Ruby continues filling it with delusions and lies.
Her closest friends are most important to her. Like..."Natasha".
Blakeney's been bumped off the number 1 friend spot for Ruby's imaginary friend, "Natasha". I'm sure Blakeney's fine with this, having graduated, moved away from uni, got a job and can finally celebrate the freedom of not having to be shackled to a deranged toddler who kept her daily schedule hostage. If Molly has any sense, she cut ties months ago.
So is this just Ruby delusionally clinging to long-dead or never-there-to-begin-with friendships to give some semblance of a social life? Considering that she lists "the camping crew", when her only camping trips have been with her family, and "Jade", who only associates with Ruby through their shared management, and all signs point to "yes".
She claims books are important to her even though she never reads them and lies her ass off about it. She claims veganism is important to her despite her not bothering to stay vegan while constantly preaching about how she's SYOOPAH DYOOPAH OHLTRA VEGAN. She claims the environment is massively important to her even though she did everything she could to massively inflate her family's carbon footprint by making her parents drive back and forth across the country every single week to cater to her childish, entitled whims.
Ruby also pays lip service to the importance of self-care once again, to make herself seem very kind and thoughtful. She notes that the most important things to her are "being a positive influence" and "being kind wherever I can", despite forcing toxic productivity ideals, dangerous eating habits and endless lies onto her impressionable audience and refusing to stop when asked or called out for it. This planner is just another example of that - another cheap, overpriced grift that she has to lie to promote.
Nowhere on this "self-care" page does she encourage herself or anyone else to eat a bleeping meal.
Ruby: "Grades are meaningless, it's just a NOMBAH!"
Also Ruby: "I've added entire sections devoted to reinforcing the idea that grades are everything, so that you can build your expectations and be disappointed if you don't meet those goals! I've made sure to expect As and Firsts even in imaginary classes, because I don't know the meaning of the word "humility" (or most other words, for that matter)."
Ruby's excited to learn the history of France and French philosophy, she claims. Ruby, perhaps while you're at it, you'll learn that "France" and "French" have capital 'F's, you braindead dumbass.
Ruby rants excitedly that the morning and evening routine sections of the planner are VARRY unique and she's never seen them before in any other planner.
There's a reason for that. No other stationery company would be so stupid as to allocate entire pages of their academic planner to something as ludicrously stupid as sections to plot your ideal morning bleeping routine. This is useful to almost nobody. You know what would have been useful? Blank pages, so that people could do whatever they wanted with them. But nope, Ruby tries instead to sell her own insanity to other people at an inflated price.
"I think it's important to customise your planner to make it uniquely yours," she says, even though her planner has been designed to rob the people who buy it of any flexibility, versatility or even empty sections to put their own motivational quotes, if they happened to want those.
The stupidity continues.
Ruby can't shoot for sky-high grades anymore, so she's included and filled in a section to build herself up for disappointment in general life, too.
"Get a book deal."
Why? This is nothing do with academia, and it's beyond your control. This is an academic planner, this should be a section for academic goals.
Let's put aside that you have no talent for writing, no genuine interest in writing and only latched onto it because it was the closest career you could think of that fits the fake bookworm persona you've created for yourself, and you think it'll bring you easy fame, money and praise. Hard work does not guarantee a book deal. Writers with talent and passion and drive work their ass off all the time and don't get handed book deals, so what makes you any different? And why is that the all-or-nothing for you?
Ruby yet again shows her hand. She's not interested in writing. She doesn't want to finish a book to create something, to enjoy the fulfilment of the accomplishment itself, or to have it read and enjoyed by other people. She doesn't want to express herself creatively or improve her craft. Notice that publishing a book in general isn't in her immediate goals. She's not prepared to self-publish anything, even though that would be the smartest option for her. She's only interested in getting a book deal. She wants money, recognition and fame. That's all.
Her other goal: "finish my dark academia aesthetic book." "Aesthetic" being the operative word. She doesn't know what dark academia is, as evidenced by her "Everything You Need To Know About Dark Academia" video, which was hilariously barren of information or basic understanding. It's just another superficial, fake interest and a flimsy excuse to write another book about an overachieving, underappreciated genius who gets bullied for being studious and is VARRY STRASSED because SHE WAHHRKS AVVER SYO HARD.
"Get a long-term book deal."
Ruby hasn't even gone out on submission yet and she's already picturing multi-book deals for the indescribable drivel she writes.
"Publish a middle-grade book."
Erimentha Parker sitting there like:
YOU ALREADY DID THIS. Take the win. Celebrate the accomplishment. If your writing is only valid and worthwhile to you if you're paid J.K Rowling cash for it and you don't want to do it or acknowledge it otherwise, then you are not a writer.
Meanwhile, the more realistic, attainable goals like growing tea or practicing watercolour painting are relegated to the "At Some Point" section.
Next, there's a clubs and societies page. Y'know, the things that Ruby actively avoided at uni. For some reason half the bleeping page is dedicated to brainstorming options for clubs you might not actually bother joining, robbing you of space for actually useful things, like contact details for the clubs you actually join, more schedule space in case times/days change, and so on. But that's cool, space and options aren't important, since Ruby has filled 1/8th of the page with some chickenscratch nonsense that she's deemed important to you.
Ruby's an incompetent moron, so her voiceover narration starts far too early and she's talking about a to-do list of learning goals that isn't on-screen for a significant chunk of time.
When it finally arrives on-screen, Ruby just adds a few subjects she'll never learn or exhibit any genuine interest in.
Ruby rambles about how often she forgets things because no tit, that's what prolonged malnutrition will do to you. Ruby then starts playing with fire again, because that's always a good thing for someone with a rapidly deteriorating mental capacity and a proven inability to safely handle candles to be doing.
She shows off the 'Recommendations' section, which she's taken the liberty of reducing in size by pre-filling another entry for you with a recommendation for something she undoubtedly never read herself. You're welcome.
Ruby proclaims that you can paint all over your planner and it will not bleed through! She uses the lightest watercolour paints possible and even then refuses to show the other side of the paper to prove this claim. She also claims that fountain pens work great and won't bleed through, but then completely avoids using a fountain pen in this video to test this on camera.
Ruby's excited about travelling and growing as a person, even though every time she travels, it's with mummy and daddy and she's never grown as a person in any way.
She's also excited about finishing her uni degree.
Ruby somehow already forgot that she finished uni.
She also hopes to be a more selective reader. I mean, is it even possible to read less than nothing?
Oh, and she strives to be the kind of person who goes to coffee shops with friends. Note how she doesn't want to be a more social person, it's just more superficial aesthetics.
After droning on for a while and repeating footage of her filling out earlier sections, she kicks the stupidity up a notch.
Remember, this planner includes everything Ruby wants and needs in a planner, which is why she has to fold up and glue in other products instead of adding a bleeping shopping list section at the design stages instead of all the endless, pointless affirmation sections and wasted space taken up by bad design elements and pre-filled crap.
And then, after gluing it in and rolling it up, she slaps a bunch of tape all over is so that this shopping list would be unreadable and impossible to unfurl without tearing off all the tape and wrecking the whole page.
Good god, Ruby. I know you don't use this thing yourself, but even when pretending, why would you think this would be a good idea? Perhaps if you ate occasionally, your brain might have the bare minimum of power requires to question and veto stupid decisions like this before your hands start doing them.
Ruby has added a to-do list entry so she remembers to wake up on Friday 18th November, because she might otherwise lapse into a decades-long coma if she doesn't remind herself that she's supposed to regain consciousness daily.
In rambling, sped-up narration, she rambles abrasively about how versatile the planner is, when it's anything but.
She flips through the rest of the planner, but 98% of it is identical to every other one that's come before. The card pages make a horrible, cringe-inducing squeak as it scrapes against the coiled binding with every turn of the page. I mean, the planner looks generic, cheap and crappy, but it's one hell of an accomplishment for her to make the planner sound terrible as well, to assault multiple senses at once.
She proudly shows off a 'Mid-Year Reset' section, and this is 50% full of pre-printed fields, rendering it half useless if you're not Ruby.
The farther into the planner she gets, the more the wasted space multiplies.
Her ego struck again when she decided to fill these sections to begin with, but to compound the problem, she insisted on using her own terrible handwriting, so the pearls of "wisdom" are almost entirely illegible.
Remember, kids: "ALWAYS duck through your exam paper before gording sharted."
Wise words, indeed.
Also: "When you're cheating through your exam..."
Ruby's there like:
And then even more pre-filled sections. Who thought this was a good idea?
There was clearly no sense-checking any of this. No focus-testing it with anyone impartial. Ruby just emailed her management team and said, "Can I add a bunch of bull that will take up an increasing amount of the planner until the final pages are just a series of propaganda messages enforcing my toxic brand of stupidity?" And her managers were like, "(Shrug) We get paid either way Ruby, we don't give a flying duck what you put in this tit."
Ruby's last remaining brain cell packs its bags and goes on an extended vacation.
"We've got four dotted nyotes pages...because dotted paper is the myost varrsatile."
