Ruby Granger #45 "Um" -- Ruby Granger, 2023

[Ilaariaa]

80% of the time her outfits are misses. I was trying to find some of her spring/summer outfits that I liked and it took me ages.

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She has so many clothes - they must be taking up ridiculous amounts of space in Bones Manor. Who needs that many outfits?

What these have in common is that she's not cosplaying as a WW2 orphan. Some people can pull off dressing vintage but it takes a bit of effort to avoid looking like an old lady or a child. Usually you need to style your hair and wear makeup to look chic and cohesive. And she doesn't do that bc it's too grown up for her
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And I wanna add that a few of these look fine if you don't look at her feet lol. You're like "wow looking like a normal girl for once" and then she hits you with the ankle socks and Oxford shoes

 

[aquinas]

I actually got excited seeing this vid pop up, thinking she was FINALLY going to tell us a bit more about what she's actually doing in this degree...someone pass me my clown costume

 

[qwikti]

The messiness of scuffing up a charity livestream is unreasonably annoying to me Just a bit of organisation and effort would take her such a long way. Why does it all have to be so half-arsed? Surely it's not that difficult? We've seen her days, they're hardly jam-packed so she can take a few extra minutes to make sure people are donating properly if she really cares about the cause.

 

[space.cat]

She can have an immaculate conception, get with times

 

[Whisper2Me]

She really has fallen off the YouTube/Social Media train. I wonder what is going on with her. Struggles with her degree, struggles with writing, struggles with growing up, struggles with not having the slightest idea what she is going to do after she gets her degree, if she gets her degree. I think she will be lucky if she barely passes. She definitely is not embracing the academic spirit or all that Oxford has to offer. I think she just wants it over, at this point, and to run back home for good so she can twirl in fields and lay on the wet morning dew in her white nightie, musing on clouds and being more than just productive. A good dose of a full time job, 9-5, with a major variety of co-workers and regular hours, limited vacation, would do her a world of good. Of course, most looking over her resume will be wondering why she went to Oxford for a Masters in that field and why she isn't pursuing a career in it. I don't get the impression she has anything lined up.

 

[FolderDuvet]

Takeaways from Roobee’s Easter weekend content:

1) they’re a family of hoarders - she showed all the books that they were getting rid of from their loft and it was hundreds of what mostly looked like children’s books

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2) she’s broken out the watercolours again

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To be fair, books are very easy to keep hold of, especially if you've got the loft space for it. A number of books from when my brothers and I were little are still knocking around from when we were little.

That said, the sheer volume of books is... A lot. Like, I thought our house had loads hanging about before the odd book clear outs we had done over the years, but thats crazy. And that's just the loft? Not anywhere else? I'm surprised they're keeping any of them. I tend to take a line with things like this that if they've sat somewhere like the loft for that long, they'd obviously not be missed and I just get rid of them.

 

[Redrose97]

Or if we are getting a video from her, it will be one that is sponsored and she needs to get it done for a certain time. I think that she will fade away with from social media until the course is done and then come back, and just focus on writing content instead of her trying to pretend that she's academic.

I think that Oxford has not allowed her to have her dark academia fantasy and she's been hit with reality/ or it's not gone the ways she's planned, and she's struggling to make content. There's only so many Oxford videos she can make using the same shots all the time and same content. She would do well with just a video about an aspect of her course such as female early modern writers, but she's never spoken about the actual content of her course. She could at least explain why she chose her course instead of filming herself looking as if she's going to have a breakdown at her laptop.

 

[Brightlycolouredbowels]

Her every interest is a performance so she has no time left to appreciate an actual performance. She doesn't like the opera or the ballet, she loves the idea of being someone who likes the opera and ballet. If I had her disposable income/family money, my butt print would be carved into the ROH seats. Pisses me off that these opportunities are handed out to spoiled brats like her when there are so many young people who would die for the opportunity. I don't even know if she has advertising value, her audience is very young. How many of them will see her at the opera and pressure their parents to go?

