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

[gossip_guy]

As someone who works professionally in a media related field, I can say: Yes, it can be technically and also creatively challenging to do some good editing work, but so many of the mistakes Ruby makes are due to pure laziness and carelessness. Sometimes you get the feeling that she doesn't even rewatch certain scenes to check if the editing works or if there's changes to make. That's because she expects herself to deliver excellent work right away which doesn't need corrections. A lot of these mistakes could easily be corrected, even by someone who's relatively new to this, and in case it doesn't work there's plenty of tutorials on YouTube, to the point where you can learn 3D animation.

Yeah, if you're putting effort in and trying to inject care and creativity, editing can be tough and time-consuming, but I've never seen any evidence that Ruby puts any effort into the editing process. She sticks with the most basic techniques and still manages to fuck her videos up in a dozen different ways and she only has laziness to blame. After 7+ years, she should've gotten better with practice even if by accident, but she's as bad as ever.

It's not hard to make sure you're not inserting a hard cut mid-word. It's not hard to do a second take when you're intentionally filming something for a video and you mess something up or there's loud, distracting background noise. It's not hard to adjust volume levels to make sure music isn't drowning out narration. But it would require paying a tiny amount of attention or double-checking the edited video before exporting and uploading, but Ruby simply cannot be bothered and thinks she shouldn't have to.

It's the same as when she moaned that editing writing is "mindless" - she doesn't understand that it's a vital part of the creative process that requires attention and is how people improve, because she thinks it's beneath her and she has nothing to improve on.

And funnily enough, from the comments of her latest video:

This must be the 100th time someone's pointed something like this out, but she'll never change.

 

[emmer_moans]

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

Kids are brutal, especially with access to social media. This will end in tears. When I was at school like 15 years ago, lids were filming teachers in class or finding their facebooks and laughing at their profile etc then. I imagine it is worse now. My class often had teachers in tears, one had a breakdown and one stormed out. Maybe she will get lucky and be given a breakout group to sit with, of the best behaved or girls like her? Maybe she won't have a full class and instead be more of a tutor with smaller groups?

 

[exopolitics]

oh goody, I’ve been dying to know what she does in the mornings

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Do you think it involves a morning walk maybe I don't know, never seen her upload any morning routines so it's difficult to tell...

 

[gossip_guy]

Regardless of how we feel about Roobee and the quality of her videos, and in spite of the way she has ruined The Nutcracker for us, let’s at least be grateful she’s no longer using the music starting at 2:42 in this video:

I clicked fully expecting that "Smile...smile...smile..." song she used to used to soundtrack all her grimacing footage of her prancing around and it was so much worse...

 

[MissTomato]

gosh i know it was already mentioned, but the dog howling in the backround - someone call animal protection services!!!!! if my dog was making this much noise i would not be able to shoot a video, business as usual, i would go check if the dog needs something... it makes me wonder how many other times this must have happened - the dogs are heart-wrenchingly howling like crazy and rooberta is in her room, completely okay, fine, not at all bothered.

 

[Whisper2Me]

This is crazy. Her new job is easily the most interesting thing she's done all year. Yet she chooses to not talk about it at all, why?? Is it possible she actually didn't get the job? Or it's completely different from what she expected and she's disappointed?

Being a teacher is hard. You have to be highly independent, make decisions quickly and with wisdom, stay calm, cool and collected, and be a people person. Not an introvert who wants to still be a child, has panic attacks when with her own family, has her parents bringing her to work, never worked a regular job in her life, can hardly stand being away from home for a day, and far from being wise. Ruby is definitely over her head. Like everything else she probably had some crazy romantic view of doing this, only to find out how difficult it is to get kids to pay attention, be still, not fight, talk, etc., let alone the unexpected things like one of them throwing up in class or crying over something. She can't take care of herself. I've never heard her mention babysitting, yet she is with younger kids because she wishes she was still young. Now she can look into her own reflection and see how nice it is to grow up and out of these years of developing and move on with life! Work is work. It isn't play, it isn't a place to pretend to be someone else. The other teachers are probably giving her an earful and I still would not be surprised if she doesn't finish through to June like originally planned. Between that and hoping to get into Oxford for her Masters, she has put herself in a very tight and stressful situation. No matter what she puts on social media, I am certain she is really struggling with this.

 

[Hannahebee]

Wakes up at 6:30 - dark
Brushes teeth - dark
Does facecare - bright daylight
Continues facecare - dark again
Another cut facecare - light again
Makes bed - dark again
Goes downstairs 6:45 - dark again
Makes tea - magic daylight
Makes “breakfast” - dark again
Day cut - because she didn’t have time.

Ruby has absolutely no sense of continuity at all. If this is what a morning routine looks like just imagine her trying to put together a novel.

Ruby shows us a supposed hour of her reading Spare where in that she barley makes a dent. How are we supposed to believe she reads four million books per year.

Her video doesn't flow at all as firstly she shows us her morning routine when she is getting ready for work, then she cuts to her morning routine the next day when she is not getting ready for work and lastly she ends the video with her walking out of the house leaving for work from the day before.

 

[mooncat]

Okay but whattttt is it with that giveaway? The TEACHER of a class has to E-Mail her their favourite study tip (because teachers obviously have time for this…) and then you get to hand out those shit quality things to your class to possibly be bullied for it? Way to go Rubee!!

