The first option is the correct one. Like we are supposed to pretend Aviel is some machiavellian mastermind socially aware of culture war shit that he purposefully planted a genderslop activist and potential cancel-pig bomb to fuck with Brave? He is just a retard tech-bro, he didn't know what he was doing, which was actually his problem in all of Idol fuck ups.
Come on people, occam's razor, just occam's razor.