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

[threeSMEGfridges]

Is that what that kind of cake is supposed to look like?

Are they almond cakes as everyone except Martha like almond

 

[Melissac98]

Perhaps I'm nitpicking but in her Paris vlog, but when talking about the Impressionism exhibition, Ruby says many of the great Impressionist artists were first shown in this Salon show, and given acclaim for that style of art, but if you really know anything about the history of Impressionism from an academic sense, you'd know that these artists were famously rejected by the salon. The exhibition wasn't a salon show, it was a rebellion against it organised by the artists, and was famously mocked by critics like Louis Leroy. Of course it's great that people go to exhibitions and enjoy the art, but go for that reason - to enjoy it, not speak on it with the authority of an art history scholar when you've not even read the Wikipedia page about the movement

 

[CoffeeMamma]

It honestly bothers me so much how scruffy Ruby is with her rumbled, stained, filled-with-holes clothing. She is gifted such expensive clothing and she gets it all rumpled or she dresses so poorly with that money. She looked as if she is was trying to emulate a nun with that skirt.

It is the same with her house with how scruffy the family are and I was just shocked with all the books that were in the attic. I don't know if it brought me memories of being at home with my parents who are borderline book hoarders. They have bags of books all around the house and piles everywhere, including one pile in their bedroom that is about six feet high and about eight feet across!

I don't know how Ruby can get away with being so scruffy other than the fact that she is middle /upper class. You just know that people would be looking down their noses if she was working class and there would be comments online about it. Then again, Ruby is given a constant feedback loop with her young followers and her family, I think that other than here, the only place where she would get criticism is on her essay feedback.

"What is something that is acceptable if you're rich and trashy if you're poor?"

 

[tartandog86]

That said, I genuinely think that Jade's stained dress still looks better than this

 

[gossip_guy]

"HALLO, MOIY NYAME IS RYOOBEE AND OIY JANUINELY LOFF STODDYING MWOAR THAN ANNIETHING. IT NAVVER FEELS LOIYKE WAHHRK BECOSS OIY'M AWWHLWHEYS ENJOYING IT, HONNASTLEEEEE!"

Ruby while studying:

 

[LostGhosts]

I think Ruby has 0 passion for social media/content creation any more but does have passion for £££ hence why we only see sponsored videos and undisclosed adverts. What she wants is to be 15 again back in her childhood bedroom getting to be the no 1 GCSE study gal again but that won't happen. Her audience has aged but she hasn't, she is out of touch with her 'brand' and too rigid and stuck in her ways to change. I think she will keep up half arsed influencer content until sponsors dry up, and can also use it to guarantee at least some sales/positive reviews of any books that do eventually get published

 

[tartandog86]

I can't believe she's attended a black tie ball in that awful green dress...

 

[Hannahebee]

The obsession that she has with Carrots is really starting to annoy me.

 

[Griftwood]

I doubt she’ll talk about her topic, especially if she’s thinking about a PhD. Ruby reminds me of those people in school who would wrap their arms around their work so no-one could copy them - which is amusing when someone’s nine (or TWALVE) but weird in someone who’s mid-twenties and hoping for an academic career …

It’s just laughable. If you have a genuine interest in what you’re doing and a genuinely original angle, you’re not going to worry about someone copying your topic. Her idea of academia is that it’s just like school, only with higher stakes.

 

[yeya]

In her IG story where she’s recording herself donating to charity (so she can’t be accused of not doing it ) she has a tab open for an Oxford DPhil . I’m not sure what the deadlines are like for PhD but surely she would know by now if she’s going…? So what do we think? Has she already got an offer from Oxford? Is she taking a gap yaahr and applying for 2025/2026? I feel like if she had a PhD offer from somewhere else she wouldn’t be looking at the Oxford one.

 

[Griftwood]

I mean fair, imagine only getting to smell a potato once a year.

 

[Pillow9]

It makes me so angry that, at a time when ballet and opera are increasingly inaccessible financially to so many people, Ruby has been 'gifted' a ticket to see Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House. The performances are all sold out so it's not like they needed the publicity. She's such a shameless grifter.

She'll grab anything she can with her dirty, stumpy, tote bag wielding little mitts.

 

[londongirl92]

More evidence that she reads here if we needed it… funny that she hasn’t touched her gymnastics stuff in forever. It gets discussed here and then her next video she includes it. Slightly terrifying watching her fling herself around on the trampoline.

 

[gossip_guy]

I do wonder what she is going to do content-wise after Oxford. I could see her doing a PhD to stay in academia longer even if she hates it but it will stop her going into the real world for a few years and it will be at least guaranteed content.

It'll just be the same lazy copy-and-paste content she's been crapping out for years.

After graduation there'll likely be a messy 'REFLAKCHON' video where Ruby gets on her soapbox again to blame everyone/everything else for her not having the time of her life at Oxford. There'll be no specifics, it'll be lots of wild generalisation and "AS AYYY SOCIETEAAAA, WEEE TAND TYEUUU..." moaning about things that only Ruby does or thinks, waving her claw hand around, and vague yammering about the RESTRICTIVE, TOXIC AND ONNFAIR NAYCHA OF GRADES, the MISGOYDED DANGERS OF OIYDEALOIYSING MACADAYMIA and the IMPWORETANCE OF NWOT RYOMANTISOYZING AVVERYTHING ABOUT YEENIVARRSITEEEEEEAAAA.

