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Depending on how we're defining "seen" I'm betting it's some guy running a hot dog cart or sweeping up trash or something in a busy intersection like Times Square or Shibuya Crossing
Sure, if you're a performer like Taylor Swift who's filling giant stadiums or what-have you, you might see 100k people a night.
But you'll probably see at least that many people passing by if your job is to stand around in Times Square all day too.
And Taylor probably doesn't have a gig every night, while the dude with a hot dog cart might actually be out there 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
And on his days off, there's a decent chance he's probably gonna be out and about seeing faces too. He doesn't have a private shopper to go do his grocery shopping and bring it to his mansion on a few acres of land in some rich neighborhood, he lives somewhere in or near NYC, probably commutes on the subway, seeing untold hundreds of more faces, and honestly probably sees about 100 faces anytime he walks out his front door and walks to the corner store to grab a snack.