Ruby Granger #5 Counting Her Ad Money With Closed, Grateful Eyes

[buflesse]

To be totally clear, I've never said that I think she lies about her grades! But I do think she is possibly selective about them, and might not talk about her lower scoring essays. Now she's doing English I doubt she'd want to admit to 'failure' (she has a very weird view of failure, ie less than a first...)

 

[lemonpoppyseed]

All this talk of Percy Pigs is making me so depressed. I visited the UK in 2019 for a week and ate about 3 bags of them but they're not available here in Australia nor are prawn cocktail chips.

Also I know this isn't a Clare thread but her blog is just endless posts of nothing. Absolutely nothing of substance.

 

[July9696]

So I have some thoughts on the whole idea she gets some sort of special treatment because she gets paid by the uni for some videos...#sponsored

All essays are marked anonymously so that rules that out. Also, I seriously doubt the uni would compromise their academic credibility to give some influencer a 72 instead of a 64 (for example).

Also worth noting the academic and marketing departments at uni are completely separate. It’s hardly as if someone from marketing sends an email asking a lecturer to bump up Roobeeee’s grade because she “represents” the uni!

It seems people are implying she couldn’t get that grade because she comes across as a little dense (lollll) in other areas of her life. For me, essays have a clear mark scheme so like how she got straight As at school or whatever she’s clearly studied them to the nth degree. If she uses her lecturers office hours, has nothing much going on in her life and spends 15 hours a day going over and over her work, I don’t find it that surprising she’d do well.

The difference is, the rest of us would party/socialise/have part time jobs/even travel during term and she does none of this.

It’s important to remember that the whole getting good grades is her BRAND. She gets paid indirectly for getting these grades— her YouTube videos and her online persona. If I was getting a full time salary to get 1sts at uni I’d make sure I got them too

So yeh, I personally don’t see it being down to special treatment!

 

[CatCafe234]

Yeah originality is important but they're not going to hold it against you if someone has a similar topic to you. I wonder what she will write her dissertation on? We had to submit our titles/topics in second year.

Children and Childhood in Victorian Literature ...

 

[xoxoxo13]

The golden child/scapegoat dynamic they have going on is glaringly obvious

 

[Kombucha]

The fist and last time that floor will be cleaned

 

[joonielovers]

to the people who asked for an update on my assignment,
i just got it back and i had a 58. (this is my first ever academic essay i am a first year student) and there was no mention of my high turnitin score lol.

with how ruby dresses, most of her outfits do not look comfy to sit in and study in. kinda like costumes.
it really makes me wonder if her whole aesthetic is an act for the camera, even down to dressing up. as someone mentioned on here, in the outro she was wearing a 'everyday normal/basic' outfit.

 

[Ilaariaa]

Erimentha arrives for PE before her peers as she now wishes to demonstrate her physical superiority. She hears her classmates talk about 'meaningless' things such as TV shows and weekend plans.

They start playing tennis and her serve is perfect, because of course it is.

There's a bit of back and forth between her and the others.

Suddenly, everything goes white

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No, she's not dead, it would be God meeting her at the gate anyway, not some amateur like St. Peter.

She's concussed and the school nurse is there.

Kimberly hit her with the tennis ball. Her mum is on her way to take her to hospital.

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She's in A&E and having a wonderful time observing the sick people around her. She guesses a man has a broken arm by looking at his ulna bone and notes how much pain he is in. You stay away from him, Erimentha Shipman!

Her mum bought some things to the hospital - not packed by her, because in this novel, she is mentally regressing at an alarming rate, she wouldn't be able to pick the right stuff - Erimentha had already procured an Emergency Hospital Supplies Kit. This is not a joke.

The doctor marvels at Erminetha, telling her she's the most medically-informed child she has ever met, because that's what most NHS doctors have time to do. Ruby needs to read House of God and understand the meaning of the word GOMER

Erimentha passes the broken-arm man on the way out, offering her condolences and hoping he recovers quickly and painlessly. Never, ever, let this girl near you with a syringe.

Does anything happen at all in this book? Like anything of significance? And I still don't understand what the to do list in the title has to do with anything lmao

 

[tawdryhepburn]

i’m supposed to be studying and as i’m logging in and out of online textbooks, i cannot get this specific erimenthaism out of my head, where she refers to her eating porridge with water as her “shibboleth”

................ffs

 

[lemonpoppyseed]

What's a shibboleth?
Edit: Wikipedia says it's like a tongue twister used to determine if someone is a foreigner or not. But is that what it means in this context? Does she mean it's like a peculiar British thing to eat porridge with water? I'm confused

It's kinda like inside knowledge for a certain group like a custom, principle, or a word in a language etc.. It comes from the Bible where one group of Israelites used a certain word that was pronounced differently by another group of Israelites to distinguish who belonged to what group. They used this to then kill anyone who wasn't from their group. They have been used over the years mostly in this way - to distinguish and discover outsiders or to figure out who you could talk to openly for minority groups e.g. gay men when homosexuality was illegal. A common one for English was used in WW2 in the Pacific where Australian and American troops would shout words that contained the 'l' sound out into the forest and if the person shouting back didn't pronounce the 'l' sound properly, they would let fire as native Japanese speakers have difficulty pronouncing the 'l' sound used in English.
Shibboleth doesn't really work in the way Ruby has used it, as how is eating porridge with water a trait specific to a group and why would people use this to distinguish themselves? I get that it might be used to describe an old fashioned idea but that's definitely not the meaning most people would understand hence why it reads oddly.

Edited to clarify: the word that was used in the bible was shibboleth which I think was the name of a certain plant (?) that's why it's called that. Idk what the pronunciation difference was though, I think it had something to do with the 'sh' sound. It does remind you of how actually violent many Bible stories are .

