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This has nothing to do with the Uncanny Valley. This is creepy because masks add a deadening look to the face and we sense that. It seperates the person from the face.



Read up on the "Uncanny Valley" again. Your example is one of the cases that lead to the development of the hypothesis in the first place. (The concept dates back to 1906 with a German paper.)




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