You know what's more versatile than paper you added dots all over, Ruby? BLANK bleeping PAPER.
And "FOIYNALLEEE", there's a space to stick a timetable.
That's right, the planner that Ruby claims she designed to suit her needs and meet all of yours does not come with everything. It's a 'some assembly required' situation. You have to print off a separate timetable on her website and glue it in yourself.
Reminder: She's charging £18.50 for this tit.
Ruby argues that this drastic increase for an already ridiculously overpriced collection of trash not fit to line a birdcages is completely justified because you get an extra 43 pages this year. As she shows, most of those pages are completely useless, either devoted to obtuse nonsense only worthwhile if you're living in a childlike state of delusion like Ruby, or just pre-filled with space-wasting nonsense scribbled in by Ruby.
She goes on a defensive diatribe about how she could be charging £20 for this if she wanted, so £18.50 isn't so bad! That's affordable! She'd love to send planners overseas with affordable shipping costs, but it's completely impossible! Y'know, even though most other small independent retailers find a way to do just that.
She won't be making any profit off this, she says, honest!
Businesses don't give away things for free and they don't roll the dice again on yet another identical planner after their last one was an unmitigated disaster unless there's money to be made. Prices got increased to maximise return on a dying investment while Ruby still has fans gullible enough to buy. If they wanted to make it affordable they would've cut all the dead weight and wasted space in the planner. Even with those 43 extra pages, these will still cost pennies to produce.
This is another grift, and Ruby's clearly detached from reality if she thinks £18.50 for this tit to the average student during a cost of living crisis is "affordable". And she'll be stuck having to reduce the price to clear the majority of the stock in a few months anyway, just like last time. All this does is make her look even more like a greedy snake who's completely out of touch.
I don't know who reading here would be gullible enough to buy anything from her, but good lord, please don't buy this. She doesn't use this herself, and she's the only person that most of the pages are useful for, so why should you pay money for this crap? You can get any number of infinitely better, more durable and versatile planners elsewhere for a fraction of the price, and they'll actually arrive and won't disintegrate in minutes.
Ruby, congratulations. I didn't think you could get any stupider, greedier and more incompetent, but every day you prove me wrong.
It's the exact same planner, Ruby. A planner clearly slapped together by someone at your management company using the default template layouts in some design software. All that's changed is the slight variation in the dull pastel colours, and the doodles, which you didn't create.
Gonna need to see some proof of this "wahhrk" you claim to have done, Ruby, because there's none evident here.
Ruby deciding to show all planners in quick succession does her no favours; it highlights just how lazy each iteration of this mess is.
You also get to see Ruby age like 60 years in 3 seconds like Matt Damon at the end of Saving Private Ryan.
I wonder how often Ruby gets mistaken for random elderly relatives at each new family gathering she attends by people who haven't seen her in a year.
Anyway, so Ruby then pats herself on the back over how great her planner is and how everyone loves it, with no mention of the swift decline in sales as a result of the weeks-long delivery delays, customer service radio silence, consistent product defects and terrible quality of every single product launch.
She leaps into desperate denial and protest mode as she tries to convince people that, YASS, she really DOES use the planners AVVERY SINGLE DAY.
And then immediately struggles to find any consistently filled-in days to show as proof. She shows a whopping 4 pages from her last planner, only 3 and a quarter of which are filled in. Most of these pages have been shown before in her Instagram feed ads, and most of the tasks she's added not been ticked off or amended after she first wrote them down. Then she cuts away since she's clearly not finding any other consecutive days filled in.
Here's that top right page back when she filled it out on camera:
Nothing ticked off after that. She clearly never glanced at it after filming that ad.
It's blatantly obvious that she just fills in a page every now and then to snap a staged picture for Instagram, then puts it back in a drawer for a month until she does it again. She claims to use this daily, yet its in pristine condition even though they're notoriously flimsy quality and you can audibly hear the cheap, stiff card creak whenever she turns a page? Not a bleeping chance.
Ruby explains the thought process that went into her designing this planner that she didn't design herself.
"A lyot of the planners that I used as a teenager--the tyoo-dyoo lists waahr always tyoo short, syo I'd have to myoove to loiyke, a SAPARATE nyotebook to wroite moiy tyoo-dyoo list."
Like a snake eating its own tail, Ruby's nonsensical bull instantly loops back on itself - it's an ouroboros of shilling lies (an ouRubeoros?).
So Ruby claims yet again that she tailor-made this flimsy pile of tit she calls a planner to suit all her needs so that she - and her fans/customers - will never need another external to-do list or notebook ever again.
Hey, Rubes? What's this:
Umm...Ruby? What's this:
Rubert? What in the name of Ernest Hemingway's drunken ghost is this:
Ruby's bull claims that this is the ultimate planner that fits all her needs instantly falls apart as she claims she uses all her own products, which would mean she's using numerous to-do lists of varying sizes alongside Notion and TeuxDeux and god knows how many other redundant busywork platforms and notebooks.
I mean, Ruby's definitely that stupid, but it's obvious lies - she might waste almost all of her time with busywork, but she doesn't use the products she sells. But if we take her at her word and entertain her lies for a second...
Just look at this mess. She's had to create additional tickboxes all over the place, while ignoring clearly useless sections in the layout. So instantly it's clear that none of this serves whatever imaginary purpose she wants.
She shows off a new and laughably pointless spread: Academic Reflections, which is almost entirely devoted to telling yourself how much you love yourself and not at all related to reflecting on your progress in the academic year. It's childish nonsense.
And, hey, maybe you find positive affirmations helpful, and that's awesome. But they belong in a diary or journal, or on a post-it note stuck on your desk. It has no relation specifically to academic planning. And if Ruby thought it did, she should've added an 'Affirmations' section instead of taking up 3/4ths of an several unrelated spreads with a big, flimsy, ego-boosting excuse to get her family to write down how special she is, like an attention-seeking child.
Ruby shows off yet another filled-in section that she's shown before in Instagram posts and then her self-congratulatory lies are interrupted by the sounds of her room collapsing around her.
Something crashes onto the floor behind her. Ruby seems completely unperturbed by the sounds of disaster and destruction, which I guess makes sense if her mother is accidentally collapsing into, falling over or completely destroying a new part of the house every day with her apparently catastrophic inability to function in life.
"CANDLESTICK," Ruby says (by which she means "candle"), as if to reassure viewers that nothing serious was damaged.
Not to worry, that was just one of the sources of open flame that Ruby insists on leaving perched precariously at a 45 degree angle all over her room like a disaster-courting dipshit. It wasn't on fire this time, but it's just a matter of time before firebug Ruby finally succeeds in burning her family home to ashes.
After that brief moment of narrowly-averted arson, Ruby reveals that Anna, who did the doodles for her planner (presumably for zero reimbursement, since Ruby's not in the habit of parting with money) went to school with Ruby. Didn't she used to say she had no friends as school and was bullied mercilessly in all kinds of inconsistent, fictional ways that she invented after the fact?
Anyway, she shows off her planner and it's the same tit as every other year. Big shock.
Now, this is the untouched planner. Ruby says she has yet to "set this up", although like every year, I'm still highly confused what "setting up" a planner requires.
So, Ruby shoved this tit in the pointless "motivation quotes" section. This being the fresh, unused planner that she's apparently done nothing to yet gives the stark implication that the planner will come with this crap pre-printed in your planner, rendering 75% of this section useless to you.
Want to add different quotes that are more meaningful to you? Tough tit. Ruby got there first.
And because her ineptitude is boundless, she made the text so tiny that it's impossible to read the name of the person who offered up this greeting card bit of hollow wisdom.
She's also not in academia anymore, so god knows why she's filling this out herself other than to desperately cling to her rapidly-vanishing youth and try yet again to claw her way back into childhood. This could've been a 5 minute video in which she quickly flips through the pages, points out what's new, then tests a few inks on the paper to prove that it won't bleed though. That's it. Instead it's nearly 25 minutes long for no reason.
She fills in her planner with more lies and nonsense, like how much she yearns to learn, grow and improved, despite getting actively stupider, more incompetent and more ignorant with each passing day.
Her other greatest motivation is the "possibility" of doing something meaningful. Not doing something meaningful, mind you. Just the mere possibility of doing something is more than enough to satisfy Ruby. Like, she could give back all the charity money she owes, but the mere thought of the possibility of her doing that is enough to alleviate any sliver of guilt or obligation that Ruby might feel.
She continues her delusions of youth by pretending she's taking all her high school classes again. She confirms that, yes, that motivational quote is actually printed in there, and she cheerfully says she's done that kind of bull throughout the planner to rob any unfortunate customers of valuable page real estate.
So Ruby says she's added nearly 50 extra pages, but with tit like this, she's deprived her customers of about that just with her stupid, egotistical practice of filling a huge chunk of their planners in for them, permanently.
She adds another meaningless platitude: "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Similar "profound" thoughts probably rattling around in the desiccated husk that is Ruby's brain:
- "You have to be awake before you can sleep."
- "It's always cloudiest when it's raining."
