Hello Monster!

From the Amazon description:

Alter Ego is a cool concept book, presenting the phenomenon of
the contemporary avatar-the virtual characters gamers choose and design to engage in 3D worlds online. Portraits of gamers from the United States, Europe, China, and Japan (including leading figures of the gaming world) are paired with digital images of their alter egos, graphically dramatizing the gap between fantasy and reality.

Link to exerpted portraits.

I don’t think that there’s much I can say about this… who would have ever thought what might happen after Mario, Peach and Luigi leave the limelight of Super Mario World?  Apparently the people at Poykpac did and made a 5:20 documentary video of the whole sad story.