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

[VallegGirl]

lol I can’t in her new video, she shows a ”makeup routine” that starts with full-on fake freckles, presumably to try and convince us that they’re real

also wtf is this “collar”, I’m guessing this is something she made herself by unevenly freehand cutting a piece of fabric and just thinking that was good enough? Newsflash Roogedy Ann, it’s not and you’re looking sloppy.

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OMG - that outfit. Essence of the Sound of Music. The hills are alive with fakeness

 

[laynelo_]

Is she supposed to know her masters results soon? She said her anxiety was bad, I assume that might be why?

Seems like the applications (at least for Oxford) closed at the beginning of Jan. I’d imagine she’d be waiting a few weeks until she heard back about them.

 

[DanBanks]

It looks like a candle.

You might be right. Though I can't see a wick...

Lots of toilet in this video, too. The way she's got the camera set up, I feel like I'm staring right at the bowl. So aesthetic! They don't have a toilet paper holder, either. The roll's sitting on a little stool in front of the shitter. Multi-million dollar manor house and no toilet paper holder. Far out.

 

[xoxoxo13]

Fantastic. Congrats
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Written planners in professional roles seems a bit last decade. I think a lot of people now use electronic diaries and planners as these are more easily shared. In fact in my last job I had no choice but to do everything electronically. The main reasons for this was for confidentiality and auditing purposes.

When I first started at my job some months ago, I had a planner. But now I'm doing everything on outlook or one note.

 

[StatusWoe]

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.

That's a point. Seeing as she doesn't use her real name for this CV, I wonder if she has a 'real' one that she keeps private. Maybe that's giving her too much credit.

You know what would have been a better "eco move"? Not shredding a small tree and constantly sending bulky cardboard boxes full of free shit by mail to a wealthy influencer who can buy their own food.

This

I'm actually so bothered with how messy she is with that Beetroot latte video with how much she spills things and just leaves the mess. You think for a video she would at least given the counter a wipe if she spilt. She says that she's so tidy and organised, she'd at least give the counter a wipe before going back to film something. She is performativly tidy and organised to fit in with the good student image she has, isn't she?

And what is with her slamming objects down or stabbing things with a straw just asmr i don't want!

Beetroot leaves stains as well. They use it for dye.

Edit: @irunforfun got there first with the beetroot comment lol.

 

[vwxyz]

I re-read my reply to you and I hope it didn't come over as rude! Sorry if it did. I agree that we shouldn't categorically disapprove of everything Ruby does. Of course. She is a content creator so my reactions and chats in this forum are related to things I see in her content that reaction-worthy.

Because her audience seems to be girls who are quite young and possibly impressionable, some of her content makes me a bit concerned.

No need to apologize, I agree that Ruby's content is mostly shoddy, reprehensible, and cringy. She should be criticised for so many things she does, especially because of her influence on others. I just thought that this was one of the very, very few videos where I'm glad to see her doing what she is doing.

 

[bunnys]

I'm currently playing the video game Marvel's Midnight Suns and coincidentally, there's a section where Captain America, Captain Marvel and Blade take part in a superhero book club and discuss Son Shooweeyay's The Art of War.

It's hilarious that a bunch of comic book superheroes in a video game have infinitely more to say about the book and how it can be applied to general modern conflicts and everyday life than self-proclaimed bookworm and alleged real-life human being Ruby.

I'm catching up on the threads but... Gossip Guy. I am a huge Captain America fan and I need to know if he liked the book. Did he also think it talked about war too much or did the whole being a soldier in WWII thing make that more palatable?

Anyways, I can only imagine Ruby's current situation right now being so, so lonely and depressing. It sounds nice to a lot of us to have a break like that but in practice it'd drive you crazy. Ruby appears routine oriented. I'm the same way - I need something to keep me busy. Granted I'm a lot more extroverted than her, but I can only imagine feeling incredibly isolated and lonely if I was cooped up in my childhood bedroom, away from the general bustle of any nearby town or city, no friends nearby, no job to go to, and so on. Living like this makes your anxiety so much worse in my experience - your world shrinks and your bubble gets smaller and smaller until leaving it seems like a frightening, scary task.

I truly think she'd benefit so much from just a part time job. It is one of my strongest beliefs that EVERYONE should work some form of a retail job during their life time. It teaches you so much.