- "To accomplish something is the greatest thing in life, but the possibility of accomplishing something is practically as good."
And she then glues a bunch of newspaper clippings all over the damn thing, because nothing says "I'm proud of this design" quite like having to disguise it with taped-on scrap paper, and nothing makes a crappy product look better than just slapping a bunch of trash onto it.
The contents page show again that this is the same tit as every other planner. The designs throughout look generic and cheap. Ruby continues filling it with delusions and lies.
Her closest friends are most important to her. Like..."Natasha".
Blakeney's been bumped off the number 1 friend spot for Ruby's imaginary friend, "Natasha". I'm sure Blakeney's fine with this, having graduated, moved away from uni, got a job and can finally celebrate the freedom of not having to be shackled to a deranged toddler who kept her daily schedule hostage. If Molly has any sense, she cut ties months ago.
So is this just Ruby delusionally clinging to long-dead or never-there-to-begin-with friendships to give some semblance of a social life? Considering that she lists "the camping crew", when her only camping trips have been with her family, and "Jade", who only associates with Ruby through their shared management, and all signs point to "yes".
She claims books are important to her even though she never reads them and lies her ass off about it. She claims veganism is important to her despite her not bothering to stay vegan while constantly preaching about how she's SYOOPAH DYOOPAH OHLTRA VEGAN. She claims the environment is massively important to her even though she did everything she could to massively inflate her family's carbon footprint by making her parents drive back and forth across the country every single week to cater to her childish, entitled whims.
Ruby also pays lip service to the importance of self-care once again, to make herself seem very kind and thoughtful. She notes that the most important things to her are "being a positive influence" and "being kind wherever I can", despite forcing toxic productivity ideals, dangerous eating habits and endless lies onto her impressionable audience and refusing to stop when asked or called out for it. This planner is just another example of that - another cheap, overpriced grift that she has to lie to promote.
Nowhere on this "self-care" page does she encourage herself or anyone else to eat a bleeping meal.
Ruby: "Grades are meaningless, it's just a NOMBAH!"
Also Ruby: "I've added entire sections devoted to reinforcing the idea that grades are everything, so that you can build your expectations and be disappointed if you don't meet those goals! I've made sure to expect As and Firsts even in imaginary classes, because I don't know the meaning of the word "humility" (or most other words, for that matter)."
Ruby's excited to learn the history of France and French philosophy, she claims. Ruby, perhaps while you're at it, you'll learn that "France" and "French" have capital 'F's, you braindead dumbass.
Ruby rants excitedly that the morning and evening routine sections of the planner are VARRY unique and she's never seen them before in any other planner.
There's a reason for that. No other stationery company would be so stupid as to allocate entire pages of their academic planner to something as ludicrously stupid as sections to plot your ideal morning bleeping routine. This is useful to almost nobody. You know what would have been useful? Blank pages, so that people could do whatever they wanted with them. But nope, Ruby tries instead to sell her own insanity to other people at an inflated price.
"I think it's important to customise your planner to make it uniquely yours," she says, even though her planner has been designed to rob the people who buy it of any flexibility, versatility or even empty sections to put their own motivational quotes, if they happened to want those.
The stupidity continues.
Ruby can't shoot for sky-high grades anymore, so she's included and filled in a section to build herself up for disappointment in general life, too.
"Get a book deal."
Why? This is nothing do with academia, and it's beyond your control. This is an academic planner, this should be a section for academic goals.
Let's put aside that you have no talent for writing, no genuine interest in writing and only latched onto it because it was the closest career you could think of that fits the fake bookworm persona you've created for yourself, and you think it'll bring you easy fame, money and praise. Hard work does not guarantee a book deal. Writers with talent and passion and drive work their ass off all the time and don't get handed book deals, so what makes you any different? And why is that the all-or-nothing for you?
Ruby yet again shows her hand. She's not interested in writing. She doesn't want to finish a book to create something, to enjoy the fulfilment of the accomplishment itself, or to have it read and enjoyed by other people. She doesn't want to express herself creatively or improve her craft. Notice that publishing a book in general isn't in her immediate goals. She's not prepared to self-publish anything, even though that would be the smartest option for her. She's only interested in getting a book deal. She wants money, recognition and fame. That's all.
Her other goal: "finish my dark academia aesthetic book." "Aesthetic" being the operative word. She doesn't know what dark academia is, as evidenced by her "Everything You Need To Know About Dark Academia" video, which was hilariously barren of information or basic understanding. It's just another superficial, fake interest and a flimsy excuse to write another book about an overachieving, underappreciated genius who gets bullied for being studious and is VARRY STRASSED because SHE WAHHRKS AVVER SYO HARD.
"Get a long-term book deal."
Ruby hasn't even gone out on submission yet and she's already picturing multi-book deals for the indescribable drivel she writes.
"Publish a middle-grade book."
Erimentha Parker sitting there like:
YOU ALREADY DID THIS. Take the win. Celebrate the accomplishment. If your writing is only valid and worthwhile to you if you're paid J.K Rowling cash for it and you don't want to do it or acknowledge it otherwise, then you are not a writer.
Meanwhile, the more realistic, attainable goals like growing tea or practicing watercolour painting are relegated to the "At Some Point" section.
Next, there's a clubs and societies page. Y'know, the things that Ruby actively avoided at uni. For some reason half the bleeping page is dedicated to brainstorming options for clubs you might not actually bother joining, robbing you of space for actually useful things, like contact details for the clubs you actually join, more schedule space in case times/days change, and so on. But that's cool, space and options aren't important, since Ruby has filled 1/8th of the page with some chickenscratch nonsense that she's deemed important to you.
Ruby's an incompetent moron, so her voiceover narration starts far too early and she's talking about a to-do list of learning goals that isn't on-screen for a significant chunk of time.
When it finally arrives on-screen, Ruby just adds a few subjects she'll never learn or exhibit any genuine interest in.
Ruby rambles about how often she forgets things because no tit, that's what prolonged malnutrition will do to you. Ruby then starts playing with fire again, because that's always a good thing for someone with a rapidly deteriorating mental capacity and a proven inability to safely handle candles to be doing.
She shows off the 'Recommendations' section, which she's taken the liberty of reducing in size by pre-filling another entry for you with a recommendation for something she undoubtedly never read herself. You're welcome.
Ruby proclaims that you can paint all over your planner and it will not bleed through! She uses the lightest watercolour paints possible and even then refuses to show the other side of the paper to prove this claim. She also claims that fountain pens work great and won't bleed through, but then completely avoids using a fountain pen in this video to test this on camera.
Ruby's excited about travelling and growing as a person, even though every time she travels, it's with mummy and daddy and she's never grown as a person in any way.
She's also excited about finishing her uni degree.
Ruby somehow already forgot that she finished uni.
She also hopes to be a more selective reader. I mean, is it even possible to read less than nothing?
Oh, and she strives to be the kind of person who goes to coffee shops with friends. Note how she doesn't want to be a more social person, it's just more superficial aesthetics.
After droning on for a while and repeating footage of her filling out earlier sections, she kicks the stupidity up a notch.
Remember, this planner includes everything Ruby wants and needs in a planner, which is why she has to fold up and glue in other products instead of adding a bleeping shopping list section at the design stages instead of all the endless, pointless affirmation sections and wasted space taken up by bad design elements and pre-filled crap.
And then, after gluing it in and rolling it up, she slaps a bunch of tape all over is so that this shopping list would be unreadable and impossible to unfurl without tearing off all the tape and wrecking the whole page.
Good god, Ruby. I know you don't use this thing yourself, but even when pretending, why would you think this would be a good idea? Perhaps if you ate occasionally, your brain might have the bare minimum of power requires to question and veto stupid decisions like this before your hands start doing them.
Ruby has added a to-do list entry so she remembers to wake up on Friday 18th November, because she might otherwise lapse into a decades-long coma if she doesn't remind herself that she's supposed to regain consciousness daily.
In rambling, sped-up narration, she rambles abrasively about how versatile the planner is, when it's anything but.
She flips through the rest of the planner, but 98% of it is identical to every other one that's come before. The card pages make a horrible, cringe-inducing squeak as it scrapes against the coiled binding with every turn of the page. I mean, the planner looks generic, cheap and crappy, but it's one hell of an accomplishment for her to make the planner sound terrible as well, to assault multiple senses at once.
She proudly shows off a 'Mid-Year Reset' section, and this is 50% full of pre-printed fields, rendering it half useless if you're not Ruby.
The farther into the planner she gets, the more the wasted space multiplies.
Her ego struck again when she decided to fill these sections to begin with, but to compound the problem, she insisted on using her own terrible handwriting, so the pearls of "wisdom" are almost entirely illegible.
Remember, kids: "ALWAYS duck through your exam paper before gording sharted."
Wise words, indeed.
Also: "When you're cheating through your exam..."
Ruby's there like:
And then even more pre-filled sections. Who thought this was a good idea?
