The corridor outside Ruby's bedroom is cluttered with a professional-grade video camera, tripod and lights. Normally they would be pointed directly at her desk, but they are not needed for the moment because she is taking a brief break from studying to talk to me.
"I've got an agreement with the family (ア)that I can store the tripod there," the teenager says sheepishly as we take a tour of her home, “but I'll get in trouble for the lights.”
Ruby's family don't quite understand her — "She is a bit weird,” says her younger sister, with full sibling love – but her fans do. Ruby is a star of the new Study Tuber phenomenon, one of the strangest to emerge from the frontier of online youth culture. Put simply, millions of girls love to watch videos of Ruby doing homework. And Ruby does a lot of homework.
All of the Study Tubers post videos of tips for achieving more in life or of them just studying. If you are over the age of ２５ you may be querying the latter category： literally watching a girl sit at a book or laptop? Yes, just that – except that it is built on the billions of young men who spend hours of every day watching other young men on YouTube playing video games ( １ ) the name “Let's Play.” The Study Tubers' equivalent includes videos called “Study With Me” or “Revise With Me,” with the girls narrating footage of marathon studying sessions. (A)They are academic performers in both senses of the term.
Take Ruby. She seems like a petite １７-year-old １９th-century heroine, with a love of charmingly vintage English fashions and phrases (her sister makes fun of her for using the word “harkened” in conversation) and a Victorian family home in Buckinghamshire. However, when it comes to studying, Ruby is an ultra-endurance athlete.
The footage she and others post of themselves receiving their results for secondary school standardised exams (all A-stars) or Oxford University places is like medal time at the Olympics. One of Ruby's most popular videos was a speeded-up version of herself revising for her advanced-level exams for １４ hours solid in one day; it has had more than one million views.
"We say, 'Ruby, come down and watch a film and relax”,” says her mother, Clare, as I chat with the family after school one evening. “She doesn't want to." Clare has the universal bewildered look of parents of teenagers doing crazy futuristic stuff, even if it is getting paid for uploading videos of themselves staring at textbooks.
Ruby interjects： “(イ)I couldn't do it for １５ hours if I didn't enjoy it.” You may have guessed what the follow-up was to her wildly successful １４-hour “Study With Me” video.
I believe her. "Have a productive week,” is Ruby's signature sign-off to her weekly videos. I spent a week immersed ( ２ ) the almost exclusively female subculture of Study Tubers and found it exposed just how unproductive I am. The top three are Ruby, whose channel is called “Ruby Granger” (she adopted the name Granger in tribute to her hero, Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter stories) and has had １１.５ million views; Jade Bowler from “Unjaded Jade," who has had ８.６ million views since launching last year; and Eve Bennett from “Revision with Eve," who has had ４.５ million views.
They get recognised in public and some of their teachers show their productivity tutorials to their classes. One of Ruby's fans recreated her bedroom in Minecraft. Their parents often appear incidentally in their videos, obviously baffled ( ３ ) why their daughters are videoing themselves all day long. Or, indeed, why they are studying in stints of １２ hours or more.
Ruby was bullied at the start of her academic drive; now she "owns it,” she says. Incidentally, the revenue stream is, while not massive, “more than pocket money” and she puts it, of course, ( ４ ) the costs of a degree. “The education system is pressurising enough on young people and I don't want to make it worse,” Ruby says, “but on the other hand that pressure almost obliges people to seek out advice and tips."
(a) I am convinced that our students will do a great job creating original textbooks for children.
(b) I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for granting the scholarship that enabled me to study in the U.S. last year.
(c) “The Sound of Music" is the film that many students claim changed their lives.
(d) They were encouraged by the fact that their performance was evaluated highly in the latest review.
１. Ruby did not have a video camera, tripod and lights in her bedroom while she was being interviewed by the author.
２. Ruby's mother, Clare, is bewildered because Ruby is watching “Study With Me" without her teachers or her classmates.
３. The fans of Study Tubers are so fascinated with the Study Tubers' performance that some appear in their videos by chance.
４. The amount of money Ruby earns as a Study Tuber is not insignificant.
５. According to Ruby, due to the pressure from the education system many people even give up asking for help.
〔a〕 “Because I am fond of doing it I can continue it for １５ hours."
〔b〕 “I couldn't do it for １５ hours as it was difficult for me to enjoy it."
〔c〕 “It is possible for me to do it for １５ hours as I find it fun.”
〔d〕 “I would be able to do it for １５ hours if I liked it.”
(i) 〔a〕 and 〔b〕
(ii) 〔a〕 and 〔c〕
(iii) 〔b〕 and 〔d〕
(iv) 〔c〕 and 〔d〕
(a) Both boys and girls strive for academic excellence by studying hard on video.
