

RELATED: Best 'Squid Game' Memes to Help You Through the Trauma The Front Man seems to realize this-he tells a worker not to remove his mask in front of the contestants, because “once they know who you are, you lose everything.” Not knowing who these people are or what their motivations are makes their actions scarier. The anonymity of the “bad guys” in Squid Game adds to their eeriness-the contestants do not know who is coming up with these twisted versions of children’s games, or who is willing to pay this huge sum of money just to watch a bunch of desperate people die.

However, there is also a psychological aspect as to why the people running Squid Game wear masks, and why it is against the rules for them to ever remove their masks. They do not want the general public to know who they are, nor do they want the contestants to know, in case they somehow win, escape, or otherwise come into a position where they are able to tell the outside world about Squid Game and the identities of the people who are running it.

Squid Game is obviously illegal, so the people running it wear masks to simply protect their anonymity and avoid legal consequences to their actions.
