Corruption infects everything around it.

You're forced to play or get knocked out of the game.

Kayfabe is a form of corruption.

A cheat code you are compelled to use or be competed out by people who did.

"Why do the hard real thing when I can do the performative easy thing?"

How can you bring yourself to care when the competition compels you to not?

Toxic for discretionary effort, creativity, general intelligence.