I think we can all agree that Ruby isn’t staying in education because she wants to bring down the capitalist machine - she’s doing it because she’s too scared, for whatever reason, to become an independent adult. There’s nothing wrong, per se, with staying in education and getting postgraduate degrees and maybe even a PhD. If you love learning and are passionate about your field the crack on, it’s how knowledge expands and develops and it’s the hallmark of a civilised society that we support people (badly, but we do) to do that.
But none of that is true for Ruby. She’s staying in education so that she can still mark off the years in new pencil-cases every September, so that she can hide away from adult life and responsibilities in her bedroom and so that she can carry on believing the fantasies that she’s created about and for herself. It’s sad and odd, and whilst we can say that it’s fine to do things as long as they don’t harm others (which, by the way, is something that I definitely believe in) Ruby does cause harm. She deliberately cultivates a very young and impressionable audience who shower her with praise, a good proportion of whom probably do attempt to copy her. She knows damn well that 99% of what she puts online is a lie, but a good number of the 12-13 years olds in her audience don’t, and think that they too should be studying for 28 hours a day on three frozen peas, two mugs of tea and a nibble on a rice-cake. It’s vile, and even more vile that Ruby pretends not to know why she invites some very legitimate criticism, and posts the ‘who, me?’ responses whenever someone points out that she’s being irresponsible. Ruby is not well mentally and as an adult, she needs to take some responsibility for that. I’ve said the same on the Holly Gabrielle threads but YouTube is not therapy, and therapy isn’t just sitting in an echo chamber of validation for your unhealthy behaviours. I would have a lot of respect for Ruby if she stopped posting for while and got some help, but she won’t because she prefers the empty praise to the real work of addressing her mental health issues.
It’s also odd to even try to infer that Ruby is doing what she’s doing as some kind of anti-capitalist protest. She does what she does because it brings in enough cash for her to maintain her very, very capitalist lifestyle of travel and obtaining mountains of stuff. Companies literally give her hugely expensive fripperies because of what she does - it’s the very antithesis of being anti-capitalist.