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I haven't posted in this forum in a year, at least, and during this time, I went back through some old saved favorites of mine, which led to google searches and so forth, to find some of my old and favorite websites. During this trip, I was shocked. As soon as the internet was a new and stable thing, everyone had a foot site! There must have been a thousand foot sites in 1998, online!
I used to go to hawks foot links and search through all the updated sites and visit each one. I would also then go to aragorn's footsite and look through those links as well. Everyone had a foot site. Every guy could save pictures from the internet and then make what they thought was the best selection of photos anywhere. Every girl, thought that she had nice feet and would have a foot site of her feet. The pictures were small, but huge at the time, as we thought that 300 by 300 was a big picture! There is an archived links page, from Arogorn's feetlinks, that has 210 websites on it. None of these are bhe hosted and most use agecheck or ccbill. Most are still free, as they were on aol, angelfire or geocities.
During the late 90's, it seemed that either they were the best or the newest sites, but they were popular and it seemed to be a mainstream thing, for a foot fetish. Myspace was all over it and some of the popular models that might still be around today, like Mommie Dearest or Twisted Toes, had some of their first photos showing off on Myspace.
I know that the first website that I ever paid for, was fmconceptsinc. I paid for a month membership, back in 1998 and I loved every picture. I had aol at the time, with dialup and had to wait 30 seconds sometimes, just to see a single picture. But it was amazing. After that I think I did ilovelongtoes, or something like that and then I did feetheat, at least 2 or 3 times.
Now, since I'm showing off my age, here we are, about 20 years later and most of these great sites have been replaced. I know that some still stand, like solesofsilk or feetheat or feetfair, but I also feel as though most of the porn sites and whathaveyou, have diluted the quality of foot fetish that is available.
Does anyone have a comment or similar story?
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Probably because there's so much free stuff on You Tube, Feet9 and other sites that not as many people feel te need to start them up. Just my guess.
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I don't think it's become diluted, as you out it. Content is much more available now than ever before, especially free content.
This is no different than any business. When a new market is created, everyone jumps in to take advantage. After the market starts to mature, consolidation occurs.
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Well I remember there used to be Jennifer's Foot Page and Serena's Foot Page and the Enchanted Foot and the content seems more original and better. Back then it seems like the foot models actually did it because they liked what they are doing. Now on Instagram and other sites like Craigslist so many women just want to do it for the money. I remember this lady called Celeste who would charge $1/ picture of her feet. That's reasonable enough for custom pics. However, some women on Craigslist want $20 to $30 for one foot pic! One girl on YouTube even boasted a guy paid her $100 for a picture of a foot! That guy must be retarded! I just got a pic of a set of pretty female feet today for FREE. Why even pay when you can get it for free?
It's like there really isn't much of a point in going to a porn shop and paying for porn when you have PornHub.
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quote:Originally posted by AceCorr: Well I remember there used to be Jennifer's Foot Page and Serena's Foot Page and the Enchanted Foot and the content seems more original and better. Back then it seems like the foot models actually did it because they liked what they are doing. Now on Instagram and other sites like Craigslist so many women just want to do it for the money. I remember this lady called Celeste who would charge $1/ picture of her feet. That's reasonable enough for custom pics. However, some women on Craigslist want $20 to $30 for one foot pic! One girl on YouTube even boasted a guy paid her $100 for a picture of a foot! That guy must be retarded! I just got a pic of a set of pretty female feet today for FREE. Why even pay when you can get it for free?
It's like there really isn't much of a point in going to a porn shop and paying for porn when you have PornHub.
Time is money and money is time for both the producer and the model. Even if said photographer got models to model at no cost, his/her production is still worth time & money. Eventually you will run out of other people's hard efforts to create content and all the free stuff will get stale and you will be begging the photographer sites to come back and give you more. Nothing is free that will sustain in this the foot fetish world.
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I agree with AceCorr, some of those old sites like "annysfootpage" were of a girl and her friends and she would have original content of her sitting and squishing grapes, for instance. I know it was a big deal, in the 90's, because that type of content wasn't readily available. But I also think there was a divide between the sites and as Sauvage had mentioned, you had people doing it for money only. I think that the amateur girl next door type of foot sites, that didn't have nudity, could have survived longer. At some point, sites started to mix nudity with feet and while I enjoy seeing a picture of two naked girls lying on a couch together, I'm really only concentrating on the feet in their mouths. I think that foot porn sites took over the market, especially with sites like feetheat. It started as kellysfeet about the one woman and her friends and then went to feetheat and then footfighters and so forth. I think they had over 10 sites at one point, in the early 2000's! I miss the non-nude foot sites that focus on feet. I forget when solesofsilk started, 2005 I think, but they have stayed with it and in business. (I don't know how much business they make, and as someone who tried to start a foot fetish website business as well, the expenses really get up there.) I just wonder how long these sites can stay in business. Especially when you have to compete with free sites.
