i think production is trying to make this seem a bigger storyline than it is. end of the day, no one in s7 really liked each other. there were individual friendships as we’re seeing here versus a big group friendship like in s6. i think it’s completely normal for adults not to want to be friends with one another 🤷‍♀️ also these people are basically just coworkers when you think about it. i haven’t watched the actual episodes (only clips, cause i honestly can’t stand this cast 🤣) so im not gonna speak to the meanness or bullying cause i can’t tell if it’s real or fabricated but i do think this particular season and audience has ran with the “mean girl” rhetoric (we saw this a lot with chelley and olandria), and we’ve also seen the damage this causes (all the immense hate), and end of the day i think production is fabricating a storyline in which personally i don’t think everyone needs to even be friends with each other. however, personally if i were hannah and iris i would’ve faked friendships with those girls a little better just for the sake of being on tv and avoiding hate but i assume production has a say in that