>>1980112Well many people have their reasons for liking it. Mask fetishism in general exists regardless of this IP's existence, so even if this wasn't a thing there are still gonna be people that fap to women in masks. So I have trouble finding how that part is baffling considering all the mask/faceless/shygirl/warframe threads that thrived before. So at the very least, the aspect about a woman in a mask is at least part of the appeal.
Transformation is often associated with it because the sight gags in the movie, cartoon and some comics. Including parts in the comic where Big Head can disguise itself as other people, no green head required. However some Maskfags latch on to the aspects like gender and animal transformation when Ipkiss has it. Not my cup of tea but hey it's still canon.
So that covers mask fetishism, transformation fetishism on a few levels subsetting with Furry and possible TGTF.
Then you have the part about the Mask's other given superpowers, reality warping, superhuman strength, nigh-immortality, toon force. Seems like a sweet deal and that power comes at a cost of mental instability, varying levels of the wearer having tenuous control over the mask or their desires/impulses/"shadow" coming out and if none of those are an issue, the cost of that power is having an embarrassing and usually unsightly green face. I thought that in itself felt like a trade-off albeit more for the cartoon and movie Mask than the comic. In the case of women wearing it, it was like sacrificing beauty for nearly-unlimited power if not some added crazy on top of that.
In addition I found it fascinating that The Mask had a "Cinderella" effect on the Jim Carrey Stan, where he's all pimped out and ready to hit the club or how Peggy in the cartoon suddenly started glamourizing being a starlet and wanted to go through with that while wearing The Mask.
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