There was clearly no sense-checking any of this. No focus-testing it with anyone impartial. Ruby just emailed her management team and said, "Can I add a bunch of bull that will take up an increasing amount of the planner until the final pages are just a series of propaganda messages enforcing my toxic brand of stupidity?" And her managers were like, "(Shrug) We get paid either way Ruby, we don't give a flying duck what you put in this tit."
Ruby's last remaining brain cell packs its bags and goes on an extended vacation.
"We've got four dotted nyotes pages...because dotted paper is the myost varrsatile."
You know what's more versatile than paper you added dots all over, Ruby? BLANK bleeping PAPER.
And "FOIYNALLEEE", there's a space to stick a timetable.
That's right, the planner that Ruby claims she designed to suit her needs and meet all of yours does not come with everything. It's a 'some assembly required' situation. You have to print off a separate timetable on her website and glue it in yourself.
Reminder: She's charging £18.50 for this tit.
Ruby argues that this drastic increase for an already ridiculously overpriced collection of trash not fit to line a birdcages is completely justified because you get an extra 43 pages this year. As she shows, most of those pages are completely useless, either devoted to obtuse nonsense only worthwhile if you're living in a childlike state of delusion like Ruby, or just pre-filled with space-wasting nonsense scribbled in by Ruby.
She goes on a defensive diatribe about how she could be charging £20 for this if she wanted, so £18.50 isn't so bad! That's affordable! She'd love to send planners overseas with affordable shipping costs, but it's completely impossible! Y'know, even though most other small independent retailers find a way to do just that.
She won't be making any profit off this, she says, honest!
Businesses don't give away things for free and they don't roll the dice again on yet another identical planner after their last one was an unmitigated disaster unless there's money to be made. Prices got increased to maximise return on a dying investment while Ruby still has fans gullible enough to buy. If they wanted to make it affordable they would've cut all the dead weight and wasted space in the planner. Even with those 43 extra pages, these will still cost pennies to produce.
This is another grift, and Ruby's clearly detached from reality if she thinks £18.50 for this tit to the average student during a cost of living crisis is "affordable". And she'll be stuck having to reduce the price to clear the majority of the stock in a few months anyway, just like last time. All this does is make her look even more like a greedy snake who's completely out of touch.
I don't know who reading here would be gullible enough to buy anything from her, but good lord, please don't buy this. She doesn't use this herself, and she's the only person that most of the pages are useful for, so why should you pay money for this crap? You can get any number of infinitely better, more durable and versatile planners elsewhere for a fraction of the price, and they'll actually arrive and won't disintegrate in minutes.
Ruby, congratulations. I didn't think you could get any stupider, greedier and more incompetent, but every day you prove me wrong.
Mushrooms are definitely more for the Autumn than the Summer as they start to grow in September and continue to do so until November which is when the Autumn starts and ends, When it is the Summer I associate it more with Strawberries, Raspberries, Blueberries and Blackberries so I don't really agree with her choice of putting Mushrooms in June, but at the end of the day Ruby obviously thought that Mushrooms were a better choice for the planner.
She went to her old school to give a presentation on Shakespeare and The Winter's Tale.
Lmao this took up almost a whole page of this threadRuby: "Oiy've been waahrking on designing this planner for a whole yaaaahr."
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It's the exact same planner, Ruby. A planner clearly slapped together by someone at your management company using the default template layouts in some design software. All that's changed is the slight variation in the dull pastel colours, and the doodles, which you didn't create.
Gonna need to see some proof of this "wahhrk" you claim to have done, Ruby, because there's none evident here.
Ruby deciding to show all planners in quick succession does her no favours; it highlights just how lazy each iteration of this mess is.
You also get to see Ruby age like 60 years in 3 seconds like Matt Damon at the end of Saving Private Ryan.
I wonder how often Ruby gets mistaken for random elderly relatives at each new family gathering she attends by people who haven't seen her in a year.
Anyway, so Ruby then pats herself on the back over how great her planner is and how everyone loves it, with no mention of the swift decline in sales as a result of the weeks-long delivery delays, customer service radio silence, consistent product defects and terrible quality of every single product launch.
She leaps into desperate denial and protest mode as she tries to convince people that, YASS, she really DOES use the planners AVVERY SINGLE DAY.
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And then immediately struggles to find any consistently filled-in days to show as proof. She shows a whopping 4 pages from her last planner, only 3 and a quarter of which are filled in. Most of these pages have been shown before in her Instagram feed ads, and most of the tasks she's added not been ticked off or amended after she first wrote them down. Then she cuts away since she's clearly not finding any other consecutive days filled in.
Here's that top right page back when she filled it out on camera:
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Nothing ticked off after that. She clearly never glanced at it after filming that ad.
It's blatantly obvious that she just fills in a page every now and then to snap a staged picture for Instagram, then puts it back in a drawer for a month until she does it again. She claims to use this daily, yet its in pristine condition even though they're notoriously flimsy quality and you can audibly hear the cheap, stiff card creak whenever she turns a page? Not a bleeping chance.
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Ruby explains the thought process that went into her designing this planner that she didn't design herself.
"A lyot of the planners that I used as a teenager--the tyoo-dyoo lists waahr always tyoo short, syo I'd have to myoove to loiyke, a SAPARATE nyotebook to wroite moiy tyoo-dyoo list."
Like a snake eating its own tail, Ruby's nonsensical bull instantly loops back on itself - it's an ouroboros of shilling lies (an ouRubeoros?).
So Ruby claims yet again that she tailor-made this flimsy pile of tit she calls a planner to suit all her needs so that she - and her fans/customers - will never need another external to-do list or notebook ever again.
Hey, Rubes? What's this:
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Umm...Ruby? What's this:
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Rubert? What in the name of Ernest Hemingway's drunken ghost is this:
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Ruby's bull claims that this is the ultimate planner that fits all her needs instantly falls apart as she claims she uses all her own products, which would mean she's using numerous to-do lists of varying sizes alongside Notion and TeuxDeux and god knows how many other redundant busywork platforms and notebooks.
I mean, Ruby's definitely that stupid, but it's obvious lies - she might waste almost all of her time with busywork, but she doesn't use the products she sells. But if we take her at her word and entertain her lies for a second...
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Just look at this mess. She's had to create additional tickboxes all over the place, while ignoring clearly useless sections in the layout. So instantly it's clear that none of this serves whatever imaginary purpose she wants.
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She shows off a new and laughably pointless spread: Academic Reflections, which is almost entirely devoted to telling yourself how much you love yourself and not at all related to reflecting on your progress in the academic year. It's childish nonsense.
And, hey, maybe you find positive affirmations helpful, and that's awesome. But they belong in a diary or journal, or on a post-it note stuck on your desk. It has no relation specifically to academic planning. And if Ruby thought it did, she should've added an 'Affirmations' section instead of taking up 3/4ths of an several unrelated spreads with a big, flimsy, ego-boosting excuse to get her family to write down how special she is, like an attention-seeking child.
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Ruby shows off yet another filled-in section that she's shown before in Instagram posts and then her self-congratulatory lies are interrupted by the sounds of her room collapsing around her.
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Something crashes onto the floor behind her. Ruby seems completely unperturbed by the sounds of disaster and destruction, which I guess makes sense if her mother is accidentally collapsing into, falling over or completely destroying a new part of the house every day with her apparently catastrophic inability to function in life.
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"CANDLESTICK," Ruby says (by which she means "candle"), as if to reassure viewers that nothing serious was damaged.
Not to worry, that was just one of the sources of open flame that Ruby insists on leaving perched precariously at a 45 degree angle all over her room like a disaster-courting dipshit. It wasn't on fire this time, but it's just a matter of time before firebug Ruby finally succeeds in burning her family home to ashes.
After that brief moment of narrowly-averted arson, Ruby reveals that Anna, who did the doodles for her planner (presumably for zero reimbursement, since Ruby's not in the habit of parting with money) went to school with Ruby. Didn't she used to say she had no friends as school and was bullied mercilessly in all kinds of inconsistent, fictional ways that she invented after the fact?
Anyway, she shows off her planner and it's the same tit as every other year. Big shock.
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Now, this is the untouched planner. Ruby says she has yet to "set this up", although like every year, I'm still highly confused what "setting up" a planner requires.
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So, Ruby shoved this tit in the pointless "motivation quotes" section. This being the fresh, unused planner that she's apparently done nothing to yet gives the stark implication that the planner will come with this crap pre-printed in your planner, rendering 75% of this section useless to you.
Want to add different quotes that are more meaningful to you? Tough tit. Ruby got there first.
And because her ineptitude is boundless, she made the text so tiny that it's impossible to read the name of the person who offered up this greeting card bit of hollow wisdom.
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She's also not in academia anymore, so god knows why she's filling this out herself other than to desperately cling to her rapidly-vanishing youth and try yet again to claw her way back into childhood. This could've been a 5 minute video in which she quickly flips through the pages, points out what's new, then tests a few inks on the paper to prove that it won't bleed though. That's it. Instead it's nearly 25 minutes long for no reason.
She fills in her planner with more lies and nonsense, like how much she yearns to learn, grow and improved, despite getting actively stupider, more incompetent and more ignorant with each passing day.
