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

[DanBanks]

Watching the latest YT routine, I have suddenly realized what Ruby's house and garden remind me of. Did any of you see The Little Stranger, the movie based on Sarah Waters' novel? Ruby's house reminds me of Hundreds Hall in that film. That's why it's always given me such a case of the creeps!

Speaking of creeps, there is a glass of something white sitting on the sink before she brushes her teeth. It looks like a glass of milk. Why is it there? Was it there all night? Has it been there for days? Could it possibly be some kind of mouthwash? What. Is. It.

 

[Hannahebee]

Speaking of creeps, there is a glass of something white sitting on the sink before she brushes her teeth. It looks like a glass of milk. Why is it there? Was it there all night? Has it been there for days? Could it possibly be some kind of mouthwash? What. Is. It.

It looks like a candle.

 

[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 bleeper. Multi-million dollar manor house and no toilet paper holder. Far out.

 

[Hannahebee]

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 bleeper. Multi-million dollar manor house and no toilet paper holder. Far out.

I can just about see the wick so it is definitely a candle IMO, however, I noticed that the taps are still dripping so they clearly haven't sorted this out yet despite the fact that the taps have been dripping for quite awhile now.

 

[ammie]

I'm still shocked she went from a double bed to single bed like my favourite upgrade was going from a single bed to a small double because it's so comfortable. Also her nails don't look tacky, looks like she got a gel manicure I'm honestly just jealous she has the time and energy to do random research in the mornings, I don't even have the energy to write on the weekends because I'm so tired from the work week.

 

[DrinaM]

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.

I saw someone in the comments ask 'anyone hear from Tattle Life. The comment has 3 thumbs up currently....um...We don't do that, do we? I personally wouldn't.....

I have noticed that the person who mentioned Tattle to her has since deleted the comment.

Its still there at this moment. If its the same one?

2) please for the love of god people DO NOT MENTION TATTLE to creators, that’s precisely how they then get to claim we’re bullying them - let’s just PLEASE keep the conversation among ourselves

Yeah I was a bit disappointed to see the Tattle life comment(s)

 

[lmwfh17]

i’m also not one to really care about the prince harry conversation but i find it genuinely hilarious that this is what irritates her viewers enough to think less of her, as opposed to the constant lies, charity grifting, undeclared ads, ed baiting…

 

[Poguely]

She gets out of bed in her Snoopy pajamas, reads Prince Harry’s masterpiece while brushing her teeth, has green tea, eats breakfast, reads thirty pages, does some research, reads a middle grade book so she can recommend it to the other school children, goes outside, plans her day, checks her email, drinks iced coffee, and conveniently omits the fact that mummy/daddy/grandma drive her to school

Oh and on days she’s not working, she goes to ballet class with her grandmother.

I'm just imaging her choking on her toothbrush when she enters Frostnipistan

1) she wouldn’t lol, constructive criticism = bullying
2) please for the love of god people DO NOT MENTION TATTLE to creators, that’s precisely how they then get to claim we’re bullying them - let’s just PLEASE keep the conversation among ourselves

The funny thing is that I think the primary reason that the Ruby Granger thread is so active is that a lot of people find it by being curious about what her true surname is. So by clinging so desperately to the GrAnGeR lIfEsTyLe instead of making friends with her true self as Ruby Bones, she leads a lot of people here.

Also, Ruby Bones is such a cute and charming influencer/manic pixie dream girl name. I get why you might be embarrassed by it at 15, but surely you would embrace it now.

 

[anakinskywalkers]

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i’m also not one to really care about the prince harry conversation but i find it genuinely hilarious that this is what irritates her viewers enough to think less of her, as opposed to the constant lies, charity grifting, undeclared ads, ed baiting…

doesn’t surprise me that her content attracts rabid monarchists though lmao

 

[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??

 

[Poguely]

I have not watched the video yet, but that's nothing unusual if she does part time. Which I think she said at some point. If you don't teach the first hour of a day, you just leave at like 9, and other days you might be teaching from 8 to 5 or whatever.

Can confirm. I was a social worker in a primary school, and even though it served a high needs population, it was the most wishy-washy job I've ever had. It's like that spinning like a ballerina tiktok trend. The teacher's barely had a spare moment to pee, dashing off the moment the bell rang, while me, the counsellor, and the speech therapist would be hanging out in the staff room for an extra twenty minutes, trying to decide whether or not we wanted to go on a leisurely stroll to buy lunch.

And we got paid more than the teachers too.

Provided you're not a teacher, a school job is pretty cushy.

 

[Daredevil]

What Spare is about though?

 

[Griftwood]

What Spare is about though?

I haven’t read it, but I think it’s about a brilliant young boy who’s smarter than everybody yet gets relentlessly bullied by people who are just jealous of how smart he is. Kind of like Erimentha Parker, except he also has a pen, which gets frostbite. Did not contain as much extra as I thought it would, four stars.

