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

[Mr.Mistoffelees]

I'm watching the King Lear segment and I'm trying not to pluck my eyelashes out.

Roobie really does have only one formula for reviewing books: X didn't have as many Y as I expected, therefore X bad.

In this case, King Lear didn't have as many Cordelia lines as she expected, therefore King Lear bad.

She also shoehorns a useless point about how Cordelia would be played by a young boy during Shakespeare's time to appear knowledgeable. That's a fact I learned in primary school and I'm from Eastern Europe, it's hardly impressive. She can only relate to a book if one of the main characters is a child, what a tragic waste of an English literature degree.

 

[Redrose97]

I am wondering what she thought about Spare, I like to imagine that she was rather horrified reading about Prince Harry's frostbitten todger or do you think that she skipped the bits and pieces that are more adult themed

 

[gossip_guy]

Omigod I'm so embarrassed for her.

It's beyond cringe and I can't look away. I keep hoping someone starts playing music to signal that she needs to wrap it up and leave like they do at the Oscars when rambling speeches run too long.

Edit: Oh god, the audio for the stream glitched out when they recorded it, so now there's delayed audio of Ruby playing over the current audio of her talking and it sounds like there's duelling Rubies in the room both talking over each other and vying for the spotlight, neither of them making sense. It's utter madness. I love it.

 

[gossip_guy]

"Billdungsrfhsromun." Nailed it.

 

[gossip_guy]

She's definitely been on Tattle again.

After the discussion on here about her always being TWALVE YAAHR SOLD in every one of her random fabricated stories about how precocious and special she is, she suddenly, for the first time, told a story where something happened to her when she was THARTEEN.

And now she's back on TikTok, posting non-stop ads, one of which starts with her claiming she got an AMMILY DICKENSUN collection for her THARTEENTH BARTHDAY. The collection is suspiciously pristine and Ruby somehow remembers her THARTEETH BARTHDAY like it was yesterday, so it's all clearly bullshit.

Pro tip, Rubert: If you're going to make shit up, at least vary the age. Replacing TWALVE with THARTEEN every time doesn't make it any more believable or make your life seem any less small if every tiny (fictional) event you feel is worth mentioning happened before you were 14.

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.

If you insist on giving this entitled fuckwit more free stuff to feature in undeclared ads, why not send just her an e-voucher for mummy to collect a free jar from Waitrose without all this packaging waste?

 

[Thehogonthelog]

Saddest dog on the earth

 

[berkeleymoon87]

I just want to rant, but I am so frustrated thinking about how much money people like Ruby make for posting videos. YouTubers post morning routines and everyone just praises them and they get money for ad revenue and sponsorships. What type of dystopian hell are we living in I see comments under her videos all the time talking about what a magical life she lives and how great she is for reading and being so productive.I WISH people would free themselves from the shackles of morning routines when it's all so obviously faked for content and revenue. All those people under her comments claim to be intellectuals and experts at literary analysis but can't see through the character she plays??

 

[gossip_guy]

Ruby herself summed up my thoughts on this video better than I ever could:

 

[lmwfh17]

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I mean… learning just ‘for the sake of learning’ is all well and good when mummy and daddy will allow you to indefinitely live rent free in their mansion , some of us are quite literally just at university so that we can get a job and pay our bills. That’s how life works in the real world.

huge fan of the way she annotates by literally just repeating what the original sentence said

 

[slamvs27]

I'll have to disagree. She made a shitshow of her education because like Ruby, she couldn't handle the Oxford rejection and had to convince herself that Minerva scam was meant for her to begin with. She's well traveled for sure but she's also horrifically ignorant and uneducated yet thinks she's a blessing on others, she's racist but is painfully unaware of it, extremely privileged but in denial about thay as well, and the moment she graduates, she'll turn into some self care MLM and scam her viewers until she's filthy rich, but will do so under the disguise of being worldly, environmentalist and woke I think Jade is one of the worst studytubers out there, I sincerely hope nobody is taking her as a rolemodel. I've yet to forget her crossing two countries to get dicked down during the height of pandemic and lockdowns Yhey are all as bad as eachother imo in different way.

