Ruby Granger #29 Is it soon yet?

[CatCafe234]

not just you don't worry, she tends to slur a lot of sentences together in the same way I do when I'm drunk and it can be hard to tell what she's actually saying plus she sometimes does this faux whisper so you have to strain to listen and I think she speeds up her videos as well.
Not helped by the fact she can't explain things to save her life so I always mis understand what she's actually trying to do

She’s not very good at editing sound, and doesn’t bother to equalise the levels so in the same video it’s all REALLY LOUD and then it’s really quiet. She also doesn’t seem to know about fading music in and out so if you turn the volume up for a quiet part then you’re likely to have your eardrums burst by the millionth rendition of The Dance of the Little Swans suddenly coming in with all the dials set to 11.

I think there is an element of speeding up her voiceovers so that they sound higher and more child-like, but she also does that irritating thing that a lot of YouTubers do where they edit out all of the natural pauses in their speech, which just makes the whole video sound like one massive run-on sentence. It’s very distracting to listen to.

 

[theMoth]

if only there was a device that she could buy and attach to her camera so that we could hear her more clearly mumbling things...

 

[alligatorshades]

It’s so obvious that both her and Jack Edwards only want in so they can upload the video they’ve been dreaming about for ages. To show that they’d been trying for soooo long and it finally all paid off and they got what they deserved after all those horrific rejections, as if it’s the hardest thing they’d ever done. They want to say that their previous rejections didn’t matter at all because they were always supposed to go, it just was at the wrong time. Instead of admitting that, actually, their rejections were valid. They are so desperate for that validation because I think part of them sees themselves as characters in their own sad English literature who are on a journey that deserve to get into a place so good and they won’t stop until they get their triumph moment over ~evil~

I think there's also something really sad about letting it dictate so much of your personality and ultimately your worth, hanging on for that external validation from some abstract 'authority'.

 

[Corneilya]

And she's still beating that drum. What she saw as a low, disappointing grade wasn't enough to humble her in any way.

She's talking about how grades could be higher if a different lecturer marks them. In this video, even as she's saying numbers don't matter, she says that it's more important that you learn something (she certainly didn't) but also that your work is "contributing something to the field".

She's completely divorced from reality. In what world is every undergrad essay "contributing something to the field"? It's not, and it's not supposed to. But that was her expectation for herself.

She wanted to deliver a Masters-grade dissertation thesis at undergrad level and leave a lasting mark. She wanted people to cite her thesis in later essays. She fully expected that and felt entitled to it. Instead she got the same grade as almost half the students there. She only got that because she cut corners, scammed the system, and Exeter were handing out Firsts like Mars Bars on Halloween.

She learned nothing and will only be remembered by her uni as "that weird, annoying girl who dressed like an orphaned chambermaid and wouldn't stop harassing the staff with letters and emails". She's completely unremarkable, and she's wasted years to ultimately not get what she wanted.

In some ways she remember me those disastrous candidates in tv shows like X Factor or Britain/America's got talent who can't even take their final note and still pretend that the judges weren't ready or don't understand them. I'm sad for either of them, her included. Their families probably encouraged them to think they are exceptional all their lives and now they can't bear the harsh reality: almost nobody is exceptional, the vast majority of us is average and it's totally fine to be average. It's for that damn reason it's called "exceptional".
It takes way more work than wearing weird clothes, following the vegan trend, pretending to be quirky and a youtube channel to became one of the best, which she still doesn't understand.

Now I want to see what she'll do. Her novel probably won't be the next most successful book so what will be her plan ? Except staying at mommy's house for the rest of her life.

 

[Griftwood]

”Spiraling thoughts”

 

[jiggy_girl]

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This is SO juvenile. Like, teaching 2/3 year olds to use kind hands, juvenile. This is so worrying, now she's done with Exeter I really believe she's going to just fall into being 13/14 and making Hermione videos again

 

[figgypud]

The fact that she can't articulate an analytic response to her degree result and feedback is bad enough, but the simplicity of her kindness, which she supposedly invests a lot of time in, being things like "saying thank you" and "writing Grandma a letter" is just a joke. Her brain clearly doesn't work independently enough for her not to have got that first through following guidelines rather than original thought.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

"How kind was I today" out of 5 and "writing Grandma a letter".

