VII. Tension Lines and Critique Not everything in the index reads as triumph. There are footnotes on controversy: debates over commercialization, critiques of the show’s simplistic resolutions, worries about the effect of constant performance on an adolescent self. The index holds contradictions: it celebrates agency while cataloguing commodification. Its margins contain questions about authenticity and exploitation, about whether a life divided into stage and home can stay intact, and about what it means to grow up under the neon glare of mass media.