Ruby Granger #40 Ruby the linguistic terrorist

[Griftwood]

This is how you know she has too much time on her hands. Ruby, read your set texts for your upcoming Masters! Get ahead of the reading while you can!!

She’s copy/pasted the Wikipedia entry for The Anatomy of Melancholy into her Nyotion and watched a youtube video on Samuel Pepys’s shorthand, surely this is the pinnacle of scholastic achievement - what more do you want her to do?

 

[Ilaariaa]

the time she put the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book in Latin through Google Translate,

Jesus when did she do that?

Reading Harry Potter in Latin tells me she approached learning Latin like learning a modern language (that is, using things you're already familiar with). Which is a legitimate choice that some schools make but probably more trouble than it's worth. I never really got the point of that strategy since you're probably not gonna be talking to people or writing things in Latin. Latin is mostly used to translate classical texts using a dictionary. So imo it makes more sense to focus on what you need to do that (very good knowledge of grammar and translation techniques, mainly). Especially considering Latin is not even her academic focus area. Yes it's less fun but ultimately a lot more rewarding and efficient imo. Also Google Translate is rubbish at Latin
Source: studied Latin for five years and it was my favourite subject at school

 

[Griftwood]

I watched that latest and I genuinely don't understand one of her tips. It seemed to be to read a book you like. I might be overthinking it but who needs to be told this?

It’s probably a novel idea to her, because she’s yet to find a book she actually likes outside of A Little Princess and most of the time she just pretends to read.

 

[CatCafe234]

I’ve been thinking more about Ruby’s decision to apply for the early modern MSt, and how - to be frank - utterly ridiculous it is. She doesn’t like the period; it’s never been her literature of choice; we know this. She’s very obviously applied because it’s less competitive to get into compared to some of the other MSt courses. I realise these are not original points, but just recapping here before moving on.

The issue is that she is SO fixated on going to Oxford that she’s screwed herself over in terms of doing something she might actually like, academically. Feel free to skip my entire post if you’re not interested in deeply nerdy waffling about alternate options she could have (should have) taken.

Ruby will struggle to get good marks on the MSt, because she’s one of the weaker members of the cohort. She did a less rigorous degree and got a lot of help, whereas others in the cohort will have done more rigorous degrees without leaning on a friend the way Ruby did (and will also have genuine, independent interest in the period).

She will probably try to compensate for being at the weak end by (1) slogging and (2) sucking up to the dons, but neither will work quite as well at masters level. However, she’s canny enough to weaponise her mental health for extensions etc (I’m not concerned about mentioning this because I don’t believe it’s giving her ideas - she knows), and Oxford will grant those. She knows how to advantage herself.

If she underperforms in the masters, she will have a much more difficult time being accepted for a DPhil at Oxford (even though she is massively advantaged by not needing to win competitive funding, like most students). What she could have done - but didn’t because she just wanted to get to Oxford as quickly as possible - was do a masters in something that actually interested her (children’s literature), and where it was thus much more likely she would get higher marks. That would also have given her a more focused and refined application for DPhil at Oxford, along with, ironically, a stronger academic profile, and she could’ve gained a doctoral place for four years!

There absolutely are academics at Oxford who are interested in children’s literature and would have considered supervising her, if she’d presented a strong DPhil application with high masters marks in a relevant field. I’m not saying who they are because I refuse to help her, haha.

But her chances of successfully applying to write a doctoral thesis on something she would genuinely like (twentieth century literature for children/girls, mostly) are if anything hurt, not helped, by the MSt she is doing. It makes her look indecisive and academically unfocused. The appropriate MSt would have been the modern one, but I’m guessing she felt she wouldn’t get in, and was intimidated by the content. You don’t study modern and contemporary literature at a top university without engaging properly with literary theory and challenging texts. That’s why she should have done a focused masters somewhere else, aimed to nail that with high marks, and then gone for Oxford. But oh well. Too late now.

I have to admit I’ve long wondered why she didn’t go for a Masters in Children’s Literature. I know of a couple of courses and they are pretty prestigious and the grads I know have gone on to do things like writing children’s books and working in YA publishing. It just seems like that would be such a good fit for Ruby - she wouldn’t necessarily be able to do it at Oxbridge but there would be nothing stopping her going to Oxbridge later on. It just seems to me that at this level, you need to have an interest in what you’re studying or you’re going to really struggle, and like you say, Ruby doesn’t really seem to have a real interest in her course.

