Absolutely. And she also gets the vast majority of her clothes given to her for free by Miss Patina. She's out there wagging her finger that everyone else should support small businesses, buy sustainable products, avoid fast fashion, meanwhile she does none of those things. She's spent years actively avoiding visiting and promoting small businesses in favour of fawning over mass retail chains who might have the money to sponsor her.Also, I disagree with the last sentence. A lot of the time, shopping from small, independent retailers is more expensive than buying mass-produced items. It's hard for smaller shops to compete price-wise with larger stores. It's easy for someone like Ruby to say 'don't buy clothes from Primark' for example, but the truth is, people buy from Primark because the clothes are really cheap and lots of people don't have the money to shop around in different places. If anything, the economic crisis will make it harder for consumers to be selective about their buying habits because they'll be forced to opt for whatever option's cheapest. I don't think she understands that a lot of people won't be doing that much shopping, full stop.
She has no concept of the value of money to the average person. She has no clue what the average person can afford. All her bills are paid for. All her clothes are gifted to her. What little food she eats is gifted to her by Manilife and numerous snack bar companies. She doesn't have to work (I'm sure her fans will point out that being an influencer is work, but given the sheer lack of effort Ruby puts into any of her content, that's clearly not true). She can afford to buy whatever bullshit she wants and she'll never know what it's like to go without something. And that's great for her, but her constant out-of-touch soapbox lectures about how we all need to do better while this compulsive-lying, silver-spoon scam artist does nothing makes me want to push her into traffic.
It's the same as with her constant patronising finger-pointing that we all need to support our libraries and teachers and first-line workers, meanwhile Ruby does absolutely duck-all for libraries (treats borrowed books like crap, never donates her time, her spare hoarded books or her money), actively took money from the NHS, and her Tory-voting family and their kind are the reason why libraries, schools and the NHS are miserably under-funded.