WikiFeet

{{short description|Photo-sharing foot fetish website}}

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| founder = Eli Ozer

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wikiFeet is a photo-sharing foot fetish website dedicated to sharing photos of celebrities' feet. In 2016, it was described by Vice Media's Lauren Oyler as "...the most extensive online message board and photo gallery of women's feet on the Internet".{{Cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/celebrity-feet-wikifeet/ |title=Something's Afoot: The War Inside the World's Largest Celebrity Feet Forum |last=Oyler |first=Lauren |date=2016-03-17 |work=Broadly |access-date=2017-12-13 |language=en-us |archive-date=2017-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226235419/https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/53n7za/celebrity-feet-wikifeet |url-status=live }}{{efn|WikiFeet Men is a counterpart to the site focusing on men's feet.{{cite news |title=Warum Socken heute rocken: Einst Synonym für Spießigkeit, heute modisches Statement |trans-title=Why socks rock today: Once synonymous with stuffiness, today a fashion statement |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/warum-socken-heute-rocken-einst-synonym-fur-spiessigkeit-heute-modisches-statement-8622514.html |access-date=26 September 2022 |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |language=de-DE |archive-date=26 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926190559/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/warum-socken-heute-rocken-einst-synonym-fur-spiessigkeit-heute-modisches-statement-8622514.html |url-status=live }}}} It mostly includes images of the feet of famous actors, actresses and other entertainers, though some politicians' feet are also featured on the site. There is also a pornographic version of the site called WikiFeetX which posts the feet of pornographic actors.{{Cite news |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/hillary-clinton-wikifeet-foot-fetish-virgil-texas/ |title=Foot Fetishists Are Freaking Out Over Hillary Clinton's Feet |last=Texas |first=Virgil |date=2016-09-15 |work=Vice |access-date=2017-12-13 |language=en-us |archive-date=2017-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227061751/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvk3xx/hillary-clinton-wikifeet-foot-fetish-virgil-texas |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/09/wikifeet-how-online-foot-fetishists-debunked-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-fake-nude |title=wikiFeet: how online foot fetishists debunked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's fake nude |work=The Guardian |date=2019-01-09 |access-date=2020-11-11 |language=en-GB |archive-date=2020-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111215436/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/09/wikifeet-how-online-foot-fetishists-debunked-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-fake-nude |url-status=live }}

It was founded in 2008 by Eli Ozer, an Israeli former computer programmer and animator who now runs the site full-time.{{Cite web |date=2017-07-10 |title=Israeli Creates Viral Foot Fetish Site |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/376619/israeli-creates-viral-foot-fetish-site/ |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=The Forward |language=en}}{{Cite news |url=https://mashable.com/2016/02/28/foot-fetish-website/ |title=The utter weirdness of finding your feet on a foot fetish website |last=Bogle |first=Ariel |date=2016-02-28 |work=Mashable |access-date=2018-09-16 |language=en |archive-date=2018-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916235146/https://mashable.com/2016/02/28/foot-fetish-website/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/wikifeetcom-a-wik-ed-website-for-celebrity-foot-fetishists-8455520.html |title=WikiFeet.com: A Wik-ed website for celebrity foot fetishists |date=2013-01-17 |work=Evening Standard |access-date=2017-12-13 |language=en-GB |archive-date=2017-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171227000733/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/wikifeetcom-a-wik-ed-website-for-celebrity-foot-fetishists-8455520.html |url-status=live }} According to Ozer, the site gets about 3 million views a month (as of July 2017).{{Cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/leisure/.premium-1.800436 |title=The Israeli Behind the Internet's Largest Foot Fetish Website |last=Glazer |first=Hilo |date=2017-07-10 |work=Haaretz |access-date=2017-12-13 |language=en |archive-date=2017-12-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212163759/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/leisure/.premium-1.800436 |url-status=live }}

In January 2019, wikiFeet was involved in debunking a hoax involving US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a picture of a woman's feet in a bathtub, purported to be a nude posted online by Ocasio-Cortez in 2016, was determined to be of someone else by users of the site, with the picture's short toe length being a key piece of evidence. They were determined to be the feet of Sydney Leathers, involved in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandals of 2013,{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/aoc-foot-photo-wikifeet-reddit-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-4chan-feet-fetish-bath-a8720191.html |last=Ritschel |first=Chelsea |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez foot photo identified by foot fetishists as someone else |work=The Independent |date=2019-01-09 |access-date=2020-11-11 |language=en-GB |archive-date=2020-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111024055/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/aoc-foot-photo-wikifeet-reddit-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-4chan-feet-fetish-bath-a8720191.html |url-status=live }} which she confirmed to Washington Babylon in January 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://washingtonbabylon.com/sydney-leathers-apologizes-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-those-are-my-feet/|last=Leathers|first=Sydney|title=Sydney Leathers Apologizes to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Those Are My Feet|work=Washington Babylon|date=2019-01-08|accessdate=2020-11-11|archive-date=2020-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110022547/https://washingtonbabylon.com/sydney-leathers-apologizes-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-those-are-my-feet/|url-status=usurped}}

From June 2021 to early 2025, the website did not allow visitors from the European Union to browse full-resolution images because of a new EU Copyright Directive.{{cite web| title = Changes due to the EU Copyright Directive| website = wikifeet.com| url = https://www.wikifeet.com/articles/17| access-date = 2021-06-09| archive-date = 2021-06-09| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210609172435/https://www.wikifeet.com/articles/17| url-status = live}}