I doubt she was a very last-minute addition to the panel as she got the book in the autumn, she showed it in her ”Gilmore inspired” vlog. Maybe this is just another desperate attempt at rebranding - Sixteenth are trying like hell to get some kind of progress happening before she stagnates beyond repair.
This is so hard for me to understand because her study videos are so uninspired. How could anyone feel shit about themselves after watching Ruby just time-lapse scribbling in her notebooks? There's nothing there! I know I'm not the audience for study content, and I know that kids are impressionable and often lack discernment skills about things they see on social media but still...I don't get it. I mean, I don't feel shit about myself when I watch Ruby's current, non-study content. In fact, I feel pretty good, because at least my house is cleaner.
As an Exeter student I'm always so confused why she came here. The campus is modern and doesn't fit the dark academia aesthetic she's supposedly obsessed with at all. Even though it's an Oxford reject uni, there are other Russell Group universities which have that aesthetic and are probably better for studying English at. A lot of the appeal of Exeter is the beauty in the city and in surrounding areas but she doesn't seem to have taken advantage of any of that. The only reason I can think of is she fits in with the mostly white and wealthy demographic.
Sorry I didn't mean to insult fanfic per se, just that Ruby 's level of writing is akin to terrible fanfic that she has never tried to improve on by going to writing classes or collaborate with other would-be writers for feedback etc.
Yes, Ruby should've gone the self-publishing route, especially since it's not as laughable as it used to be. In fact, it's become a pathway to getting traditionally published. Olivie Blake's The Atlas Six is one of the most successful recent examples of a self-published novel that got picked up and re-published by a traditional publisher. It didn't take Blake years of torturous rewrites and discouraging rejections to hit the NY Times bestseller list -- she was on it before she even had a publisher.
This is why it doesn't surprise me that Ruby thinks she should have an easy time getting published. Becoming a commercially successful author isn't always the arduous artistic journey that it used to be. Anna Todd's After series was a Harry Styles fanfic that the author started writing on her phone to pass the time in a Walmart checkout line. She published it on freakin' Wattpad, and it not only got found and published, but adapted into a Netflix series. Will anyone give a shit about it a hundred years from now? No, but who cares? It still made the author exquisitely rich. Personally, I'd rather be a multi-millionaire in the here and now than a literary legend long after I'm dead.
There's a lot of mediocre and downright piss-poor writing that's making fast money these days, especially in the YA category, fueled by Goodreads and BookTok and BookTube and probably some Gen Z social media shit that I don't even know about. It's really no wonder that Ruby thinks she can get in on the act, but she's going about it all wrong. A quicker path to becoming the latest fiction sensation these days is to get your writing out there yourself. If it catches on with BookTok, the publishers will find you. But of course, Ruby would actually have to write something first.
I truly think in Ruby’s mind her work should go down with the greats which is why she’s so hellbent on going a more traditional route… I feel as if she doesn’t want to be categorised into the ‘YouTube authors’ box.
A friend of mine has studied there and he said that with a degree earned there you have extreme advantages on the job market because employers will be very impressed with the prestige and league of that school. He also said (I think that was just about a short summer course they were offering, not about the actual degrees which he said are really challenging and intense) that depending on what course you choose, the overall level of the students isn't that high, but it's just super expensive, so you can also buy yourself the advantages it gives you.
It’s not any more expensive than any other university in the UK. It’s the same price as every other uni, fees are 9k a year across the board. Some courses that are very niche might have a lower calibre of students solely because not many people apply to them, so people who have their heart set on oxford rather than on a specific subject will strategically apply to those niche subjects (like vee khativu randomly studying ancient history and archaeology despite having no apparent interest in it). But that has nothing to do with paying your way in..
If your friend just did a summer course there then that would offer no real benefit in the job market. Those courses are just money rackets for wealthy foreign students.
