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s everyone else seeing feet pop up all over the place lately? From memes to popular music (and, you know, porn) I feel like the 2020s have been pelting arches and toes at me non-stop. Now, to be fair, I do have a big ‘ol thing for feet so that might be on me. My instagram reel suggested page could send the faint of heart into hiding. But I swear it’s more than that, and I’m writing this article to prove it: attraction to feet is getting more and more present in the zeitgeist. Even some people on Reddit agree with me, so I can’t be wrong! I’m not crazy!! Foot fetishes are getting mainstream!!!
Exhibit A: Kinky Music
So let’s start with something nice and easy: music that’s intentionally kinky loves to bring up feet. As a connoisseur of horny music, I’m jumpscared by mentions of toes on the daily. Sometimes it’s a symbol of how freaky and depraved the singer is. Sometimes it’s worked into a broader femdom theme. Here’s a couple examples:
Ceechynaa’s 2024 song “Peggy” is the quintessential example of femdom-themed music bringing up the subject. The line “Get on your knees and grease my feet” is far from the most shocking lyric in the song. It’s about financial domination, pegging and golden showers! But when the track blew up on TikTok with videos of shocked and disgusted parents reacting to the raunch, the feet-greasing section always got extra attention.
That’s far from the first song to bring up feet to increase the raunch-factor. My first encounter with the subgenre was in 2021 when I found “Disgusting” by Lil Mariko. This song is all about how the grossest kinks can be the most fun. It’s no surprise then, when featured artist Zheani brings up how everyone wants to see her “feet pics” – even less so when you know the prevalence of feet in Zheani’s brand image.
My favorite example is definitely S3RL and PiNKII’s “Boy Slut”. This banger came out just last year and it’s been on repeat in my headphones ever since (at least while doing certain activities). The whole song’s packed with femdom tropes (like much of PiNKII’s output), with the foot reference being the crown jewel: “The way you kiss my pretty feet// I want to crush your face.” Feet and crushing kink in one song? Yes, please!
Exhibit B: Normal Music
“But Jude,” you might be thinking annoyingly, “those songs are about fetish stuff, why would that make you think feet are getting mainstream?” That was only exhibit A, aren’t you paying attention?! The noteworthy thing is that these feet mentions are working their way into mainstream music, too.
I first noticed this in 2022 when Megan Thee Stallion released “Gift & A Curse”. In this playful track Megan raps about knowing her worth. On that note, she calls out some of her sexiest features directly with one particularly notable inclusion: her “pretty white toes”. White toenail polish is seemingly a fascination in popular music more broadly. Tyga was ahead of the curve when he brought it up on his 2018 track “SWISH”: “How you keep your toes white and the pussy tight?” The video even includes a close-up shot of the toes in question!
Another example of what I’ll now call the “white toenail phenomenon” is in Cardi B’s verse on the 2024 remix of GloRilla’s “Wanna Be”: “my toes white like Matthew McConaughey”. That’s not to mention when the artist talked about rubbing her feet together on her recent release “Magnet” – my goodness!
Ashnikko might just take the cake when it comes to feet references– last I counted there were three in her latest album Smoochies (2025), and they’re all absolutely wild. In “Lip Smacker” she instructs the listener to “Step into my office// Boss it, sit down, conferеnce call my feet.” (I don’t quite know what that means, but it’s the most excited I’ve ever been for a work call). On “Sticky Fingers” she says “worship my foot” – classic. Then there’s my favorite example on “Chichinya”: “I shaved my hairy toеs for you // I'm a hobbit.” Absolutely unhinged. No notes.
Exhibit C: Internet Culture
I would say most subjects get 0-1 Know Your Meme entries. Foot fetishism gets five. Need I say more? Okay, fine, I’ll say more. All of the memes listed have their origins in the late 2010s or early 2020s. They range from jokes about the prevalence of sexy feet in Quentin Tarantino movies to a meme format about liking things you thought were just weird initially.
All of these memes position liking feet as embarrassing and/or inherently funny– foot appreciation isn’t quite “normal” yet, but it’s clearly in the public consciousness. Something interesting about the internet is how it rings in cultural shifts through ironic memes. Angela Nagle’s 2017 book Kill All Normies mentions it and internet-famous linguist Adam Aleksic has talked about it many times. Now, usually this conversation centers on the spread of alt-right/incel terms and ideology…but I think it’s applicable to foot fetishes.
When there’s all sorts of memes out there using foot fetishes as the punchline…that’s a whole lot of free marketing for my kink. Plus, the internet makes tone pretty hard to read– it’s easy to hide behind irony. Who’s to say if you reposted the “Doritoes” meme because feet are weird and gross or because you’re already licking toes every chance you get and the only funny part is the cheese dust.
When images originally made as fetish porn get circulated as memes the lines get even blurrier– I’d only ever seen this picture of Kirby in meme contexts before I googled it to find the source. Plus there’s the adult fetish creators who use funny SFW videos to market their paid content. I’ve seen practically the same skit premise used by both a sketch comedy account and an adult model. When the line between ironic internet humor and literal fetish porn marketing is that blurred, it changes the culture’s relationship with feet.
The Impact
All these foot memes have made an impact, and not just on fetish creator’s bank accounts. With foot fetishes permeating the zeitgeist, there’s been a lot of metahumor and genuine concern about feet as a sexualized body part. When people post innocuous pictures that include their feet, they tend to get comments that say something along the lines of “For free??”. It could just be a joke. It could be semi-ironic.
Either way, all the memes and comments make folks in the public eye hyper-aware of their feet’s image. That isn’t helped by the fact that websites like WikiFeet will curate collections of celebrity feet and rate them. Folks have started intentionally cutting their feet out of images or even blurring them, and it’s not just celebrities, either. The anxiety element was likely encouraged by the high-profile scandal around allegations toward Dan Schneider that included sexualizing minors’ feet, something this article goes into more depth with. Now, a fair chunk of people see their feet as potential fetish objects and many are uncomfortable with that.
It’s super fair to feel gross about random strangers sexualizing your body without your consent. Women especially face a lot of unwanted sexual attention already, so having a whole new body part to worry about is understandably frustrating. I also get why there’d be a particular discomfort when it’s a part of your body you don’t find intuitively sexual. As a foot fetishist myself, I’m obviously pretty biased, but I think the problem is predation and objectification, not attraction itself. Creeps are creepy about people’s bodies and behavior all the time– it’s not a feet-specific issue. I don’t think framing folks like me as inherently gross and predatory helps anyone.
Case Closed: Feet Are Getting Mainstream
It’s time for my mic drop moment. All you haters might have doubted me, but I’m about to prove you wrong. Feet are objectively getting more mainstream. Know how I know? Pornhub Insights’ 2025 report showed that Gen Z are 347% more interested in feet than any other generation. It’s been on the rise for years now, and seems to only be speeding up. “Foot” was already the most popular fetish term for all generations back in 2022.
I honestly wonder how long it’ll be until feet don’t even count as a fetish anymore. Even before the recent spike feet were the most popular fetish. Hell, even Freud wrote about it like a century ago! Now that musicians are bragging about their pretty toes in chart-topping songs, it feels like we’re close to some kind of tipping point. As someone deeply into foot-based humiliation there’s a little grief in that. It can be fun to feel like a freak. Still, I’m grateful the world’s starting to acknowledge something I’ve known the whole time: feet are sexy gosh darn it!!
