Feet, Money, and OnlyFans: America’s Weirdest Spending Map
For years, the foot fetish was treated like the internet’s favorite punchline.
Not a real desire. Not a serious market. Just a joke buried somewhere between creepy DMs, Quentin Tarantino screenshots, and men leaving suspiciously enthusiastic comments under pedicure photos.
Then the money showed up.
According to a 2026 category analysis by Onlyswip, foot-focused content generated an estimated $81.6 million in U.S. consumer spending on OnlyFans over the past 12 months. That is enough to move the fetish out of the joke category and into something much more American: a spending category with regional winners, repeat buyers, and creators quietly building real income from a body part most people still pretend is not erotic.
That is the first thing the culture got wrong about feet. The second was assuming nobody was making serious money from them.
“I started because some guy offered me $25 for a flip-flop pic and I thought he was kidding,” says Kayla M., 20, a college-age creator from Tampa who now sells foot content as one of the highest-performing segments on her page. “Three months later, I was making more from feet than from lingerie. On a good month, I clear around $6,800 just from customs, bundles, and locked messages. My face isn’t even in half of it.”
That is not unusual anymore.
Onlyswip estimates that more than 89,000 U.S.-based creators sold some form of foot-related content in the last year, from casual custom clips to dedicated fetish pages built around soles, toes, arches, nylons, heels, and pedicure-focused content. Total estimated creator revenue linked to the niche reached $117.4 million.
The foot guy, it turns out, is not just a meme. He is a repeat customer.
How Feet Went From Embarrassing to Profitable
There was a time when the foot fetish lived in the cultural basement.
It was coded as weird, niche, slightly pathetic. Something men hid. Something women rolled their eyes at. A strange preference that floated around forums and late-night jokes but never got the kind of mainstream framing that made other fantasies feel glamorous or socially legible.
That changed for one simple reason: the internet made specificity easier to sell.
Before OnlyFans, fetish buyers had to go looking for their thing. Now their thing could message them directly, put a price on it, and offer add-ons.
That is what subscription platforms did to fetish culture. They removed the shame-heavy scavenger hunt and replaced it with a storefront.
Quentin Tarantino helped make the fetish visible long before that. His reputation for obsessively framing women’s feet turned what had been coded as private into a running public joke. But the joke had an unintended effect: it normalized recognition. Suddenly everyone knew the fetish existed. They may have mocked it, but they understood it.
Then Instagram happened. Then beach culture became content. Then pedicures became content. Then soft fetish aesthetics started bleeding into mainstream posting. Anklets. Bare soles by the pool. Hotel slippers kicked off beside a bed. “Accidental” feet in travel content. The visual language was already there. OnlyFans just added monetization.
Now what used to feel creepy can feel almost entrepreneurial.
Why the Foot Fetish Is So Popular
The cleanest explanation comes from Dr. Marc Ellison, a Los Angeles-based psychologist who studies repetitive visual desire and digital fetish behavior.
“Feet sit at a strange intersection of taboo and acceptability,” he says. “They are intimate, but not fully explicit. They are usually visible, but not emotionally loaded in the way breasts or nudity can be. That makes them psychologically interesting. For many buyers, feet offer arousal without the same level of guilt, confrontation, or vulnerability.”
In other words, the fetish feels safer than it sounds.
Ellison says the roots are older than the internet. In psychoanalytic theory, feet have long been associated with submission, worship, humiliation, and symbolic displacement. In behavioral psychology, they work because fetish desire often attaches itself to details rather than whole bodies. Once the brain links arousal to a specific visual cue, repetition does the rest.
“A foot is never just a foot in fetish logic,” Ellison says. “It can signal elegance, control, dirtiness, status, femininity, domination, youth, maturity, class, or neglect depending on presentation. It is one of the most flexible fetish objects in the culture.”
That flexibility is exactly why it sells so well on OnlyFans.
It can be soft. Luxury-coded. Bratty. Mean. Girly. Dominant. Anonymous. Cheap. Premium. Classy. Trashy. Barefoot on a white couch or pressed into the dashboard of a car in cheap sandals. It adapts.
And buyers pay for the difference.
The Girls Who Realized Feet Paid Better
The women making money from foot content are not always fetish models. Often, they are regular creators who stumble into the niche and never leave.
“I used to think foot guys were just funny and a little sad,” Kayla says. “Then I realized they’re the most organized spenders on my page. They know what they want, they ask clearly, and they come back. My best tippers are always the feet guys.”
She now sells:
- $19 photo sets
- $45 short custom clips
- $75 to $120 for personalized shoe or polish requests
- $150+ for bundles with name use, angles, and specific scenarios
Her highest single foot-related order so far: $420 for a custom bundle built around flip-flops, white polish, and “slow sole reveals.”
That sounds absurd until you understand the category.
Foot buyers are not paying for nudity. They are paying for precision.
A general subscriber might unlock one PPV and disappear. A fetish buyer often returns with notes. More arch. Different color. Bare this time. Lotion next time. Show the straps. Hold longer. Cross ankles. Step slowly. Repeat.
That is not random horny behavior. That is specialized demand.
Why Florida Spends So Much
If there is one state built to dominate the foot fetish economy, it is Florida.
Onlyswip’s 2026 analysis places Florida among the biggest U.S. spenders on foot-focused OnlyFans content, trailing only the very largest population states but massively overperforming on a per-capita basis. The reason is not mysterious.
Florida is where three profitable things collide:
1. Feet are visible all year. Sandals, beaches, pools, nail salons, hotel content, vacation photos. The climate does half the work.
2. Beauty maintenance is part of daily life. Fresh pedicures, glossy polish, resort aesthetics, polished toes in open shoes. Foot content performs better when feet look maintained. Florida is a maintenance state.
3. The state is built on low-friction fantasy spending. Tourism, nightlife, retiree wealth, sugar culture, image culture, and a general lack of embarrassment around indulgence. Florida already knows how to monetize bodies and aesthetics. Feet just slipped into the lineup.
That is why Miami, Tampa, and Orlando keep showing up as strong foot-fetish markets. The category thrives where bodies are public, grooming is routine, and buyers do not need much convincing to spend money on a private obsession.
America’s Weirdest Spending Map
Onlyswip’s 2026 Foot Category Map found that the top-performing U.S. markets share the same basic ingredients: warm weather, strong beauty culture, high creator density, and buyers willing to spend repeatedly on niche customs.
Top U.S. cities for foot-fetish spending on OnlyFans
1. Miami, FL 2. Las Vegas, NV 3. Los Angeles, CA 4. Tampa, FL 5. Orlando, FL
Top states by foot-fetish spending
1. California 2. Florida 3. Texas 4. Nevada 5. Arizona
California wins on scale. Florida wins on obsession. Nevada wins on shamelessness.
And that may be the real story here.
Feet did not become popular because America got kinkier. Feet became popular because America got more efficient at buying exactly what it already wanted.