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

[Mr.Mistoffelees]

This video has to be a joke, right? Right???

Writing down 12 "manifestations" on paper for the new year and burning them outside where the wind keeps blowing the candle. I can't.

 

[Open-door]

This video has to be a joke, right? Right???

Writing down 12 "manifestations" on paper for the new year and burning them outside where the wind keeps blowing the candle. I can't.

What was the point of burning them - did she explain? Let alone the bizarre idea of doing it in a windy garden. No wonder poor Lola looked so depressed. I can't get over the continuity issues in the garden shots at the beginning.

 

[Griftwood]

Someone do a tl;dr on why she’s ”not feeling festive”, I don’t feel up to listening to 15 minutes of Rootabaga whining that xmas isn’t sufficiently whimsical and magical for her I’m guessing it’s just her usual tone-deaf, privileged drivel?

 

[aquinas]

The manifestation burning clip (where she hopelessly tries to keep the candle lit while gale force winds blow) is painful.

 

[Sibyl Vane]

How unvictorian of her to have that book in her immediate vicinity.

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Wikipedia

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[gossip_guy]

Someone do a tl;dr on why she’s ”not feeling festive”, I don’t feel up to listening to 15 minutes of Rootabaga whining that xmas isn’t sufficiently whimsical and magical for her I’m guessing it’s just her usual tone-deaf, privileged drivel?

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She doesn't even say, other than to suggest she's been too distracted by thinking about the future (i.e. screwing around with the PhD application that nobody is forcing her to pursue and that she has no genuine interest in) to enjoy Christmas.

Then it's lots of try-hard PARPLE PRYOSE "acting voice" waffle about Christmas and nostalgia (somehow she pronounces the word many different ways: "Thustarlja", "Nostaaahl-Gia", "Nusahlzja") punctuated with Googled quotes from things she hasn't read.

But Christmas isn't about the presents (even though Ruby's done two gift videos this week) - instead, it's a time when everything comes alive!

Cut to Ruby's dead and desolate crack den wasteland of a garden, littered with trash, wrecked furniture and Mummy Granger's empties:

SOCH LOYFE, WHAT BEEYOOTEEE!

 

[sunniva]

This lass is always out in a field setting something on fire, it reminds me of my council estate childhood.

I’m snorting at the multiple comments saying it’s normal to find Christmas less magical as an adult, especially the one suggesting that maybe if she had a job she’d appreciate the time off

 

[emmer_moans]

She doesn't even say, other than to suggest she's been too distracted by thinking about the future (i.e. screwing around with the PhD application that nobody is forcing her to pursue and that she has no genuine interest in) to enjoy Christmas.

Then it's lots of try-hard PARPLE PRYOSE "acting voice" waffle about Christmas and nostalgia (somehow she pronounces the word many different ways: "Thustarlja", "Nostaaahl-Gia", "Nusahlzja") punctuated with Googled quotes from things she hasn't read.

But Christmas isn't about the presents (even though Ruby's done two gift videos this week) - instead, it's a time when everything comes alive!

Cut to Ruby's dead and desolate crack den wasteland of a garden, littered with trash, wrecked furniture and Mummy Granger's empties:

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SOCH LOYFE, WHAT BEEYOOTEEE!

That last picture looks like it could be a set in a horror film. That shed looks evil

 

[cravencandi]

Per new video: I also take a book out with me while going to feed the chickens and wild birds

Edit: I do hope she got her mom something more than just the calendar

 

[Whisper2Me]

Ruby is seeing everyone else go forward and she is stuck in no-man's land. She isn't going anywhere fast. She has no career in view and going for a doctorate is just another waste of time. I was watching the Diary of Andrea, the other day. I was not aware she had put up a few new vids. She and Ruby met a few years ago, though she is several years younger than her. She has been driving for a few years now, has a lot of friends, lives on her own without whining or crying, and now she has a girlfriend whom it looks like she is also intimate with. She really grew up fast. I think she is 21 now? Ruby is turning 25 in June (if I have the month correct) and she is only working part time at her stupid little school library as an assistant, while her master's degree rots as useless. Seeing the growth in Andrea and the complete lack of it, along with her constant lying in Ruby, was like night and day. Andrea basically has moved on from YT, in general, and seems to be progressing her life and embracing it. Ruby is an absolute mess, in more ways than one. I won't go into how stupid the entire vlog was and her constant claiming that she isn't in the holiday mood. I really don't care if she is or not. I am and wish you all a wonderful holiday season!

 

[Hannahebee]

Edit: I do hope she got her mom something more than just the calendar

She's got her Mum a vintage vanity case which is similar to the one that she took with her to hospital to give birth to Ruby, a hairclip, cooling face globes, soap, a mini soap tin so that she can keep the soap in her bag, Snoopy air freshener, accessories for her Maileg mouse and the family calendar.

 

[cravencandi]

She's got her Mum a vintage vanity case which is similar to the one that she took with her to hospital to give birth to Ruby, a hairclip, cooling face globes, soap, a mini soap tin so that she can keep the soap in her bag, Snoopy air freshener, accessories for her Maileg mouse and the family calendar.