I'm thinking of a job like that of the assistant in my accountant's office: She opens envelopes, makes copies, files, prints labels, waters the plants, and occasionally orders lunch. That's about Ruby's speed, and I think the sort of fussy busy-work that's often endemic to the life of a small office would appeal to her performative "productive" proclivities, while getting her out of the house for a few hours per week.
On the subject of retail jobs, I think it's just a very common first job for teenagers. Lots of them get 'Saturday jobs' i.e. they only work part-time at the weekend and it leaves the rest of the week free for college or whatever else. I agree that it can be stressful and doesn't suit every personality. I think Ruby would hate that kind of work unless it's extra quiet - perhaps a job at the local farm shop? Selling expensive cheese to middle-class people?
Sorry if this has been mentioned but is there any update on her Lottie Parker book? I am excited for one of you tattle bastards to get access to it and rip it to shreds (respectfully)
I'm still convinced that the sum total of her knowledge of CMBYN is:
1. People on the internet liked it a lot.
2. It takes place in Italy.
3. Someone eats a peach at some point.
She's definitely never read it and not only is she too stupid/lazy to convincingly lie about it, her insistence on waving around books and things she thinks she knows about them will always digs a hole for her.
During her Italy vlog/s she waved the book at the camera like a prop at every opportunity because she wanted people to think she'd read it and it was a TROOLY MAJIKOL ACKSPERIENCE for her to be in Italy, JOHST LOIYKE IN THE BOCK.
And because she hadn't read it, she thought she'd continue this trend by showing that she was also in Italy eating peaches, JOHST LOIKE IN THE BOCK, HOW IMMARRSIVE!
Only she hadn't read it, so she didn't realise the context, then showed herself violently smashing a peach into her face:
There's no way you'd just forget about that part of the book, especially if you'd read it twice, once immediately before making this video. She had no clue what happened in the book until she got questioned about it and then lied yet again.
She's also reviewed it twice and they're both hilariously dumb, suspiciously vague and completely incoherent. Maybe she'll pretend to read it again in 2024 to make a tradition of it.
her reviews are very floral but ultimately say nothing about what she’s actually read. “so much of this book is internal” - the whole thing is internal. just an incredibly vague way of writing, reminds me of doing english lit a-level and how i would write if i hadn’t actually finished the book yet. just say a lot of things and no one will notice!
This. You could take her 2022 review of CMBYN and apply it to any text. The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Oliver Twist. What she wrote basically means nothing and anything at the same time.
"Oiy was johst tyoo fyocused on moiy mahhhsters statement to be able to slyeep and had to wake up at FOIYVE AYY AMM tyo dyo it and awlsyo read WOTHERING HOIGHTS!"
In reality, she just recorded a few minutes of footage at like 8pm of her touching a book and scribbling some nonsense, then passed it off as being 5am.
Just Daddy Bones wandering the woods in a gigantic duster coat like he's off to hunt Dracula or some shit. Dude looks like what you'd get if you ordered Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing from Wish.com.
Ruby starts her day which has already apparently started several times by starting to write the PARRSONAL STYATEMENT that she already claimed she started. Mmkay.
HOSSTLE COCHA IS TARRIBOL, so Ruby makes sure to set a one hour timer and keep a clock ticking on-screen for only the camera to see so she can "focus on staying focused" while dressed like a primary school student. She says that all she did on this day was write her statement, so she clearly didn't do it in an hour and I'm not sure what point she thinks there was in setting a timer when she had no immediate time constraints, other than encouraging her usual nonsensical toxic productivity habits.
Speaking of toxic productivity and pointless things: It's time for an undeclared ad for the PONKY PODDUTTIFTEE PLANNER which Ruby JANUINELY uses.
She's apparently chosen to write her personal statement in full before even deciding what she wants to study, which is certainly a bold plan.
After a sponsor-begging Waterstones ad, it's "the NAXXT DYAY" which is full of "AGANN - SPOILAH - MWOAR WAHHRK". I mean, I've not seen any work at all so far in this video, but whatever.
"Waahrhk" in Ruby's mind amounts to taking a few minutes to lazily toss together some childish collage of nonsense and call it a lesson plan.
