Ruby Granger #47 Self Learning at the University of Roobs, Manor campus

robinhiggs said:

Homeschool field trip

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Haha it kind of literally is lmao

She finished her seep .

abcbabe said:

She is never gonna let Oxford go is she...

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Eh, she was in "LET ME IIIIIIIN" mode for years, now they opened the door, she won't get out that easily. I'm pretty sure she didn't even expected them to accept, which would explain that she didn't planned how to exploit fully this year here and tries to do it now.

I bet when Oxford accepted her they never expected that she would be haunting the halls of its libraries forevermore like the ghost of procrastination past. This is the exact reason the libraries are closed to the public. They're work enviorments and she's just swanning around using them as sets.

Poguely said:

I bet when Oxford accepted her they never expected that she would be haunting the halls of its libraries forevermore like the ghost of procrastination past. This is the exact reason the libraries are closed to the public. They're work enviorments and she's just swanning around using them as sets.

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Tbh, she also mostly used them as sets when she was still a student there.

How does she not realize that Oxford is not something nostalgic for her? She finished her masters, what, two months ago? three months ago? And she was there for only one academic year, most of which she spent in the elevator. If she was back at least a few years later lol but nope. If she had spent huge amount of time in Oxford, really diving deep into her studying, exploring, or basically did anything that that connected her with the place, and if she loved it, she could of course miss it and start to feel nostalgic right away after a few months. She did neither of those things.

Also, her greed is so disgusting. Just say, there is this new website that offers this and this service, here is the link. But she "hid" this thea study thing in her "I'll give you some study tips!" that starts with telling people that understanding what you're studying is important. No shame. If she genuinely and really did just understand this while doing her masters at Oxford, then what the shit was she doing this whole time? Her whole "ramble ramble... and this where the AD comes in, I have talked about this so much/I have been using it for years" thing is just

Well, what I want to understand though, is why she does this claw thing lmao doesn't her hand hurt? And she kept hitting the desk, the audio was so awful. If someone talked to me like this, all fake smiles and meaningless words and the repeatedly hitting of the desk, I'd think was being threatened.


I saw this in the old video, thought I'd share since I started making a post.

Now, which one you peasants treated kindness as... subordinate and unimp ortant? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "subordinate" not really used like this?


Her obsession with "kindness" is so stupid like, she really sits down and makes lists of ways "to be kind". She acts so tortured, like she's the only one really cares about being "kind". Because of course it went out of style, all the girls her age are addicted to ethanol and swear words and boys, and oh but oh isn't Ruby just the most precious?

The way these people defend her...

Understanding is important!!11!1

But Rubsy what about tips that actual work? She has simply forgotten the most important thing. To keep asking yourself questions about what you're reading while you're reading. It's great that you write it all down, talk to your dog about it and answer generated questions about the texts, but how about actively asking yourself questions that arise in your brain while reading the book and thinking about them? There is nothing more important. It's all fine and good that you're advertising something that takes away the work of thinking about it, although that's actually the point of understanding things lol
Not to forget that AI is still bad at recognising large contexts, thinking critically about them or asking questions and, above all, giving really correct answers that the programme has not pulled from some ominous internet source, or simply calculates the highest probability of which word follows another xD

Remember: Understanding is important!!11!!1!1

Cheers

So....she doesn't really go to Oxford to study. She isn't a student anymore. She isn't in academia as a career. It is basically a playdate with herself. She dresses up as a little girl, packs her bags with all her little girl notebooks, pens and other crap, then takes a train into Oxford. She says she loves reading on the train, but immediately goes on showing she does everything but reading. Taking pictures out the window, videoing herself looking out the window, going on her computer to do her busy work, but no reading. Once she gets there she goes to numerous spots in numerous libraries, pointing the camera one way, then another, coming and going from her chair to look busy, but really, the only thing she is doing is taping Oxford. She isn't doing ANYTHING. Then we visit bees, return books at a library (for all we know she just took them out and put them back in, because she is Rubbage and that is what a Rubbage does). Then she goes to a cafe and goes shopping. I mean, this is not studying. This is not academic material. This is a playdate with herself. Nothing more.

And at the end, is it me, or did she light a very dark candle (took her forever, still hasn't mastered matches), but then shows a pale green candle right after. And did she just throw the match on the floor??? omg I can't. I cannot believe she went all the way in getting her Masters at Oxford and is still acting like a 7 year old. Just plain twisted and bizarre.

When she was at the museum, it was almost noon. Let's say she went out at 1 o'clock, after visiting the bees and walking around the museum.


Then when she's going home, it's 18:48.


She was in Oxford for a total of 5 hours? she went to a store, bought coffee, went into multiple libraries, took some shots, opened up her ipad, called it done and went home.

No actual studying was done.

Her audience is ... interesting.

Leave it to Rootabaga to do an ad for a website specifically designed for taking shortcuts. We already know she’s never going to actually read a text, but being paid to promote something that makes not doing the work even easier has to be a dream come true for her.


She’s a lazy shirker, she’s always been one, and she can pay for any number of post-graduate degrees but that’s not going to change what she is.