(b) Girls who star in the Study Tubers are both talented entertainers and gifted students.
(c) The videos have a high level of both academic and entertainment value.
(d) These videos are examples of how students can both study and have fun at the same time.
in stints of: stintとはある仕事をして過ごしていた期間。勤務期間のこと。この場合は勉強に従事する時間のこと。
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The corridor outside Ruby's bedroom is cluttered with a professional-grade video camera, tripod and lights. Normally they would be pointed directly at her desk, but they are not needed for the moment because she is taking a brief break from studying to talk to me.
"I've got an agreement with the family that I can store the tripod there," the teenager says sheepishly as we take a tour of her home, “but I'll get in trouble for the lights.”
Ruby's family don't quite understand her — "She is a bit weird,” says her younger sister, with full sibling love – but her fans do. Ruby is a star of the new Study Tuber phenomenon, one of the strangest to emerge from the frontier of online youth culture. Put simply, millions of girls love to watch videos of Ruby doing homework. And Ruby does a lot of homework.
All of the Study Tubers post videos of tips for achieving more in life or of them just studying. If you are over the age of ２５ you may be querying the latter category： literally watching a girl sit at a book or laptop? Yes, just that – except that it is built on the billions of young men who spend hours of every day watching other young men on YouTube playing video games under the name “Let's Play.” The Study Tubers' equivalent includes videos called “Study With Me” or “Revise With Me,” with the girls narrating footage of marathon studying sessions. They are academic performers in both senses of the term.
Take Ruby. She seems like a petite １７-year-old １９th-century heroine, with a love of charmingly vintage English fashions and phrases (her sister makes fun of her for using the word “harkened” in conversation) and a Victorian family home in Buckinghamshire. However, when it comes to studying, Ruby is an ultra-endurance athlete.
The footage she and others post of themselves receiving their results for secondary school standardised exams (all A-stars) or Oxford University places is like medal time at the Olympics. One of Ruby's most popular videos was a speeded-up version of herself revising for her advanced-level exams for １４ hours solid in one day; it has had more than one million views.
"We say, 'Ruby, come down and watch a film and relax”,” says her mother, Clare, as I chat with the family after school one evening. “She doesn't want to." Clare has the universal bewildered look of parents of teenagers doing crazy futuristic stuff, even if it is getting paid for uploading videos of themselves staring at textbooks.
Ruby interjects： “I couldn't do it for １５ hours if I didn't enjoy it.” You may have guessed what the follow-up was to her wildly successful １４-hour “Study With Me” video.
I believe her. "Have a productive week,” is Ruby's signature sign-off to her weekly videos. I spent a week immersed because of the almost exclusively female subculture of Study Tubers and found it exposed just how unproductive I am. The top three are Ruby, whose channel is called “Ruby Granger” (she adopted the name Granger in tribute to her hero, Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter stories) and has had １１.５ million views; Jade Bowler from “Unjaded Jade," who has had ８.６ million views since launching last year; and Eve Bennett from “Revision with Eve," who has had ４.５ million views.
They get recognised in public and some of their teachers show their productivity tutorials to their classes. One of Ruby's fans recreated her bedroom in Minecraft. Their parents often appear incidentally in their videos, obviously baffled as to why their daughters are videoing themselves all day long. Or, indeed, why they are studying in stints of １２ hours or more.
Ruby was bullied at the start of her academic drive; now she "owns it,” she says. Incidentally, the revenue stream is, while not massive, “more than pocket money” and she puts it, of course, towards the costs of a degree. “The education system is pressurising enough on young people and I don't want to make it worse,” Ruby says, “but on the other hand that pressure almost obliges people to seek out advice and tips."
Helen Rumbelow. Study Tubers Meet the new teen vlogging stars of YouTube.
Study Tuberたちは皆、人生で何かをもっと達成するためのヒントをビデオにして投稿したり、あるいはただ単に自分が勉強している姿をビデオにして投稿しています。あなたが25歳以上の場合、後者のカテゴリーを疑問に思うかもしれません。つまり、文字通り、女の子が本やラップトップに座っているのを見ているのか、と。そう、それだけなのです。ただし、これがYouTubeで「一緒にプレイしよう」というタイトルの下、コンピューターゲームをしている他の若者のビデオを毎日何時間も見て過ごす数十億人の若者たちの上に成り立っているということを除けば。 Study Tuberでそれに相当するのは、「私と一緒に勉強しよう」とか「私と一緒に復習しよう」といったビデオで、女の子たちがマラソンのように長時間勉強するセッションにナレーションを付けています。彼女たちは言葉の両方の意味でアカデミックなパフォーマーです。
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