Because trends are cyclical. You don't remember stick up dudes and kids in posses rocking these to cause havoc back in the early 90s?
It wasn't these exactly, it was the one that had the piece sticking out to cover the nose and usually they didn't cover the whole head, just from the cheek to above the throat.
You knew something was about to go down if you saw a dude rocking that, a baby-hat with the strings at the side, and a Columbia jacket
Not sure about the rest of the country but in NYC it got so bad dudes were getting snatched up by 5-0 just for wearing them.
Nothing new under the sun fam. Today it's balaclavas, tomorrow it's back to the classic 3 holed ski mask, and so on and so forth.