I also wasn’t sure why the ROH had decided to comp her seats (Row V of the stalls is £162 for the same opera next week) I suppose if they’re trying to get younger people interested she has a lot of followers. It’s a shame she just parroted a load of bollocks having googled ‘pretentious things to say about the opera’ rather than giving helpful information, such as how to get cheaper tickets for young people or cheap tickets available for everyone (standing, restricted view tickets start at £8), or even how welcoming they are there - there’s no dress code and staff are incredibly friendly and helpful etc - or the fact that for all non-English operas there are surtitles so you don’t have to be able to speak the language (something I was worried about on my first visit) which can be seen from almost all the seats - they‘ll tell you before you book if they can’t be seen. She could have given such a wealth of information that might have actually encouraged younger people to visit. Instead we get prancing up stairs and pretentious sh!te that you can barely hear because she filmed it in one of the noisiest parts of the opera house with no microphone.

 

[gbg414]

Describing Blakeney as her “favourite person” throughout this video is a bit much. If I were Blakeney I would be scared…

 

[Whisper2Me]

Um, I just don't know, um, what to, um, say, um, or, um, how to, um, express, um, myself, um, after, um, seeing, um, and listening, um, to this, um, video. Um...... I, um, am almost, um, as speechless, um, than Ruby. Um, I guess she, um, better, um, not go into teaching, um, or public speaking, um, or anything, um that means, um, talking, um, to others, um, in person, um, and, um, face to face. Um, because, um, she just, um, can't get, um, anything, um, or, um, herself, um, together.

Ladies and Gents. Oxford Masters Student. Give her a standing, um, ovation. Wtf was that?

 

[Griftwood]

She filmed the video almost two months ago, my theory is she was waiting for a suitable sponsor to come through but as that didn’t happen, she was forced to just shill her own stuff (undeclared, of course).

 

[yerdasellsavon]

This is the first time I've watched Ruby or posted about her on her in months, but I am completely lost for words.

She's 24 next month. 24-years-old. She's skipping and twirling in her garden before smelling flowers, saying "you need a pastry before visiting the garden centre", the weird ASMR, and just the whole tone of the video. It's so infantile it would be funny if it wasn't genuinely concerning. All the comments expressing concern have been deleted, so she's either ignoring any criticism, or believes it isn't relevant.

I've barely kept up with her so am not clued up on how her Masters is going. Presumably, it can't be going too well if she's having to escape from it to this extent but maybe someone can shed some light there? Anyhow, I really want to know what she's going to do after this year. She surely can't put off getting a job any longer, unless she pursues YouTube full time (which is plausible). What content does she do though? Surely stuff like this at 25/26/27 will be insanely creepy and I'm not sure who the audience would be either? I'm at a loss.

 

[yeya]

Has she got chocolate or something next to her lips or is that a spot? (In her most recent video)

Also what’s with the three ‘freckles’ on her eyelid

 

[evangelinesophia]

I’m just baffled that she chose to do a masters when she could just write, it seems like she much prefers it. Or she could even have done a masters in Creative Writing! Strange choices imo.

 

[Freyjalace]

That said, I genuinely think that Jade's stained dress still looks better than this
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In my language, we call that colour goose turd. It looks horrible.

 

[Whisper2Me]

I don’t think Ruby does act more normal around blakeney I think she seems more giggly and childlike- sometimes a little manic when she’s around her

I agree with you. She seems hyper, over-excited, like someone who just got a puppy for Christmas, and overreacts to everything. Blakeney is definitely more mature than her and I still feel like she is tolerating her to some extent. One example was a clip of them standing next to each other outside in the rain. Blakeney starts to look away, like she is looking at a tree or the sky. Ruby immediately thought she was going to twirl, so Ruby twirled and gasped, only to find out Blakeney never did and is over that behavior. Ruby looked at Blakeney for approval and received none. It was an awkward moment that portrayed that Ruby is still acting like a child and Blakeney has grown up. Of everything in that vlog, that moment is what I remember the most. See timestamp 9:52. Ruby's constant need to express joy by grimacing and bouncing around makes me want to sit her in a corner and force her to take a time out. I think she has always been like this.

