Ruby Granger #44 To be or not to be pretentious, that is the subjective question.

[Rumblemumble]

We can go wrong with an antique shop!

 

[missmina]

Hello, l’ve just discovered your thread which I’ve read with interest. I’ve watched some of Ruby’s vlogs and don’t know what to make of her. I discovered her when she made a vlog on Venice. She seemed to be there alone. As an art historian with a specialist interest in 18-C Venice I dm’ed Ruby with information and photographs and she did not respond, not even a thank you. I’m not sure that she’s as sweet and charming as she makes out. She also appears to be a bit of a loner. Does she hang out with many friends in ‘the city of dreaming spires’?

Knowing Ruby she would steal all the info you gave her, block you and then use it in her content pretending she did research herself. That’s what actual Ruby is like.

 

[Poguely]

With her only having classes on Thursday and Fridays, there is no way she isn't running straight back to the manor Saturday through Wednesday.

Hence why she never 'remembers' to film week day vlogs.

 

[Griftwood]

I was watching the latest Mina Le video about booktok and she mentioned an interesting concept - reading scene (a curated photo of a book within a physical space) which Ruby does constantly. Not to say that this is a bad practice per se, but when you're a MA student you might think Ruby would have something more to say rather than just show off her pretty books with occasional quote or AI generated paragraph. Ruby cares so much about the 'reading scene' to seem intelectual and productive that she misses the substance of what she is actualy doing in Oxford - studying early modern literature and how books come to be.

Mina was also talking about books as 'book-objects', something that Ruby was crazy about, but Mina actually managed to have an original thought and describe the notion as it relates to the modern readers. Ruby just gushes over this concept with no substance or analysis.

I’m hatching potential Masters thesis topics in my head atm and the idea of a projected readership, as portrayed through social media, is one I’m considering. It’s so fascinating. There’s a whole chapter’s worth of stuff to be said about everybody filming themselves crying over A Little Life, for instance.

 

[Griftwood]

Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers, Amazon.

 

[Griftwood]

We have a day in the varied and exciting life of an AXEFUD Masters student over on tt, set to audio from The Secret History: ”She was still a girl, a slight, lovely girl…” I need to physically hold down my eyeballs so they don’t roll right out of my head edit: the more I look at it, the more I’m reminded of how someone compared her default fake smile to Wallace & Gromit, and that somehow makes the cringy audio so much funnier

also I came across a recent video of hers on yt this morning and she was talking about Joseph Swetnam’s pamphlet The Arraignment of Women, only she keps saying ”sweet man” and ”arrangement”

 

[thegossboss92]

It really does seem like Oxford is very temporary. Maybe it wasn’t necessarily supposed to be at the start of her MA but it seems like she’s solidly over the whole thing. The way she said she “moved back” for the Xmas break and brought all her things with her and now she’s already planning on coming home for Easter. It doesn’t appear she’s thinking about staying on and seeing if there might be employment opportunities in academia or whatnot in Oxford. I think Ruby is just living out her boarding school fantasy.

Speaking of living her dream: I remember her visiting the Emily Dickenson museum and realizing that ED’s bedroom was next door to her mother’s and Ruby just lit up. Validation! That is probably how Ruby would acksually want to live too, I reckon. Be a revered author, live with mum.

 

[Griftwood]

I wonder if it's a case of the fantasy of the place and experience being so hyped up in her mind that the reality was a big let-down?

I think she really thought that she was really a hard-working academic intellectual at heart, but that she just needed the right environment. Kind of like some people (me) think if they lived in a bigger and nicer place, they’d like vacuuming. Alas, that’s not how it works.

 

[gossip_guy]

Just started watching the new video and I already have a question: why on earth would you include a close-up of your dirty dishes and put it in your video? What's the point?

It's likely because there's dirty dishes visible in the background shots and she wanted to jump in to casually insist that they're JANUINELY from the same day and HONNASTLEEEE haven't been there for days/weeks/months. She thinks calling attention to it and just lying will fool people into thinking she's being transparent. In reality, she's just a slob and far too lazy to tidy before filming.