The only one I genuinely believe to be an actually well educated, well rounded independent person is PaigeY. If push came to shove, I believe she'd have zero issues stepping away from youtube and social media because her life, validation and identity don't depend on it. She seems to have a good, healthy relationship with her family, a steady friendship group from Cambridge + other friends from professional life and boat club. She maintained her education/work along with her social life and hobbies, she has excellent work ethic and she just comes off as easy to be around and personable to me. Maybe a bit goody-two-shoes but nothing wrong with that. Ruby could take a page out of her book.

This. Jade is the worse of all the studytubers IMO. Ruby is cringier (actually, could be debated) but Jade is...something else. Her deleted "apology" for going to a dick appointment across countries, wondering why South Korea "was so empty" because everyone was quarantining, her very concerning posts about "teehee I killed a rabbit!" and fetishizing Asian and South American people, filming and talking about random children for an uncomfortable amount of time, her MLM scammy dad, "casual magic" just don't be depressed spiel, etc.

 

[emmer_moans]

Ruby is trying to light a candle outside in the wind 🫣

 

[pineconez]

Sometimes I watch her videos and i think man, it must be tiring; either doing all this stuff, or fudging it to make it seem like you do. Either way that's just so much brain-effort to me? Like even if she isn't properly annotating a book for example, she still sits there for an hour and makes out like she is, and i'm just like damn... how have you got the focus for that? I would wander off after 10 minutes of pretending and go idk, stare into the fridge lol

In todays video she says she isn't productive in the afternoon and 'rarely actually gets anything done' and like, same here tbh. But she still spends time sitting there looking like she is productive, and I guess what I'm getting at is that I gotta somewhat admire the dedication if she's sitting there faking a thing, bc that just seems so draining to me lol. At a certain point, even if you're faking it, the amount of time/effort you're putting in must be a lot lmao, keeping up an act is hard work.

Like go girl, I would not have gone and sat out in the freezing cold to write, just for a video or the aesthetic, it must have been wildly uncomfortable.

 

[babygoats]

The first impression I get from this is that she has no focus. Not in the classes she took, not in the activities she participated in. While there is always something to be said for being well-rounded, these are very weak interests. Trampolining and Surfing will get you nowhere in life. I don't even remember her talking about surfing while at Uni, other than a few times going with her father. If she is not competing in these sports, why is she filling up precious time with them? My POV is seeing this through the eyes of an American. Maybe it is different over in the UK, but involvement in sporting activities through school or university usually means being on a team or competing at some level. Where are the competitions and how did she place?

That's a very toxic viewpoint you got there buddy, might want to unpack that. Not everything you do needs to be on a competition level. Even from people who DO compete, only a few will get extremely good results. And most world-class professionals have hobbies outside of their sport, musical instrument etc. to unwind.

In fact, the "filling up precious time" viewpoint might be exactly Ruby's attitude towards her hobbies, it fits the toxic productivity mindset perfectly well. And that might explain why her attitude towards her hobbies really is so weird - she doesn't seem to enjoy them too much or want to dedicate actual time and effort to do them well - FOR HER OWN SAKE, without external validation. Same goes for developing her video editing, cooking, sewing etc. skills. It's not "productive" on the first glance.

Edit: but also posts like the quoted one really pinpoint that she is losing even her brand of "18 hour productive study day" audience with whatever she is doing right now.

 

[anakinskywalkers]

Bruh I thought she’d just made a normal collar and I was like tbh that’s not bad for a first attempt, and then she turned around and BAM caped crusader. Massive jumpscare

 

[ECH]

She only went to Exeter because JK Rowling went there

 

[laynelo_]

looking at her videos pre-covid/lockdown they seemed to be a bit more ~normal~. like someone mentioned previously on here how they used to throw parties etc.. i wonder if the lockdown affected their mental health, especially ruby’s

I think the lockdown played a massive part in her age regression, she actually seemed more normal and progressing into a functioning adult in her first year of philosophy and first year of English.

