Ruby Granger #35 Hello, it's Flu-bee!

[zoeanned]

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I'm quite surprised, to be honest. Apart from Shakespeare, she didn't seem into the early modern period at all, and instead read Victorian works. I wonder if she is going to use manuscript sources, because they can be in horrendous script in that period, particularly in the sixteenth century.

She’s probably applied for the course with the fewest applicants / highest acceptance rate to boost her chances of getting in

 

[bunnys]

Even here she says “if you just want to sit in your university room it’s fine”… she’s really clinginggg to university or maybe she just wants to appeal to that audience

But pushing yourself is how you grow. I moved out for uni and went to a different country in the UK. Was it hard at first? Yeah! It was hard having no friends when I first moved there, just like everyone else. But forcing myself to go out and meet new people, visit new places and navigate a new town helped me grow and mature. If I had sat in my uni room, I would have made my world very small. I still can't believe her parents were on board with her having a studio to herself the first year.

As an interesting sidenote, I found that the people I lived with in uni who went home frequently never really settled in. When you go home all the time, being at uni feels like something you struggle through until you can return to the safe, simple routine of home. It doesn't help you grow and that's what uni is all about. Ruby would have benefitted so much from not going home as frequently — or, like I did, by going to uni in a different country so that home wasn't just a short car drive away, but a bus, a train and a flight away.

 

[lalala2233]

Why does she keep posting morning routines? She has done the same thing for years which is fine but not worth sharing with the world more than once. She wakes up, reads, brushed her teeth WHILE READING (very important), washes her face, makes her bed, gets dressed, eats her depressing breakfast, and then does some form of study/research. It has been the same routine since she started making videos and yet we keep getting them. Her absolute lack of creativity is outstanding.

Also, regardless of your opinion on the monarchy, how is Prince Harry's book so "culturally important" that she just had to read it? It is not, it is celebrity gossip. You can love him, admire him and feel for him if you want but his memoirs aren't doing anything interesting.

 

[exopolitics]

I'm confused as to why her LinkedIn states that she graduated in 2023. Did she do this to make it seem like she hasn't been out of school for that long? Or is it just a mistake?


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Also, adding Trampolining Society and Harry Potter society (VP) is definitely not the kind of thing you add to a professional LinkedIn profile as an adult. I wouldn't even have added this to my academic resume as a teen. Lol.

SHE WASN'T EVEN VP OF THE HARRY POTTER SOCIETY
I just went to nose about on the society IG and,,, she wasn't even VP. Like she's not even mentioned in the committee anywhere. How pathetic!! If you're going to lie about something, at least make it cool and relevant to your LinkedIn!!

 

[irunforfun]

If Oxford accept her, I truly will lose all faith in our higher education system.

 

[rubysdeadfly]

500% sure she's definitely going to get bullied for her Jo March cosplay and 'frolicking on the fields' gimmicks when her students find out about her social media presence. Teenagers can be a handful, too. Did she ever think any of this through? Lol

If any of my teachers were on YouTube running in fields of wheat and reading poetry mid walk they’d have the absolute shit ripped out of them

 

[Mclindy]

I suggested some time ago that Ruby had employed an academic copy editor throughout her undergraduate studies and, reading that essay, I am even more convinced (though the journal may have an in-house editor that polished her work on this occasion).

The brief bio sounds like Ruby. The rest of the work (although bland and uninspired content-wise) reads well and is coherent. There is complex punctuation (en dashes, em dashes, colons, semi colons) used with consistency. I honestly don't think she is capable of pulling this off without significant help - not just proofreading but extensive copy editing so at least the reader can navigate a path through her stupid and pointless arguments. We've read her poetry and captions and they are complete nonsense - always self-contradicting or just incomprehensible.

I've made plenty of money copy editing rich kids' undergraduate papers (although in the sciences). They will probably end up in good careers, continuing to outsource any work they have no aptitude for. Even the way Ruby would have a complete draft completed a week or two in advance and then suddenly made a round of changes a couple of days before submission screams hired copy editor to me.

I think she really should have been a co-author on this. We'll never know who the real credit should go to - maybe Blakeney (hope Ruby actually paid her money and not just in unwanted tea bags).

 

[Griftwood]

I'm on a kick of having Roobee's videos on in the background while I fight with Excel, but I swear she's making me stupider. "I don't really know why apples are seen as automonal, I feel like they're more of an August fruit." "Brothers Karamat-sov." "Here I was doing some research on chapter structures and different ways to structure a chapter, the dos and don'ts of chapter structuring and looking at some theory on this too."