There'll be an air of 'never meet your heroes' sour grapes that Oxford let her in, yet didn't immediately recognise all the natural talent and academic genius that her mummy assures her she VARRY MOCH POSSASSES, THANKYEUUVARRYMOCH. It definitely won't be her fault that she chose to pursue an academic path she had no genuine interest in and was woefully unequipped for, at a uni and only wanted to go to for the superficial trophy appeal.

She'll spin it like she was unfairly treated and harp on again that the educational system is TYEU RESTRICTIVE AND PONNISHES PEEPOL FWORE BEING TYEU ACKSAPSHONAL AND CREATIVE. This is especially likely if Ruby's grades are as bad as it seems. She'll assure everyone from her out-of-touch bubble that IT'S YOKAY TYEU NOT KNYOW WHAT YEU WANT TYEU DYEU NAXT! YEU CAN SIMPLY TAKE AYYY GAP YAHHH OR SAVVEN AND YORE BILLS WILL MAGICALLY PAY THAMSALVES!

Then she'll likely take another year off to "focus on her writing career". Zero progress will be made and no book deal will happen. There'll be a seemingly endless stream of crappy deja-vu vlogs and routine videos, each more sloppily-edited than the last. Every one will be sponsored by a product that Ruby does not use or understand. There'll be no insight or reflection into her writing aspirations or process because she has none beyond wanting a £1million book deal for copying other people's work and doing as little as possible. It'll just be more time-lapse footage of her staring morosely at screens trying to look busy followed by interludes wherein she twirls and grimaces around her yard, pretending to be a child.

She'll shoehorn reminders that she went to Oxford in wherever she can. Titles like 'Morning Routine of an Oxford University Graduate' and 'a day in the life of an Oxford Graduate writer || cosy & productive' will crop up over and over. They'll be the same assembly-line vlogs full of fake, embellished and suspiciously vague activities to make her days seem overwhelmingly busy (SHE'S JANUINELY NWOT JOSST AN ONEMPLOYED LAYABOUT, HOWDAEEERYEUUUUU) - lots of nebulous "WAHHRK"/"ADMIN WAHHHRK," non-existent meetings and HONDREDS OF BOCKS WILL JANUINELY BE RAD. PONKINPOD TIFTEAAAAA will reoccupy a big chunk of her fake schedule after forgetting all about it and that new disastrous scam planner that she never advertised after it launched. Occasionally there'll be a book recap/readathon video in which Ruby claims to have read a lot of books, but can only talk about the cover or a basic plot blurb of any of them.

Naturally, she'll go on at least a dozen holidays. In the vlogs that follow, she'll complain about the price of something inconsequential, like she's destitute and not trotting the globe every week or blowing £30,000 on degrees to try to boost her ego.

Then it's back to uni, no doubt for another undergrad degree (my money's on a redo of theology at AXATAR) to hit the reset button on adulthood again, lower the stakes and make sure she's challenged substantially less. Three more years of the exact same 'staring at screens looking despondent, then holding an undeclared gifted product up to camera' study vlogs will follow as her views slowly die off as she fades further into irrelevance.

If she gets onto a PhD course, it'll all be exactly the same, there'll just be less content and she'll look even more miserable.

 

[Thehogonthelog]

Ruby was briefly featured in the latest Mina Le video, where she mentioned her as an example of making a spectacle of herself writing a book rather than writing itself (which is deemed boring).

It is interesing to see that even in brief passing Ruby is valued by her surface level aesthetics, rather than what she actually might have to say (not much of substance, really).

Like it is mentioned in the quote, she is just a product to consume.

 

[curlysue123]

i dont understand how ruby has 800k subs and gets so many sponsorships when her editing is still atrocious at least for the intro mute your clips if you're using loud music. In some parts it's the video audio, music and voice over all playing at once. And after all these years film a damn new outro or dont use one at all

 

[Poguely]

Elaborate? Ruby just stopped hanging out with her?

Online classes became a thing and Ruby did what she always does and ran straight home to bone manor only weeks after signing a two person lease with Blakeney, rarely returning the entire year, but still laying claim to the better room.

 

[pinkmug]

I can't believe she's attended a black tie ball in that awful green dress...

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I'm embarrassed by how much this irritates me. She can't shut her pumpkin hole about dark academia, old world charm, vintage and antiques and everything that screams old money. There is no way she can't learn what to wear to a white tie event. Let's say that she is shit skint, she hasn't two pennies to rub together and this is the one dress she can utilize for the evening - fine. Let's say she can't wear heels or a proper formal shoe due to medical reasons - fine. What she can do for a grand total of zero quid is to fix her fucking hair. She can't even run a brush through that shapeless blanket, never mind style it or put it in an updo of some sort. It looks like someone's deranged relative has escaped her locked room and wandered into the garden party.

 

[CatCafe234]

I think it depends on what research is being done.
Some texts are not kept on site and have to be obtained from offsite storage.
A text from C17 may require supervision. White gloves and book cushion etc

I have visions of the archivist carefully setting the book up on a cushion and then looking on aghast as Ruby whips out the paint box and washi tape …

 

[bookworm39]

lol you weren’t kidding

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Reminds me of the "sad girl" images off of Tumblr about a decade ago, mixed with Victorian ghost children imagery. Very, very weird. And a bit creepy. Ruby, are you ok?