8 Passengers: Emotional Abuse Galore & Making Kids Sleep on The Floor | Part 17

[nesland300]

Ruby needs some hobby and outside activity with other adults.

She is too busy rehabilitating her channel, spending, writing a parenting book and becoming a life coach to have a hobby.

And I bet raising six kids takes a lot out of her too. Oh wait, never mind.

[sheltiefan]

Did they post a vlog about the reunion trip and deleted it? I was watching some videos on TicTok and it had Kevin describing something that sounded like their reunion this year with the camping. May be something on the men's trip that the Griffith men do every year.

[imoverit]

Well, she’s gotten brave enough to show her face on Instagram. I find this family’s obsession with over-cleaning things so strange (soaking a toilet seat in bleach?), especially for such dirty nasty people. She’s definitely going to ignore all this like it never happened. I hate her so much.

[rulatows000]

...They replaced every single toilet seat in their house? Who does that? I could see if they were cracked, scratched, etc, but I highly doubt that all of them could be damaged to the point of needing replacement. That's just ridiculous, wait until you actually need to replace it. She kept saying, "We got toilet seats for the kids for their bathrooms." I highly doubt that they want new toilet seats. How about you get them some clothes or some bookshelves or how about a bed frame? Now if they ask for anything for the next year she's going to respond, "You need to stop asking for things and appreciate that you have a brand new toilet seat (that you didn't ask for and don't need)."

Also she posted a picture of her airpods that Dwight chewed up. Seriously, she's always freaking out about her kids not taking care of their things and yet she leaves her expensive air pods out so that the dog can chew them up and potentially choke on them. Of course, she just gets to post an Instagram photo acting like its funny, when we all know if her kids left an expensive item out to be chewed on by the dog, there would be a whole vlog devoted to their punishment for not being responsible.

[boychik0830]

I just responded to their stories. I'm surprised they haven't blocked me on Instagram yet. She talks about how she is responsible for her own happiness but not her children's emotions and if they have friends. Someone needs to get this sick family off of YouTube and save the kids. I guess she thinks that covering up the problems and act like nothing happened makes them go away which is not the case. She only cares about herself and not her kids. Anything they get something it is something that ruby wanted or they are just borrowing it from ruby and could have it taken for the stupidest reasons. They need to give all electronics back to the kids as they didn't do anything wrong to lose them permanently.

[boychik0830]

I just responded to their stories. I'm surprised they haven't blocked me on Instagram yet. She talks about how she is responsible for her own happiness but not her children's emotions and if they have friends. Someone needs to get this sick family off of YouTube and save the kids. I guess she thinks that covering up the problems and act like nothing happened makes them go away which is not the case. She only cares about herself and not her kids. Anything they get something it is something that ruby wanted or they are just borrowing it from ruby and could have it taken for the stupidest reasons. They need to give all electronics back to the kids as they didn't do anything wrong to lose them permanently.

[nesland300]

...They replaced every single toilet seat in their house? Who does that? I could see if they were cracked, scratched, etc, but I highly doubt that all of them could be damaged to the point of needing replacement. That's just ridiculous, wait until you actually need to replace it. She kept saying, "We got toilet seats for the kids for their bathrooms." I highly doubt that they want new toilet seats. How about you get them some clothes or some bookshelves or how about a bed frame? Now if they ask for anything for the next year she's going to respond, "You need to stop asking for things and appreciate that you have a brand new toilet seat (that you didn't ask for and don't need)."

Also she posted a picture of her airpods that Dwight chewed up. Seriously, she's always freaking out about her kids not taking care of their things and yet she leaves her expensive air pods out so that the dog can chew them up and potentially choke on them. Of course, she just gets to post an Instagram photo acting like its funny, when we all know if her kids left an expensive item out to be chewed on by the dog, there would be a whole vlog devoted to their punishment for not being responsible.

If you were really a germophobe I can see liking new toilet seats after moving into a new place. But they've been living in this place and sitting on the existing ones for how many months? And soaking them in bleach water is beyond weird, especially for people that don't seem concerned about making sure their young children bathe themselves.

[Josette]

How much more cringe can this situation get? She puts up on her insta a personal letter from Kevin in which he is overcompensating apologizing for leaving her once again for a trip.
She obviously wasn’t happy and he mentions their relationship has changed blah blah blah....
but the ending how cringe!
Basically how lucky we all are (the whole world) to know the glory that is Ruby!!!!!
And why do I get the eerie feeling that Chad has taken over vlogging because he feels bad about what happened! Also it’s like she tossed a camera at everyone and said “Fine you all go pay for the fancy house,school, vacations!”
Also side note Kevin that amount of supplements will kill your liver and not because of the ingredients inside just the formation of the capsules themselves!!!! Be smart man!!!!! Those are man made!!!!