 

[laynelo_]

Ruby infuriates me sometimes because there's no reason she has to live this depressing life; she has more than enough money and support from her parents and could do whatever she wants, whenever she wants. If she wanted to go and live in London, she could probably afford it. She could get an unpaid internship in a fantastic career and still support her lifestyle. Instead, she stays at home and lives a childish version of the life a lot of people her age are living, albeit hers is entirely by choice. Seeing her romanticise boredom but not try to break out of the rut and use her resources to just, y'know, change her situation, is so damn frustrating. There's no need for her to try and make her existing life more interesting when she has so few barriers to creating actual change in her life. You know it's bad when people like Holly Gabrielle are having more exciting lives than her...

This! She has the luxury of pursuing a life of leisure and not having to worry about finances. If she ever wanted to get a more serious job I don’t doubt she has family members or family friends that are high in their careers that could bag her a job for life… shit like that is a goldmine.

Watching her most recent video I realised she tries so hard to create a narrative of being one of those troubled, misunderstood genius creators who were only recognised after their death! When in reality she’s just some self-obsessed isolated mentally undeveloped adult who has no grasp on perspective or reality.

if I was in Ruby’s position, I’d be sitting in the Maldives *pretending to write a book*

 

[Deeznutslol]

Someone has just commented on Ruby's video by saying about Tattle and Ruby has said she would value constructive criticism if people said it to her directly.

Well I hope it’s not someone from here, coz that’s not on.

 

[irunforfun]

Even her thinking is so childlike. Things are either good or bad, all or nothing, etc. There’s no grey (or colour!) in between. As humans, we are biologically programmed to need connection with others. Being an introvert isn’t about “shutting yourself away,” it’s about having time to recharge and feeling comfortable with doing things alone as well as enjoying time spent with others. Extroverts are the same. The only real difference is the balance of how much time is preferred alone or with others. How small or large the crowd is. How seem or unseen you prefer to be. But it’s not one extreme or the other. Unless you are trying to justify why you’ve become something of a hermit whilst you’ve spent many years trying to be someone you’re not and have now lost all grasp of reality in the real world.

 

[vwxyz]

My thoughts after seeing the first couple of minutes of Ruby's speech:

I think inviting Ruby to this panel was an inadvertently excellent move. I'm saying inadvertently because they achieved something which they didn't plan to achieve. They wanted some insight in the life of Gen Z social media people, but in the form of a defense from the typical claims that Gen Z is spoiled and fragile (by saying: It's not true, we are not fragile, but instead blah blah blah). Instead, Ruby does the exact opposite. She starts her talk right away by saying that we are fragile, but it's a good thing.
Expecting her to dismantle the claim that we are fragile means expecting that Gen Z might be fragile, but agrees that that's a bad thing. It means expecting that there is some common ground on the issue of fragility, which is the aversity against fragility. But Ruby (being the perfect representative for a sheltered and fragile person) shows that the misunderstanding between generations is so much more profound because it's not just the level of fragility which has changed, but also the value of it. And differences in values are the thing that causes intergenererational clash.
Of course, not every Gen Z person would agree with what she's saying. But there are many who do because they live a sheltered life just like Ruby.

 

[ammie]

No need to apologise about the fanfiction, I was trying to joke as I am a fanfic writer myself as a hobby, slightly embarrasing that I still do even at 25 as I started as a teenager ! While I don't write majestic works of prose like what Ruby likes to think that she does with her clobber, I think that it has helped me become slightly better at writing! Even if Ruby did fanfiction, she would impove over time as you do get feedback about what you write and you have to think about how to engage readers over the story, even if you are already using premade characters. There is a lot of world building some people do with AUs and some do real world building, but yet, Ruby just seems to have everything focused on schools and it's middle class characters like herself. She just seems to copy and paste ideas from other YA novels and is hoping to make something based off that. Even from what she writes and has shown us on instagram, it's purple prose where she is trying to sound very profound and is writing things that would be quotable- I don't know if anyone else gets that impression. I sometimes see it when I read fics and self published books.

I'm a fanfic writer too (I wish I had more time for it but sigh adult responsibilities) and I'm 24. A lot of great authors write fanfic too. The issue with Ruby is she writes fanfics about her being in school again and none of it is interesting

 

[Blue_Letters]

”I love sealing my letters like this” Like what? By making an unholy mess of a candle (NB not a ”candlestick”!) in the last two minutes of its sad, sad life on your windowsill, together with all the wasted potential of several unlit matches that never got to go out in a literal blaze of glory but are instead being forced to eke out an indeterminate shadow of an existence in ignominy, before you finally manage to clean up your desk, perhaps on the day of your biennial sheets-changing?