 

[theMoth]

Spoiler: OT books

How do you guys find time to read? Seriously, i wake up at 5, study German, because i want to move there next year. Get ready for work, go to work, come back, eat dinner, shower, text my boyfriend and then im exhausted and just go to sleep by 9pm. Either there arent enough hours in a day or i dont have enough energy. Im supposed to start working out next month, i dont know how i'll manage.

Spoiler: OT reading

I mostly read before I go to sleep. I could read even more, because at the moment I have enough time. But I somehow spent too much time on the internet or feeling sorry for myself. I also started listening to audiobooks while knitting.

 

[StatusWoe]

I think the most-liked title was this one, unless I missed something from the previous 2 pages.

 

[GoinDowntown]

I find uncarley so unbearable. She talks about the same few books all the time and is so sarcastic and clearly just copies phrases she heard on TikTok or something. She reminds me of Jack Edwards - everything is “unhinged” “a red flag” “if you like this book you have mental illness”. I think it’s so funny that she does stand up comedy, I imagine it’s super cringey.

The best booktuber I’ve come across (and one of the only ones who actually comes across as a lovely normal person) is a Canadian girl called Emmie. She’s really well read and intelligent, I definitely recommend her to anyone!

Oh I love Emmie too!

 

[Open-door]

Spoiler: OT

I’m really, really loving W&P. I’m taking it kind of slow and making notes, there’s just so MUCH there. It’s relevant on so many levels (the early descriptions of Russian war propaganda/strategy were honestly sending me, it’s like nothing’s changed in 220 years) and Tolstoy just goes so ruthlessly, painfully close to real, raw human thinking and emotion. I feel like you could probably find some aspect or likeness of every single person you’ve ever known in this book - to me, right now at least (halfway through vol. 2), it’s the sheer scope of human experience that’s just so astounding. It took a little while to find my bearings, but now that I feel I have a grip on all the main characters, I’m super invested. Also I want to say I’m fully prepared to have my heart broken, but I also feel like it’s going to come out of nowhere and hit me hard when that eventually happens.

And to make this even a little relevant to a Roobee thread, I feel the need to state I did, in fact, first plod through the words on the pages of this book at age TWALVE, but I will not claim that I understood any of it

I got halfway through W & P during lock-down and then lost momentum. I'm feeling motivated to resume after reading your enthusiasm.
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Urgh. That Miss Patina dress and jumper combo is terrible. May be that's just because my primary school uniform was scarily similar

Does poo coloured brown suit anyone?!

 

[DrinaM]

So when exactly is she starting the teaching aka „normal job”?

It seems she has started. I saw a reply she made to a comment on her latest video. She told the commenter that she is loving working at the school.

 

[VallegGirl]

I actually hate how she added 'unfortunately' to her statement about living in an extroverted society. Firstly, I don't think its true. And second, why would it be 'unfortunate' if society was 'extroverted'? She doesn't actually give reasons as to why it is 'unfortunate'. I seriously do not believe that 'extroversion' is given any kind of privilege over 'introversion'.

And yeah, the irony. As she sits there on her arse in her bedroom, making bank out of putting herself on the internet forever, exploiting the consumerism model and pretending to care about the environment.
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Yes. She is part of the problem that she herself seems to constantly identify e.g social media teaching us to be perfect, performative and appearing a certain way etc

Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. Blatant hypocrisy by our Ms Bones.

 

[zoeanned]

lol she’s on TikTok banging on about Shakespeare and quoting plays she hasn’t even read (sorry Roobs but if it ain’t on Goodreads, we all know you haven’t even hit the Sparknotes) What a fucking fraud.

I was wondering if she’d read my comment here! I know in the past she says she doesn’t read Tattle, but seems very coincidental! She seems to be going through a pretentious Shakespeare phase

 

[DanBanks]

She's not introverted, she's mentally ill.

It's impossible to diagnose someone based solely on subjectively edited videos that they've made about themselves, but she's definitely not okay. I'm watching some of her really old videos and she was kind of an annoying and prissy kid but still seemed within a healthy range. And the whole family seemed to be doing better too. They threw parties, they had a houseful of guests, normal stuff. Now it just seems so bleak. I wonder what it's really like in that family. Is Ruby's unwellness casting a pall on the family or has a dysfunctional family contributed to Ruby's poor mental health?