She makes a point to mention how she JOHST HAPPENS TYO BEE YEEZING HAHHR OIYPAD A LOT LATELY and this has nothing to do with her having a digital planner that she wants to advertise, not at all, JANUINELY.
The dreaded vampire scourge apparently doesn't stop at the woods - Ruby's suddenly listening to songs about vampires and waving strange antique mirrors around for some reason.
She starts by expecting everyone to believe she just woke up with gigantic dark brown dots all over her face. To make it even more glaring, she made sure these fake freckles were more pronounced than ever.
After applying a bunch of makeup atop her JANUINELY VARRY REAL FRACKLES, they've gone from solid dots to smeared brown lines, because that's how freckles work.
She's also smeared on a bunch of FACKTAH FIFTEE ASS PEE AFF SONCREAM, even though it's the middle of winter and she won't be going outside. She continues her baffling trend of only applying suncream to her face, stopping at her jawline. The sun magically knows not to touch the ears, neck or any other areas of the human body, so sun cream is not required past the face, apparently. The mysteries of science!
She's back to working on the PARSSONAL STATEMENT she said she'd already finished the day before. She accidentally-on-purpose reveals that she's applying to Oxford, because she hasn't learned a damn thing and is a glutton for punishment.
She also mentions that she's started a new job in a school, but refuses to confirm what the job actually is. Apparently it involves copying the contents of her lesson plans from Google though, since that's all she seems to be doing.
Then it's time for dinner, for which she destroys a perfectly good pizza by drowning it in dripping-wet kidney beans and piling it high with olives she's shown she can't stand/it takes her 35 bites to get through one single olive thanks to her ED habits. I don't even know what the fuck this is but I doubt she ate it.
Back on her habit of tacking a completely unrelated video onto a vlog to pad it out, Ruby's going to tell us some of her "NYEU YEAHHS RAZZOLYEESHONS".
There's a self-deprecating disclaimer on-screen warning us to ignore the loose threads on what Ruby very generously claims to be a collar, as though she only noticed that this looked absolutely fucking horrible while she was editing. Were her eyes not working the day she filmed this? She made this, put it on and filmed it, and at no point did she noticed that it looked like Freddy Krueger had been let loose in a fabric factory? It's been blindly hacked to fucking shreds. Wild, drunk monkeys with a cleaver could do a better job than this. What an embarrassing disaster.
She waves her claw hands around randomly and starts rabbiting some nonsense about resolutions and drinking water and mindfulness and parroting quotes to try to make herself seem VARRY ACADAMMICK, but it was impossible to take this puddle-brained dipshit seriously before she started wearing the discarded remnants of grandma's old tablecloths, it certainly ain't happening now.
She drones on with some meandering, humble-bragging bullshit about how she did well at school but "didn't AWHLWHEYS GAT 100 PRUH-SANT".
Reminder: Some dumbasses are paying a school to let this fuckwit teach their children English.
Her "razzolyeeshons":
1. Gat intyoo a ragular ryootine and gat a batter noiyt ryootine.
2. Awhlwheys make toiyme fwore wroiyting.
3. Troiy tyooo gat to bad aahrliar and wake opp arrlier.
Ruby's weird obsession with morning and night routines will never die and never make sense. It's on her list every year and apparently she's never happy, even though her routine never changes according to the 3,495 routine videos she makes?
She claims to wake up super early and go to bed super early in all her vlogs, and yet now she says she doesn't? If she's not going to bed when she wakes up and waking up 3 weeks prior, it's not good enough.
She also claims she's always writing a book and now needs to resolve to write something every day? Yeah, none of her lies remotely add up.
