This is what confuses me with Ruby. She’s obviously doing something right in order to be getting firsts in her university work, but whatever she shows online tends to just be a very surface-level analysis. I can’t quite work out if she’s dumbing everything down because she assumes her audience is not as bright as her, or if she’s doing that because she’s savvy and realises she has a very ‘young’ demographic (which is still a bit patronising), or if she genuinely doesn’t think about stuff very deeply, or if she’s so possessive of ‘her‘ knowledge that she doesn’t want to share it. It’s odd as what she’s presenting online doesn’t square with her results.
I think it may be this. I knew so many people like this at uni; from how they speak up in class, or how they come across in conversation, you'd never think they're deep-thinking or particularly intelligent. But then when you saw their assignments & their exam grades, it was like a whole different person. I'm pretty sure they wanted to save their hard work & thoughts for themselves, lest anyone copy it or something, idk. or maybe she doesn't want to come across as too deep & mature which is in keeping with her desire to be seemingly as childlike as possible.
in general, i think we only see the tip of the iceberg with ruby. If she were as surface-level in her degree as she is in her videos, there's no way she'd be getting such good grades at uni. Similarly, if she were as child-like and rigid in real life as in her videos, she'd never foster friendships like she did & find friends to share a flat with.