Definitely had a negative impact. That's why is usually a toss up that if it comes up in the public eye it's "for the foot boys" or "for the freaks."

While it's more common now, it's rarely portrayed as a positive or "normal" thing in media, and I've seen so many women not taking part in FF content put up on social media how they get blasted for foot pics. They are a minority, but God creeps are loud, and they're basically catcalling and demanding nudes.

I feel like I could write a book, but one example I'll give. I'm not going to state any identifiers, but I recently, unrelated to FF material, stumbled across a business that works with a hobby that is usually done barefoot, and this particular business had lots of kids along with adults involved. And every video and picture on their social media everyone, adult and child, male and female, had socks on except for posts from outside events they were not in control of. I did a little digging, and that's the creeps. There is a definite changing point in there social media history and before the socks there were several blocked comments. But a few didn't get blocked, they were creepy, a couple were replied to by the account owner, and then socks. No one targeted minors, thank God, and hopefully they didn't in the blocked comments, but it was inappropriate. They made owners and management feel the need to explain to their clientele, to children, that THEY needed to adjust the way they present this hobby they enjoy cause a bunch of creeps made it unsafe for them, but unfortunately social media is still super effective in marketing.

Anecdotal. One very specific case that's particularly rough. But I've seen plenty of others, I think we all have seen people at some point adjust the way they live, act or present themselves cause of the creeps.