![]() ![]() Then I went from growing leg hair to bush hair, areas that were accepted online but I still felt a lot of shame about. From armpit hair, people asked for leg hair pics. “Initially, I let my armpit hair grow but shaved my legs. ![]() “At first, I wasn’t ready to share all of me with the whole world,” she says. She started with images from the nose down. I had just enough to get by on social assistance and was trying to do the best I could with my circumstances and budget. “I was a single mom on disability benefits. “My friend had built a large following on social media and OnlyFans, and was starting to make an income,” says Candace, who suffers health complications, including narcolepsy. Then, after a conversation with a friend, she began monetising them. Initially, when she stopped buying razors and grew her underarm hair in 2018, it was to save money and time, but as a body confident artist she shared photos of herself – including her pits – to her private Instagram page. It’s really been a journey of not giving a fuck.” Armpits and body hairĬandace: ‘It was a journey of self-acceptance as well as business.’ Photograph: Greta Rybus/The GuardianĬandace was a single mother unable to afford her weekly grocery shop before she started selling pictures of her armpits online. Going barefoot opened me up to things that are perceived as weird, including selling pics online. “It’s probably the best thing I’ve got going in terms of this physical reality. Having gone barefoot at a time when he felt depressed, he says he enjoys the realness of his income stream now. It both repels people and introduces them to me.” They’re not even so heavily into the fetish side.” As for strangers in the offline world: “They’re either really curious about my feet or really angry about them. Woodville’s lifestyle has met with disapproval from family members – his grandfather, he says, threw him out of his house – but he describes the conversations he has with followers as energising: “A lot of people are really nice, not in a creepy way. It’s been a gradual process of becoming open.” I can think of a time when I was closed off to things, even scared of life. If I see a location that looks good, we’ll make some content.”Ī lot of fans ask to see more than his feet: “I’m not mentally there yet, but I’m open to it. “We’re building a business, a source of income and a platform for future creative endeavours. He uploads content daily, working with his girlfriend, an artist. “I realised I could be 100% in control rather than having to do their bidding.” Strangers in the offline world are either really curious about my feet or really angry about them Early on, he had hoped to establish brand deals, like the well-worn influencer marketing model, but shoe companies who had expressed interest on more mainstream channels cried off when he began promoting OnlyFans. He launched on OnlyFans last year and has 100 subscribers, charging $4.99 (£4) a month for basic access and $10 (£8) a minute for custom videos, all foot content. Woodville had dropped out of sixth form and worked in a supermarket, a phone shop and as a waiter before looking for income online. I’ve never given a shit about feet, but my whole life has been a mishmash of expressing myself, creatively, to this point now where I’m making pics and videos of my feet.” I love the human body not in a fetish way, but I find beauty in everything. When followers began asking for feet pictures and messaging to see if he was on OnlyFans, “I thought it was quite funny. It remains the format for his posts there and on Instagram. He posted videos on TikTok first, asking people in the street or at events what they thought of his bare feet – including one featuring the YouTube sensation KSI – and clocked up hundreds of thousands of likes a time. YouTube was a while ago, now it’s OnlyFans and TikTok.” “There’s a golden era with every platform. “I’ve always found a creative side in everything, I’ve never gone along with the mainstream,” says the 20-year-old from Cambridge, who had previously tried his hand as a YouTuber. “Most people don’t want to see wet and muddy dirt it’s the thin layer of it on the soles of my feet that they want.” When he stopped wearing shoes in 2021 (he couldn’t come up with a reason to do so, so he took every pair he owned to a shoe bank), baring his feet online was a natural progression. “The dirt is a real thing,” says George Woodville, AKA The Barefoot Guy. ![]()
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