 

[gossip_guy]

It's the weekly Ruby Bones denial, lies and idiocy video!

"And YASS, oiy DYOO read whoiylst brosshing moiy teeth."

Nahh, not any more believable or less stupid and pathetic the 4,893th time she's said it.

"OIY LOFF BOHKS, syoo this is DAFFINITELY sommthing oiy want tyo be dyoing."

Sure, Jan.

Ruby: "Avveryone in moiy house is yoosually aslyeep at this toime (because they are varry lazy and onnamployed, onloike moiysalf who wahhrks varry hard) syo oiy awhlwheys wohrry that I'm being tyoo loud."
Also Ruby: (Blasts Tory news through Google Home and spends 45 minutes passive-aggressively arguing with an AI at loud volumes in the room next to her parents rather than use ear buds or non-voice-controlled radio or get ready in one of the 789 unoccupied rooms on the opposite side of her family mansion.)

Makes sense.

Ruby: "Wahhring sonncream is impworetant."
Also Ruby: (Applies a very thin layer of sun cream only to her face, not putting any on her ears, neck, hands or anywhere past her jawline.)

Mmhmm.

Ruby: "THAN oiy make moiy bad--oiy CAHN'T start the dyay without myaking moiy bad."
Also Ruby: (Has changed her bedsheets once in the past 2 years.)

Ruby: "Moiy favourite gryeen tea is the MwOaOww...fWeAngHh gryeen tea from Tea Pigs."
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(Ruby even moans that this tea is more expensive than her previous favourite green tea, implying that she bought it, but conveniently avoids mentioning that Tea Pigs have gifted her years' worth of teas.)

"Oiy'm...troiying tyoo read a lyoad of of middull grwayde bocks at the myoment syo oiy can rackommand tham tyo the styudents."

Umm...I thought she JANUINELY read 346 books a year and LOVES books AVVER SYO MOCH and reads nothing but middle-grade and below books, so why does she have no existing book recommendations in her vacant brain? Why is she pre-prepping a list of books to recommend to children unrelated to the job at hand?

Ruby when she's JOHST WYOKEN OPP. NYO FRACKLES.

THE NAXXT DYAY. FAKE FRACKLES AVVERYWHAHHR.

Why wasn't this part included in your morning makeup routine, Ruberto?

Ruby claims she needs to "reesaarch" something every day just for herself, so researches Friday the Thaarteenth, to learn all about Jason Voorhees--I mean, paraskevidekatriaphobia, or "Paris Geller Deck-o-Dryer Phobia", as Ruby calls it. Ruby recently claimed she learned everything about this word when she was 12, so I'm confused why she'd need to relearn this information at 22.

Unsurprisingly, she's managed to turn Friday the 13th into an excuse to pontificate if the real meaning of the day is being afraid of not being 12 anymore, because the number 12 is "associated with completeness". This all seems like stuff Ruby should be discussing with a therapist, given her obsessive fixation with being 12 and befriending 12-year-olds.

Ruby: "Oiy troiy tyo gat a little bit of FRASH AH--[abrupt cut]"

It's good for "mantle halth", apparently. Ruby claims she's always sure to be very attentive to everything around her when she's roaming her garden, yet never seems to notice the apocalyptic wasteland of mess, detritus, rusty trash and discarded furniture all over her yard.

Ruby: "Syo. Oiy've got into cwoffee."
Ruby: (Holds up a container of Grind coffee to show the logo as clearly as possible, then does an extended show-off of her Grind coffee machine.)
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Reminder: Grind coffee gifted Ruby (and other Sixteenth-repped influencers) her coffee pod machine. Conveniently unmentioned, along with failing to mention that this coffee was no doubt gifted, too.

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After preparing this gifted coffee with gifted milk using a gifted machine, Ruby claims it was SYO GOOD! This is her go-to phrase for praising gifted stuff she doesn't like or use. She takes a mouthful of coffee, swills it about awkwardly like she doesn't want to swallow it, then there's a hard cut.

After the cut, she's smiling nervously, like someone on a reality TV show trying to summon the courage to down a shot of liquified donkey fool to win a jungle challenge.

Then she takes another strawful and cuts away before it even makes it to her mouth.

This is not the normal behaviour of someone drinking a coffee or sampling a drink they enjoy regularly; this is someone trying to advertise a product they can't stand trying desperately to cut around herself spitting out mouthfuls into the sink after every sip. Then the same thing happens a third time. She takes a mouthful, swills it in her mouth, ballooning her cheeks like a hamster, then cuts away. She does this every time she drinks tea or coffee - there's a hell of a lot of swilling, chewing and trying to avoid actually drinking it and very little evidence that she actually enjoys them.

After another ad for PONKIN' PLODDITIFFTY, Rubert goes on one of her patented rambles about how she AWLWHEYS keeps her room tidy, even as she shows it cluttered with 406 dirty mugs which she never took the tea bags out of for some reason. She claims it only takes her 5 minutes to clean her room because she AWLWHEYS stays on top of mess, even though her room constantly looks like a dusty tomb littered with mess and dead flies.

