DC ExtraTime: Briana's Misfortune

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We at DCBLOG hope you're enjoying your long Memorial Day Weekend and the start of the summer season. Coming up, we'll have the 'Pulse of a drama-filled Episode 4 of The Challenge: Rivals III, as well as the explosive double finale of Real World: Go Big or Go Home. And in case you missed it, last night we posted our preview of Are You The One? Season 4.
   First, our vision here is to compliment the various sites that cover the MTV Trifecta by focusing on the stories of the people of the shows I follow most - both those that bring a different side of these castmates and the types of stories that relate deeply to viewers. It's often the ladder that appeals to everyone, and that is the subject of this dedicated edition of ExtraTime.

For this longtime MTV fan, the past four years have no doubt been the best years of the 17 that I have followed this passion. When I joined Twitter in 2012, there was only one show that had followed with immense interest: that first love known as The Real World. By the end of 2012, it had grown to two when I was engaged in watching The Challenge for the very first time. More than year later, Are You The One? would join those two as the shows I follow the most and cover extensively here. And when the news got out of an unprecedented AYTO Challenge crossover, I coined this threesome the name MTV Trifecta. And though it's still tough for the purists to take in, it's no doubt a dream come true for myself and those fellow fans who watch all three shows of this crown.

   Over time, I've established a deep rapport in social world with so many people in the MTV family -- both those in the Trifecta ecosystem and those outside of it too. A favorite castmate of mine who I've talked to many times and have seen her become a great cast member on her two shows is Briana from Season 2 of Are You The One?, and now of The Challenge: Rivals III. Last weekend, like many of you reading this, she experienced her crowning moment of graduating college at San Diego State University. But on Wednesday on Episode 4 of her first Challenge, we saw her stint get cut short abruptly by way of what happened to her partner.
   But for me, my most notable moment of Bri came all the way back on her original season when she went revealed the trauma of a heartbreaking experience that so many people can relate to, and made her relatable to those who had experienced what she went through. We told you this story back during Season 2 of AYTO, but given what's happened in the past 7 days for her, and similar to what took place recently with Teen Mom's Kailyn Lowry, we felt it was appropriate to revisit it for the sake of those watching Briana for the first time and didn't catch her back in the fall of 2014.