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July 1, 2024
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There’s a 2008 episode of South Park called “Britney’s New Look” that was made right when the height of Britney Spears’s popularity intersected with the depths of her very public mental health struggles.

In the show, the pop star is exploited and humiliated by a series of people who see her as a human slot machine. Despondent, she points a shotgun at her head and pulls the trigger.

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