 

[autumngoblin]

Her vids are getting so repetitive and boring I can’t even snark at them anymore. She looks dead inside

 

[DrinaM]

Absolutely no fucking way. I want to gatekeep Wuthering Heights so bad right now. She doesn't understand literature, the agony of the kind of love that Cathy and Heathcliff shared. She has reduced the torture of their feelings to a wandering in an empty yard and an almost-fail candle lighting clip. Nooooooooo. So mad. Somebody stop her!

She doesn't possess the rawness needed to LARP as Cathy. She recites the lines so fucking politely. Where is the darkness? The despair? The pain? The simultaneous love and hatred?

 

[DrinaM]

i am still genuinely shocked (and refuse to believe) that she read call me by your name - the mental image of ruby making it through the peach scene alone is too much!

completely agree with your entire post

Yeah she has read its twice like @gossip_guy said above. Maybe the peach scene just went over her head because she is such an innocent unknowing child

 

[emmer_moans]

when she made her iced coffee..... it was like the opposite of those satisfying asmr short videos where people make beverages. the angle was all wrong, she spilled everything, and why t f did she pour milk first...

She was so rough banging things against the glass and then hurriedly stirring the (fragile) glass straw around the ice cubes. I wouldn't be surprised if her straw shatters in the drink, one day. She's very heavy handed with things.

 

[fromthemachines]

(I've been lurking here for AGES, hi!)

I have no idea how Ruby will survive if she has an entire class to teach. I personally taught a course in high school during uni (not a problem in Finland it seems), and even though I'm way 'tougher' than Ruby, I had a terrible time. I can't imagine her having proper teaching methods, or ways of dealing with difficult or unmotivated students. She must be terrified of starting the job, or at least I would be.

 

[laynelo_]

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Perhaps the manuscript bit also aroused her interest in this Master's?
The selection committee might be wondering why she would apply to the 1550-1700 course when she's collaborated with the Emily Dickinson museum and has written her undergraduate dissertation on Lewis Carroll.

All the Oxford English masters have a manuscript element to them, so we’re unsure of what course she’s actually applied to. Of course, we’ll know by March time (google search states that the uni takes around 8-10 weeks to process master applications) when we’ll be treated to either a bombardment of either OXFORD UNI REJECTION videos or the mindnumbing onslaught of:

STUDY WITH ME OFXORD STUDENT
DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN OXFORD STUDENT
MORNING ROUTINE AS AN OXFORD STUDENT
NIGHT ROUTINE AS AN OXFORD STUDENT
MY EXPERIENCE AS AN OXFORD STUDENT

(and that’ll just be in the course of a week!)

Re: choice of Exeter uni. Just a theory, I live in Scotland and have no knowledge of English unis but as others have stated she definitely wouldn’t go further than Cambridge, JK Rowling going to Exeter after being rejected from Oxford probably played an element in it also, and Exeter is still relatively close to home and as we saw she frequently hoped on a train back home (which wouldn’t been much more difficult for the likes of going to St. Andrew’s).

gosh i know it was already mentioned, but the dog howling in the backround - someone call animal protection services!!!!! if my dog was making this much noise i would not be able to shoot a video, business as usual, i would go check if the dog needs something... it makes me wonder how many other times this must have happened - the dogs are heart-wrenchingly howling like crazy and rooberta is in her room, completely okay, fine, not at all bothered.

I think this is a slight overreaction I dislike Ruby and her family but there’s no evidence of them abusing the dog (Lola I think is her name), dogs bark and howl at random things - yes she could’ve filmed at another time or told the dog off - but I don’t think the dog being loud equals to neglect. I grew up with GSDs who frequently would bark at nothing, it’s a common thing for dogs to do. I’m guessing the dog was downstairs with her parents and possibly the dog could’ve saw something outside in the garden?

 

[emmer_moans]

I think the reality of becoming an adult is hitting her hard. I also think she’s very down in the dumps about her failing author career. Looking back on her gap year, what did she actually do apart from take a few holidays abroad?

Thing is she could has pushed herself to go to writing classes or something similar, to hone her craft and get her draft more ready. She's not a writer, she's just a woman too scared to leave her bedroom so she writes fan fics to keep herself occupied. She hasn't got what it takes to be a good author.

 

[Lovely_rita]

‘Pumpkin Bread Activity’ - I nominate that for the next thread title

PONKIN Bread Activity.

 

[Green Lion]

... Now I understand why it was so hard for her to eat that ahliv

 

[Satisfying Click]

I think her parents want her out but are seeing the consequences of indulging and raising a 'genius' child who rarely heard the word 'no', so are resigned to Ruby's need to reorganise things (when it suits Ruby) or make a mess (when it suits Ruby).

 

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I can believe it. It has a weird blue mark.

I think the blue thing is a Ralph Lauren Polo (is that what it's called?) logo.

 

[Ilaariaa]

Oh my god she's such an idiot, she's going on about how you miss the beauty in the language when watching Shakespeare's plays. Firstly, they're PLAYS, so they're intended to be performed. Secondly, they're saying the same words?? The performance of the language is still the language?? She's such a fake, it doesn't make you more of a literature lover because you literally prefer reading the words.

If anything experiencing the plays how they were intended to be (recited on stage in front of an audience) to me is an infinitely better experience than just reading them.