8. What is the obsession with Oxford? If you can't get in as an undergrad, you cannot remedy this with postgrad. It's not equivalent.
All studytubers were led to believe that Oxbridge, Oxford in particular is the gold standard for education - where the best and the brightest, most gifted students all go. So naturally all those egotistical clowns believed that they were all deserving if not entitled to it. None of them actually stopped to think "Why Oxford?" other than the prestige and the name recognition.
Ruby never explained what practical advantages Oxford offered to her. She didn't research other universities. She never looked into all the things Oxford would expect from an applicant (critical thinking ability, a well-rounded personality and interests) and spend her time wisely to prepare.
She just thought she'd wow them with memorised information and a scrapbook of nonsense and they instantly saw that she was an idiot. That was a learning approach that all of them adopted and encouraged, and all of them failed to learn independent thought and critical ability, they just used rote memorisation.
That should've been a humbling wake-up call for her to change her habits and approach to learning or how she spent her time, but she never did. None of them did. They just carried a bitter chip on their shoulder over it and kept applying with the same approach expecting different results. It doesn't matter to them if acceptance levels at undergrad and Masters are wildly different, they just want to get accepted to Oxford, because in their minds its a vindication for them - Oxford was wrong to reject them the first time and they finally realised their mistake.
That mass studytuber rejection at undergrad should've been the final nail in the coffin of studytube. Because if the people presenting themselves as geniuses and their study techniques as the key to academic success and all of the core studytubers were rejected from their unis of choice, then why would anyone listen to them?
I don't know where you live but it usually being colder at night and in the early morning is sorta common sense, right? I can't tell what the weather in the UK was this morning (according to google it was 12 degrees in Oxford at 6 am) but I find this a sorta weird lie to debunk.
It's one of those things that's entirely possible, but given Ruby's usual constant lies about outfit changes to hide the fabricated timescales of her "in a day" vlogs, it immediately screams that she's lying. Her then making a point of smugly insisting with a wagging finger that AKCSCUSE ME VARRY MOCH, she REALLY DID wear that outfit for THREE HOURS after WYAKING OP AT SIX but then changed into something else when it got hot just kinda confirms it.
There's no reason
to lie, of course. It would've been incredibly easy to just say "Here's an outfit I wore to match my planner. Unfortunately I don't own anything lighter and weather-friendly that matches so I changed immediately" and it would've saved a lot of comments.
But there's never any reason to lie about most of the endless stuff Ruby lies about, it's just that she can't seem to imagine anything worse than people thinking the lifestyle that she presents as her own online isn't actually how she lives and she gets very defensive and doubles down on lies. Her opting to showcase the PETA-branded shirt is just the icing on the stupidity cake.
