If you stare at a pattern where the horizontal stripes are red and the vertical stripes are green, you might forever see horizontal & vertical stripes as having color even when they don’t.
tl;dr: Neither regular, boring, human faces nor highly stylized comic / chibi / animated human beings are percieved as “inhuman”, but as soon as an artificial face looks too real but still slightly off, basically the middle of the scale between “real” and “definitely man-made”, it can provoke feelings of extreme discomfort in the viewer. You’re basically creeped out by something that tries to look human but fails at that only barely enough to notice.
Any normal human being can be a bloodthirsty beast when he's a part of a group. The group effect demultiplicate the violence of their members and can lead them to acts that they would never do when isolated. Really terrifying mechanism.
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