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quote:Originally posted by Sauvage: Eventually you will run out of other people's hard efforts to create content and all the free stuff will get stale and you will be begging the photographer sites to come back and give you more. Nothing is free that will sustain in this the foot fetish world.
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OK, I agree with most of the stuff posted here to a greater or lesser degree. First of all, FeetFair is no longer an active site; I have kept it going as a ghost site because I have had offers for people to purchase that domain name, and I'm hopeful that I might be able to sell it at some point. I have no plans to reopen the site again, and I have discussed the reasons ad nauseam on this forum, so I won't bore you again with the details.
The other thing that I want to bring up, is that I don't believe that high quality, strictly foot fetish sites will come back, that's like asking asking someone put the genie back in the bottle, and again there's a myriad reasons for that, but I would say this is a highly optimistic expectation.
quote:Originally posted by Sauvage: Eventually you will run out of other people's hard efforts to create content and all the free stuff will get stale and you will be begging the photographer sites to come back and give you more. Nothing is free that will sustain in this the foot fetish world.
This guy is exactly right. The day will come.
Don't kid yourself. There will always be high demand in the porn business and people will be there taking advantage of it with new content through different avenues.
But let's assume you are correct and the day does come when the content becomes "stale"...
If and when that day comes, and there is a demand for that supply, several people will step up to capitalize on it and compete for that demand. That's the beauty of capitalism and a market driven economy.
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FairAdam, feetfair is one of my first big foot sites and one of my favorites. I think I mentioned it in my first topic, as I did join, many, many years ago and you and your site, do carry on the tradition of girls and feet. (I do only wish I had the money to either keep getting a membership each year to check out new content or just stay with it.) But still, xhamster, of which I am a member of, does run dry of foot content, as it isn't as requested as other things. I think that the time will come where your expertise will be requested again.
quote:Originally posted by Sauvage: Eventually you will run out of other people's hard efforts to create content and all the free stuff will get stale and you will be begging the photographer sites to come back and give you more. Nothing is free that will sustain in this the foot fetish world.
This guy is exactly right. The day will come.
Don't kid yourself. There will always be high demand in the porn business and people will be there taking advantage of it with new content through different avenues.
But let's assume you are correct and the day does come when the content becomes "stale"...
If and when that day comes, and there is a demand for that supply, several people will step up to capitalize on it and compete for that demand. That's the beauty of capitalism and a market driven economy.
First of all, there's a huge difference between "Porn" and "Foot Porn", mainly the audiences' nuances and how tight knit the foot group is to the general "Porn" viewer, so right there the demand for production and content differs.
Second, I just don't see the "people" you talk about stepping up and even considering different avenues of production let alone marketing. Beyond a girl with a camera doing foot selfies for a small audience on Twitter (which will get stale just like the beloved pay site apparently), there's no one else creating new content but the photographers and videographers that ran pay sites. The average Joe has no interest in hitting the bricks to make his own foot material with random women anymore. Trust me, low lit bedroom foot selfies will get stale eventually, especially when she charges you $50 just to chat first before your first pic.
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I think the “Golden Age” of foot fetish is right now. While I wouldn’t say foot fetishism is mainstream, it’s more well known and more accepted today than it was say 20 years ago. And foot content is pretty much a dime a dozen.
quote:Originally posted by longhitter04: I don't think it's become diluted, as you out it. Content is much more available now than ever before, especially free content.
This is no different than any business. When a new market is created, everyone jumps in to take advantage. After the market starts to mature, consolidation occurs.
quote:Originally posted by longhitter04: Don't kid yourself. There will always be high demand in the porn business and people will be there taking advantage of it with new content through different avenues.
But let's assume you are correct and the day does come when the content becomes "stale"...
If and when that day comes, and there is a demand for that supply, several people will step up to capitalize on it and compete for that demand. That's the beauty of capitalism and a market driven economy.
Great posts. Rudimentary microeconomics.
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Doubtful any of us on the consumer side of this debate can fully comment on the accuracies of the assumed microeconomics and rudimentary trends of the business without proper experience. The trends are not looking good either way based on the suggested topic at hand. If the question was posed, then someone already sees "stale" coming. My imagination can only tell me that the old guard is standing wait at the castle draw bridge with camera in hand when social media folds.
quote:Originally posted by Sauvage: Doubtful any of us on the consumer side of this debate can fully comment on the accuracies of the assumed microeconomics and rudimentary trends of the business without proper experience.
Supply and demand is a pretty simple economic concept. You don’t need to own a business, or a small foot fetish porn site in this case, to understand how it works.
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But you need to know the specific nuances of this niche to be successful which transcends common concepts. The core knowledge of supply and demand will always be helpful but there's trends, preferences, and seasons of high and low markets only the insiders of the business know that keep them going and being successful. The ones who didn't pick up on these things have already thrown in the towel and succumbed to the dying and stale market.
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