Interesting. I ff through it and it is all just staring at her while she works, for however long the video was. Why would anyone do that? I mean, I know "study with me" vlogs were popular and helpful for students during lockdown, so that they felt like they had someone studying alongside them in an isolated world. But we aren't there anymore and honestly, I never see anyone doing study with me vlogs anymore. I thought those were done with. Hasn't everyone else moved on, except for Ruby?
Ruby Granger #46 Actively making time for boredom
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"There's nothing quite like seeing a letter with your name handwritten on the front."
Well, except for...I don't know, maybe having the letter inside the envelope be meant for you? And actually be a letter?
Ruby JANUINELY just wanted to do this for the love of LATTER WROYTING! It's HONNASTLEE NWOT JOSST ANOTHA CHARITEEEA SCAM! It's this love of letter-writing that inspired her to...(checks notes)...bulk-print a selection of pre-written letters onto cardstock, with a 1 inch border on all sides, so that the look, feel and experience doesn't resemble getting a letter at all.
As expected, she won't be writing 200 letters in a month for charity. She's planning on getting her new assistant Martha to print out 50 copies of 4 prewritten letters, slap some stockpiled stamps on and send them to some unfortunate souls daft enough to part with £10.
No doubt she'll weigh up the cost and minor effort involved, lose interest after posting half a dozen and just say the rest got lost in the post while pocketing the cash for herself. If quizzed about how much the charity got sent, Ruby has her excuse teed up: Only the profits go to charity and I'm sure she'll claim that after the cost of card, stamps, ink and envelopes, there were no profits.
At least this time around it seems less like her usual creepy Peter Pan tendencies in action and more just another straight-up lazy scam. She won't be writing to anyone or giving them the opportunity to write back. She's just getting fans to pay a premium for the slim opportunity to receive some junk mail.
This might be her laziest, stupidest scam yet.
So… you’re not tempted then?
She's 24, pretending to be 12. HALF her actual age.
A LIVE stoddy with me from the loibry where they filmed Harry Pottum. Except that it’s not liveWords are meaningless to Roobee.
"By 'live', I clearly just meant that I was alive when this was filmed, but thankyou for you feedback.
x"It looks like it isn't even real-time, either; I skimmed through and there's jump cuts and edits all over the place.
I think I'll wait until the special edition THARD REPRINTING which will come with ACKSKLOOSIVE, NAVVER BAWFORE SEEN ANNOTAYSHONS OF THE LATTERS and will be printed on THEEE MWOST SOSSTAINABLE CARDSTOCK OF THE FOINEST QUALITY (i.e. printed on the covers of dusty, unsold PONKAPOD TIFTEA academic planners).So… you’re not tempted then?
And no doubt creased to buggery
a Harry Potter-esque study session at Hogwarts... sighhh she's really regressing, isn't she? I have no doubt that she'll keep this up over autumn since it seems to be Harry Potter watching season for a lot of people. It sounds harsh but just grow up, give it a rest 
Her audience isn't (pre)GCSE/A-level age anymore where that kind of content is appealing, most have actually grown up and have jobs, lives, have graduated a while ago. I don't see what all of this fluff is aside from busywork because she's just wasting yet another year
Her audience isn't (pre)GCSE/A-level age anymore where that kind of content is appealing, most have actually grown up and have jobs, lives, have graduated a while ago. I don't see what all of this fluff is aside from busywork because she's just wasting yet another yearShe's changed the title (but not the thumbnail) and it's still a clickbait lie (or she doesn't know what "real-time" means).
Ruby, if you think it's normal in "real-time" to repeatedly skip forward anywhere from ten seconds to several minutes into the future through the course of your day with no idea what happened in-between, you need to book an urgent appointment to see a neurologist to get your brain checked out.
I'm not sure why she thought she needed to title it either 'live' or 'real-time' other than total idiocy. Just call it a 'Study With Me' and it'd be accurate and she'd attract the same number of viewers.
