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I cant help but find these images somewhat unsettling. Though its weird, I find the images with text on them less so.
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Sometimes, I visit my grandparents and stay the night, and the room in which I usually sleep has this huge, glass case with all these vintage dolls in it. Sleeping there is kinda hard, because you're under the constant scrutiny of dozens of soulless eyes. Watching. Judging. Meanwhile, I live in a one-room apartment and keep my kig in the corner, facing the wall; sometimes, when I would wake up at 1am, I'd find it looking at me.
Call it projection, but I think people associate the unblinking, lifeless, silent gaze seen on kig masks with dolls, and dolls can definitely be unsettling. Could be that realizing there's a human being under there- seeing some semblance of communication or interaction, like an image macro for example- brings a bit of respite. Like I'll admit, kig kinda creeped me out til I started seeing videos of them, particularly this one where you can hear one of the performers snickering underneath the mask.
Alternatively, realizing there's someone in there it might make it more horrifying; the concept of a person- with conscious thoughts, a life, a family, hopes and dreams- trapped beneath that doll-like facade and tied via unseen strings to the whims of some esoteric puppeteer. They want to cry for help, but their lips are little more than aesthetic bumps on their face. They want to shut their eyes, to look away, but theirs are now those same soulless, unaverting eyes as those in the glass case; a plight with which I'm all too familiar.
Outwardly: euphoric, giddy, I prance about, striking cliche'd poses when the cameras light up, a thing that's little more than some artist's attempt to replicate some cartoonish, exaggerated form of humanity.
Inwardly: alone. Here. Living in some well-decorated cell created by someone with little else on which to spend their time.
I have no mouth. And I must scream.
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I was thinking more on what you said, and it seems that it might be a collection of reasons. The doll one is a good example. I think it might also be a lack of appreciation on my part. I have a few masks of my own that I have set up (Tengu, gas masks, ect) along with other strange oddities. Many people who see them find them unsettling, but they don't really bother me much. I'm use to, and expect them to be there.
I think what is most unsettling about these images though is, as you say, that I know there is a person under there, yet I don't know anything about them. I don't really know their gender, their age, what they look like, what faces they are making, but most importantly I don't know what they are thinking or how they feel. I know literally nothing about them/you except for what the mask shows me, which is an unchanging neutral expression only making the whole situation worse.
The reason that I, and perhaps others, may find the images with text less disturbing, is that then I finally have a clue as to what you are thinking or feeling, even if that is also a lie. Granted, it that instance, the text might as well be just be another mask, but I suppose one mask bad, and two masks good...
At any rate, I do think I prefer this face to that of a shapeless, formless blob with two screaming eyes, if that counts towards anything.
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I figure the whole point of kig is that the focus is on the character rather than the wearer, but apparently, "Disneyland mentality" (like seeing a cosplayer and going "oh hey that's *insert character here*" instead of "oh hey that person's wearing a costume" ) isn't a common trait.
I've said this before, but it's probably most comforting to imagine the wearer as a congealing mass of slick, black tendrils arranged into a humanoid shape. Or maybe a goblin, and their expression is flipping the bird. With their face.
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I don't know, dude. Goblins are scary. Really, really, scary!
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I don't think so, no.
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I'm wondering is that a mask or photoshop? 
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Das a kigurumi mask, yo. More info in muh journal if ye dunno what that is.
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Oh ok Β Thanks
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