If you think Luigi Mangione is the first masked heartthrob to set the internet on fire, let me introduce you to the mysterious Subcomandante Marcos who led the indigenous Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico on January 1, 1994. His hot masked visage nearly brought down the year-old worldwide web.
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Intrigued to learn more about role of women leaders and similarities between the Zapatistas and the Kurdish liberation movement
(Sci-fi nerd "Three-Body Problem" reference here)