Her other greatest motivation is the "possibility" of doing something meaningful. Not doing something meaningful, mind you. Just the mere possibility of doing something is more than enough to satisfy Ruby. Like, she could give back all the charity money she owes, but the mere thought of the possibility of her doing that is enough to alleviate any sliver of guilt or obligation that Ruby might feel.
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She continues her delusions of youth by pretending she's taking all her high school classes again. She confirms that, yes, that motivational quote is actually printed in there, and she cheerfully says she's done that kind of bull throughout the planner to rob any unfortunate customers of valuable page real estate.
So Ruby says she's added nearly 50 extra pages, but with tit like this, she's deprived her customers of about that just with her stupid, egotistical practice of filling a huge chunk of their planners in for them, permanently.
She adds another meaningless platitude: "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Similar "profound" thoughts probably rattling around in the desiccated husk that is Ruby's brain:
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- "You have to be awake before you can sleep."
- "It's always cloudiest when it's raining."
- "To accomplish something is the greatest thing in life, but the possibility of accomplishing something is practically as good."
And she then glues a bunch of newspaper clippings all over the damn thing, because nothing says "I'm proud of this design" quite like having to disguise it with taped-on scrap paper, and nothing makes a crappy product look better than just slapping a bunch of trash onto it.
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The contents page show again that this is the same tit as every other planner. The designs throughout look generic and cheap. Ruby continues filling it with delusions and lies.
Her closest friends are most important to her. Like..."Natasha".
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Blakeney's been bumped off the number 1 friend spot for Ruby's imaginary friend, "Natasha". I'm sure Blakeney's fine with this, having graduated, moved away from uni, got a job and can finally celebrate the freedom of not having to be shackled to a deranged toddler who kept her daily schedule hostage. If Molly has any sense, she cut ties months ago.
So is this just Ruby delusionally clinging to long-dead or never-there-to-begin-with friendships to give some semblance of a social life? Considering that she lists "the camping crew", when her only camping trips have been with her family, and "Jade", who only associates with Ruby through their shared management, and all signs point to "yes".
She claims books are important to her even though she never reads them and lies her ass off about it. She claims veganism is important to her despite her not bothering to stay vegan while constantly preaching about how she's SYOOPAH DYOOPAH OHLTRA VEGAN. She claims the environment is massively important to her even though she did everything she could to massively inflate her family's carbon footprint by making her parents drive back and forth across the country every single week to cater to her childish, entitled whims.
Ruby also pays lip service to the importance of self-care once again, to make herself seem very kind and thoughtful. She notes that the most important things to her are "being a positive influence" and "being kind wherever I can", despite forcing toxic productivity ideals, dangerous eating habits and endless lies onto her impressionable audience and refusing to stop when asked or called out for it. This planner is just another example of that - another cheap, overpriced grift that she has to lie to promote.
Nowhere on this "self-care" page does she encourage herself or anyone else to eat a bleeping meal.
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Ruby: "Grades are meaningless, it's just a NOMBAH!"
Also Ruby: "I've added entire sections devoted to reinforcing the idea that grades are everything, so that you can build your expectations and be disappointed if you don't meet those goals! I've made sure to expect As and Firsts even in imaginary classes, because I don't know the meaning of the word "humility" (or most other words, for that matter)."
Ruby's excited to learn the history of France and French philosophy, she claims. Ruby, perhaps while you're at it, you'll learn that "France" and "French" have capital 'F's, you braindead dumbass.
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Ruby rants excitedly that the morning and evening routine sections of the planner are VARRY unique and she's never seen them before in any other planner.
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There's a reason for that. No other stationery company would be so stupid as to allocate entire pages of their academic planner to something as ludicrously stupid as sections to plot your ideal morning bleeping routine. This is useful to almost nobody. You know what would have been useful? Blank pages, so that people could do whatever they wanted with them. But nope, Ruby tries instead to sell her own insanity to other people at an inflated price.
"I think it's important to customise your planner to make it uniquely yours," she says, even though her planner has been designed to rob the people who buy it of any flexibility, versatility or even empty sections to put their own motivational quotes, if they happened to want those.
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The stupidity continues.
Ruby can't shoot for sky-high grades anymore, so she's included and filled in a section to build herself up for disappointment in general life, too.
"Get a book deal."
Why? This is nothing do with academia, and it's beyond your control. This is an academic planner, this should be a section for academic goals.
Let's put aside that you have no talent for writing, no genuine interest in writing and only latched onto it because it was the closest career you could think of that fits the fake bookworm persona you've created for yourself, and you think it'll bring you easy fame, money and praise. Hard work does not guarantee a book deal. Writers with talent and passion and drive work their ass off all the time and don't get handed book deals, so what makes you any different? And why is that the all-or-nothing for you?
Ruby yet again shows her hand. She's not interested in writing. She doesn't want to finish a book to create something, to enjoy the fulfilment of the accomplishment itself, or to have it read and enjoyed by other people. She doesn't want to express herself creatively or improve her craft. Notice that publishing a book in general isn't in her immediate goals. She's not prepared to self-publish anything, even though that would be the smartest option for her. She's only interested in getting a book deal. She wants money, recognition and fame. That's all.
Her other goal: "finish my dark academia aesthetic book." "Aesthetic" being the operative word. She doesn't know what dark academia is, as evidenced by her "Everything You Need To Know About Dark Academia" video, which was hilariously barren of information or basic understanding. It's just another superficial, fake interest and a flimsy excuse to write another book about an overachieving, underappreciated genius who gets bullied for being studious and is VARRY STRASSED because SHE WAHHRKS AVVER SYO HARD.
"Get a long-term book deal."
Ruby hasn't even gone out on submission yet and she's already picturing multi-book deals for the indescribable drivel she writes.
"Publish a middle-grade book."
Erimentha Parker sitting there like:
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YOU ALREADY DID THIS. Take the win. Celebrate the accomplishment. If your writing is only valid and worthwhile to you if you're paid J.K Rowling cash for it and you don't want to do it or acknowledge it otherwise, then you are not a writer.
Meanwhile, the more realistic, attainable goals like growing tea or practicing watercolour painting are relegated to the "At Some Point" section.
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Next, there's a clubs and societies page. Y'know, the things that Ruby actively avoided at uni. For some reason half the bleeping page is dedicated to brainstorming options for clubs you might not actually bother joining, robbing you of space for actually useful things, like contact details for the clubs you actually join, more schedule space in case times/days change, and so on. But that's cool, space and options aren't important, since Ruby has filled 1/8th of the page with some chickenscratch nonsense that she's deemed important to you.
Ruby's an incompetent moron, so her voiceover narration starts far too early and she's talking about a to-do list of learning goals that isn't on-screen for a significant chunk of time.
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When it finally arrives on-screen, Ruby just adds a few subjects she'll never learn or exhibit any genuine interest in.
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Ruby rambles about how often she forgets things because no tit, that's what prolonged malnutrition will do to you. Ruby then starts playing with fire again, because that's always a good thing for someone with a rapidly deteriorating mental capacity and a proven inability to safely handle candles to be doing.
She shows off the 'Recommendations' section, which she's taken the liberty of reducing in size by pre-filling another entry for you with a recommendation for something she undoubtedly never read herself. You're welcome.
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Ruby proclaims that you can paint all over your planner and it will not bleed through! She uses the lightest watercolour paints possible and even then refuses to show the other side of the paper to prove this claim. She also claims that fountain pens work great and won't bleed through, but then completely avoids using a fountain pen in this video to test this on camera.
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Ruby's excited about travelling and growing as a person, even though every time she travels, it's with mummy and daddy and she's never grown as a person in any way.
She's also excited about finishing her uni degree.
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Ruby somehow already forgot that she finished uni.
She also hopes to be a more selective reader. I mean, is it even possible to read less than nothing?
Oh, and she strives to be the kind of person who goes to coffee shops with friends. Note how she doesn't want to be a more social person, it's just more superficial aesthetics.
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After droning on for a while and repeating footage of her filling out earlier sections, she kicks the stupidity up a notch.
Remember, this planner includes everything Ruby wants and needs in a planner, which is why she has to fold up and glue in other products instead of adding a bleeping shopping list section at the design stages instead of all the endless, pointless affirmation sections and wasted space taken up by bad design elements and pre-filled crap.
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And then, after gluing it in and rolling it up, she slaps a bunch of tape all over is so that this shopping list would be unreadable and impossible to unfurl without tearing off all the tape and wrecking the whole page.
Good god, Ruby. I know you don't use this thing yourself, but even when pretending, why would you think this would be a good idea? Perhaps if you ate occasionally, your brain might have the bare minimum of power requires to question and veto stupid decisions like this before your hands start doing them.
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Ruby has added a to-do list entry so she remembers to wake up on Friday 18th November, because she might otherwise lapse into a decades-long coma if she doesn't remind herself that she's supposed to regain consciousness daily.
In rambling, sped-up narration, she rambles abrasively about how versatile the planner is, when it's anything but.