What Kevin really needs to do is just eat healthier foods, they have the means. I agree with you that no one should ever have to take that amount of supplements. It's not safe doing that especially knowing he has a heart problem.

Ruby wouldn't feel alone if she had a life of her own. Its not like she does more for the kids/household when Kevin is away. They kids mostly care for themselves with some help from Shari. Ruby needs some hobby and outside activity with other adults.

I was horrified to see how many supplements Kevin is taking on a daily basis, especially since there's a history of heart problems in his family. He takes more pills/supplements in a day than I take (primarily prescription meds) in a week and heart problems are an issue in my family too.

[callie73]

It could be that during their CPS visit, CPS made note of something wrong with their bathrooms. they check all living areas to make sure they are safe for the kids.

[nesland300]

It could be that during their CPS visit, CPS made note of something wrong with their bathrooms. they check all living areas to make sure they are safe for the kids.

I've seen a few people talking about a CPS visit. Do we have a source that it happened?

[callie73]

It could be that during their CPS visit, CPS made note of something wrong with their bathrooms. they check all living areas to make sure they are safe for the kids.

I've seen a few people talking about a CPS visit. Do we have a source that it happened?

Someone was talking about Ruby blaming the vloggers who talked about them for their CPS visit. that's all I know and suddenly they get new toilet seats for all the kids toilets.

[cvntlord0606]

I have been going through old vlogs and came across the one where Ruby admits she neglected Julie as a baby. She "stunk" of pee and was wining from neglect, so Ruby bathed her and put her in a new dress. Ruby said a new outfit "makes her feel like she is at least trying to be a good mom". It comes across worse than I remember. Saved @ 8:09.

Wow, I remember this video actually. Ruby also tells Shari while she's unloading the grocery cart for her to get working and that she has to earn her haircut as she snaps at her . Giving your kids haircuts is not "serving" them Ruby. And wow, Ruby literally says Julie was "being neglected" because she was paying attention to the new baby (Russell) instead of her toddler. Yeah paying so much attention to him that he rolled off the couch and broke his femur. Mother of the year.

An old vacation vlog game up in my recommendations recently. In it the family was flying to Disney World or something, and Eve had to go to the bathroom as the plane was landing. Like crying and borderline screaming in pain from needing to pee. Kevin just unsympathetically says "she didn't have to go 15 minutes ago" and sits back and does nothing while Ruby cranes around in her seat to film Eve crying (Eve was sitting with Shari because I guess watching a toddler on the plane while the parents relax in their own row is her responsibility for some reason). After the plane lands Eve gets herself out of the seat and takes off for the bathroom. By the time Ruby gets there, multiple flight attendants are already there dealing with it. You can tell Ruby intends to stand there filming while they take care of it, but one of the flight attendants offers to hold the camera as a more polite way of saying "take care of your damn kid". Then they cut to a little bit later to say they didn't make it and Eve peed her pants. Then instead of comforting her and/or taking her ASAP to change her clothes, they shove the camera in her face to film her crying. Cut again and Ruby and Kevin are standing around on the plane talking about the situation and doing absolutely nothing to help Eve change. In the background you can hear Eve crying while someone else (Shari probably?) changes her.

Mother (and father) of the year indeed.

you can tell the flight attendants are really pissed off with ruby as they should be. and the fact that she would have searched for the camera and started filming knowing her kid peed herself or was going to the bathroom? absolutely disgusting and counts as abuse if you ask me.

[Ducklings4]

Did he said he is taking CLA and for not know what it is. I thought it was a “fat burning” supplement. Maybe I am wrong.

[GossipPeasant]

Apologies if this had already been mentioned but Atozy did an enjoyable video on Ruby calling her out and the comments are just people COMING for her lol

[nesland300]

Wow, I remember this video actually. Ruby also tells Shari while she's unloading the grocery cart for her to get working and that she has to earn her haircut as she snaps at her . Giving your kids haircuts is not "serving" them Ruby. And wow, Ruby literally says Julie was "being neglected" because she was paying attention to the new baby (Russell) instead of her toddler. Yeah paying so much attention to him that he rolled off the couch and broke his femur. Mother of the year.

