“What questions do you have? I admit I posted, if it bothers you I apologise and will not do it again.” His name is Robert Hamilton, a 58-year-old salesman from northern New Jersey. It wasn’t until last week that I noticed, to my surprise, the man had reached out. I assumed no one would come forward - so much so that I forgot to even check my DMs from people I don’t follow until months later. I decided to try a direct approach: I posted a story that said, “If you are the person posting my foot content please DM me! No shade, I just have questions.” This narrowed the list of suspects down significantly, but not quite enough to be conclusive. I figured I could triangulate the person’s identity by refreshing wikiFeet over and over after posting a barefoot photo, and then checking my list of story viewers as soon as it showed up. Within minutes, a screenshot of it showed up on wikiFeet.Īt this point, my investigative journalist instincts kicked in. I mostly thought it was funny, and posted a video of me wiggling my painted toes in a flattering filter to my story “for my fans,” as a joke. The discovery was surreal I wasn’t offended or unnerved, though I can understand why someone would be. My feet had a very sad 3.5 out of 5 stars rating, which categorized them as “okay.” The images seemed to have been lifted from my Instagram page, which I keep public because I share my work and media appearances there sometimes. But I was pretty shocked to be looking at my own wikiFeet profile, which included my full name, birthday, and photos of me and my exposed feet, dating back to a family vacation in 2013. I have decent Twitter following from having reported on politics for over a decade, from tweeting jokes about politics and appearing on cable news sometimes. I had never actually heard of the website - basically an encyclopedia of celebrity foot photos for fetishists and foot enthusiasts - until that moment. Then he sent me a link to my wikiFeet page. “Are u on wikifeet?”Īssuming he was joking, I laughed and said no. Back in the fall, I received an unexpected text from a man I had just started seeing.
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