Jesus College, what a painfully dull and pointless video about a painfully dull and pointless trip.
Ruby has the wealth and opportunity to go literally anywhere, but decided she just had to go to Edinburgh again to do the exact same things and see the exact same places as last time (and the time before that). And when she wasn't doing that, she was doing the same things she could do in any other city. This whole video is completely indistinguishable from her other Scotland videos.
Even Ruby's apparently getting sick of going on the exact same trip every year, since she spends half her time complaining (the train was late, the view in her room is crap, they didn't have the VARRY VEEEGAN food she wanted, she didn't get the seat at Waterstones she wanted, the portion sizes of the food she had no intention of eating were too small, woe is Ruby, her 7th holiday out of 58 this year is ruined!)
She insists on pointing out in the title and thumbnail that it's "A SOLO TRIP" as though this is incredibly noteworthy, even though she's a massively wealthy 24 year old woman who supposedly just spent a whole year by herself at Oxford. But, naturally, she likes to believe she's still TWALVE, so being away from mummy for more than 10 minutes is an AWFOLLY ACKSOYTING ADVANCHARR!
She also insists on calling it a "bookish" trip, even though she never actually reads books outside of pretending to read for her incredibly fake content.
Case in point: She performatively carries around a book under her arm while wandering the streets of Edinburgh (well,
street of Edinburgh - she literally just films herself traipsing back and forth on the same 15 foot stretch of pavement). It's absolutely pissing down with rain and the book's completely getting soaked, but it's VARRY IMPWORETANT that Ruby be seen holding books in public. How else would you know that she JANUINELY READS BOCKS AVVER-SYO-VARRY-MOCH if she isn't holding a book prop at all times? She certainly can't give you any actual information from any of the books she pretends to read, so props are essential.
Ruby's such a BOCKWAAAAHRM that she trekked to Edinburgh, but rather than seek out any interesting independent book shops unique to the area, Ruby wanted to go to fucking Waterstones. Later she mixes it up by going to Blackwells, because if it's not a major retail book chain owned by James Daunt, she just isn't interested. Instead of seeking out some lovely place for breakfast that you can only find in Edinburgh, Ruby bought a sad Alpro yoghurt from Marks & Spencer to eat in her hotel room.
Ruby announces that she "
REALLY" wants to read 'A Thousand Feasts' by Nigel Slater and 'Vicious' by V.E. Schwab. I'm assuming every time she tries to read any books she wants to read, the ghost of Nathaniel Hawthorne materialises wherever Ruby is and poltergeist-slaps the book out of her hands. After all, there must be
something preventing a self-professed bookworm with an abundance of cash and an infinite amount of free time from
actually reading a book, since she does this "I WISH I COULD READ THIS" thing so often. And it's JANUINELY not just because she has zero interest in actually reading any books and scoffs at the idea of having to pay even a tiny amount for one, HOW VARRY DAEHRR YEUUU.
She leaves Waterstones and it's 14:38pm. She then goes to the museum, wanders around there for a while, but mentions that she "spent the morning at the museum". It should come as no shock, since this is a video that Ruby made, but the timescales of this video are utterly incoherent.
She goes for "lonch" and since she's been away from home for almost 24 hours (GASP!) it's time to write a postcard to her dearest Papa, to inform him of all the mind-numbingly dull shit she'll have already gotten home and told him about by the time this postcard arrives.
Ruby goes to Blackwells and (SHOCK) actually buys a book ('Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell') presumably because the one she brought with her is now falling apart from water damage and she needs a replacement prop for the rest of the trip. Also she undoubtedly plans to rip it off for the book she's currently writing.
However, the extravagant purchase of one whole mass market paperback (RRP £10.99) has somehow crippled Ruby's finances. Oh no! Performative poverty strikes again as Ruby complains that she can't be eating out in restaurants every day of her holiday (she's literally only on holiday for 3 full days), so she's having to be "VARRY RESOURCEFOL" and will have to survive on rationed snacks bought from the supermarket.
Reminder: Ruby is a landlord who owns a cottage and lives in a manor home, rent-free, with her parents who own 3 homes, and earns thousands from every video since they're all sponsored these days.
At this point, I got so bored I had to tap out. She's already made this exact video at least twice before. All the usual Ruby clichés are present and accounted for:
- Ruby goes out of her way to point out that OFFCWOARSE SHE ATE AWWL THEEEE VEGAN FYEED IN SCWOTLAND, despite not being remotely vegan. She'd happily wolf down a veal and hamster sandwich if the video sponsor asked her to (and probably even if they didn't).
- Ruby packs a load of BARDEN BLAND tea just so she can shoehorn some undeclared ads into this sponsored video.
- Ruby goes on a sponsor-begging trip to Waterstones/Blackwells.
- Ruby's vlog timelines don't add up at all.
- Ruby pretends to be poor to try to appear relatable because she thinks her audience are braindead.
- Ruby plans a whole trip around her fake identity and has the most boring time as a result, appearing to spend the bulk of her time hiding in her hotel room.
- Ruby subjects everyone to the horrific sounds of her slurping food/drink or just making random clicking, clucking and lip-smacking noises.
- Ruby can't help but obsessively mention her BASST FRAND BLAKENEEEEEEEEEEY.
- Ruby pretends she AWHWHEYS YEEZES NWORD VEE PEE ANNE when leaving the house and JANUINELY NWOT JOSST WHAN THEY PAY HAAHRR TYEUU.
She even claims that YEEZING A VPN IS ESSANSHOL if you want to be able to access everything from back in your own country when you travel, like she does. She went to fucking
Scotland. Absolutely none of her services are differentiating between different countries in the UK. There is no Netflix Scotland. She's just coming up with the most ridiculous lies possible to pretend she actually uses the sponsor product when she clearly never does.
It's also hilarious that she acts like it's SYEEPAH-DYEEPAH IMPWORETANT that she uses a VPN to protect her data from all the hackers, like her whole laptop didn't get stolen recently because she just left it unattended.
Edit: And she's changed the title from "A Cosy & Bookish Week in Scotland (solo travel)" to "An Autumnal & Bookish Week in Scotland (solo travel)". So add two more Ruby clichés to the list: Ruby proclaims that something's AUTOMMINUL and Ruby changes the title of her video post-release for no real reason.
