Maybe the PHD thesis is on ineffectual study techniques lmaoWhat the actual duck?
I hope it's a thesis on the damage of productivity culture on young kids.
Maybe the PHD thesis is on ineffectual study techniques lmaoWhat the actual duck?
I hope it's a thesis on the damage of productivity culture on young kids.
To be fair, we don’t know what research area this is for. This could be weird or deeply sarcastic, we just don’t knowBet this has given her an ego boost
Yeah it's so clear the people acting like Ruby is not clearly very wealthy are children with no concept of how money or the economy works. You know how when you're 11-12 you think you're going to be married with a nice house in the suburbs and 2.5 kids by the age of 20? Or that you're going to be able to travel all over the world at 18?You can enjoy learning about something without dressing up and acting it out. Ruby frequently does romanticised acting videos on her channel and I can't see anything changing in this one. These horrible comments on her Instagram really highlight the immaturity and ignorance of her fans, and I find it quite disturbing that she hasn't stepped in considering how often she talks about anti-bullying campaigns. 'How do we know Ruby is wealthy?' - it's obvious from her home, the companies she is able to shop at, her job, the fact she's a landlord. It's evident Ruby has no experience of actually having to worry about money.
I also find the fact that she doesn't attract many viewers her own age a bit strange? Most other study tubers seem to have a lot of university age followers, and Ruby's been uploading videos for so long that you'd think her followers would have stuck around but they all seem to be very young and impressionable, idolising Ruby to an unhealthy degree.
It is a thing, though. Watch any history documentary on the BBC and you can pretty much guarantee you’ll see Lucy Worsley wandering around an old house in a fancy frock.You can enjoy learning about something without dressing up and acting it out. Ruby frequently does romanticised acting videos on her channel and I can't see anything changing in this one.
I’ve no idea how she can do anything else. It would be really strange for her to pretend to be working class and Victorian in her manor house, unless she goes down the servant route (which I bet she does). Whatever she does is going to be slightly tasteless play-acting with juvenile analysis - ‘this is a bathroom, poor Victorians didn’t have bathrooms and they washed using jugs in their bedrooms. This is my bedroom, poor Victorians would have had to share bedrooms and it would have been very cold. I like the cold!’Theres a difference between Ruby making a well researched video about the Victorian working class morning routines and talking through it with evidence ... vs acting it all out, charcoal on her cheeks, in her mini mansion in the countryside.
And we all know she'd do the second.
I mean she loves being underdressed for the weather and eating very little food and very bland food, so in that sense she's used to living like a poor Victorian orphan lolI’ve no idea how she can do anything else. It would be really strange for her to pretend to be working class and Victorian in her manor house, unless she goes down the servant route (which I bet she does). Whatever she does is going to be slightly tasteless play-acting with juvenile analysis - ‘this is a bathroom, poor Victorians didn’t have bathrooms and they washed using jugs in their bedrooms. This is my bedroom, poor Victorians would have had to share bedrooms and it would have been very cold. I like the cold!’
Bless themBet this has given her an ego boost
Yeah - Ruby doesn't really address her privilege in this manner. I'm not saying that she has to discuss her finances in depth, but in her studio flat video she didnt even address the price.Yeah it's so clear the people acting like Ruby is not clearly very wealthy are children with no concept of how money or the economy works. You know how when you're 11-12 you think you're going to be married with a nice house in the suburbs and 2.5 kids by the age of 20? Or that you're going to be able to travel all over the world at 18?
It is a thing, though. Watch any history documentary on the BBC and you can pretty much guarantee you’ll see Lucy Worsley wandering around an old house in a fancy frock.
Yeah definitely, I do wonder whether Ruby has taken inspiration from Lucy Worsley, and possibly the documentaries Ruth Goodman used to do. The way Ruby talks about the past is so romanticised though (I'm thinking back to that Instagram post asking who else would like to live in the 19th century) that I can't see her stepping back and addressing truly how a lot of these people would have lived.Theres a difference between Ruby making a well researched video about the Victorian working class morning routines and talking through it with evidence ... vs acting it all out, charcoal on her cheeks, in her mini mansion in the countryside.
And we all know she'd do the second.
Didn't she also go to private school?One of the responses to the person asking Ruby to reconsider her working class morning routine are saying "what makes you think Ruby is rich?"
I don't like to assume, but maybe the fact that she became a landlord at 18, receives thousands of pounds worth of presents at Christmas and lives in a mansion in the countryside seems to suggest that to me though
She did a “what I spent in a week as a student” style video which included overpriced food from either Ocado or Sainsbury’s, a train ticket home (a journey she took most weekends especially in first year) which cost £50 and private therapy sessions.Has she talked about student finance before? Obviously she's rich enough to not need a maintenance loan but do her parents pay tuition as well? The concept of being rich enough to pay tuition upfront is so abstract to me
I know quite a few people who went to private schools whose parents continued to pay their tuition at uni. £9k a year is significantly less than the fees at most independent schools - for reference the annual fees at Ruby’s day school are currently just under £20k and if you were a full boarder at the very famous school just down the road from her house, you’d be looking at an annual fee of just over £40k so uni seems like a bit of a bargain, even with accommodation etc.Has she talked about student finance before? Obviously she's rich enough to not need a maintenance loan but do her parents pay tuition as well? The concept of being rich enough to pay tuition upfront is so abstract to me
Yeah I was gonna say, her parents could afford to send both their kids to private school for their entire education, uni fees are probably small change to themI know quite a few people who went to private schools whose parents continued to pay their tuition at uni. £9k a year is significantly less than the fees at most independent schools - for reference the annual fees at Ruby’s day school are currently just under £20k and if you were a full boarder at the very famous school just down the road from her house, you’d be looking at an annual fee of just over £40k so uni seems like a bit of a bargain, even with accommodation etc.