 

[DrinaM]

If that CV hit my desk, I'd have a chuckle that someone with the fake surname Granger was highlighting her time in the Harry Potter society and then immediately move on to another application from someone with some amount of actual experience and common sense.

On the other hand, I'd love to see someone interview her and grill her about all the fake/wildly embellished entries on there.

Interviewer: "It says here you're a voice-over artist with 3+ years of experience. Can you tell us a little about the companies you worked for, and what roles you performed?"
Ruby: "YASS. WHAL. Oiy...DYO perform MANNY ryoles...which...umm...and as oiy say, it's varry...ummm...William WAARDSWAARTH once sad that theee hyole warrld's a styage and we are boht merely doing acting...on that...umm...[waves claw hand around]...warrhld's stage. Haha. And...umm...yah."
Interviewer: "Wasn't it William Shakespeare who wrote that?"
Ruby: "ACSHUALLY, Oiy've haard manny peopol say it. Weee...tand tyoo think of language and quotes as being tangibly assyociated with one parrson, when it's really more of an ethereal...folk tale...geneology whaaahr, when someone says something, someone alse repeats it differently and thann weee can navver knyow who ackshually sad it. It's really quoyte fascinating."
Interviewer: "[Holds up phone] I Googled it; William Shakespeare wrote it. But let's get back to your previous roles. It says here that you run a business single-handedly. That's really impressive! Can you walk us through a day in your role as company director?"
Ruby: "Umm...YASS...ummm...it's...[sweats profusely]...I can JANUINELY tal yoo that oiy DAFFINITELY DYOO run moiy own company...ONE HONDRED PRUSSANT. Oiy PROMISE YOU THAT. So...yah. JANUINELY."
Interviewer: "But what do you do?"
Ruby: "Umm...wal...Na-thaynn-yal Hworethorn once wrote that...umm...and...weee tand tyoo...umm...PONKIPODDOTIFFTI...and...umm... JANUINELY...oiy...umm... moiy basst frand Blakeney...umm...and syo... ACKSCUSE ME, oiy have to gyo now, oiy think moiy mummy might've fallen down the stairs agann. Have a prodocktive week."

Imagine if she quoted Dumbledore She used to do that more back in her GCSE and early Exeter days but I wouldn't put it past her. Especially because she has Harry Potter Society on her LinkedIn
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She only took 3 classes in her third year? Why? I took 6 every semester. 5 for my major in English Lit and 1 elective. Is this typical in UK education? Why is she listing her classes? That is so strange!

The country that I did my undergrad in, we did 8 modules in a year. So 4 each semester (for full-time students). Semester 1 is from Feb to July and Semester 2 is August to November. Each year's exams are held in Oct-Nov.

Seeking jobs post-grad, no employer even asked to see my academic transcript. They weren't interested in what modules I took.

 

[VallegGirl]

I never sell anything online, specially to strangers. I don't want to deal with difficult people. The internet is full of stories from people who try to sell stuff online. I always give stuff that's in perfect condition to charity shops or put a box outside so people can take something. Sometimes I sent books to a platform that gives me money in return. But they don't always need every book I want to give away. Thankfully, there are public book shelves (I really need to drive to one of them to put some books there). I feel much better to give clothes, household items, books or magazines away (to charity or just in a box outside). Why doesn't Ruby do something like that? I could of course make money selling some of my clothes I don't wear anymore. But, as I said, I don't want to deal with people. Getting money would be nice, but it is so much nicer to donate things. If you really need the money, that's different, of course. Rich people never give something away for free. That's why they are rich and stay rich.

As my (wise) husband says " you don't get rich writing cheques" I reckon the Bones family knows this all too well

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.

The magical world of Rubore. Control of the sun no less!

 

[missmina]

How...? Did she not check it before posting on stories? I'm so confused. Pumpkin bread activity

And what's up with her eyes in that screenshot? They look kind of tired/red/different somehow.

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Left eyelids seems swollen but she usually has them like that

 

[Hannahebee]

So, this week Ruby has brought 4 books and took 3 out of the Library I mean I'm sure I remember her saying that she wasn't going to buy as many books but she is still buying books or borrowing them from the library when she probably doesn't even need them.

 

[bookworm39]

Me too. I was so confused. He's a neoclassical. Neoclassical....is kinda like the opposite to Romantics...
She's lost the plot lol

neo-classical, not classical, you're absolutely right. In my absolute rage and bafflement I forgot to add the "neo"