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StatusWoe

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Came here to say this 😂

That phrase always strikes me as something people who aren’t very literary say. So teacher-like and awkward. Like ‘’yes I’m reading for PLEASURE - can you believe I am actually ENJOYING this very good BOOK’’ haha. Very ~doth protest too much~.
What? Reading for pleasure, you say?! I only ever read for pain.
 
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thegossboss92

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Will or won't she Rusplain the concept of 'hygge' in her Copenhagen video over a lingering shot of a cinnamon roll and coffee? Place your bets now. And extra points if she mispronounces it.
 
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Deeznutslol

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Latest vid posted by Marfa.
Hope they ate all that food and didn’t pile it all up on the table just to stick toys in it for their qUiRkY tiktok video…
 

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CatCafe234

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There’s some pretty vile stuff in Blyton’s Malory Towers books (and most of Blyton generally) but Ruby loves those …
 
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gossip_guy

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God help us all, she’s making an effort to share more of her ”poetry” on insta. Their chickens got got by foxes and they’ve left eggs to rot in the chicken coop, and also there are birds not chirping, but chipping away at something mysterious in the bushes, which will give birth to berries next month, because that’s how biology works.
How to write a Ruby poem:
  • Mention an animal, a plant or a weather event that you see directly outside.
  • List three nouns.
  • Include a sound.
  • Include a colour (bonus points if it's a colour that doesn't exist).
  • Add dashes randomly to make it JOSST LOIKE AMMILEEE DICKINSONNNN.
  • Have no understanding of nature or science.
  • ADD PARPLE PRYOSE.
  • End on a passage that sounds foreboding or cryptic.
 
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Poguely

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"I love reading the dialogue; all the letters are dialogical and they represent dialogue between two people, so I love reading the letters." -- me back in my uni days trying to meet the word count in an essay.

She somehow managed to say the exact same thing four different ways in a single sentance without actually saying anything at all. That's a talent. A useless talent, but a talent nonetheless. It's the verbal equivilant of a palindrome. Letters=dialogue, dialogue=letters -- Ruby Granger, 2024.
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God, recommending a book by Neil Gaiman right now is a choice. He is a fantastic writer and I don't think his work needs to be avoided for eternity, but at least let the fire die down before you start recommending we throw money at his feet. Though judging by the way she repeatedly misgenders the main character, I doubt she's ever actually read the book in question.
 
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Givemethetea

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So basically she’s studying for nothing no good reason- basically to try and gaslight us into thinking she’s doing more than being sat at home unemployed for the year?
 
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gossip_guy

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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.
 
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gossip_guy

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Yeah, I wouldn't fault Ruby for not going to parties, getting drunk or hooking up with people. That might be the stereotypical view of the uni social experience, but it's not for everyone and there's nothing wrong with that. The real problem is that Ruby tried everything she could to avoid engaging with any aspect of the university experience.

At Exeter, she ran home at every possible opportunity and avoided campus wherever possible. After her first year, she avoided all extracurricular groups and activities. She didn't appear to socialise with anyone beyond the couple of friends she made in her first year. She refused to engage with the learning experience of university. She avoided the library. She refused to do the required reading and opted to use cheating shortcuts, study guides, wiki summaries, condensed AI-generated essay recaps and Blakeney's briefs on the modules' reading instead. She actively avoided learning anything or doing her own work wherever she could.

At Oxford, it's telling that when she was forced to engage with university more, she looked infinitely more miserable. She was forced to spend time in the library to get her DARK MACADAMIA/Hogwarts mileage out of Oxford for content. She was forced to stay on campus more due to the campus proximity rules. She was forced to do more work for herself since she had no Blakeney to copy from. The end result was her sneering and grimacing her way through every vlog, looking like she was there at gunpoint.

I still don't believe for a second that she legitimately enjoys either the structure or the practice of academia. She clearly has no interest in learning anything or engaging with the material being taught. She's visibly miserable in a challenging academic setting and hopelessly disorganised and disinterested despite the structured learning experience she's been offered.