I think what she means is that she has an incredibly low standard for what she considers clean. After all, in this video, she showed that she considered lazily dabbing at spilt ink with a dry napkin to be a sufficient and thorough means of cleaning it from her white desk.

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What an embarrassing mess of lies, fabricated events, fake timelines and utter stupidity.

 

[hart301]

Also, has anyone noticed that Ruby, despite being a literature student, a self-proclaimed voracious reader and an endlessly curious person, almost never reads authors who aren't British or American? I cannot recall her reading translated works.

She claims to know Spanish. Latin America and Spain have incredibly rich literary traditions and they are contemporary authors doing amazing work. She seems to like fantastical stories, Latin America is the home of magical realism and yet she is never able to reach beyond her British classics and expose her supposed curious mind to something new.

Don't get me wrong. I love British classics. I particularly love American literature. But I also try to read Japanese, Nigerian, Colombian, Argentine authors; I make an effort to get to know the world through narratives. Ruby would benefit tremendously from reading about places and lives that are different from her very cloistered existence.

The weirdest part is that her audience seems completely unbothered by all this.

I'm surprised she didn't hop onto the Osamu Dazai trend when the Bungou no Stray Dogs anime was out (she's def not gonna be an anime fan, but you'd think it would pique her interest / she'd fake because it's literature based & Dazai was all over book instagram for a while)

 

[DrinaM]

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Ruby: "Moiy favourite gryeen tea is the MwOaOww...fWeAngHh gryeen tea from Tea Pigs."
Ad declaration: [Missing]
(Ruby even moans that this tea is more expensive than her previous favourite green tea, implying that she bought it, but conveniently avoids mentioning that Tea Pigs have gifted her years' worth of teas.)

I had to re-play this bit several times to work out what the duck she meant. She moans that she found a tea that she really likes...she complains about it like its something bad. She found...a...tea and she is unhappy that she found it. Then I realised she was saying 'because it costs more than her regular tea'. I literally did not understand what her bleeping problem was until it hit me that she was doing a 'pretend to be hard up for cash' thing. The tea she likes and must have costs a lot of money.

Its not insulin. You don't need it. What a pretentious little brat.

 

[gossip_guy]

I had to re-play this bit several times to work out what the duck she meant. She moans that she found a tea that she really likes...she complains about it like its something bad. She found...a...tea and she is unhappy that she found it. Then I realised she was saying 'because it costs more than her regular tea'. I literally did not understand what her bleeping problem was until it hit me that she was doing a 'pretend to be hard up for cash' thing. The tea she likes and must have costs a lot of money.

Its not insulin. You don't need it. What a pretentious little brat.

Yeah, her performative poverty is beyond insulting as it is, but especially when she's going out of her way to complain about the cost of a tea which she got for free.

Also:

Translation: "There's no reason at all for me to not disclose my general role, but that would mean I wouldn't be able to wildly embellish the nature of my job and make it seem like I'm working 87 hour weeks and doing the work of 4 teachers and the headteacher all at once. I'm sure you understand. "

 

[DrinaM]

Yeah, her performative poverty is beyond insulting as it is, but especially when she's going out of her way to complain about the cost of a tea which she got for free.

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Translation: "There's no reason at all for me to not disclose my general role, but that would mean I wouldn't be able to wildly embellish the nature of my job and make it seem like I'm working 87 hour weeks and doing the work of 4 teachers and the headteacher all at once. I'm sure you understand. "

"working with young people is just so hugely rewarding' lol
Its so weird how she flips from being like a child, then flopping into being the spinster aunt teacher lady.
Yeah the performative poverty is sickening to me. Especially when we know that she drinks all that free tea. Like, if the tea she adores is out of her range of affordability, just don't buy it. If it is affordable for her (which of course is fine!) then just bleeping buy it and don't talk about the cost.

Makes me think 'whats that got to do with the price of tea in Roob land?'

 

[Deeznutslol]

Yeah, her performative poverty is beyond insulting as it is, but especially when she's going out of her way to complain about the cost of a tea which she got for free.

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Translation: "There's no reason at all for me to not disclose my general role, but that would mean I wouldn't be able to wildly embellish the nature of my job and make it seem like I'm working 87 hour weeks and doing the work of 4 teachers and the headteacher all at once. I'm sure you understand. "

God, this is the one possibly interesting thing she has done with her dull life and she wont talk about it??

 

[figgypud]

What does she mean, privacy? Nobody's asking her to name the school or her students, just talk about what she does day-to-day. Her reluctance tells me it's not much (not to undermine the work of teaching assistants, just Ruby).

Also lol at her being like "I won't tell you anything about it but I totally recommend that YOU do it without knowing anything about you or your attributes".