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She Mask refers to photoshops and fanart illustrations of female celebrities and fictional characters depicted as if they are wearing the magical green mask from the 1994 comedy film The Mask.

Origin

On July 29th, 1994, the film The Mask was released by New Line Cinema, which features the protagonist Stanley Ipkiss who discovers a green, wooden mask near the city harbor, which transforms him into a powerful, chaotic trickster upon placing it on his face (shown below).

The earliest known fanart featuring a female character wearing the green mask was uploaded to DeviantArt^[4] by user EmperorNortonII on February 13th, 2008 (shown below).

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On September 21st, 2009, DeviantArtist^[5] wonderstories32 submitted a short story titled "The Legend of She Mask."

On February 13th, 2010, a DeviantArt^[1] group titled "The Shemask Club" was created, which received more than 530,000 pageviews, 440 subscribers and 270 members over the next eight years.

On September 11th, 2011, an entry for "She-Mask" was created on The Mask Wiki.^[2] On August 16th, 2014, DeviantArtist biscuitkris^[6] uploaded the first in a series of She Mask-themed comics titled "Things Gonna Get Green." On May 3rd, 2016, YouTuber ComicArtCollector uploaded a slideshow of the "Things Gonna Get Green" comics (shown below).

On June 26, 2016, the JMMates YouTube channel uploaded a video highlighting various visual effects used to make short She Mask films (shown below). Within two years, the video gained over 682,000 views.

On December 11th, 2017, Twitter user @hairoline^[3] posted examples of several female celebrities photoshopped with green faces, referring to the photoshop practice as "masking" (shown below). Within one week, the tweet gathered more than 14,400 likes and 3,400 retweets.

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