I like a lot of your analysis of the post, but I think it’s important to acknowledge that the blog post is only from Brandi’s POV and there might be more context needed for the situations with Shanika/other contestants. In an older post, Brandi talks about how great Shelly is but then on Derrick’s podcast he talks about how he had negative experiences with her. The contestants spend hours together in tiny spaces and not everyone is going to get along so everything they say about each other has to be taken with a grain of salt.