An old vacation vlog game up in my recommendations recently. In it the family was flying to Disney World or something, and Eve had to go to the bathroom as the plane was landing. Like crying and borderline screaming in pain from needing to pee. Kevin just unsympathetically says "she didn't have to go 15 minutes ago" and sits back and does nothing while Ruby cranes around in her seat to film Eve crying (Eve was sitting with Shari because I guess watching a toddler on the plane while the parents relax in their own row is her responsibility for some reason). After the plane lands Eve gets herself out of the seat and takes off for the bathroom. By the time Ruby gets there, multiple flight attendants are already there dealing with it. You can tell Ruby intends to stand there filming while they take care of it, but one of the flight attendants offers to hold the camera as a more polite way of saying "take care of your damn kid". Then they cut to a little bit later to say they didn't make it and Eve peed her pants. Then instead of comforting her and/or taking her ASAP to change her clothes, they shove the camera in her face to film her crying. Cut again and Ruby and Kevin are standing around on the plane talking about the situation and doing absolutely nothing to help Eve change. In the background you can hear Eve crying while someone else (Shari probably?) changes her.

Mother (and father) of the year indeed.

you can tell the flight attendants are really pissed off with ruby as they should be. and the fact that she would have searched for the camera and started filming knowing her kid peed herself or was going to the bathroom? absolutely disgusting and counts as abuse if you ask me.

Not one, but two flight attendants got out of their seats after landing and got there before Ruby bothered to show up. Shows how concerned she was.

[rulatows000]

So now she posts a vlog devoted to showing her getting her kids' eyes checked and showing all the new clothes she bought them. I am glad that she actually took Shari in to get her eyes checked, since she was having blurry vision in her left eye. Did they find any reason for that? It seems like they just got her new glasses and didn't give a follow-up on her left eye vision, only speculated about it.

Ruby had a bunch of boxes filled with clothes that seemed mostly to be for Abby and Julie. Then Ruby added that some of it was for Russell and Eve and Chad and Shari. Interesting, though, that she only had the four youngest digging in and showing off their new shoes and pajamas. I really hope there was clothes for Chad in there, too. Anyways, those pajamas she got for Eve and Russell looked tiny! They were skin tight. Those shoes that Abby got also did look pretty small for a growing girl. I guess I can't really tell what shoe size she is, but I've seen pictures of her wearing Adidas shoes that look very big compared to the ones she had now. What is with Ruby and always squeezing her kids into smaller sizes? Then they're probably too embarrassed to say, 'it doesn't fit' so they just have to be uncomfortable.

[YTIG60]

I now think Ruby is heading back to their baseline views and will have very few consequences for exploiting her children. You would need to hold YouTube responsible too since there was enough evidence to demonetize their channel. There just isn't any laws or policies to protect children on social media platforms and as long as they are profitable, things will not change.
Just like children actors did, it may take YouTube children standing up someday as adults and demand rights (trust funds, what can be filmed, etc)...especially as they look back and see all the money parents spend on themselves.

[nesland300]

What is with Ruby and always squeezing her kids into smaller sizes? Then they're probably too embarrassed to say, 'it doesn't fit' so they just have to be uncomfortable.

I think it has to do with the same weird issues she has with food. "If I'm providing this for you because I literally have to then at the very least I'm making sure it's slightly less than adequate so you can learn to be humble and responsible for yourself." Or at least that's what she says in camera. In reality the attitude in this family is that kids don't deserve more than the most basic necessities, if even that.

[Kattiness Everdeen]

Woah, did anyone catch Abby's reaction to Russell or Eve calling out "Mommy" at 8:43? I get the feeling that all is not well in that house, and Ruby is flying off the handle on them.

The kids have always been scared of telling Ruby that clothes/shoes don't fit. I just saw an old one where Julie got in trouble for accepting tiny sneakers. We also saw Julie wear sandals in the snow, I wonder if that was her consequence for the sneaker incident. In today's vlog, Abby couldn't even say the hat was too big, she had to get Ruby to say it. (I used to have to use similar tactics on my Mom, everything had to be her idea, otherwise it was just "whining").

[tebbyvines]

I've just watched the vlog again
(I made sure that I skipped the Ads, so they earn no money from me!)

My notes:

• Russell's Pyjamas looked way too small, Abby's hat was definitely too big but she didn't want to say. Her shoes were to small and Julie's sandals were definitely too small.

• Ruby calling the younger kids flip-flops, 'sandals' annoyed me. They aren't sandals for God sake!

• Russell disappointed that he doesn't need glasses... That also annoyed me but only because I can't live without my glasses and I'm really blind without them. It's basically wanting a disability (I also have a severe lazy eye and have had surgery on my other one. It sucks man )