The data is pretty damming, even casual observations imply the situation is much worse. Given how consistent it is with cold actors, you'd expect to also have some friends who are in a similar place, with intimacy replacing popularity as the reason you get to follow the fall from grace.

Certainly a lot of kids go through it, but Hollywood has a way of making it worse. When you think about what the parents are ok with, and must constantly allow on their kids, you can see why they are natural targets to abusers. Also the popularity is equally traumatizing: it's like when you screw up so badly you need to move to another town to get a chance, except every town knows and is laughing at you together.