And why put the charity info in such small text ?? It's almost as if she wants that to be a secret, thinking people will sign up for it without the knowledge it's for charity but actually it is, so if anyone comments what a stupid idea this is she can push back because its for " a good cause "
I’ve not watched Ruby for ages and I’m not sure I can bring myself to watch the cringe fest that appears to be her videos, but I am JANUINELY worried for her mental state now. I am, have always been and will always be a giant nerd who loves September because it’s back-to-school, but rather than sitting in my room pretending to be studying at Hogwarts, I’m a real life grown up teacher (so I still get to be a nerd ) and getting all ready for back to school thinking about the new year for my class! I absolutely get the nostalgia of September being back-to-school when like Ruby (and myself) you used to enjoy school but it’s really time for her to grow up and move on…she’s so stuck in this weird twelve year old mindset that I’m honestly concerned for her…
) and getting all ready for back to school thinking about the new year for my class! I absolutely get the nostalgia of September being back-to-school when like Ruby (and myself) you used to enjoy school but it’s really time for her to grow up and move on…she’s so stuck in this weird twelve year old mindset that I’m honestly concerned for her…
wait, £10 subscription for a one of four printed, non-personalised, letter? like, nothing else? not even a bloody sticker? wtf
I feel like that's precisely what's wrong with her. Unfortunately, I am rather the same, so I tend to sympathize with Ruby. People like us grave nothing more than the external approval. This could be achieved by getting excellent grades, getting attention from the other gender, in Ruby's case attention from young girls, some kind of eating disorder, etc. Of course, if there is little to no internal motivation, this group of people will do everything to achieve this goal as fast as possible. Which is why I don't necessarily get why Ruby loves busywork so much, for example (seems to be a problem with every aspect). I feel like she probably tends to do less work off camera, but maybe I am completely wrong anyway. Maybe she just sucks at studying. Anyway, in my opinion a well-used social media break would be the best for her.
(I also don't get why therapy doesn't seem to help her at all! Of course, I cannot say what's going on behind the camera. Maybe she's in treatment for other stuff, things we do not know about.)
I can relate to that. When I realised that studying at university wasn't my thing, I remember being scared of what people, parents, neighbours, old highschool friends, would think of me. I always was that good student, praised by teachers and parents. And suddenly it didn't work for me anymore.
It's a hard period.
But on the other hand, you're an adult, you have to work on yourself, to make efforts, and learn to not live for others. And I feel like Ruby, who's in a way more comfortable situation than lot of us and has time to figure it out, should have work on herself way earlier. She has the fandom, she could have move on a more countryside lifestyle content, decoration, maybe some gardening vlogs? And if she really likes to write stories, just writing it for fun and sharing it. content like that works well.
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That's just weird and poorly designed.
10£ ( which means around 12€ / 13$ ) for that is ridiculous. Plus it's barely readable if it's the size of the picture.
maybe there is a goodie inside the envelope. like a dead fly or moth or dust from under her bed
Between you and @rubysdeadfly there could easily be a collab for some added value!
Hopefully a giant dust bunny from under the bed, folded neatly into a doily
Nah, a dead fly. Your new trusty study buddy for your "independant learning" year.
I'm sorry but if anyone is stupid enough to buy that subscription of a printed photograph of a letter that is not personalised, then they deserve to be parted with their money.
Please don’t get me wrong here because I do JANYOUANLY believe she’s pathologically obsessed with remaining a Year 7 child. And to be completely fair to her, she has managed to both monetise the obsession, and now academic-ise it all the way to a possible Oxford PHD in juvenilia. Few of us manage to get that much leverage solely off our mental health issues 🥲 so props to Rubes in all sincerity.
The recent vids have been fully nauseating but at this point it’s got to be entirely strategic, no? Like she is churning out these atrocious quality knock offs of content that was once very successful. You can feel how rushed and desperate they are. And I just get the impression she’s a bit sick of it all too and doesn’t know what else to make (the failed booktok commentary months too late obviously was an attempt… and the newsletter I guess lmao). I can imagine her brainstorming this big September relaunch all summer. Tbh it actually seems to be keeping the fans who’ve stuck round fairly happy? She must be conscious of how much she is bullshitting with the busywork now - she is such a self parody I’m just convinced this is all solely to keep the channel alive, earn some money and have a focus, but she has long since checked out.
The recent vids have been fully nauseating but at this point it’s got to be entirely strategic, no? Like she is churning out these atrocious quality knock offs of content that was once very successful. You can feel how rushed and desperate they are. And I just get the impression she’s a bit sick of it all too and doesn’t know what else to make (the failed booktok commentary months too late obviously was an attempt… and the newsletter I guess lmao). I can imagine her brainstorming this big September relaunch all summer. Tbh it actually seems to be keeping the fans who’ve stuck round fairly happy? She must be conscious of how much she is bullshitting with the busywork now - she is such a self parody I’m just convinced this is all solely to keep the channel alive, earn some money and have a focus, but she has long since checked out.
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