Christ, that's like something you'd give a 7 year old. She's 22-years-old. The regression has already started.

I'm actually concerned for her. She needs therapy instantly as this clinging onto childhood thing will just continue to get worse.

 

[Ilaariaa]

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Saying thank you is kind now apparently? Isn't it just second nature for most people who were raised right? How bratty is she if she thinks saying thank you is so especially kind it deserves an entry?

 

[pineapplesandcheese]

I haven’t watched it yet but I see myself comparing myself to Eve and ruby and I feel like I’m more ruby. RANT OFF TOPIC? I still live with my parents , I have no friends and I’m in my 4th year. But that’s okay, there’s lots of people my age still living at home and who haven’t found their group of friends or a significant other. Also Eve and ruby make a lot of money off YouTube. But after reading this whole thread I do know I shouldn’t compare myself to them both. Okay end of rant just felt like putting that out there, maybe someone feels the same as me.

Lol same here, I live with my parents when not at uni and probably will be for foreseeable future and I have no friends at home I don't think it's circumstance that makes Eve and Ruby so different, it's their attitude. Ruby living in her childhood home wouldn't be an issue if she didn't seem to literally want to be a child and act like one

 

[ECH]

Saying thank you is kind now apparently? Isn't it just second nature for most people who were raised right? How bratty is she if she thinks saying thank you is so especially kind it deserves an entry?

I work in retail and say thanks to nearly every customer I serve so I guess I must be the kindest person Ruby can imagine.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

It's so obvious that Ruby is planning to go to Oxford for a Masters and her motivations for doing so are so apparent as well.

It's nothing to do with it being the best step for her career wise; she wants to be an author, so something creative would be the best step, which Oxford doesn't offer. She wants to go because it's her clinging onto a childhood dream, so if she gets in, not only (in her mind) is she vindicated after the bullies at Oxford didn't give her a place first time round, but she will be able to preach to her subscribers that everything works out in the end, just have to believe etc.

She'll be dreaming of posting "Study with Me at Oxford" and putting Oxford into every title and romanticising it at every opportunity. It's just like Jack Edwards, who applied about 3 separate times. It's sad that they place all their self-worth on a place at one university and can't move on or accept that perhaps (shocking as it may be to them) they aren't cut out there and there are (amazingly to them) other students who are more suited and more capable.

I wouldn't be surprised at all with a 76 if Ruby gets a place as at Masters-level there's no interview for her to trip up on. The content will be unbearable.

 

[taleofthetimes]

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I wonder if she's using this book to assist with therapy or something. Surely a 22-year-old is not rating how kind she was out of 5 from her own volition.

 

[Griftwood]

I wonder if she's using this book to assist with therapy or something. Surely a 22-year-old is not rating how kind she was out of 5 from her own volition.

This is her own ”kindness journal” that she sells, she must have a ton of stock to move still. It’s a few years old.

 

[judgejohndeed]

It's so obvious that Ruby is planning to go to Oxford for a Masters and her motivations for doing so are so apparent as well.

It's nothing to do with it being the best step for her career wise; she wants to be an author, so something creative would be the best step, which Oxford doesn't offer. She wants to go because it's her clinging onto a childhood dream, so if she gets in, not only (in her mind) is she vindicated after the bullies at Oxford didn't give her a place first time round, but she will be able to preach to her subscribers that everything works out in the end, just have to believe etc.

She'll be dreaming of posting "Study with Me at Oxford" and putting Oxford into every title and romanticising it at every opportunity. It's just like Jack Edwards, who applied about 3 separate times. It's sad that they place all their self-worth on a place at one university and can't move on or accept that perhaps (shocking as it may be to them) they aren't cut out there and there are (amazingly to them) other students who are more suited and more capable.

I wouldn't be surprised at all with a 76 if Ruby gets a place as at Masters-level there's no interview for her to trip up on. The content will be unbearable.

Yeah I'm a bit baffled by some comments saying she won't get in, with a 76 and almost straight firsts in her whole degree I would've thought she will almost certainly get in as there's no interview. Unless she doesn't seek advice on her personal statement and roosters that up, something like that. At least if she goes to Oxford I assume she will have to move out of her family home. Not that there's anything wrong per se with living at home, but in her case she presents in such a childlike manner I do think the experience would do her some good.