She flips through the rest of the planner, but 98% of it is identical to every other one that's come before. The card pages make a horrible, cringe-inducing squeak as it scrapes against the coiled binding with every turn of the page. I mean, the planner looks generic, cheap and crappy, but it's one hell of an accomplishment for her to make the planner sound terrible as well, to assault multiple senses at once.
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She proudly shows off a 'Mid-Year Reset' section, and this is 50% full of pre-printed fields, rendering it half useless if you're not Ruby.
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The farther into the planner she gets, the more the wasted space multiplies.
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Her ego struck again when she decided to fill these sections to begin with, but to compound the problem, she insisted on using her own terrible handwriting, so the pearls of "wisdom" are almost entirely illegible.
Remember, kids: "ALWAYS duck through your exam paper before gording sharted."
Wise words, indeed.
Also: "When you're cheating through your exam..."
Ruby's there like:
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And then even more pre-filled sections. Who thought this was a good idea?
There was clearly no sense-checking any of this. No focus-testing it with anyone impartial. Ruby just emailed her management team and said, "Can I add a bunch of bull that will take up an increasing amount of the planner until the final pages are just a series of propaganda messages enforcing my toxic brand of stupidity?" And her managers were like, "(Shrug) We get paid either way Ruby, we don't give a flying duck what you put in this tit."
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Ruby's last remaining brain cell packs its bags and goes on an extended vacation.
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You know what's more versatile than paper you added dots all over, Ruby? BLANK bleeping PAPER.
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And "FOIYNALLEEE", there's a space to stick a timetable.
That's right, the planner that Ruby claims she designed to suit her needs and meet all of yours does not come with everything. It's a 'some assembly required' situation. You have to print off a separate timetable on her website and glue it in yourself.
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Reminder: She's charging £18.50 for this tit.
Ruby argues that this drastic increase for an already ridiculously overpriced collection of trash not fit to line a birdcages is completely justified because you get an extra 43 pages this year. As she shows, most of those pages are completely useless, either devoted to obtuse nonsense only worthwhile if you're living in a childlike state of delusion like Ruby, or just pre-filled with space-wasting nonsense scribbled in by Ruby.
She goes on a defensive diatribe about how she could be charging £20 for this if she wanted, so £18.50 isn't so bad! That's affordable! She'd love to send planners overseas with affordable shipping costs, but it's completely impossible! Y'know, even though most other small independent retailers find a way to do just that.
She won't be making any profit off this, she says, honest!
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Businesses don't give away things for free and they don't roll the dice again on yet another identical planner after their last one was an unmitigated disaster unless there's money to be made. Prices got increased to maximise return on a dying investment while Ruby still has fans gullible enough to buy. If they wanted to make it affordable they would've cut all the dead weight and wasted space in the planner. Even with those 43 extra pages, these will still cost pennies to produce.
This is another grift, and Ruby's clearly detached from reality if she thinks £18.50 for this tit to the average student during a cost of living crisis is "affordable". And she'll be stuck having to reduce the price to clear the majority of the stock in a few months anyway, just like last time. All this does is make her look even more like a greedy snake who's completely out of touch.
I don't know who reading here would be gullible enough to buy anything from her, but good lord, please don't buy this. She doesn't use this herself, and she's the only person that most of the pages are useful for, so why should you pay money for this crap? You can get any number of infinitely better, more durable and versatile planners elsewhere for a fraction of the price, and they'll actually arrive and won't disintegrate in minutes.
Ruby, congratulations. I didn't think you could get any stupider, greedier and more incompetent, but every day you prove me wrong.
To be fair to her, something I've been led to believe independent schools do (and especially the posh ones) is actively foster alumni networks (in the boys schools these are called "Old Boys Networks" or "School Tie Networks.") Though, usually speech days are parents events, rather than alumni events. As a moderately successful alumna of her school (she earned enough from YT and sponsorships to buy a house at 18), I'm sure they enjoy having her back. I highly doubt she was there to make a speech (we would have seen her writing it if so, seeing as she's lacking in "productive" things to do at the moment) , and if she was it would be usually wishy washy rubbish about planning, working "hard" and going after your dreams.
I disagree for the most part with the criticism here specifically aimed at her for visiting her old school or still having ties to it. It's unfathomable for those of us who went through the state system, and for those on the less posh end of the independent system even, but it's relatively normal for those on the posher end of things who stayed in a certain distance of their school (and who admittedly have little else to do.) A number of my friends at university went to a posh private school in the same city, so attended a few alumni events over the course of their degree.
It's odd more because she has little else to do, and it shows her privilege, but not because it's a strange thing in context.
That was specifically to english students and a while ago, I think.
Ruby, you don't know who these children are! Why would you be invested in who of them is announced as head girl?!
Someone needs to lock her up. It's 'padded cell, throw away the key' time.
Completely distracted from what everyone was talking about tooLmao this took up almost a whole page of this thread
It's so weird that she still goes, I worked it out the other day (I'm the school year above Ruby), the year 13's at school now were like year 7's when I went - so she has no idea, at ALL, who these kids are. She's just a weirdo turning up to a speech day and watching on.
Ok I finally made an account because this is just sad. Most adults expand beyond their teenage self, but Ruby can't seem to accept that she's out of school now.
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When she shows up does she not realize there's nobody else from her class there?
Sorry but I find this mega creepy
why does she care who the next head girl is? She won’t know who they are and I doubt they’ll give a duck who she is either
maybe she hopes to meet some of her fans.Sorry but I find this mega creepy
"I like to see who is announced as the new head girl".
God, I don't even know where to start with this one. Ruby left her school in 2018. The new head girl will leave in 2023, so will be 5 school years younger than Ruby. That means when Ruby left the school, she was in Year 8.
Why on earth would Ruby care who is elected? Unless she was friends with the Year 8s (which wouldn't surprise me really in some bid to take up a "motherly/mentoring" role), that is just unbelievably strange and almost creepy. Is she hoping she can impart some wisdom as a former head girl? Just likes to infantilise herself and hang out with children? Hope they idolise her and see her as this top tier alumnus who conquered uni, wrote a book and came out with a first?
I enjoyed my time at school but have no desire to go back there. She's willingly going to find out who the new Head Girl is. Very odd behaviour.
God, I don't even know where to start with this one. Ruby left her school in 2018. The new head girl will leave in 2023, so will be 5 school years younger than Ruby. That means when Ruby left the school, she was in Year 8.
Why on earth would Ruby care who is elected? Unless she was friends with the Year 8s (which wouldn't surprise me really in some bid to take up a "motherly/mentoring" role), that is just unbelievably strange and almost creepy. Is she hoping she can impart some wisdom as a former head girl? Just likes to infantilise herself and hang out with children? Hope they idolise her and see her as this top tier alumnus who conquered uni, wrote a book and came out with a first?
I enjoyed my time at school but have no desire to go back there. She's willingly going to find out who the new Head Girl is. Very odd behaviour.
I went to an independent school with a fair amount of notable alumni and apart from coming in to give a few speeches about life after school, most people don’t look back. There is an old girls association that holds various events but none under the age of around 30 bothers. There’s nothing wrong with keeping in touch with your old school (I did work experience in my old primary school) it’s just that Ruby seems to like going back to act like a school girl again, not an adult talking to actual school students about her life after school. Also her want to find out who the head girl is every year is weird, tbh head students don’t really do that much, as far as I’m aware, it’s a great achievement but not something someone who left years ago should care about. If there was a Ruby at my school she would’ve been a laughing stock amongst students and some teachers.
Trust me, I can guarantee that no one in her school year is going back and if she mentioned it to any of them (or if any of them knew), they'd think it was very odd and just laugh at her.
Maybe she thinks being head girl gives her a heightened sense of importance and connection to the school, but it's not really that deep, especially not to be going back 5 years later; she's not even giving a speech, she's an attendee.
Even with the events that happen that keep her connected to the school as I know happens with independent schools, these are separate events specifically geared towards alumni, who meet up for a dinner or something. It's certainly not going back to school as a 22-year-old and sitting in their events.
Ruby would never go to an adult alumni event though; it has to be school so she can hang out with children and pretend to be a child again. She needs therapy.
She isn't making a profit from this? That's just a blatant lie. Why do it if she's just gonna break even and not make a profit? Anyone with a brain and a vague idea of how a business operates (sustain costs, earn money, hopefully earnings - costs = more than 0 so you have more money than when you started) could tell she's lying.Ruby: "Oiy've been waahrking on designing this planner for a whole yaaaahr."
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It's the exact same planner, Ruby. A planner clearly slapped together by someone at your management company using the default template layouts in some design software. All that's changed is the slight variation in the dull pastel colours, and the doodles, which you didn't create.
Gonna need to see some proof of this "wahhrk" you claim to have done, Ruby, because there's none evident here.
Ruby deciding to show all planners in quick succession does her no favours; it highlights just how lazy each iteration of this mess is.
You also get to see Ruby age like 60 years in 3 seconds like Matt Damon at the end of Saving Private Ryan.