 

[Griftwood]

I never thought I’d say this, especially so soon after she got it, but GOOD GOD SOMEONE TAKE THAT MICROPHONE AWAY FROM HER.

It’s an entirely new level of anti-ASMR hell, she’s whispering into it but the sound is somehow just as deafening and incoherent as her normal shouting-into-the-wind audio.

 

[Tookster]

I just reread this and saw how you met your first Jewish person at Uni. This really puts things in perspective for me.

When I was in Elementary, Middle and High School I had friends, from Grade 1, who were Jewish, Italian, Irish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Indian, Japanese, Cuban, Guatemalan, and from various African countries. We lived in the country. Cities are even more diverse. This was and is the norm.

In the neighbourhood my husband and I live in now we have 2 families from Greece, 2 from mainland China, 1 from Taiwan, Lithuania, 2 Jewish families, one couple with English and Norwegian background, 3 with Irish background, 2 from India, and ourselves. We did have a lovely black family but sadly they ended up divorcing and both left the town, though he occasionally comes back to visit with everyone and seems lonely. I'm French Canadian, Scandinavian and Iroquois, my husband is Irish and English. We are all one happy family. This is why I found it strange that she never had friends of other ethnic groups or people of colour, or indigenous friends. I can't even imagine it that way. Interesting. Thank you all for enlightening me on the situation in the UK.

I think we, in the UK, view heritages differently than the US. For example, so many Americans refer to themselves as Irish, as their great grandparents were immigrants who left Ireland for the US but to the rest of the world we would just say they’re American, not Irish, they just have Irish heritage.

 

[Wheels]

I enjoyed seeing how she organised her work because I’m nosy like that but that dropped off very quickly in the first term. I think she is under contract to deliver sponsored videos and so that’s what she is putting out and nothing else. It’s a real shame and points towards her struggling with her course or life generally.

 

[leah99]

I haven’t watched in a while but I’ve been curious and… you really wouldn’t guess she’s at Oxford, would you? It’s a shame, I’d have thought it would’ve been a place she would love! Maybe I’m biased as I lived there for a while, but even just for aesthetic vlogs it’d make a gorgeous backdrop but we aren’t seeing her spending much time there at all!!

The interactions with Blakeney remind me so much of a friend I’ve just cut off, actually. She’d just be too much, telling me I’m her favourite person and not really giving me a chance to speak or have a personality aside from what she also liked. Very immature and became quite suffocating with her interactions with me— something I see glimpses of definitely with Ruby. Not to say she’s the same at all but it reminds me of that friend who was just too much for what I could give, especially the whole “favourite person” “soulmate” thing…

In a way, I do sympathise with Ruby. I’m also nearing 24 and am struggling with parts of growing up. I think on my end, mental health issues and the pandemic stunted certain things for me (none of my degree was in person due to the lockdowns) and I also understand how she just wants to retreat home because it’s easy— of course, it’s easy when your parents will be there for you— but she is very fortunate to have the opportunity to find independence when a lot of people our age can’t. Where I am, moving out is just not feasible anymore but that doesn’t mean standing in the garden and twirling around will achieve much. I hope that once she’s done with her masters she’ll realise how she needs to really grasp the opportunities that she has. Not everyone has a following on social media like she does, why not put it to good use like other youtubers have managed to? She wants to write a novel? That’s fine, why not take the bull by the horns and follow the likes of Christy Anne Jones or someone? Try to inspire change like someone such as Vee?

This is a big long ramble but I just wanted to say I understand her in a way, but life will not come to you if you just stay in your childhood bubble, you really do need to branch out even if it’s uncomfortable. I don’t really see what she’ll be doing post-Oxford, but I sincerely hope she’ll find a path and, for lack of a better term, grow up a little.