 

[gossip_guy]

"Ackshually, what oiy mannt was..."

"Oiy could possibly beee wrong about sommthing onnrelated, boht mwoar reesaaarch is required..."

Just accept that you're a moron and pay more attention when making content to seem less stupid in future, Ruby, it's not hard.

The death rattle of PONKERPODTIFTI must be eating away at Ruby's fragile ego, since she's finally got off her ass to go visit the printer/warehouse in a last-ditch attempt to convince people that she JANUINELY has some involvement in the business and HONNASTLEEEE isn't just a glorified marketing intern.

She reveals that after another year of alleged "hard work", it's exactly the same as all the other planners.

 

[Rumblemumble]

Her new instagram post. "... new favorite photo of my desk..." wtf

she's got a favorite wall in the house, doesn't she?

 

[gossip_guy]

"Oi'm VARRY TANTATIVE to tawlk about this," Ruby says while recommending ChatGPT as a VARRY PRODOCKTIVE TYOOL. "Because...thahhr are lwots of problems with AYY OIYY...and obviously this should NWOT BEE YEESED...in place of hyeeman creativity and loike in a creative capaciteeee AND AWLSYO...SHOULD NAVVER ACKSHUALLY BEE DYOING YORE WAHRK FWORE YEU? LOIKE...(WAVES HANDS AROUND)...OBVIOUSLY OIY'M NOT GYOWING TYO SIT HERE AND RACKOMAND THAT... IT HARTS YEU AS A STYEEDENT, STOPS YEU FROM LAHHRNING. IT ALSYO HARTS...A HYOLE WOIDA CREATIVE INDUSTREE."

Reminder: Ruby used ChatGPT and other plagiarised sources to slap together a shitty recipe book, then took full credit for making it herself. She also spent her entire university career doing everything possible to avoid doing her own work or learning anything.

Her dramatic, fake little Tattle-inspired lip service disclaimer would have a lot more weight to it if she hadn't been caught red-handed getting ChatGPT to straight-up do her work for her in a variety of ways.

And it's awfully coincidental that Ruby's suddenly VARRY CONSARRNED about the danger AI poses to careers in creative industries only after it was mentioned on Tattle how ridiculous it is for her to keep recommending AI as a self-proclaimed writer considering the risks it poses to creative jobs...

Ruby Granger #40 Ruby the linguistic terrorist

I screenshotted this a few days and never got round to posting this but this seems SO back handed and snooty to me. Like yeah of course she thinks trains are great because she probably doesn’t even notice the constant price increases. Also, she can travel off-peak since she’s not working so...

tattle.life

Hmm...

To make it even more ridiculous and embarrassing, I'm pretty sure Ruby had ChatGPT help her write this section of the video, too.

She's recently been having ChatGPT generate things like 'Using ChatGPT for Student[...]' and 'Benefits of Simplifying Tasks'. There's absolutely no way that Ruby's been using it as a tool to test her knowledge of things she's already read (ha!), but I imagine ChatGPT came up with that as a potential study use for it and she ran with it. Just embarrassing lies in every video.

The fact that this video is 70% recycled footage from recent content goes to show how creatively bankrupt she is.

And despite claiming that she always does 7.8 billion tasks AVVERY SINGLE DYAYYY, she's now saying that she's had a newfound surge of energy recently thanks to her new habit of eating POURADGE FWORE BRACKFSST and reading ACADAMICK LITERACHAAAH. She'll now be incorporating them into her daily routine to MAXIMOIZE PRODOCKTIVITEEEEA. Y'know, porridge and reading essays - those things that Ruby has claimed have been part of her daily life in every routine video she's ever made.

Lying is the only activity she seems to have any real passion for and she's still hilariously bad at it.

She also still hasn't figured out how to use the word "tentative" correctly.

 

[JustVibing]

I just realized there is literal birdshit on the chair where she puts her head. This is a new low, even for her.

 

[Griftwood]

Now I’m not usually a Ruby defender, but those were alpacas, and alpacas do not often like to be touched. Especially by strangers. I doubt she goes often enough or feeds them enough (ever) for them to become familiar and trusting of her. So it’s probably safer to not touch

Yeah I just kind of want her to stay away from all animals on principle. Bad vibes all over.

 

[robinhiggs]

Just had a of hers video recommended from 5 years ago, she's been recycling this 'things to do over the summer' for YEARS.

Also the description talking about how she forgot to mention getting a job or volunteering - so privileged.



