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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Guy Fawkes and Anonymous

I've been wondering this for a while, but can somebody explain the reasoning behind the Guy Fawkes masks and Anonymous? Guy Fawkes was a Catholic fundamentalist who tried blowing up the king and parliament, while Anonymous are a bunch of computer hackers. 

Yes. I have seen V for Vendetta.
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4chan collectively identified with V, as a disfigured, anti-authority psychopath, and the mask he wears is both a practical way to remain anonymous in public and an appropriate symbol for an anonymous group of internet misfits.

Basically, Anonymous likes the mask for all the same reasons that V wore it. But usually with none of the historical awareness that V had.