Her room is getting so cluttered. At some point she'll struggle even more to relax or be productive there.
Why does she need a travel pencil case, she's 22, she's not a student anymore and she never goes anywhere besides.She's probably afraid to throw out much of her old things because of her fear of growing up that's never gone away. Her room hasn't changed much from when she was 14, she's just accumulated more. 'Travel pencil case for going out and about', she's truly out of touch with reality.
The only way she's parting with that primary school desk is if their house burns down due to her stupidity with the candles.
Ikr they seem to have a pretty big house so I cannot imagine that there's no spare room or cuboard where she could fit this...secluding herself in her room even further by putting everything in there so she won't have to leave, am expecting her to get a fridge in there and a kettle and she won't leave.
I got an urge to go all Marie Kondo with her belongings too. She has so many cluttery things. Pretty sure cluttery isn't a word, but you know what I mean.She has so much stuff. When she was taking out her favourite sealing wax supplies and stickers and whatnot, my inner Marie Kondo was screaming to just toss the rest of it - she’s never going to get around to using it all so why not just keep the crap you love best and let the rest go?
She's at risk of developing agoraphobia imo. Ruby doesn't fit the diagnostic criteria right now, but it's something that can develop when a person has anxiety along with avoidance behaviours. Agoraphobic people normally want to go outside, whereas I don't think Ruby has any desire to leave home. Still, I can see it progressing into that if she's not careful. I've defended her parents in the past, but they honestly seem too complacent about Ruby's more unhealthy behaviours.Just wondering if Ruby is trying to be the new Emily Dickinson by secluding herself in her room even further by putting everything in there so she won't have to leave, am expecting her to get a fridge in there and a kettle and she won't leave.
The thing is though, I watch a lot of Youtube and none of the videos I've watched so far which had paid ads in them, were obvious before clicking. Only after starting the video and getting to that point or after reading the info box was it clear the video was paid for or there was a paid ad in it.Yeah, it has to be clear that it's an ad in an Instagram post, and if it's a YouTube video, it has to be clear to viewers that it's an ad before clicking on the video.
The Sixteenth crowd (like Ruby, Jack Edwards and Eve Cornwell) are some of the worst for intentionally avoiding doing this. They all only put a tiny 'ad' in one corner of the video thumbnail, usually white text on light background, so it'll be practically invisible. Eve just doesn't bother at all, even though her newer videos are more ad than content. Ruby is awful for the white text on white background, or hiding gift declarations in as small a font as she can in Insta posts.
Ruby also seems to conveniently forget that the rules consider receiving a gifted product as a payment. Even if she wasn't given cash, a box of snack bars constitutes a payment, and every time she waves a snack bar at the camera, she’s supposed to declare it.
There's also a general rule that if there was an ad/sponsorship relationship with a brand that an influencer needs to declare that going forward when mentioning the brand/product for a reasonable period of time (I think it's 12-18 months?) even if that future post wasn't paid. Ruby never does this.
Her mother is probably acting like this:She has so much stuff. When she was taking out her favourite sealing wax supplies and stickers and whatnot, my inner Marie Kondo was screaming to just toss the rest of it - she’s never going to get around to using it all so why not just keep the crap you love best and let the rest go?
Also the number of times she says ”out and about” in this video, apart from having the makings of a good drinking game, tells me she doesn’t actually ever go out.
The candle setup with the paper decorations on the wall is an even worse fire hazard than her windowsill. If she starts a fire right by the door and gets stuck inside, RIP Roomba. Can’t believe her mother is filming all this for her and saying nothing.
Her sister marrrrrrrfa (or however she spells it) will probably calm down, hold down a full time job, move out soon. By contrast Ruby will be wearing pigtails and nightgowns at 6pm, muttering to herself in the garden.She's going to be an embryo soon if she doesn't stop regressing. She is not okay mentally.