I think it was @Griftwood who first mentioned this, she uses SYNOPTICALLY in every single video--it's been driving me crazy! another phrase that keeps coming up is CULTIVATING CURIOSITY. it is such an offputting phrase and a disgusting way to think about things and, in my mind, it sums up everything that is wrong with her. she is not cultivating curiosity with her personal "curriculum" or austen and bronte juvenilia readings. she is scheming to get into a PhD program. Like, see this:



"researcher at oxford" is the only reason she is reading those books, Sutherland is the next person she is going to suck up to. she is not at all interested In ideas or understanding them. she has one winning strategy and she uses it every time: find yourself an academic, completely parrot whatever they work on (academics love their sycophants), and come back to sell your viewer an image of a girl-child, oh-so-curious and full of wonder and very bright, too.

welp, I cannot stop. I am so depressed at the moment and therefore completely immersed in her current arch.

she is supposed to be a great planner but she always seems to be winging it. like this last video shows her getting to the library (walking alllll the way down) to check out a book and then she realizes that the book is not even there and she should have requested it from the outside storage facilities. I am not an expert planner, I have designed zilch number of planners and yet this literally never happened to me before. You just search the library catalog before going in and get an idea of where the book might be located. But this genius who was so looking forward to this outing all week never bothered to actually prep for the logistics because she did not actually go there to study.

Looks like Martha's been thrown under the bus for the Skillshare disasterpiece.

What's funny is that Ruby has absolutely nothing to fill her time, to the point where she has dreamt up a pointless make-believe curriculum of things she already studied before and is now pretending to study again just to look busy. Meanwhile, she cannot be bothered to put any time, effort or resource into YouTube - her primary source of cash - and instead farmed it out to her sister.

The main benefit of a content creator giving up the reins and letting someone else handle editing, etc., is that they can pass it off to a professional who'll make it look better than they can, while freeing themselves up to focus on other content. She's had endless amounts of free time to invest in her platform, improve her content or learn how to edit. But Ruby farmed out her biggest piece of work to her sister to edit and it looks just as much of a slapdash mess as if she'd done it herself. And all she did with the time she bought was waste it on the same old, tired fakery.

Case in point: She proudly mentions that for her made-up academic curriculum, she's writing an essay on Bacchae, which she only read the study guide for. It was bad enough when she was throwing away £30,000+ a year on a degree just to skip the required reading and cheat her way through, but at least she got a degree at the end of it. Now she thinks people will be impressed when she's cheating on homework that she set for herself.

I've never seen someone so terrified of growing up yet so eager to absolutely waste years of her life.

I think she is reliving her experience at Oxford the way she wanted it to be in the first place. With plenty of time, no stress and the desired aesthetic. Her actual masters was super stressful and not what she imagined and now she can finally have it. Pretty sure that's what's happening.

Totally agree with everyone. She’s cosplaying being an Oxford undergraduate (the thing she’ll never actually be) and patting herself on the back for completing meaningless work. It’s sad. She’ll probably self-fund a PHD next so more of this dull content to come I’m sure.

You’d think she’d want this time to work on her many novels… maybe her agent has finally given up on her?

londongirl92 said:

Totally agree with everyone. She’s cosplaying being an Oxford undergraduate (the thing she’ll never actually be) and patting herself on the back for completing meaningless work. It’s sad. She’ll probably self-fund a PHD next so more of this dull content to come I’m sure.

You’d think she’d want this time to work on her many novels… maybe her agent has finally given up on her?

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I wouldn't blame her, did you see the result of her "wark"? I'd given up way earlier with that specimen.

Definitely agree with everyone with this Oxford study days being a wish fulfilment for being an Oxford undergraduate and being able to use Oxford libraries as a setting for the videos. I feel in a way it's a bit unhealthy for ruby to stay in the secondary school/undergraduate version of herself especially as university is now finished with her as it's preventing her from dealing with the real world.

I feel that she's at risk of being left behind by her friends as they move on and get jobs and do things such as relationships, family, careers, responsibilities ect while Ruby is making herself a curriculum and pretending she's at school. She'll have an audience of teenagers who praise her but it seems a bit empty of a life.

She's going to be at a point where she's going to be cosplaying as an Oxford student and girl prodigy in the libraries when she's in her 40s and older. She seems very childlike again with the freckles and the big glasses as if she is trying to make herself look younger, partly for herself and also for her views. she could probably trick the audience in forgetting she's a masters graduate and she's an undergraduate/ child prodigy to stretch out her content for longer.

Ruby doesn't seem to even like learning and if she does it's a superficial way in order to appear clever. I feel Ruby is partly this way as she feels that she has to be or she was gifted as a child/teenager and that and the Ruby Granger identity is something she's clinging onto. I think that in the times that she's burnt out the periods of childishness happen

Just watching the Study Day in Oxford video now, I've just had an exam and my brain needs a break before I continue working on an assignment. Why does she only have access to the online resources when she's physically in Oxford? Surely they'd have VPN for people who need to access library resources when they're home (weekends, Christmas break, whatever the reason for being off-campus)? My uni library certainly does, as does my workplace, it's not that unusual, especially post-COVID. Weird.

Edit: reading the comments. That's certainly one way of putting it!

I swear she wanted to go to Oxford just for the access to film in the libraries

bookworm39 said:

Just watching the Study Day in Oxford video now, I've just had an exam and my brain needs a break before I continue working on an assignment. Why does she only have access to the online resources when she's physically in Oxford? Surely they'd have VPN for people who need to access library resources when they're home (weekends, Christmas break, whatever the reason for being off-campus)? My uni library certainly does, as does my workplace, it's not that unusual, especially post-COVID. Weird.

Edit: reading the comments. That's certainly one way of putting it!

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So I believe they do have a VPN and all the rest for this, but this is only for current members of the university, not alums. There are a few journals alumnae/i can access, but if you're not a current member of the university you can only access the vast majority of online resources from within the libraries themselves.