I wonder how often Ruby gets mistaken for random elderly relatives at each new family gathering she attends by people who haven't seen her in a year.
Anyway, so Ruby then pats herself on the back over how great her planner is and how everyone loves it, with no mention of the swift decline in sales as a result of the weeks-long delivery delays, customer service radio silence, consistent product defects and terrible quality of every single product launch.
She leaps into desperate denial and protest mode as she tries to convince people that, YASS, she really DOES use the planners AVVERY SINGLE DAY.
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And then immediately struggles to find any consistently filled-in days to show as proof. She shows a whopping 4 pages from her last planner, only 3 and a quarter of which are filled in. Most of these pages have been shown before in her Instagram feed ads, and most of the tasks she's added not been ticked off or amended after she first wrote them down. Then she cuts away since she's clearly not finding any other consecutive days filled in.
Here's that top right page back when she filled it out on camera:
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Nothing ticked off after that. She clearly never glanced at it after filming that ad.
It's blatantly obvious that she just fills in a page every now and then to snap a staged picture for Instagram, then puts it back in a drawer for a month until she does it again. She claims to use this daily, yet its in pristine condition even though they're notoriously flimsy quality and you can audibly hear the cheap, stiff card creak whenever she turns a page? Not a bleeping chance.
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Ruby explains the thought process that went into her designing this planner that she didn't design herself.
"A lyot of the planners that I used as a teenager--the tyoo-dyoo lists waahr always tyoo short, syo I'd have to myoove to loiyke, a SAPARATE nyotebook to wroite moiy tyoo-dyoo list."
Like a snake eating its own tail, Ruby's nonsensical bull instantly loops back on itself - it's an ouroboros of shilling lies (an ouRubeoros?).
So Ruby claims yet again that she tailor-made this flimsy pile of tit she calls a planner to suit all her needs so that she - and her fans/customers - will never need another external to-do list or notebook ever again.
Hey, Rubes? What's this:
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Umm...Ruby? What's this:
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Rubert? What in the name of Ernest Hemingway's drunken ghost is this:
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Ruby's bull claims that this is the ultimate planner that fits all her needs instantly falls apart as she claims she uses all her own products, which would mean she's using numerous to-do lists of varying sizes alongside Notion and TeuxDeux and god knows how many other redundant busywork platforms and notebooks.
I mean, Ruby's definitely that stupid, but it's obvious lies - she might waste almost all of her time with busywork, but she doesn't use the products she sells. But if we take her at her word and entertain her lies for a second...
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Just look at this mess. She's had to create additional tickboxes all over the place, while ignoring clearly useless sections in the layout. So instantly it's clear that none of this serves whatever imaginary purpose she wants.
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She shows off a new and laughably pointless spread: Academic Reflections, which is almost entirely devoted to telling yourself how much you love yourself and not at all related to reflecting on your progress in the academic year. It's childish nonsense.
And, hey, maybe you find positive affirmations helpful, and that's awesome. But they belong in a diary or journal, or on a post-it note stuck on your desk. It has no relation specifically to academic planning. And if Ruby thought it did, she should've added an 'Affirmations' section instead of taking up 3/4ths of an several unrelated spreads with a big, flimsy, ego-boosting excuse to get her family to write down how special she is, like an attention-seeking child.
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Ruby shows off yet another filled-in section that she's shown before in Instagram posts and then her self-congratulatory lies are interrupted by the sounds of her room collapsing around her.
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Something crashes onto the floor behind her. Ruby seems completely unperturbed by the sounds of disaster and destruction, which I guess makes sense if her mother is accidentally collapsing into, falling over or completely destroying a new part of the house every day with her apparently catastrophic inability to function in life.
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"CANDLESTICK," Ruby says (by which she means "candle"), as if to reassure viewers that nothing serious was damaged.
Not to worry, that was just one of the sources of open flame that Ruby insists on leaving perched precariously at a 45 degree angle all over her room like a disaster-courting dipshit. It wasn't on fire this time, but it's just a matter of time before firebug Ruby finally succeeds in burning her family home to ashes.
After that brief moment of narrowly-averted arson, Ruby reveals that Anna, who did the doodles for her planner (presumably for zero reimbursement, since Ruby's not in the habit of parting with money) went to school with Ruby. Didn't she used to say she had no friends as school and was bullied mercilessly in all kinds of inconsistent, fictional ways that she invented after the fact?
Anyway, she shows off her planner and it's the same tit as every other year. Big shock.
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Now, this is the untouched planner. Ruby says she has yet to "set this up", although like every year, I'm still highly confused what "setting up" a planner requires.
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So, Ruby shoved this tit in the pointless "motivation quotes" section. This being the fresh, unused planner that she's apparently done nothing to yet gives the stark implication that the planner will come with this crap pre-printed in your planner, rendering 75% of this section useless to you.
Want to add different quotes that are more meaningful to you? Tough tit. Ruby got there first.
And because her ineptitude is boundless, she made the text so tiny that it's impossible to read the name of the person who offered up this greeting card bit of hollow wisdom.
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She's also not in academia anymore, so god knows why she's filling this out herself other than to desperately cling to her rapidly-vanishing youth and try yet again to claw her way back into childhood. This could've been a 5 minute video in which she quickly flips through the pages, points out what's new, then tests a few inks on the paper to prove that it won't bleed though. That's it. Instead it's nearly 25 minutes long for no reason.
She fills in her planner with more lies and nonsense, like how much she yearns to learn, grow and improved, despite getting actively stupider, more incompetent and more ignorant with each passing day.
Her other greatest motivation is the "possibility" of doing something meaningful. Not doing something meaningful, mind you. Just the mere possibility of doing something is more than enough to satisfy Ruby. Like, she could give back all the charity money she owes, but the mere thought of the possibility of her doing that is enough to alleviate any sliver of guilt or obligation that Ruby might feel.
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She continues her delusions of youth by pretending she's taking all her high school classes again. She confirms that, yes, that motivational quote is actually printed in there, and she cheerfully says she's done that kind of bull throughout the planner to rob any unfortunate customers of valuable page real estate.
So Ruby says she's added nearly 50 extra pages, but with tit like this, she's deprived her customers of about that just with her stupid, egotistical practice of filling a huge chunk of their planners in for them, permanently.
She adds another meaningless platitude: "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Similar "profound" thoughts probably rattling around in the desiccated husk that is Ruby's brain:
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- "You have to be awake before you can sleep."
- "It's always cloudiest when it's raining."
- "To accomplish something is the greatest thing in life, but the possibility of accomplishing something is practically as good."
And she then glues a bunch of newspaper clippings all over the damn thing, because nothing says "I'm proud of this design" quite like having to disguise it with taped-on scrap paper, and nothing makes a crappy product look better than just slapping a bunch of trash onto it.
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The contents page show again that this is the same tit as every other planner. The designs throughout look generic and cheap. Ruby continues filling it with delusions and lies.
Her closest friends are most important to her. Like..."Natasha".
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Blakeney's been bumped off the number 1 friend spot for Ruby's imaginary friend, "Natasha". I'm sure Blakeney's fine with this, having graduated, moved away from uni, got a job and can finally celebrate the freedom of not having to be shackled to a deranged toddler who kept her daily schedule hostage. If Molly has any sense, she cut ties months ago.
So is this just Ruby delusionally clinging to long-dead or never-there-to-begin-with friendships to give some semblance of a social life? Considering that she lists "the camping crew", when her only camping trips have been with her family, and "Jade", who only associates with Ruby through their shared management, and all signs point to "yes".
She claims books are important to her even though she never reads them and lies her ass off about it. She claims veganism is important to her despite her not bothering to stay vegan while constantly preaching about how she's SYOOPAH DYOOPAH OHLTRA VEGAN. She claims the environment is massively important to her even though she did everything she could to massively inflate her family's carbon footprint by making her parents drive back and forth across the country every single week to cater to her childish, entitled whims.
Ruby also pays lip service to the importance of self-care once again, to make herself seem very kind and thoughtful. She notes that the most important things to her are "being a positive influence" and "being kind wherever I can", despite forcing toxic productivity ideals, dangerous eating habits and endless lies onto her impressionable audience and refusing to stop when asked or called out for it. This planner is just another example of that - another cheap, overpriced grift that she has to lie to promote.
Nowhere on this "self-care" page does she encourage herself or anyone else to eat a bleeping meal.
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Ruby: "Grades are meaningless, it's just a NOMBAH!"
Also Ruby: "I've added entire sections devoted to reinforcing the idea that grades are everything, so that you can build your expectations and be disappointed if you don't meet those goals! I've made sure to expect As and Firsts even in imaginary classes, because I don't know the meaning of the word "humility" (or most other words, for that matter)."
Ruby's excited to learn the history of France and French philosophy, she claims. Ruby, perhaps while you're at it, you'll learn that "France" and "French" have capital 'F's, you braindead dumbass.
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Ruby rants excitedly that the morning and evening routine sections of the planner are VARRY unique and she's never seen them before in any other planner.