No way she went on holiday and made a QUESTIONAIRE TO ASK THE LOCALS get a life Ruby

 

[Daredevil]

 

[DrinaM]

From Roob's tiktok about her 'anthology or zine of poems'. I think this comment was intended to be a bit of a backhanded compliment lol. Not sure of the intentions, but the commenter is stating a fact. Helium Balloons IS a mere pamphlet. Tbh it looks like a very poorly made Program for an end of school year assembly to show the order of events. 'You are the proud author of a pamphlet' is a bit funny. To me, a pamphlet is what the lady at the waxing salon gives me to show me the services and price list lol.

Historically, a pamphlet could refer to an official document distributed to notify the public of an important statement made by the author. My point is, pamphlets are generally distributed at the cost of the author. I also get the feeling that this commenter was implying the same. Roob however is charging people for her pamphlet lol.

 

[figgypud]

So I most unwisely watched Rubert’s new video. Two things… Firstly, if she’s been practising academic writing for ten minutes daily since 2016, why on earth isn’t she a better writer? She just… isn’t very good. I’m genuinely surprised that she claims to have such a consistent writing practice; is this a Rubert porky-pie? Am baffled.

Secondly, did my eyes and ears deceive me or did she cite Gatsby as a good example to follow of how to conduct one’s day-to-day life?

The thing is, you can "practise" something as much as you like but if you get no feedback on it, the skill isn't going to develop and you're going to get into the habit of bad execution. It's like when she says she's learning Latin or Spanish, there are probably mistakes she's making that are getting further embedded into her practice because nobody with actual knowledge is correcting her. It's a vital part of learning, to be checked and corrected by someone who knows the subject better than you do.

 

[Ilaariaa]

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Her mother sure does feel the need to write on her blog about the tiniest, most mundane things that no one cares about. Wow, you slightly lost balance on a
boat and bumped into your daughter? Mindblowing.

I also love the choice of words in the bee section. They were "stranded" on a tiny beach? She's making it sound like they were refugees starving with a broken leg. They were on holiday on the Amalfi coast and she had a booboo on her finger. Calm down lol

 

[Eileen.G999]

That attitude is insane. Extensions are for real problems like legitimate, serious illness, not because you’re a bit stressed or can’t get it together. Otherwise what is the point of having a deadline in the first place?

If you’re a big fan of Ruby’s you…may not enjoy this thread very much, I’m afraid. (Not trying to say you can’t post or anything, but this is a weirdly defensive response to my post and you seem Very Invested.)

Now , now ladies its pre autum and our favoite day of the week (sunday) is almost upon us lets be kind I will send u thank u letters if u agree to disagree

 

[allthemyths]

I went back to check that section and she steals absolutely everything and contributes nothing of her own.

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The design template is one of the stock layouts/designs from the website/printing service she used.

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Most of the recipes and images are copied and pasted from Pinterest.

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Others nabbed from specific sites she found in Google searches.

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She just copies and pastes everything, with no attention paid to any missing information, like cooking instructions.

Most of the recipes have no instructions whatsoever, just a list of raw ingredients for you to pile into a bowl and eat with a fork, presumably.

For the few that she's included cooking instructions, there are...issues.

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James's Peach Rolls (from James and the Giant Peach, I guess, but she doesn't clarify who or where any of these recipes originate from and leaves it to the imagination) have cooking instructions included, mercifully. Only...instead of an actual recipe for peach rolls, she's just copied this recipe for vegan brioche, word for word:

Vegan Brioche Recipe

Brioche bread is a rich and fluffy French classic. Today we are making a vegan brioche bread that is just as delicious!

makeitdairyfree.com

And in her rush to steal all her content from other sources and put in zero thought or effort of her own, she forgot that there are no peaches in that stolen recipe and so peaches aren't included anywhere in the cooking instructions. There's just a half-assed note on the ingredient list - 'Sliced peaches (to roll inside)' - but no indication at what point to do that, because she was too damn lazy to amend the instructions.

So the design is borrowed and the recipes incompetently stolen, but surely someone who brags that she JANUINELY reads 1,000s of books a year and loves literature more than anything has a few memorable passages and scenes rattling around her dusty, hollow skull? Especially since she's constantly advertising all the annotation apps she AWLWHEYS YEEZES.

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Nah, she just skimmed Goodreads quotes until she found something food-related.

You might think she's at least contributed her own ideas as a starting point, using foods she remembers from her favourite books, right? Or since she loves REEESAAARCHING AND LAAAHRNING so much, she'd grab a favourite book from her shelf and skip to the passages about food?