But a huge amount of her fake persona hinges on trying to appear intelligent, productive and organised, which having a scheduled timetable of pretending to learn things feeds into. Her new "curriculum" is just the same recycled list of things she always pretends to learn about and research (yet never has anything beyond the most basic, borrowed, superficial thoughts on), no doubt only chosen because she has a stack of old lecture notes to rehash and parrot from again over the next year while she's pretending to learn things in staged vlogs.
 
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raindropsroses

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The Blakeney screensaver thing is... so strange to me? Like sure, maybe a nice photo with your bestie, but a revolving door of photos of her? So very odd, and if I were Blakeney and they aren't together, it would absolutely freak me out.
 
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gossip_guy

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"I'm taking another gap year and won't be in academic education this year. Right, time to fill in my academic planner which I'll JANUINELY YEEZE!" What a fucking moron.

She might as well have just reuploaded one of the previous years' planner videos - this is identical, with the exact same planner design, scripted spiel and blatant lies as every other year.

"Oiy desoigned this planner moiysalf!" (She didn't, and after years of lying about it, she's already admitted before that someone else designed them for her before backtracking and hoping people forgot.)

"Oiy yeeze these planners moiysalf!" (She doesn't. She just fills out a page or two whenever she needs to throw in a lazy ad for the planner in content.)

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Ruby protests too much and holds up her planner to "prove" that she "yeezes it avverydyay". She shows 4 concurrent pages filled out. There's then a hard cut. She shows 4 more concurrent pages from a random date. Another cut and some B-roll footage, then she show 4 more pages. That's it. Out of stacks of planners that she claims to have used every day for years, she could only find 12 non-sequential pages from random dates which were undoubtedly filled out only for ad purposes in staged vlogs. She couldn't just flip through a full planner without cuts because 98% of it would be blank.

Technical incompetence strikes again as Ruby has uploaded her recent videos in 720p max resolution, so it's impossible to see what's on most the pages, but she often recycles the same scant handful of filled-in planner pages across months of content, so I don't doubt we've seen these pages before.

"They're desoigned tyeu meet awwl of moiy needs and inclyoood avverything a steeyooodunt needs so yeu dyon't need to use other notebooks and planners!" (And yet she still shows herself using countless other notepads, notebooks and supplementary bullshit in all her content. Even the basic spread that she claims she designed don't suit her fake needs - she constantly has to add countless additional tickboxes everywhere to show how ACKSEEDINLY PRODOCKTIVE she is, because the planner design she claims to have created is too restrictive to contain all of the tasks she JANUINELY completes)

"Avvery singol yahhhr we troiy tyeu impryoove on it!" (It's the exact same planner every year. The price often increases even as nothing improves. Occasionally the colour of the cover changes slightly. 3 out of the 4 colours available this year were used on previous planners.)

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"Grades aren't avverything and hossle colcha is varry bad!" (Ruby has used the exact same planner layout as always, including toxic shit like sections for "ideal grades".)

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She squints her way through another torrent of lies as she announces that this cheaply-made stack of glorified toilet paper will cost £18.50
(plus postage). She insists that with "full transparency" this is okay because they haven't increased the price since last year. She could charge more, but out of the KOINDNASS OF HAHHR HEART, she has decided to continue making the same undue profit on this already extortionately-priced trash. Ruby's lie-squinting moment of "full transparency" does not extend to explaining that the reason they won't sweat not bumping up the cost again is because the planners are already insanely overpriced compared to how dirt-cheap they are produce. Reminder: Ruby often complains that anything from meals to books that are more than £7 are prohibitively expensive for her.

On the subject of paper quality, Ruby gets spaghetti-tangled in lies. She claims that the planner improves every year and a high cost means high quality. Then she says that the planner is "now no longer watercolour resistant," implying that there was a time when the planners didn't suffer from watercolour/ink bleed-through. She swore blind that the previous planners were impervious to ink bleed-through of all kinds, but absolutely refused to show the other side of the page to prove the claim. Even so, she slipped up and showed that watercolour paints and all but the most harmless ballpoint ink would eat through the paper.

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Ruby claims this "new" bleed-through for the current planner is "barely noticeable" - she applies a light smear of child's watercolours and the paper instantly becomes warped and discoloured on the other side. She insists that even though this paper will become instantly fucked by a small amount of watercolour paint, it'll somehow magically withstand "fountain PAN" ink without bleed-through. As always, she refuses to show any proof of this. Even if you take her previous lies at face value, she's now openly saying that there's been a reduction in quality and yet she's charging the same price.

