Public figure comes out as a living performance art project before 2030
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Resolves as "YES" if a major public figure reveals that their public persona and appearances over a 5+ year period were actually a performance art project of some kind.

Criteria:

(1) The public figure cannot have gained their fame because they are a performing artist (actor, musician, artist, comedian, news anchor, et cetera).

Arguably many performing artists are already semi-fictional characters, so they don't count. I'm talking about people like politicians, CEOs, academics and the like.

(2) The public figure must have an objective way to show that the performance art is not a 'retcon' or a public face-saving plot.

If someone makes a huge mistake for several years they can't use the "this was a fictional character I was playing in public" as 2020's version of "I did those things when I was drunk and on drugs but I'm going to rehab now so you can't hate me anymore."

For example, if the public figure tweets a single hash -- and never, ever publishes another tweet hash, then 10 years later reveals that the text file that corresponds with that hash value is a written confession that their behavior was part of a performance art project, with extensive details about how the performance art would unfold over those ten years, then that's pretty bulletproof.

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