Remember last year when Ruby set the resolution that she'd be doing lots of volunteer charity work and donating 10% of her income to needy causes? That certainly left the list as fast as she wrote it.
you can always rely on Gossip_Guys summaries of Ruby's videos! When I saw the screenshot of Ruby holding up that mirror my first thought was that you pasted it there.
regarding sunscreen: I don't use any face cream or make up or anything but I think using a face cream with a light sun protection is okay, but I'm no expert.
does anyone of you have real freckles? I have a few around my nose, but there are not nearly as pronounced in autumn/winter as the "freckles" on Ruby's face. They are not really visible at the moment or only if you look very closely. I even have one big freckle at the front of my head and on my cheek which looks always a bit weird in summer.
I definitely get the impression that Ruby's had a big hand in fucking up that family and her parents have screwed both their kids up by mollycoddling Ruby and spoiling her rotten all of her life.
She spent all her teen years and university life throwing tantrums if her parents didn't show her attention. She made her parents drive across the country and back every weekend to collect her from uni and drop her off again and bitched and moaned if they were a minute late (even if she wasn't ready herself). She was sending mummy endless letters and making her send her pointless care packages to enable Ruby's childish boarding school fantasies. She had her parents taking all their holidays in Devon so they were near her while she was at uni (and naturally made them come pick her up to join them so they never had time alone).
All the while Mummy Bones has been writing bad poetry about marital rifts. Ruby's mentioned her dad sleeping on a pull-out cot outside in the summer. Martha's mentioned that she's often excluded from/forgotten about when family events/holidays are arranged and Ruby sneakily tried to exclude Martha from attending her graduation. Martha usually does thoughtful things for birthdays/Christmas and in return Ruby gives her thoughtless, low-effort crap. Martha also chose to move to Brighton rather than be anywhere near her family, which doesn't seem like a coincidence.
Maybe that is all a coincidence and maybe their family would be just as much of a mess if Ruby weren't there, but I feel like never being able to spend a second alone with your spouse because of the spoilt, attention-seeking overgrown baby sucking all the life out of the house and treating you like an on-call chauffeur/camera operator isn't going to help a marriage. And always treating a child like an afterthought and neglecting them in favour of a self-absorbed, tantrum-throwing older sibling isn't exactly a recipe for a tight-knit family relationship, either.
I get the impression that the Bones are waiting for Ruby to grow up and move out so they can divorce and sell the house. When I was at school years ago, one of my friends’ parents had split up when she was young - she knew - but were still living together for the sake of her, right up until she was 18. Her parents couldn’t stand each other, one practically lived in the garage after a while, and my friend hated going home after school, because the house was miserable. As soon as she went to uni one parent moved out and they were finally free. It seems that they would have all been happier and healthier if the parents had been honest and split up properly. Instead for years they put up with co-habiting in misery for their teen child.
To me it seems Ruby gets under the Bones’ feet all the time. I bet they can’t go on holiday alone, without being guilt tripped because Roobs can’t be alone in a house, ever. I’m willing to bet they are beginning to feel trapped by her. It’s one thing choosing to have children and doing right by the children when they are under age, but most parents do it with the expectation that they get their free time and privacy back later on. I can’t see Ruby wanting to move out, ever. They’ll be in their 80s one day and Ruby will be scrabbling around in the kitchen, making crap food, in a white Victorian night dress, interupting their movie night in the Snug.
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Can't remember who made the comment about Rubrid moving over to short-form videos, but TikTok/Shorts seems way more her style.
Shorter content so you don't have to make nearly as much effort with editing (which we all know she hates), way more easy to sneak undeclared ads into it, you can hash out the same shit and people notice less, and there's no need to go into detail about anything because you can hide behind the guise of "uwu short-form content not enough time to give a real review of this book I claim I JANYOOENLY loved sorry!!!"
That was me who made the comment. I agree with you, its so much more her style because she can just focus on aesthetic, flash some books around and best of all, she doesn't have to go into too much detail with analysis because not enough time. Her long-form content is getting quite boring. She tries to pad it out with footage of empty paddocks and fields but how many times can someone watch that? And there are content creators out there who do it so much better. DarlingDesi or CottageFairy for example (if people are into that sort of thing)
True, but I don't know how much of that was skill and effort and how much is just the nature of technology over time and her imitating other YouTubers after she dropped the Hermione imitation videos. She seems to have stopped with the stark bedroom wall backdrop around high school and has been making the exact same videos since.