Thank you. That is such an odd grouping of things lol

 

[FolderDuvet]

Ruby is seeing everyone else go forward and she is stuck in no-man's land. She isn't going anywhere fast. She has no career in view and going for a doctorate is just another waste of time. I was watching the Diary of Andrea, the other day. I was not aware she had put up a few new vids. She and Ruby met a few years ago, though she is several years younger than her. She has been driving for a few years now, has a lot of friends, lives on her own without whining or crying, and now she has a girlfriend whom it looks like she is also intimate with. She really grew up fast. I think she is 21 now? Ruby is turning 25 in June (if I have the month correct) and she is only working part time at her stupid little school library as an assistant, while her master's degree rots as useless. Seeing the growth in Andrea and the complete lack of it, along with her constant lying in Ruby, was like night and day. Andrea basically has moved on from YT, in general, and seems to be progressing her life and embracing it. Ruby is an absolute mess, in more ways than one. I won't go into how stupid the entire vlog was and her constant claiming that she isn't in the holiday mood. I really don't care if she is or not. I am and wish you all a wonderful holiday season!

I think we need to be a bit less parasocial. No one needs to work a full time job if they don't have to, no one has to have sex or romantic relationships (bit allonormative), she doesn't have to drive (I wonder what happened to the lessons she was having? She could have had issues with anxiety around driving, as many people do.) Being in your 20s is weird, and it's not like there are universal deadlines or milestones on maturity (and in fact forcing these can cause more harm than good, as I have found out to my own detriment).

The issue is that one of her jobs at the moment is making YouTube videos, and she is incapable of translating her interests and any feeling of purpose into videos these days (much less videos of commensurate quality with her experience). She isn't able to commit to a pivot of her channel's purpose (as she is still making basically the same videos she made when she was 17.) Its obvious she tries things out, but in a very half hearted manner (like her slightly absurd videos, or the odd video she does trying to educate on something). She can't seem to script a video essay on something she's interested in. She can't seem to vlog her travel interestingly. She isn't doing enough that she can film to make daily life vlogs. She doesn't have an interesting enough video style for fashion. The main thing that has changed in her channel between now and when she was 17 is that she can't do those "I studied for 16 hours!" videos anymore.

At the moment her channel is a bit of a zombie, stumbling from old idea to old idea for advert spots. The kind of videos she could pivot to (more creative filmmaking or scripted video essays) are far more effort than her current fare, and would require cutting down the schedule a bit (and hence would result in less ad spots, and hence less revenue while she sees what the result of the pivot was).

You might be right that taking on full time work or similar would give her a bit more structure, but there are plenty of creators who haven't really gone into the career thing and make interesting content without talking about boyfriends, or ever showing themselves driving.

We should be careful to separate the disinterest of her videos from her own life satisfaction. Many people just don't have lives that produce anything worth filming. Many people are happy in those low-key existences.

 

[formerly_sitkx]

I'd say she's not feeling festive this year because she's just completely isolated in the manor, doing the same ole thing every single day, so Christmas is not any different from every single other day in Rubyland now. In years past, she'd be coming home from Exeter or having a winter break from school, so it was exciting to come home and celebrate. But she's been sitting in her bedroom for how many months now, "doing" her self-stoddying?

 

[emmer_moans]

Thing is with the doctorate, I have seen far more studious and proactive PhD students call it quits or nearly call it quits because of the stress/workload/loneliness etc. Take Kaelen Apple (Redheadacademic, who for some reason follows Ruby). In her initial PhD videos she was so passionate about her chosen topic and in the past few months she's done videos to say how burned out and hard it has been and how she has decided to finish the PhD and make a plan to finish it, but how she very nearly quit. Ruby doesn't have a modicum of passion for her chosen subject (which we still don't know what that is). If she somehow gets in to do a PhD she is going to struggle so bad with her mental health. I think if she can get some kind of historical research job on Victorians instead, maybe work for museums then she'd be happier, but I hear those jobs are VERY competitive and hard to come by. And I can't see her ever just taking a random office job like most of us have to, to get on the work ladder and pay the rent. She'll just fester in her parent's house and I bet they will never push her to leave either. She'll be like a Female Victorian Peter Pan in a nightgown, twirling around in the garden in her 40s.

 

[StatusWoe]

Seeing that shot of the fields straight after Ruby talked about the magic of Christmas when everything 'comes alive' made me laugh out loud. She couldn't have chosen a starker, more dead-looking backdrop.

 

[Griftwood]

”candlesticks” Surely by now she’s been told enough times what the word actually means that she’s just persisting in her ignorance out of spite?

also Penultimæte and Yesica, her creepiest and most devoted fans, over in her yt comments trying to win souls for Christ 🫣
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I'd say she's not feeling festive this year because she's just completely isolated in the manor, doing the same ole thing every single day, so Christmas is not any different from every single other day in Rubyland now. In years past, she'd be coming home from Exeter or having a winter break from school, so it was exciting to come home and celebrate. But she's been sitting in her bedroom for how many months now, "doing" her self-stoddying?

Someone in her yt comments was telling her it was normal not to feel festive because this was going to be her last Xmas in her childhood home, next year she’ll be doing her PhD and living somewhere else

 

[Rumblemumble]

"I feel healthy and energized in my..."

"I produce a short film"

"I feel inspired with writing again"

"New York Publish?..."

 

[Griftwood]

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"I feel healthy and energized in my..."

"I produce a short film"

"I feel inspired with writing again"

"New York Publish?..."

I believe the last one is ”I collaborate with the New York Public Library on a project with Frances Hodgson Burnett’s letters.” The NYPL archive holds two (2) of Burnett’s letters, so I’m sure this is a legitimate research interest of hers and not just her chasing another vanity project to prop up the Little Princess Superfan aspect of her flimsy personality.

”I feel inspired with writing again” - I guess her latest copycat scheme (I’ve lost count of how many attempts there have been) didn’t pan out. I wonder if she still has an agent, or have they dropped her?

 

[Green Lion]

Ok this might be a bit OT but why this this deer pen littered with carrots? Is this the graveyard of frosty and his family or what's going on here?