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(credit for vocabulary goes to the single serving of ethanol I’ve had)

Pyroobert preparing to write letters probably

I like to imagine she just leaves unlit matches around for the thrill that they might catch fire

 

[DrinaM]

I don't think she takes it too seriously because she wasn't seriously looking for a job anyway. I think her using the Granger last name and listing all those things is just so her fans will think that she was a prodigy who was able to balance a ton of activities with her academics. It seems to be mostly a vanity CV rather than a professional one.
Plus, whatever jobs she could potentially get are through connections she already has (her current job, for example). And Sixteenth plays a role in this, too.

I don't think she takes ANYTHING seriously. Looking at her recent video, the content she puts out there. She basically says its ok to do a whole bunch of half-arsed things, not be good at any of them and just embrace the boredom. Imagine being an employer and seeing her sitting out in the dark with her candles and then sewing that ugly collar thing. Omg.

 

[Redrose97]

I'm honestly surprised about how hush hush she has been about the teaching job, as I was honestly expecting her to make the teaching her new identity and adopt a teacher persona just as she has done for everything else such as student, Hermione, a writer etc. I'm surprised that she hadn't done so for online at leat.

I don't know what I was expecting but I had expected at least for her to aspire to be like Miss Honey or an inspirational teacher from a book she read and act like them. I know that there is the safeguarding etc but I was expecting more videos from her in her 'traditional job' as she might be interested. Even if she did a 'teacher outfit' videos that I had expected she would do or a video about how she planned her workload among her writing and youtube. Her last morning routine for 'work,' could easily be used as one of her routines when she was a student in uni /school or unemployed.

 

[vwxyz]

The video is so similar to the stuff she made while still being a high school student. Like, the bed making. She emphasizes that she does that every day as if it was something that shows her extraordinary tidiness and discipline. Don't most adults do their beds every day? (No shame if you don't, I think it doesn't matter, but I think she only says it because she has read so many books about nasty kids who are constantly told by their parents that they need to make their bed themselves. While Ruby has always been so perfect that she has always done it herself.)

 

[laynelo_]

The only reason she finds working with school kids rewarding is because she thinks it’s better than an adult conversation. She can act like a role model to a bunch of tweens but she’s nothing special from the perspective of a healthy functioning adult. She thrives speaking about her childhood and engaging in childish activities. She loves being able to play in her fantasy world before she quits the job to pursue her masters.

I think we might actually see her downfall during her masters, whatever uni she goes to. They’ll probably be a good chunk of older/mature students who have had a lot more worldly experience than her and probably produced legitimate, good books. Her amateur work will severely lack in comparison, she’ll really need to buckle up if she wants even a sprinkle of academic validation.

 

[gossip_guy]

We shouldn't categorically disapprove of everything Ruby does. She seems happy in her van short video, as well as Blakeney. I am glad she is spending some time with people other than her family, and one good thing about Blakeney is that she definitely didn't befriend Ruby just because of her social media following. Otherwise she would have a public profile somewhere. So it does seem like an authentic friendship.

Disapproving of everything she does just for the sake of it definitely shouldn't be the norm (although I struggle to recall anything Ruby's done in the past few years that's worthy of even faint praise), but there's plenty of valid reasons to criticise and laugh at this video.

It's yet another shoddily-made ad that Ruby uploaded far too late (the book was released on December 8th, which was when Ruby was supposed to be advertising the book). It's full of incompetence and Ruby stupidity (English foods = American snacks now, apparently) with Mummy Bones creeping around because Ruby can't be left alone. It abruptly ends mid-sentence. This is a professional ad, it's beyond embarrassing that Ruby can't make one ad that's even vaguely competent.

You'd think in an ad, she might at least be able to tell people the basic cover pitch, but nope, just that 'it takes place in an RV and is a mystery'.

There's nothing wrong with Ruby having friends, and I've said before that she'd do herself a world of good by showing herself socialising with the few friends she has to make herself seem more human and less fake and robotic. But her refusing to let other people talk and using Blakeney as a silent prop in yet another shoddily-made ad doesn't exactly make herself seem genuine.

She could've made an actual vlog in which they spent 8 hours in a van having fun and reacting to the book, which would've been a change from her usual repetitive routines. It might've even made Ruby seem (gasp) genuine to have her on-screen with another human being who was allowed to talk. But nope, same old shit in a faked video where they clearly spent half an hour in the van and she didn't read the book.

 

[vwxyz]

I hope Ruby gets into Oxford. It has been mentioned here a couple of times before, but I want to repeat it: Though not guaranteed, there's at least the possibility of her learning some humility there. Which won't happen if she continues to live in her fantasy world at home. Or if she starts teaching but being left alone in the classroom with no honest feedback by experienced teachers.