Her videos look technically a bit better than when she first started, but probably just because she happened to buy new phones/cameras over time which did the work for her. But since then she's just making the same videos for years on end. All the same bad lighting, sloppy editing, recycled footage, weird shots, crappy composition, bad music and general stupidity, the only thing that's really changed is her health has steadily declined.
I watched some of the oldest videos she still has up on her channel today (please don’t judge, I had a ton of knitting to catch up on and Netflix was far too brain-engaging) and can confirm the only thing she has now that she didn’t have 8 years ago is better equipment. She has several videos where the camera focuses on her Cath Kidston curtains (can you imagine how dusty and gross they must be by now?) and both her voiceover and the music sound like they’ve been filtered through a vat of mashed potatoes. The awkward cuts and audio craziness were there and they haven’t gotten any better or worse.
She wasn’t quite as much of a habitual liar back then, though, and I found that refreshing.
the 'You could clean up your paintbrush at least' comment from her mom is sending meeeeee...... But also it makes me wonder - what can her parents actually do?
Ruby and her behavior actually remind me a lot of a girl I know. She's gonna be 29 this year, she's still a student - IMHO more because she doesn't know what to do after finishing uni than out of the wish to gain more knowledge - lives in a shared apartment with other students (who are all around 20), and has a part-time job in a supermarket. I love her dearly, but she is so obviously - like Ruby - stuck in the stage of thinking of herself as a teenager (or a child, in Ruby's case). This girl I know already has one master's degree, but she went on to study for another bachelor's degree, stayed living in the same room that she got when she moved to the town to pursue her studies and has been doing the same part-time job for ages. I think it kind of made her stuck in one place mentally - e. g. all of her original roommates (with whom she moved into the shared apartment) have finished their studies and moved out, got jobs, moved in with their partners, and new "generation" moved into the rooms, so while she is gonna be 29, the people that now surround her are almost all like nineteen, twenty (undergraduate students). And I honestly believe it gives her the feeling that she is also only twenty. She even sometimes says things like "once I'm older" - as if she wasn't old enough to make her own decisions.
I see a lot of this in Ruby, in the same sense that she does pretty much the same things she used to do when doing her A-levels. She still has the day structured in the same way, she's still staying in the same room, she still "obeys" the rules of the house (in the sense that it's her mom and dad, and she's the child who doesn't (have to be) responsible for themselves; she doesn't exist separately from them). When I was at home during the lockdown, one of the first things I did was that I rearranged and cleaned up my childhood bedroom - I was also a uni student, like Ruby, at the time and I was spending most of my time away from my parents home, but when I was stuck back at it, it made me feel like I was 12 again, and I didn't like it. So I put away my toys and old pictures and stuff like that, to make myself feel more like an adult. It was really weird for me to be back there all the time, since I went to uni and had a part-time job and had friends that my parents never met etc. but suddenly I was back in the same spot as when I was a child.
The problem with Ruby is, she never "reinvented" herself as an adult. She never spend a long time alone (in the sense of not being with relatives), and even her uni experience seems to have been a bit in vain (she came to a place where she wasn't the most special girl, and it seems like she didn't enjoy it a lot/didn't profit from the opportunities?), she didn't get a job/internship where she would be surrounded by others her age (but not from her family circle) to kinda see where they are at in life...
But idk what can her parents do. I think she has a very good relationship with her mum, so I don't think her mum would want to "throw her out" of the house - also, remember that it was her mum who recommended her to go to a therapy. I honestly don't think her mum is indifferent/careless (and from what Ruby says, if we can believe it, I feel like Marfa is also close with their mother - Ruby claimed they do spa days and movie watching together when they're at home; I feel like it's just that Marfa likes to pose as this "black sheep of the family", too extravagant and different to fit in - like some teenagers sometimes do, to feel like they have something to rebel against, although they migth have a great family background and relationships). So yeah, her mum won't send her packing, but at the same time, I can totally see her losing patience with Ruby just sitting at home doing barely anything (and apparently leaving dirty brushes all around, lmao). after all, Ruby is an adult, supposedly responsible for own health and happiness, and even if her mother recommends/suggests something, there is no way Ruby is obliged to listen to her - and I just don't think her mother would have the guts to e. g. start demanding rent from Ruby, or demand her to do important tasks/chores (since Ruby can't even drive so it's not like she can go shopping for the family or run errands etc.).
