Crypto foot fetish? Feetpix Pixelated NFTs Surge

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Fear not, the crypto-weary souls who see no end to the suffering in ostensibly erotic pixelated foot photos are here, and they may have saved the day.

Feetpix (or Feetpix.wtf), an NFT collection consisting of 10,000 extremely simple images of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite appendage, has taken crypto by storm, edging out Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and other NFT staples from first order to become the 5th most traded collection on the NFT OpenSea market on Tuesday.

An NFT Feetpix. Courtesy of Feetpix

The project has made 640 ETH for around $855,000 in trades since its debut three days ago, with the majority of that volume coming in the past 24 hours alone. Feetpix was initially free to strike. The floor price for collections has since jumped to 0.135 ETH, or around $180. So far, the collection has recorded over 16,000 transactions.

What’s driving the crypto foot frenzy? Some secret benefits of pedicures? Joining a travel-focused DAO? Utility tokens that unlock a treasure trove of outrageous, no-shoe Polaroids? No, no and no.

0 roadmap, 0 promises, 0 marketing, 0 paid influencers, wrote Feetpix on Twitter this morning. 1 common love of feet.

The collection is nothing more or less than how it looks: an opportunity to fulfill your deepest and darkest fantasies, as the description of the OpenSea collections says. Feetpixs’ simplistic website, which offers few answers to curious shoppers, is scored on a rhythmic dance floor of echoing moans.

Feetpix rarity is based on attributes that include accessories such as socks, cigarettes, and panties, nail polish color variations, and skin colors including white, tan, brown, brown dark and normal skin color which appears to be a variation of white.

As soon as Feetpix started climbing the NFT rankings on Tuesday, Crypto Twitter couldn’t look away. Maybe those feet weren’t mere lumpen sock vessels, but rather something beautiful, well-made, electric: a sign of the end of the NFT bear market.

Many Twitter users hailed the success of the project as an indicator of the return of the season of degeneracy, the glory days of high-risk crypto trading.

If you’re pumping pixelated feet, you’re exactly at the level of degeneracy I’ve come to know and love.

exlawyer.eth/tez (@exlawyernft) January 9, 2023

The NFT market, which recorded a trading volume of $25 billion in 2021, crashed after cryptos debuted last winter in May. By the end of 2022, sales had fallen by around 88%.

The bare (barefoot?) absurdity and worthlessness of Feetpix was reminiscent of many of an earlier age in NFTs, when seemingly useless collections often skyrocketed to incredible valuations.

the most degenerate project in the last 24 hours is a collection of pixelated feet and if that doesn’t sum up what NFT space is then I don’t know what does

AshRobin (@ashrobinqt) January 9, 2023

Whether the thrill and titillation of those 10,000 foot pairs can resurrect the struggling NFT market is uncertain. The mysterious creators of Feetpix, for their part, have derided the sudden success of their own projects, chastising Feetpix holders for showing clear signs of sexual deviance.

Not so crazy about feet? There is also a very similar Handpix.wtf collection on OpenSea, offering a much lower sale volume and floor price, but no “normal” skin attribute.

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