It's far from the first time she's revealed that she just lives in squalor at Oxford, too, with dirty dishes piled high on the counters and floor for days on end:

She really needs to just drop out, make peace with the fact that she's a privileged person with aggressively average intelligence at best and just start making friends and spending her time with them free of the fakery. For all her pretending she's SOCH AND INTROVARRT and JANUINELY LOFFS STODDYING AND LAHHHRNING, she looks completely miserable and hopelessly out of her depth whenever she's pretending to read or trying to study things she has no hope of comprehending.

The only time she looks remotely happy is when she's around other people, removed from academia (or within arm's reach of mummy).

True to form for Ruby, she just mopes in her room alone eating nothing for most of this video, struggling to write an essay on a topic she doesn't understand for a degree that she's completely unequipped for, all the while insisting that she loves every minute. And then she wonders why her "MANTLE HALTH" isn't great.

And once again she complains that she can't focus or concentrate on anything and her attention span's destroyed after spending all day eating nothing but a few flakes of donut icing, but her solution is to just change locations and continue not eating.

My favourite part was when she exclaimed with shock that there's "SYO MANNIE GIFTED THINGS IN THIS VIDEEYOWWW: CROSSTOWN DYOHNOTS AND NOW THE OIVY." Two things is JANUNINELY SYO MANNIE and Ruby neglects to point out that every single video she uploads has between 4 and 25 undeclared ads for gifted/paid products, along with a main sponsor. She's clearly been looking at the ad criticism she's been getting and thinks more gaslighting and lies will count as transparency.

Ruby's fake accent claims another word victim: "The MASHROOM syoup was one off the basst syoops oiy've troiyed".

"It's SYO GUD fwore what nature calls..."Irresponsible reading"," Ruby says.

I must've missed that Attenborough episode, but I'm glad they're reading the classics and academic papers in the wild animal kingdom, too.

 

[gossip_guy]

Ruby's taking her embarrassing obsession with only ever showing herself reaching for high shelves in a desperate effort to look like a precocious child to a dangerous new level: She's started to add more climbing apparatus to the equation.

She also claims she's "had a paper accepted to speak at a conference". The last "conference" she was part of was the 'Empowered By Vee' vanity event where her managers made sure half of Sixteenth's creators got to give their own fake TED Talk to an audience of mostly Sixteenth employees and creators to boost their egos.

So either she's making shit up/wildly embellishing things again or she learned absolutely nothing from every disastrous public speaking event she's ever taken part in.

 

[theMoth]

i mean, nothing against this.

but what about the people you are filming in the restaurant sitting at the next table? it's not copyright, but another form of right and I don't know why people on the internet do this? why can't they just blur faces or maybe ... not film everything? or try a different angle so that you don't show other people? maybe?!
I also wonder if she has the permission of the professor for the last part of her video.

 

[Griftwood]

There’s just something really icky about her obsession with school and bullying. Not in a sinister way, more like she’s desperately looking for a personality for herself and for some reason thinks being a (self-proclaimed) victim of bullying and not wanting to grow up would somehow make her more interesting as a person. The only thing she’s accomplishing is coming across as fake and insincere.

 

[Griftwood]

Jade’s been to visit her over the weekend, brace yourselves bc the footage is insufferable.

 

[Pillow9]

Term is over and we are off to look at paintings high up with Basst Frand Baloney!

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Ruby has now referred to both Blheyknee and Hawlee as 'one of the brightest souls'. Maybe they'll fight to the death with the winner receiving the title and a lifetime supply of shite planners.

 

[tartandog86]

Is it just me or does the wording of this make it sound like she has no idea who Dylan Thomas is?

 

[gossip_guy]

Ruby couldn't even be bothered to pretend to use the company's new scam planner once a week herself and has now farmed out the company's social media to Martha (filming in Ruby's room and pretending to be Ruby). Yay, nepotism!

 

[CatCafe234]

I get that many of Ruby’s followers perhaps don’t really understand what academic conferences are, but do they really not understand ‘this week’? The OU debate was weeks ago …

 

[threeSMEGfridges]

With the Wes Anderson exhibit, do you get the feeling it was going to be Martha ACTUALLY having some quality time with her own parents and Roooobeee got FOMO and muscled in

 

[Hannahebee]

In a video that is 9 minutes and 40 seconds long she says um 34 times and uh 35 times.

 

[Griftwood]

Apologies for noob q, but how old is she?

In her mind forever TWALVE, physically 40, in real time she’s going to be 24 in May.