As an outsider I just assumed they were all the same - how are the Oxford colleges different? Is having an Oxford degree advantageous in the real world or academia or are other people not that bothered, it just seems such a lot to go through
You said you were Australian? Think of the Oxford Colleges like different states. You're all Australian, but you all have your unique laws and cultures. That's like the Colleges. The University of Oxford is the national government, the colleges are the state goverment. When you apply to Oxford university, you apply to an individual college and you can only apply to one. Each college has a set number of places on each course (usually less than 20 a year per course) and there own selection criteria for picking who to fill them with. If during the application process the college you've applied to feels you're not a good culture fit for them, but may be a good fit at another college they will pass your application on for consideration, but that's it. If you pick the wrong college, you're essentially fucked and wasted £200.
It's important because if you get accepted you do almost everything in your college. Lectures are course wide, but besides that 95% of your time will be spent with the people in your college. Eating, sleeping, sports, clubs and socities. Financial support and scholarships. Tutorials. Student unions. Even bars and libraries are segregated by college. So if you're not a good culture and social fit for your college you are going to have a miserable time and probably make everybody else around you miserable too.
As for whether it's advantageous, it's seen as a positive because of the intense workload. To get a 1st at Oxford is impressive because it shows not only a strong work ethic, but also brilliant time management skills. Because the work at Oxford is no harder than any other course, it's just the amount of work you have to juggle in such little time that is the challenge that most students struggle with.
Sometimes they're not there, sometimes a gigantic mole has spontaneously appeared on her nose. Sometimes they're dots, sometimes they're smeared lines, sometimes there's some kind of weird snail drawn on her nose.
As with everything she lies about, she puts no effort into making this remotely believable or consistent.
Cosmetic freckles are super popular nowadays, and we live in an age where people routinely change the entire structure of their face using makeup contouring, so there's nothing stopping her from just saying "I don't really have freckles, but I love how they look, so I add some on as part of my makeup routine".
It'd still look ridiculous because of the lack of effort and consistency, and it'd still be obviously part of her sad, desperate precocious child cosplay, but overall, people wouldn't care. Pretending that they're real every time only draws more attention to how stupid it is, how dishonest she is about everything and how fake everything about her is. She'll never stop being her own worst enemy.
Boring new video with the same rubbish...weird shots of her and the cluttered house/garden (the dead plants ), spilling and dropping things, failing to light candles, being super rough with her hair/face, undeclared ads, ED baiting (her gross, tiny, breakfast) and audio that cuts off mid sentence.
She makes such little effort with consistency. She said she filmed across several days but she made no effort to keep her lighting or fake freckles consistent.
Also amazing to me that she manages to hide the brand of her toothpaste but fails on every account to declare any of the partnered/gifted products she shows off.
And the "please" to Google seems SO performative to me. People have commented on this before being like "Roobs ur so polite/well-spoken" and think she's just playing on it in her fake Hermione voice!
I do wonder whether she's ever come across Sarah Waters' books - she writes historical fiction, often in the Victorian era, and gets recommended on Booktube a lot. Her books usually have Sapphic themes (and sex) though so I wonder if that's why Ruby hasn't read them.
Off topic, but I love Sarah Waters. Fingersmith is just incredible, without giving anything away I genuinely had to put the book down in shock at one point. Affinity is another favourite. In a similar vein, The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber is also very, very good.
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I cant decide if this person is being straight up creepy or they also try to praise her as she is a child -which is again, creepy-
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