In fairness, I’m going into my fourth year of French at uni and I’d never pronounce ‘ambience’ with a French accent. Even though the word comes from French most loanwords (from any language) in English do end up, to varying extents, having the English pronunciation be the correct one. I think there’s a danger of sounding a bit pretentious if you stick too closely to the sounds of the source language (not that that is something that would deter Ruby!).Edit: The way she pronounces ambience hurts my ears. Yes it's the British English pronunciation but it's a French word, and that's not how you pronounce it in French. Didn't she take french at some point?? She should know how to pronounce words correctly.
I think she's just finding endless distractions and excuses for why she's not writing.Her dream to become a writer, like everything else, seems to be focused on aesthetics and not much else. Didn't she buy an iMac specifically so she could use it for writing, because her laptop wasn't enough apparently? Now she's decided she needs a writing desk for writing by hand too? Is she going to write by hand or type then? And is she going to use her typewriter or do the sensible thing and use the very expensive laptop she owns instead of a vintage form of technology that has been practically extinct for at least 30 years? She's an adult and she's trying and make this into her lifelong career and she already has no clue what she's doing.
We all know the answer is that any kind of writing she manages to produce is going to receive the same treatment as her uni notes and she's going to waste a lot of time copying it from one medium to another just to feel productive.
I did NaNoWriMo as a teen, you can write utter drivel so long as you get to the target word count, the idea being you just get your ideas on the page so then at the end of the challenge you have something to edit, play with, etc. I managed it, but realised that whilst it was a fun challenge it wasn’t something I wanted to do again, as i’m not really a natural writer. However, to an aspiring writer such as Ruby, such a challenge would surely be SYOOOOO MACH FAN! Because it gives the opportunity to WROITE lots and lots of WAAAAARRRRDS and be INSPIRED and the process can be SYOOO AESTHETIC, spending a month WROITING on AESTHETIC DASKS with iced POMPKIN lattes and cozy BLANKATS….etc.I think she's just finding endless distractions and excuses for why she's not writing.
"Whal, it JANUINELY can't be becoz oiy just have nyo imannijation and dyon't enjoy wroiyting! That's preponsterous! Wroiyting is moiy idantitee! I johst need the pahhfact tyools for the job! An iMac will dyo the trick! Y'oh nyo, that didn't waahrk! Whal, it mohst be because oiy need to wroiyte by haahnd, like the great wroytahs of yohlden toiymes. Y'oh nyoo, that didn't waahrk oyther. Whal Stephen Kyang wroiytes with a toyproytah, syo that's what oiy'll dyo. Hmm, it appyeahhs I have wroytah's block, cleahly. All wroytahs have that. I johst need the pahhfact myood board. Nyo, the pahhfact ink pot! Nyo, the pahhfact ink blottah!"
She'll keep doing this for the rest of the year. It's "I'll start writing when..." syndrome. If she genuinely enjoyed writing and had an abundance of ideas and inspiration like she claims, she'd do it with just a laptop. And if she starts looking for excuses not to write, she'll never stop finding them.
She's months into her gap year and still hasn't written anything. There's been no writing content on her channel. There doesn't appear to have been any interest in Lyottie Pahhkahh from publishers, and she only got that finished because she just recycled Erimentha Parker (and added in some stolen YA mystery plot points), which itself was just a bunch of ripped off middle-grade bullying tropes with herself as the main character. She bailed on Camp Nanowrimo, and her plan there was to just recycle her children's writing uni assignments anyway.
She just doesn't want to acknowledge that she has no imagination, no talent for or interest in writing and will find any excuse to justify and delay why she isn't writing.
She'll keep shitting out terrible poems about the weather and nature for a hit of praise from her blindly adoring fans and keep coming up with superficial distractions and excuses for why she's not writing anything more.
All the while, she'll be contantly reminded that she's not gifted or special or talented, and a book deal won't just fall into her lap. She'll retreat further into her childhood coccoon to avoid acknowledging that she's not 12 anymore, she's not a precocious genius, she's just an unemployed idiot layabout who squandered all her opportunities and has no career prospects.