She claims the binding is now less likely to fall apart, but since she lies about absolutely everything, expect the binding to fall apart within minutes. Ruby trips over her own lies again, finally acknowledging that for the history of PONKERPOD TIFTI, a widespread criticism has been that the planners fall apart easily. She does not explain why it's taken 5 years and countless planner releases to even think about pretending to improve this. Instead she just acts like she's been a victim of circumstance and finally an unnamed third party solved the problem that was impacting her, even though she claims to own and run the company (she doesn't).

Ruby downplays and insists that this issue only affected people who used their planner every day and took it with them to school/uni (y'know, its intended fucking purpose). And yet...Ruby's planners, which she JANUINELY takes everywhere and YEEZES AVVERY SINGOL DAY, are always suspiciously pristine, despite how quickly she destroys everything she touches. She clearly doesn't use them. She literally just grabs a blank copy from a stack, fills in a page or two for a vlog, then grabs a new one next time.

Ruby would love to make an academic planner available all year round, but it just wouldn't make sense apparently because of the dates. She's literally already released an undated planner, but she conveniently erased that from memory the day after it was released. If she mentioned it, she'd have to explain what a colossal, shameless scam it was. She released half a planner, charged full price for it and didn't make any attempt to mention that the "Everyday Planner" could not be used every day until after her fans had paid for them. There's nothing stopping her from releasing an undated full-year planner with academic-focused spreads aside from laziness and incompetence.

She doesn't use these trash planners herself and neither should anyone else.
 
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CatCafe234

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I’d quite like to think she’s rage-baiting but I genuinely think she’s oblivious and she really thinks that she’s posting aesthetic content rather than stuff that looks like the slow unravelling of her sanity. I’ve always had the impression that Ruby and Martha have perhaps been praised a little too much for any endeavour and they genuinely think that what they’re putting out there is good has artistic (or academic) merit. There’s just no self-awareness there in either Ruby’s or the Pumpkin Productivity content and I just think that they really believe that they’re so good already they don’t have to out any effort in.
 
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Griftwood

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Is the concept of an iron and an ironing board non existent in their house?
I remember she ironed a pair of pyjamas once (it was one of her ”packing for university” videos) and it was brutal, she didn’t bother straightening out the fabric at all and made these huge creases in them. It was triggering to me and I don’t even own anything I would need to iron 😂 And she got gifted a steamer a couple years ago that she made a show of using once, never to be seen again.

She’s so inept at everything she does, remember her new electric toothbrush that she couldn’t figure out how to charge? Yup, it’s just a regular toothbrush now.
 
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gossip_guy

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See how I pose in my £255 cardigan? Very relatable, very demure. I don’t pose with my head in a natural position like some girls, I hold it at a cutesy angle. My smile? I don’t go for a real smile, I keep my grimace very forced and very fake, again very demure, very pre-autumn ✨

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I like the mini to-do list in the top left:
  • August photos.
  • Lie.
  • Pre-Autumn.
 
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Thank God I’ve found this thread! I came across Ruby by accident and ended up falling down a rabbit hole of unbelievable nonsense. The latest video sent me into an absolute conniption fit. She’s a woman in her 20s. So many questions. Why on earth is she prancing around the garden like my 8 year old? Why does she dress and look like a prepubescent girl? Not saying someone can’t dress and style themselves as they choose but when you add it to her behaviour and fake infantile voice it gives a bit of a weird vibe. I wonder if it’s a case of Gerascophobia. It really does seem like university allows her to hide from the real world as does hiding away with Mummy and Daddy. I really don’t think she can cope with/is terrified of being an adult and all it brings from learning to drive, getting a real job or adult relationships - sexual or not
 
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Griftwood

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She’s so utterly unoriginal and pedestrian in every thought she puts out there. Cliché after cliché. Time is cyclical, seasons come and go at their own pace. I wonder if she has enough self-awareness to even briefly consider all the thousands of her peers, who go straight from their graduate degrees to jobs/internships/further academia, without the resources to take a few months off to ”recuperate”.

watch her have to go to Italy or France to ”get over wroyiter’s block” again 😂
 
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