As someone who struggled with and had to ‘first principles’ social skills, I feel this even in many mundane interactions.
People wear masks all the time because sometimes their true self is not conducive to what they are doing at that time.
For a celebrity entertainer who needs to appeal to a crowd of tens of thousands, their Dunbar’s number, even optimistically, will be orders of magnitude smaller.
Therefore, the gap of inner circle-audience will be made up by an act relying on their ability/looks/charm which is necessarily contrived and not reflective of their true self.
People wear masks all the time because sometimes their true self is not conducive to what they are doing at that time.
For a celebrity entertainer who needs to appeal to a crowd of tens of thousands, their Dunbar’s number, even optimistically, will be orders of magnitude smaller.
Therefore, the gap of inner circle-audience will be made up by an act relying on their ability/looks/charm which is necessarily contrived and not reflective of their true self.