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

[emmer_moans]

The advertisement showing her listening to academic texts on double speed confirms to me that she probably does this with other books to bump up her reading! I understand doing 1.2x for a slower narrator style but 2x is unhinged.

Agreed, depending on the narrator's pace, 1.25 is reasonable, to my ear, but 2x is just a headache and you take nothing in. I did have to listen to an Agatha Christie book on 1.25x the other day because the narrator was so slow.

 

[Mindovertime]

My one and only contribution to the discussion of her latest video is that her nails are absolutely disgusting and make me feel a bit ill

 

[camotea]

Don't well connected and over educated girls like Ruby inevitably end up in publishing?

 

[SharyBobbins]

I’ll never understand her choice in glasses. Just hideous!

To each their own, but as a fellow wearer of glasses, I am not keen on Ruby's. She has petite features and they're very big glasses.

Her glasses make me think of Aisling from Derry Girls (who is a great character so this is not a diss!).

 

[Tookster]

Long time lurker here, but I’ve had to break the habit to say this is so extremely ableist?? I’m shocked no one else has clocked it; can’t just be me being overly sensitive???

In what way is it ableism?

 

[Tookster]

Looks like she's about to snap her neck...

I’m thinking “bent necked lady”

 

[duchess_wallis]

The way she is whispering and simpering made me think she thinks she is the most precious and the most baby ever (and I mean baby in the literal sense).

She has the air of being so spoiled and pampered and kind of "I know I am spoiled into a stupor of stupidity and I am proud of myself for it". Like how does she not watch it back and get intensely embarrassed

 

[Whisper2Me]

What’s happening in November? Looks like the graduation emoji

I'm basically ready to throw up over her filthy screen!

 

[Sibyl Vane]

And on top of the ad blurb usually being incredibly misleading, she ads her own lies on top. She just can't stop herself from claiming every sponsor product is her favourite [blank] ever. She refuses to stop claiming that every product is one that she "YEEZES AVVERY SINGOL DAY!" even though that's blatantly not the case. She had to make up completely preposterous and outright untrue scenarios in order to shoehorn in a sponsor she doesn't use, like her claiming she needed a VPN to access Barnes & Noble's website or place and order. Sponsors don't (or shouldn't) ask a promoter to do that. She's doing that of her own accord to try to suck up to sponsors because she thinks it'll lead to more opportunities and cash.

Noice

 

[gossip_guy]

They have a cleaner (she's called Clara) but you can't clean clutter- as I very gently had explained to me by the cleaner I had when my mental health was bad. If they have so much crap there's only so much dear Clara can do with it to make it look... less crap

I believe Clara = Claire/Mummy Bones. She goes by the name Clara Raven for her blog/writing, too.

The only cleaner they likely employ are for the AirBnB cottages they own in Devon.

 

[theMoth]

I saw a hare, and it was all YALLOW

I think I had similar shoes when I was 12. (I never was one of the cool kids, never shopped at H&M and I entered my trainers-wearing phase in my adulthood. My 12-year-old me would have liked Ruby's fashion sense.)

 

[emmer_moans]

Not the yellow rainhat again...

 

[yeya]

Confirmation of no Oxford PhD? ‘Leaving’ for summer? Cambridge PhD?

 

[Officedoor123]

I agree but I don't personally think Blakeney gives off the same vibes towards Ruby. Idk it feels like a one sided crush to me.
But I don't really want to speculate on someone's sexuality or the nature of a relationship between two people.

I love to speculate on other's people's lives Sadly, i think you might be right about Blakeney not giving off the same vibes though.

 

[Alfie93]

First time poster on Ruby's thread. I used to watch her years ago and then realised how unhealthy her content was mainly back in the days when she posted 12+ hour study days.

I had to see what other people meant so have just checked out her latest video. I'm very concerned for her welfare. Looks to me like she's having a breakdown. If she was 15 and posting this stuff I would still be worried but is it 24 she is?

Someone in her personal life needs to step up and do something here I'm thinking her parents or someone should contact her parents. They can clearly afford private mental health care and they need to.

I feel really sad for her as even though I thought she was snobby/thought she was cleverer better than others I did believe she was overall harmless. There's a lot of worse people on YouTube out there than her e.g. family vloggers who are exploiting their kids.

If anyone is reading this and knows her or her parents personally I really hope they do something.

 

[glossluvr]

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.

Long time lurker here, but I’ve had to break the habit to say this is so extremely ableist?? I’m shocked no one else has clocked it; can’t just be me being overly sensitive???

 

[Peony14]

I think completely stepping away may not be an option that can be done just in the spur of the moment. Since she has management and regularly posts sponsored content I can imagine that she is bound by contracts for a certain amount of time until the contract either runs out or is terminated.

 

[leah99]

please Ruby, even just 1/3 off would look so much healthier!! I don't know, when I cut my hair after I graduated high school it was liberating in a way. I used to always have long hair but never again, plus I find it actually takes less upkeep!! But she definitely looks younger there, appearance-wise still very much the age of the other people but by her style and stance, very juvenile and unfortunately, I can attest to her behaviours still resembling ED patterns, especially the way she films food. It's not unlike my own behaviours when I'm going through a bad patch with mty own ED

maybe I was a bit harsh, in her latest video at around 7:23 her hair looks really lovely!! So grown up and suits her age so so well! Please Ruby, stick to something with a bit of a curl and make an effort! Either it's just because it's something different but with a bit of face-framing pieces and styled, it'd look so much better!

Re: the latest video, has her morning routine ever really changed aside from reading whilst brushing her teeth? Who even does that... Again, no mention of much about her studies aside from the brief mention of being a Master's student. This wouldn't be shocking if her entirety didn't revolve around academia. It makes me wonder what she'll be doing post-graduation. We've seen her look into a PhD but something tells me that she either won't be able to cope with that or hasn't got what she needs to pursue it. Again, I'd really like to see her do more. More than staying at home and sharing her carrots and buttered toast. More than the same shots of the Bodleian and Jesus College's courtyards. Just something that is completely outside her comfort zone yet still aligns with what she's branded herself as.

 

[StatusWoe]

frankly she’d be a shoe-in for Civil Service fast stream

I think that would suit her actually, especially options to WFH.
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No story is completely original, but from what she has shown, all of her writing projects have been extremely derivative of classic authors.

This comes across in her poetry too. She'll have a thought like 'flowers in spring' or 'countryside rain', but it's clear she doesn't know how to develop that fragment into a full narrative. It's more acceptable with poetry because a poem can be a basic description of thing x, but when it comes to stories you need more of a plot. I think this is why Ruby always falls back on nature descriptions in her writing. Once she finishes describing the fields, she needs to think about themes, character and plot. This is where life experience helps as well.

I'm not saying she can't do it, just that it's harder for her than describing rain for the zillionth time.

 

[Griftwood]

Unbelievable… her post TODAY! her entire personality is the weather but apparently she only started talking about it yesterday…
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Too busy with her diss to post regular content - not too busy to draw on fake freckles. Let’s have a little closeup of her Wallace&Gromit face, why don’t we