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Nope. She got ChatGPT to think of things for her.

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"find some pieces of food writing in the beatrix potter books and list them for me please"

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"give me some foods and extracts about these foods which appear in the charles dickens b[...]"

But not to worry, I'm sure for Harry Potter she'll have some quotes memorised or scenes in mind, considering she stole her fake name and her entire fake personality from a character in the books. She should know those books like the back of her grimy hands. And she has the books on her "BOCKSHALVES" to grab and check for the quo--

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"find a quote from harry potter about butterbeer"

Oh.

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"can you find a quote from a book where[...]"

Oh dear...

I guess it's too hard to come up with her own ideas or find quotes for herself when she only pretends to read books.

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She proudly shows off her plagiarised creation and there's no credit anywhere for illustrations, photos, recipes, quotes, etc. If she tries charging money for this, it'll be a shitstorm. And I guess it's a different matter if this is just something she did for fun, but there seems to be zero fun involved, either.

It's not exactly a fun passion project when it's a joylessly and cynically slapped-together pamphlet to which she contributed nothing of her own and which is focused around her completely fake interest in literature. It's just embarrassing on every level.

And what makes it even worse is that she was stupid enough to leave all this footage in, because she thinks time-lapse footage will hide everything in a blur of faux-productive busywork. She's her own worst enemy, and I'm not sure why anyone believes her lies at this point when she shows her hand in every video.

@gossip_guy More than ever – great work.

However, like someone before me, I wonder how her fans don't notice what form of – I can think of no other term – fraud she is practising. All the time. Her pamphlet with artless, pointless, childish "writing" is one thing; this cookbook (???), which doesn't even deserve the name, is quite another. It is simply theft. Uncreative, ridiculous theft that illustrates yet again that Ruby doesn't have a single creative bone in her body.

At first, in her chubby-cheeked days, I found her curious and morbidly fascinating; by now she makes me genuinely angry. Not only is she pulling money out of kids' (and their parents') pockets, she herself is already sitting on a pile of cash, completely unjustified, that she can live on without ever having actually worked for it. All she does is play pretend. The extent to which her bizarre childish behaviour has taken on is by now repulsive and shocking to me, not to say pathological.

I can't for the life of me explain why no one ever steps in. How anyone lets this woman in her mid-twenties (!) live like this.

 

[abcbabe]

She is doing all the prep for Oxford except the actual prep she needs to do aka academic reading.. she is like me when I know I have to draft a boring report so I decided to deep clean my whole house and reorganise the closet instead lol
also why did she buy an official Apple Pencil? there's non apple ones on amazon that work fine for £25

 

[gossip_guy]

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Ugh, that floor I'm assuming someone in her family, most likely her mother, is filming this and saw no problem with showing their house in this state. So up to some point, you can say that Rumbster is just used to living in filth and it's normal for her because she was brought up like that. But then... she grows up? she goes to other people's home? She sees other people's home in videos, movies, series etc?? Did she really never notice that nobody has wet, disgusting floor, and grimy countertops, moldy sinks, and smelly sheets????

What makes their kitchen even worse is that the glass ceiling retracts with a crank. These vacant-minded dunces often just leave it open even on rainy days, so their whole kitchen - floors, countertops, piano in the corner, everything - gets flooded with rainwater all the time. I don't know if that's how they think other people clean their kitchens, but I dread to think what that house smells like.

 

[gossip_guy]

Ruby? As a mentor even if it's only for few weeks? Not sure it's a good idea. It's not even about being inappropriate, it's just about herself. Maybe after truly working on herself? But the Ruby we know now wouldn't be a great mentor.

Yeah, the last thing she should be doing is working with or around children again.

It's not like she has any genuine interest in working in childcare or teaching as a fulfilling career to further the development of others, she clearly just wants to be around kids to live vicariously, prolong her own long-expired childhood and try to impress people far younger than her.

Her Peter Pan complex has probably been one of the most stifling parts of her personal development considering she's still cosplaying as a primary school girl with her child's bed and pictures of children all over her walls. I hope no other employers enable that bullshit.

She'd be better off getting a job working with and around adults in a role that she didn't secure through nepotism, it might give her a shred of life perspective. So far, she still hasn't left her sheltered bubble even when she was "wahhrrking".

 

[VeryFerociousDrama]

I stopped watching Jade a couple of years ago, and watching her in this reminds me exactly why...