Rachel Lindsay & Bryan Abasolo - Bachelorette 13 - Discussion

As of now there are Imo no clues or hints to suggest, that Rachel and Bryan are having any trouble between themselves. Their actions on sm or anywhere haven't changed, in the clips we see and their postings. Both recently broken up couples had a clear change in their actions before they broke up, it can be easily pinpointed, IMO. Rachel and Bryan haven't had any change, IMO.

As for why Demario is coming at Rachel and Bryan. He has done that for a while, it gets him attention and more ig comments than any other thing he posts about his own life. Rachel and Bryan get much more attention than he does, and shading them brings crazy amount of attention. Jmo

^^ and apparently, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad attention, as long as he's in a spotlight.

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As for why Demario is coming at Rachel and Bryan. He has done that for a while, it gets him attention and more ig comments than any other thing he posts about his own life. Rachel and Bryan get much more attention than he does, and shading them brings crazy amount of attention. Jmo

Exactly this. Rachel's name and Rachel and Bryan as a unit also drive more earned media than most of the squad and most of the rose boys, as well. So if you're thirsting for that shiniest spotlight, she's your best topic. New York Daily News, E!, Entertainment Tonight, and so on are just some of the earned media sources running with the latest. He hasn't had this much press since Rachel commented about the podcast and since Rachel booted him from The Bachelorette (outside of the Corrine debacle). Rachel and Rachel and Bryan are good business for his thirst goals. Demario, Raven, Adam, and Dean are all the most listed names in the latest earned media (Raven because they're using grabs from her IG story). There's a method to that madness.

And this is with Rachel not responding. He earns a lot more media if she fires back at him, which is what I'm sure, he and whoever of the squad is helping stir this pot with him, because I still believe that post was also on behalf of whoever Rachel's having issues with-- I'm sure they just knew she'd respond with fire. But to this point-- she hasn't. No doubt we can thank Bryan for that, given she basically credited him for that the first night this all started up. But, I get nervous, I don't know how long that will last, but I'm hoping it holds up because she'll create so much more media than what Demario's driving with it being him just attacking her with no response.

But, evs, like I keep saying, if this helps her cut the messier deadweight, I'm here for it all. I'm still waiting for the unfollows. The squad drops people quickly when they have an issue, see: Corrine. So I'm sort of waiting for something like that. Or for Rachel to unfollow people. A lot of these peeps are not subtle. Lol.

Haha! But Bryan may be trying to get her away from the squad anyway because they are immature and superficial? If he can get her away from the endless drama associated with these shows and these people and move on to better things - that's a good thing!

Bryan doesn't know them very well so I could easily see him watching BIP and saying "THESE girls are your  friends, really?!". And may be encouraging her to create some distance.

In fact, I wonder now if that may have even been the issue - noticed the squad all hanging in LA for the Labor Day weekend maybe Rach passed especially (with DM there at some point) and that's what caused the issue? If not, maybe Bryan said something about the squad or a member to Matt or Adam and it got back them?
Who knows!

That said, Sometimes when you have a new man friends get upset/jealous if you take that person's side over them. May be Jaz (who IMO is the root cause) thinks Rachel chose Bryan over the squad and blames him? Hence the unfollow?

Either way, who cares - with the exception of Astrid, Whitney and Kristina she could dump the squad for all I care!

All JMO

^^^You make great points. I don't know if Bryan would try to actively get her away from them, necessarily, though, he seems to like some of them fine enough, but it is very clear, imo, even from watching their season of the show-- he does sit back and read what's going on around him and assesses things and then tries to avoid insanity and steer clear of drama-filled situations and messy people. Makes it his business to do so, really. So, maybe he would. Idk.

But where I do agree, though, I do get the vibe that whatever's going on right now, he's probably seen and knows enough to know that Rachel needs to extricate herself from it/the people involved, whatever it is.

And I agree, I almost think it would be difficult to argue that he wasn't singling out whoever/whatever sparked this issue-- if it was just Demario or if it was Demario and whatever part of the squad she's fighting with, because he all but said in his post... Those people don't matter. His hashtags and comments could not have been more clear, imo. I love you. Stay focused. Nothing else matters. We're living dreams. Making money moves.

His whole comment basically read like: Hey, hey! They're busy being pressed and don't have going for them what you do, they're irrelevant, they don't matter, let's stay focused, okay? OKAY? O K A Y? Lmfao.

