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An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet has caused society to devolve into idiocracy. Curtis Yavin might be proved correct.

You have the causality the other way. Society was always idiocracy, it was just obscured. If anything, the internet is one of our hopes for improving things. But change is rarely short and painless.

The main question I'm struggling with is whether "neutral" people get more or less stupid by being exposed to the previously obscured idiocy (or deliberate nonsense).

The jury is still out on that.

What has been clear over the last decade or two is that facts, reason and logic doesn't automatically win in the "marketplace of ideas".

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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It's so refreshing how this article doesn't try to impose an opinion on me. It really engages me to think about the matter and form my own.

It's magnificent in that way, the man in question really is honest and open about it. I especially found the last answer pretty funny: "I had the nurse coming in at night showing me her feet. I actually took her out to dinner a couple times. I can just get girls out of their shoes, it’s a thing I can do."

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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Fascinating - and surprisingly positive outcome/interaction - they were both great sports, particularly the writer.

Foot people always leave me feeling creeped out when I encounter them online and I think it is at least partly because it seems like many of them enjoy making others squirm about their affinity for feet almost as much as they enjoy the feet themselves.

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The internet was a mistake

This article gives me the opposite impression, this is exactly what the internet should be. There are people out there who just like feet, and now they have a community, a place to meet others who share their interests (and fetishes).

WikiFeet even have reasonable rules, only post people who have an IMDB profile. I'm sure there are a bunch of rules they violate, in terms of copyright and so on, but they're at least trying to be reasonable and impose some guidelines that aren't total off.

It awesome and the interview with the guy just makes it better. He's not trying to hurt anyone, he's aware of the issues and have good answers. It's wonderful that for once you do get this retard answers as to why. Mostly it's just idiots who answer "I don't know" or "I just felt like it".

I absolutely love this, that article made me a little happier this morning.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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I went in thinking "meh, let's check" and was surprised and quite amused about the "wholesomeness" of what could have been a very strange encounter.

He seemed respectful and she seemed unbothered by the whole ordeal. Interesting, not my cup of tea, but definitely interesting.

Something else that caught my attention was how early he believes his interest for feet developed, as early as six and nine years of age. I wonder how this slightly amusing predilection grows and develops over time, as to even gain sexual connotation.

Re: An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet

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The internet was a mistake

:-D But tbh > I’m not hurting anybody, I’m not robbing banks. Just let it ride. He's got a point there. Better this than some pedophile bbs on tor.

Are peeping toms hurting people?
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