https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/04/exclusive-special-forces-warned-against-using-pepe-the-frog-iiiers-other-extremist-symbols/
To that degree? Doesn't look like a tight or heavy mask at all. His entire inner ear structure disappears. I tried to replicate the same result using my own mask to get my ear to look like that and the string had to be near the edge of my ear and the inner structure remains clearly visible if not more-so because it gets squished. Try yourself. Not saying 100% but still makes me personally skeptical.