I so agree re the self-worth and university point. I find it completely bizarre the way that some people get soooo hung up on going to Oxbridge. I've been to four universities for four different degrees and have never even applied to Oxford or Cambridge, as the way they teach and the shorter terms have just never appealed to me. It's understandable if you apply at 17/18 and get rejected, but most people do their degree elsewhere and move past it. To spend four years at Exeter and still have some kind of self esteem problem that drives you to do a master's you don't need in a subject that wouldn't progress your supposed career goals is honestly really sad and concerning.

 

[taleofthetimes]

This is her own ”kindness journal” that she sells, she must have a ton of stock to move still. It’s a few years old.

Oh god. I just saw they're reduced from £16 to £12.60 each. The irony of a company with productivity in its name selling this tosh.

 

[yerdasellsavon]

I so agree re the self-worth and university point. I find it completely bizarre the way that some people get soooo hung up on going to Oxbridge. I've been to four universities for four different degrees and have never even applied to Oxford or Cambridge, as the way they teach and the shorter terms have just never appealed to me. It's understandable if you apply at 17/18 and get rejected, but most people do their degree elsewhere and move past it. To spend four years at Exeter and still have some kind of self esteem problem that drives you to do a master's you don't need in a subject that wouldn't progress your supposed career goals is honestly really sad and concerning.

For Ruby (and ditto Jade and Jack), the reason they're still so het up about Oxford rejections and continue to talk about it even years later is because it's the first time they'd failed at something and experienced rejection. They based their whole self-worth on grades and as students who produced content entirely geared towards academics and success in that field, the realisation that perhaps they weren't the cream of the crop stung them and hurt their egos. Jack is clearly the worst in this regard, which is why he's experienced multiple rejections.

They just need to accept that perhaps it isn't right for them and there are unis that are better suited. Having said that, I do believe Ruby will get into Oxford this time round. I think it'll eat her alive but only time will tell.

 

[teflonpanda]

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Oh boy I feel like those "spiralling thoughts" might have been about her ""disappointing"" dissertation grade... Eithe that or she's just stressing about her book deal plans.

But it's just insane to me how she has the perfect life (amazing parents, being rich as duck, having tons of priviledge and advantages, having graduated from university with stellar grades, free to do whatever she wants, ...) and yet she spends her days being sad about receiving a First on her dissertation because the First wasn't high enough. Dealing with "spiralling thoughts" when she could be so happy and enjoy her youth and her life to the fullest. It's honestly not even the fun kind of bull at this point, it just makes me sad.

 

[timemoveson]

Oh boy I feel like those "spiralling thoughts" might have been about her ""disappointing"" dissertation grade... Eithe that or she's just stressing about her book deal plans.

But it's just insane to me how she has the perfect life (amazing parents, being rich as duck, having tons of priviledge and advantages, having graduated from university with stellar grades, free to do whatever she wants, ...) and yet she spends her days being sad about receiving a First on her dissertation because the First wasn't high enough. Dealing with "spiralling thoughts" when she could be so happy and enjoy her youth and her life to the fullest. It's honestly not even the fun kind of bull at this point, it just makes me sad.

I’d love her to try and live on a council estate relying on a tiny income to get by for a week.

 

[Griftwood]

Oh boy I feel like those "spiralling thoughts" might have been about her ""disappointing"" dissertation grade... Eithe that or she's just stressing about her book deal plans.

But it's just insane to me how she has the perfect life (amazing parents, being rich as duck, having tons of priviledge and advantages, having graduated from university with stellar grades, free to do whatever she wants, ...) and yet she spends her days being sad about receiving a First on her dissertation because the First wasn't high enough. Dealing with "spiralling thoughts" when she could be so happy and enjoy her youth and her life to the fullest. It's honestly not even the fun kind of bull at this point, it just makes me sad.

I also think it’s super telling that someone being kind to Ruby = Martha helping her with her ”spiraling thoughts”, whereas Ruby being kind to someone = saying thank you and writing a letter. The expectations seem to be essentially disparate. Although I’m now trying to imagine Ruby being able to help someone with a mental health issue, or even just someone having a very bad day, and it doesn’t compute. In fact I’m unable to imagine her in pretty much any situation that doesn’t somehow revolve around her.