 

[gossip_guy]

Okay, so do you think Ruby's actually mentally ill? Because being spoiled is not a mental illness. Neither is being demanding, entitled, or selfish. These are just negative personality traits that a person who isn't mentally ill could change if they ever had to. But I think there's more going on with Ruby than just a rotten character. I don't think she's capable of changing, no matter what the situation.

I suspect Ruby's had some sort of psychological dysfunction her whole life and has never gotten the treatment she needed because her parents are careless. And lazy. Ruby was a proper little student and so they didn't bother to pay attention to whether she was growing into a sound person. It was easier to keep coddling her than to address the question of why she needed so much coddling in the first place. Now they're stuck with her, and she sure isn't getting any better.

There's definitely ample reason for her to get off the internet and seek professional help and she's a couple of years late doing it. She has a blatant eating disorder and her childhood fixation is the farthest thing from normal. But personally I think whatever mental issues she has are all rooted in her being woefully unprepared to cope with being an adult and being unable to fathom a world where she's not a gifted child prodigy with infinite talent. I really do think she's ultimately just a spoilt little asshole whose deep-seated problems stem from never being told no and never being prepared for reality.

I don't think it's a coincidence that her steep drop off the deep end came just as she was coming up to her final year of uni and her influencer career started to dwindle. I think it's pretty telling that she started starving herself to look smaller, dressing in child's clothes, replacing all her furniture with children-sized bed and tables and putting shrines to famous 12-year-olds on her walls, all just as graduation appeared on the not-too-distant horizon.

If she hadn't had a lifetime of her parents telling her she was the most special little genius or paying for unqualified private teachers to tell her the same, she might be more prepared for the reality that she's a below average person whose life has been propped up by excessive wealth and privilege. If she'd made the most of uni and got out of her safe little childhood cocoon and tiny, insular social circle, she might've met more people who challenged her, gained more experience, learned that she had a ceiling and been more prepared for adulthood. This year she's had a big taste of rejection and reality and clearly isn't prepared for it.

The trouble is, she's been to a therapist before and treated it like a short-term quick fix to tick off on a to-do list. Given how much of a compulsive liar she is and how much she's embellished or fabricated mental health issues and trauma before, I doubt she'd be open and honest and engage with therapy properly. I can't recall if she said she'd pursued therapy herself, so it might've been something her parents recommended and encouraged. But she doesn't seem to want help, so there's only so much her parents can do at this point.

Hopefully she ditches the declining influencer career and gets some professional help at some point, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for her. She's actively gone out of her way to try to pass her damaging habits onto her audience despite being asked to stop time and time again. She has easy access to private healthcare, that's a luxury a lot of people much more needy and deserving don't get, but she still doesn't want to bother.

 

[irunforfun]

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.

I suspect this is true and that on some level Ruby is aware of this and is subconsciously keeping them together by remaining their “little girl.”

Probably an unpopular opinion but sometimes I think mental health problems are overused and sometimes people do weird stuff because that is who they are and the conditions around them permit such weird stuff to occur and continue. With the Ed stuff, I am suspicious because it all feels very performative and a carbon copy of the classic ED stories. Her entire being is performative and collaborations of other people and things she perceives to make her seem gifted, unique, intelligent, kind etc. I’m not saying she doesn’t struggle or that she doesn’t have a diagnosable MH problem, but I also think attributing or explaining things to MH problems isn’t always right and maybe does harm. Like when people say “I’m a little bit ocd about cleaning” - no, you just like things to be very clean. You don’t have intrusive thoughts that if you don’t clean everything in a very specific way then something terrible will happen to you or others and get stuck in compulsions. Sorry, not sorry. End of todays rant.

 

[lucy200072]

look what I have found on her old school's website:
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I went to a private school as well so I know it’s the case, but I can’t believe you can teach In a school without any sort of qualifications or experience.
Ruby has had no teaching experience and yet just like that she has a job teaching kids whose parents are PAYING for the privilege. (Sarcasm) I just don’t understand it.

 

[Ilaariaa]

Hello, it’s Pyu-bee!

Petition to a) make this the new thread title, and b) to make every thread title from now on some funny variation of "Hello its Roobee"