 

[carmex03]

Also, can i just like say that i HATED how Erimentha poses herself as not like other girls just because of the reason that she loves books, doesn't do makeup and doesn't like glitter, doesn't like to listen to pop songs and etc.? I mean just the basic description which i have said sounds to be like a person with a sad lonely life.

^^^ Late to the thread as usual, but honestly so many young girls (myself included) were like this growing up, because people love to hate on anything girls/women/femmes do and pit them against each other. Most of us grow out of it though, and if we write entire books about it, we eventually realize how misogynistic our characters are and take the book off of Amazon

Side note: I just remembered I used to LOVE the Glitter Girls books in primary school and was deathly afraid of my classmates finding out, precisely because people like Erimentha would judge me and destroy my "tomboy" street cred lmao

 

[amarantine]

Not been here for ages, work has been busy/life has been busy (believe it or not, it being bloody lockdown!), but I just came here to vent about Ruby's latest vlog - firstly, making such a big deal about feeling ill and saying she's really tired and just needs a rest, then in the next breath, "as luck would have it..." there's more work to do. How is this lucky if you're feeling poorly? It shows that unhealthy obsession with being "productive" again. I know she maintains that she enjoys studying but even the most productive of people need to have an occasional break and study, however much you enjoy it, and busywork just to look productive, isn't self care in any form. Whether she was poorly or just overtired or upset by the Holocaust memorial ad kickback we'll never know, but being "productive" isn't the answer. And being "slightly late" (i.e. a minute early) is not the end of the world. Does anyone else deliberately join zooms/teams/google meet etc calls a few minutes late (unless I am running them of course) so they don't have to make small talk through a screen with random people or is that just me?!

 

[Ilaariaa]

I now have a vision in my head of Ruby and Martha swapping personalities completely when they’re not filming ...

Maybe this is all an elaborate inside joke between them

 

[Ilaariaa]

I read Hermione as a character who was initially supposed to be exasperating, making Ron and Harry feel less clever, less prepared, etc. She grows up though and proves herself to be competent and a strong team player. She leaves the arrogance behind, instead she uses her wit and academic strengths for good, rather than reveling in how long she's spent reading.

Hermione also grows up to become more of a rebel? Like in the first book (as far as I remember) she follows the rules more strictly and being punished for breaking them is like the worst thing that could happen to her. But then in the following books out of the main trio she's the one constantly bending the rules and breaking them to do what she feels is right.

I feel like Ruby doesn't really get Hermione's character. Which is odd considering this is a children's book and it's pretty straightforward. Like Hermione literally spells out her character arc in the first book when she says that there are more important things than books.

 

[berkeleymoon87]

Can we please talk about her wall with the collage of children's pictures? Does anyone else find it weird/concerning that she has a clear obsession with prepubescent children and young teens? I mentioned this before, but in her 10,000 words in a day video, she had this picture of a young Mackenzie Foy just sitting on her desk. Idk, as an adult, I wouldn't put pictures of children who I am not related to on my wall. I also mentioned this in another post, but this would be a huge red flag if an adult man were to have this for "aesthetic" purposes. Something about it rubs me the wrong way

 

[berkeleymoon87]

For anyone who saw my previous post about Ruby's pictures on her wall, please don't take this as me accusing her of having bad intentions or interests. I really don't think that Ruby is someone who would cause harm, but I had just been wondering if anyone else is also put off by how far she has taken this character of herself. I used to enjoy Ruby's content, but I think that after a while I began to see that she really is stuck in this persona and it seems that she has actually regressed to a point where she is no longer relatable and actually becomes concerning. I really thought that as she got older she'd be more open to embracing more social issues and being more in touch with her audience, but after the holocaust ad post and her recent dress-up videos and room tours, it just seems that she's attempting to mask her privilege with her image of a naive girl who doesn't know any better. I think this is the case for a lot of YouTubers. For example, Jade masks her own privilege through a very skewed image of spirituality (the whole casual magic thing).

 

[nissigossips]

What did irritate me about that (apart from all of it) was that there was very little context - as in, the Victorian period lasted for a very long time and saw massive social, political end economic change. You can’t just quote a figure for a wage, for example, without giving an indication of when that figure was from - early, mid or late Victorian?

YES exactly, it was 64 I think years long right? Imagine someone quoting a wage from 1960 and saying that was representative of 2021?!

 

[Jeeen22]

From Ruby's map in her most recent room tour it looks like she's been to USA, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Denmark and Iceland. So it looks like she's only been to Western Europe and former British Colonies.

That’s pretty well travelled for her age imo

 

[Deeznutslol]

Martha will be that "I was crazy back then" vine in a few years lol. Try hard people make me cringe, spot on for saying that it's like poverty cosplay.


Yeah at the end of one of uni vlogs, she and her friends are hanging out and making crass af comments about Ruby and how they'd take her virginity but be gentle with her etc. It was gross. If my sibling's frends passed comments like that about me on camera and my sibling merrily put that on the internet for all to see, they'd all be enjoying a newly ripped set of arseholes.

Yeah it was disgusting and literally in no way funny at all, marfas rank. I’m so sick of her bragging about doing ket on tiktok as well, like congratulations you’ve become the stereotypical rebel posh kid at uni and you’re literally doing the dirtiest drug you could possibly find. Enjoy the damage it does to your bladder mate, god I cannot stand people who brag about doing ket, it is pure cringe

 

[shoshannadreyfus]

Well considering how much time she sucks out of her lecturers I would suggest she must be asking for help or else what’s she going for?

Idk, to talk about how great she is? To ask them about their holidays in Cambodia? Who knows.