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There's a reason for that. No other stationery company would be so stupid as to allocate entire pages of their academic planner to something as ludicrously stupid as sections to plot your ideal morning bleeping routine. This is useful to almost nobody. You know what would have been useful? Blank pages, so that people could do whatever they wanted with them. But nope, Ruby tries instead to sell her own insanity to other people at an inflated price.
"I think it's important to customise your planner to make it uniquely yours," she says, even though her planner has been designed to rob the people who buy it of any flexibility, versatility or even empty sections to put their own motivational quotes, if they happened to want those.
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The stupidity continues.
Ruby can't shoot for sky-high grades anymore, so she's included and filled in a section to build herself up for disappointment in general life, too.
"Get a book deal."
Why? This is nothing do with academia, and it's beyond your control. This is an academic planner, this should be a section for academic goals.
Let's put aside that you have no talent for writing, no genuine interest in writing and only latched onto it because it was the closest career you could think of that fits the fake bookworm persona you've created for yourself, and you think it'll bring you easy fame, money and praise. Hard work does not guarantee a book deal. Writers with talent and passion and drive work their ass off all the time and don't get handed book deals, so what makes you any different? And why is that the all-or-nothing for you?
Ruby yet again shows her hand. She's not interested in writing. She doesn't want to finish a book to create something, to enjoy the fulfilment of the accomplishment itself, or to have it read and enjoyed by other people. She doesn't want to express herself creatively or improve her craft. Notice that publishing a book in general isn't in her immediate goals. She's not prepared to self-publish anything, even though that would be the smartest option for her. She's only interested in getting a book deal. She wants money, recognition and fame. That's all.
Her other goal: "finish my dark academia aesthetic book." "Aesthetic" being the operative word. She doesn't know what dark academia is, as evidenced by her "Everything You Need To Know About Dark Academia" video, which was hilariously barren of information or basic understanding. It's just another superficial, fake interest and a flimsy excuse to write another book about an overachieving, underappreciated genius who gets bullied for being studious and is VARRY STRASSED because SHE WAHHRKS AVVER SYO HARD.
"Get a long-term book deal."
Ruby hasn't even gone out on submission yet and she's already picturing multi-book deals for the indescribable drivel she writes.
"Publish a middle-grade book."
Erimentha Parker sitting there like:
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YOU ALREADY DID THIS. Take the win. Celebrate the accomplishment. If your writing is only valid and worthwhile to you if you're paid J.K Rowling cash for it and you don't want to do it or acknowledge it otherwise, then you are not a writer.
Meanwhile, the more realistic, attainable goals like growing tea or practicing watercolour painting are relegated to the "At Some Point" section.
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Next, there's a clubs and societies page. Y'know, the things that Ruby actively avoided at uni. For some reason half the bleeping page is dedicated to brainstorming options for clubs you might not actually bother joining, robbing you of space for actually useful things, like contact details for the clubs you actually join, more schedule space in case times/days change, and so on. But that's cool, space and options aren't important, since Ruby has filled 1/8th of the page with some chickenscratch nonsense that she's deemed important to you.
Ruby's an incompetent moron, so her voiceover narration starts far too early and she's talking about a to-do list of learning goals that isn't on-screen for a significant chunk of time.
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When it finally arrives on-screen, Ruby just adds a few subjects she'll never learn or exhibit any genuine interest in.
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Ruby rambles about how often she forgets things because no tit, that's what prolonged malnutrition will do to you. Ruby then starts playing with fire again, because that's always a good thing for someone with a rapidly deteriorating mental capacity and a proven inability to safely handle candles to be doing.
She shows off the 'Recommendations' section, which she's taken the liberty of reducing in size by pre-filling another entry for you with a recommendation for something she undoubtedly never read herself. You're welcome.
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Ruby proclaims that you can paint all over your planner and it will not bleed through! She uses the lightest watercolour paints possible and even then refuses to show the other side of the paper to prove this claim. She also claims that fountain pens work great and won't bleed through, but then completely avoids using a fountain pen in this video to test this on camera.
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Ruby's excited about travelling and growing as a person, even though every time she travels, it's with mummy and daddy and she's never grown as a person in any way.
She's also excited about finishing her uni degree.
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Ruby somehow already forgot that she finished uni.
She also hopes to be a more selective reader. I mean, is it even possible to read less than nothing?
Oh, and she strives to be the kind of person who goes to coffee shops with friends. Note how she doesn't want to be a more social person, it's just more superficial aesthetics.
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After droning on for a while and repeating footage of her filling out earlier sections, she kicks the stupidity up a notch.
Remember, this planner includes everything Ruby wants and needs in a planner, which is why she has to fold up and glue in other products instead of adding a bleeping shopping list section at the design stages instead of all the endless, pointless affirmation sections and wasted space taken up by bad design elements and pre-filled crap.
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And then, after gluing it in and rolling it up, she slaps a bunch of tape all over is so that this shopping list would be unreadable and impossible to unfurl without tearing off all the tape and wrecking the whole page.
Good god, Ruby. I know you don't use this thing yourself, but even when pretending, why would you think this would be a good idea? Perhaps if you ate occasionally, your brain might have the bare minimum of power requires to question and veto stupid decisions like this before your hands start doing them.
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Ruby has added a to-do list entry so she remembers to wake up on Friday 18th November, because she might otherwise lapse into a decades-long coma if she doesn't remind herself that she's supposed to regain consciousness daily.
In rambling, sped-up narration, she rambles abrasively about how versatile the planner is, when it's anything but.
She flips through the rest of the planner, but 98% of it is identical to every other one that's come before. The card pages make a horrible, cringe-inducing squeak as it scrapes against the coiled binding with every turn of the page. I mean, the planner looks generic, cheap and crappy, but it's one hell of an accomplishment for her to make the planner sound terrible as well, to assault multiple senses at once.
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She proudly shows off a 'Mid-Year Reset' section, and this is 50% full of pre-printed fields, rendering it half useless if you're not Ruby.
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The farther into the planner she gets, the more the wasted space multiplies.
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Her ego struck again when she decided to fill these sections to begin with, but to compound the problem, she insisted on using her own terrible handwriting, so the pearls of "wisdom" are almost entirely illegible.
Remember, kids: "ALWAYS duck through your exam paper before gording sharted."
Wise words, indeed.
Also: "When you're cheating through your exam..."
Ruby's there like:
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And then even more pre-filled sections. Who thought this was a good idea?
There was clearly no sense-checking any of this. No focus-testing it with anyone impartial. Ruby just emailed her management team and said, "Can I add a bunch of bull that will take up an increasing amount of the planner until the final pages are just a series of propaganda messages enforcing my toxic brand of stupidity?" And her managers were like, "(Shrug) We get paid either way Ruby, we don't give a flying duck what you put in this tit."
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Ruby's last remaining brain cell packs its bags and goes on an extended vacation.
"We've got four dotted nyotes pages...because dotted paper is the myost varrsatile."
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You know what's more versatile than paper you added dots all over, Ruby? BLANK bleeping PAPER.
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And "FOIYNALLEEE", there's a space to stick a timetable.
That's right, the planner that Ruby claims she designed to suit her needs and meet all of yours does not come with everything. It's a 'some assembly required' situation. You have to print off a separate timetable on her website and glue it in yourself.
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Reminder: She's charging £18.50 for this tit.
Ruby argues that this drastic increase for an already ridiculously overpriced collection of trash not fit to line a birdcages is completely justified because you get an extra 43 pages this year. As she shows, most of those pages are completely useless, either devoted to obtuse nonsense only worthwhile if you're living in a childlike state of delusion like Ruby, or just pre-filled with space-wasting nonsense scribbled in by Ruby.
She goes on a defensive diatribe about how she could be charging £20 for this if she wanted, so £18.50 isn't so bad! That's affordable! She'd love to send planners overseas with affordable shipping costs, but it's completely impossible! Y'know, even though most other small independent retailers find a way to do just that.
She won't be making any profit off this, she says, honest!
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Businesses don't give away things for free and they don't roll the dice again on yet another identical planner after their last one was an unmitigated disaster unless there's money to be made. Prices got increased to maximise return on a dying investment while Ruby still has fans gullible enough to buy. If they wanted to make it affordable they would've cut all the dead weight and wasted space in the planner. Even with those 43 extra pages, these will still cost pennies to produce.
This is another grift, and Ruby's clearly detached from reality if she thinks £18.50 for this tit to the average student during a cost of living crisis is "affordable". And she'll be stuck having to reduce the price to clear the majority of the stock in a few months anyway, just like last time. All this does is make her look even more like a greedy snake who's completely out of touch.
I don't know who reading here would be gullible enough to buy anything from her, but good lord, please don't buy this. She doesn't use this herself, and she's the only person that most of the pages are useful for, so why should you pay money for this crap? You can get any number of infinitely better, more durable and versatile planners elsewhere for a fraction of the price, and they'll actually arrive and won't disintegrate in minutes.
Ruby, congratulations. I didn't think you could get any stupider, greedier and more incompetent, but every day you prove me wrong.
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