You get to be around regular people
That reminded me of, from https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2546-true-story-i-was-hippie-in-san-francisco-in-sixties.html
Hippies in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s were subjected to tourists coming in buses to stare at them. They quickly learned that if they acted normal, they'd be gawked at like zoo attractions.
So they played up hippie stereotypes for the tourists: "We'd sit in a Hindu circle. We might pretend to do a rain dance. Because we found out from the bus drivers that if we did stereotypical hippie behavior or if we approached the buses talking about love, tourists would get nervous and ask the drivers to floor it. Normal behavior was interesting, but
things they had only heard about seemed dangerous. And that's why we kept it up: so that we wouldn't be stared at."
Or at least, for not quite as long. You take what you can get.