That was the connotation of his whole show of support, imo. Rachel > Demario/Squad. But... he did it with tact- at least to me.

In fact, I wonder now if that may have even been the issue - noticed the squad all hanging in LA for the Labor Day weekend maybe Rach passed especially (with DM there at some point) and that's what caused the issue?

I don't think it has to anything to do with LA, and Rachel opting not to be there, and Bryan being why, etc.

Rachel couldn't go to LA because she was booked on one of the ESPN networks. That had nothing to do with not going due to Bryan, so they couldn't blame that on him.

And she's booked on ESPN on Friday in Dallas, too. She's back at it. So, she needs to be circling Texas closely right now, especially because she's still got cases and is practicing law and she's taking on Harvey cases for free, as well. The Good Sis is a litttttle busy, she has got money and appearances to make along with juggling her charitable efforts. As Bryan said #makingmoneymoves. What's an LA, right now? Where? Who? Lmfao.

She can't be dropping everything to party in LA and all else, Bryan said she's making moves, she is. And none of those things can be blamed on Bryan, I don't think, and it would be crazy for the squad to be pressed with him, over any of that, because he's legit beaming as she gets these opportunities, which is-- if you're a friend-- what you'd want from their man. LA was never going to be an option for her this weekend.

So while Rachel's booked on ESPN on Friday, again, doing her thing, the squad can keep doing what they're best at. Whatever it is.

Either way, who cares -...

Preach! Someone else said it in this thread, but it was truth, the best thing that can come out of this is that Rachel extricates herself from people who were probably not going to be long-term good matches for her anyway and that she goes on to slay the game in a way she's honestly much more well-equipped to do, given she's got tons of skill sets, beyond #model #fitness #workoutguru #yogaspecialist #cheerleader or evs. No shade to those skill sets, just saying, Rachel's skill sets include a ton of tools that are very... different. That provide her much different opportunities, I'm going to imagine.

The squad, aside from Astrid and Whitney, are total famehos. IMO. Everyone IMO who goes onto the show are but they take it to the next level. I was truly disgusted by the mean girl behavior they showed on BIP, especially Jasmine and Alexis. That's just gross IMO. And now it seems like Amanda is joining the squad too because she has been hanging out with them. Anything to stay relevant, I guess. IMO Rachel also has a mean girl in her and she enjoyed it when they were all worshipping her when she was the Bachelorette. But now she's on her way out (from Bach nation), she will truly find out who are her true friends. And I bet that's only one or two. I can't wait until the next batch of famehos on the new Bachelor season take over because I'm kind of sick of Nick's girls.

Sounds crazy but after observing Bryan, I can't see the squad having much effect on Bryan. I can see him totally supporting Rachel but they are trivial in Bryan's mind....just a feeling a get. IMO

So Rachel sent Alexis flowers... looks like all is well between thoes 2.

Seab21 wrote:So Rachel sent Alexis flowers... looks like all is well between thoes 2.

Alexis, Whitney, Kristina, Astrid are definitely not the issue, from all signs. Rachel has either said as much, or liked posts that indicate as much, or people have commented that indicate as much.

And if Reality Steve is to be believed, it's tied to something having to do with DeMario and her friends that are friends with DeMario-- since it's not Alexis, we're really only dealing with Raven and/or Jasmine that could be the issue, imo. Some def called the issue being DeMario-related from jump. Seems that's accurate. She had been fine with all of them being friends with him and is still cool with Alexis and she is, so it's not just that they're friends with them, something obvi went down, imo.

Apparently, per Reality Steve, he's not giving details because he doesn't want to fan flames, since when has he ever cared, idk. But... apparently, it's all turned in to something ridiculous and high school and beneath allllllll involved, and doesn't even make sense any longer, and it seems Rachel was wronged but he doesn't think it was "keeping it 100" of her to vaguely mention it on Twitter because it was bound to cause issue and it did and he thinks it should have been handled behind closed doors. He said she didn't have to handle whatever happened by putting it on blast on Twitter, essentially. Paraphrasing Reality Steve there.

I know he's not always accurate, but yeah, I believe. Ridiculous? Beneath them? High school? Add DeMario and the squad and mix? YEAH. I see it.

Is she truly 32 years of age? Human earth years or dog years or what?