Why every photo here has to be real: our rule on AI-generated content

An image generator can now make a convincing pair of feet in a few seconds. Perfect arches, flawless skin, any pose, any light, as many as you want. On plenty of sites, nobody can tell, and nobody asks.

Here, every photo and video has to be a real recording of the seller's own feet. Not generated, not "improved" by AI, not a real person swapped onto something else. This post explains why we hold that line, how we enforce it, and where it gets harder than it sounds.

What the rule actually says

The Content Rules come down to three things that matter here:

• Feet only, of yourself. Content must show you and only you, and you must have made it and own it. AI-made feet do not belong to anyone, so they fail this test before anything else is considered.
• No AI-generated, synthetic or manipulated content of a real person. That includes presenting yourself as someone else. Deepfakes of anyone are prohibited outright.
• Nobody under 18, in any form. That covers drawings and AI images too. There is no "it is not a real person" exception.

Every upload also asks the seller to confirm that they are the only person in the content, that they are 18 or older, that they own it and that it follows the rules. That confirmation is stored with the upload.

Why we will not allow it

Buyers are paying for a person

Nobody here is buying "an image of feet". They can get that anywhere, for nothing. What a buyer pays for is a real person: someone who took the photo, who answers the message, who can do the custom request, who shows up on the video call. If the gallery is generated, everything built on it is a pretence, and the buyer was sold something different from what they thought.

Verification only means something if the content is yours

Every seller here verifies their ID before they can sell. That check proves a real adult is behind the account. It proves nothing if the photos on that account are not of them. A verified profile full of generated images is a verified badge on a fake, and that is worse than no badge at all, because it borrows trust it has not earned.

Fake galleries are a scam tool

Generated images are cheap, endless and look exactly like whatever the buyer is hoping to see. That makes them ideal for the fake profiles we spend so much effort keeping out: take payment, deliver something generated, or deliver nothing. Requiring real content of the person who verified closes off one of the easiest ways to run that playbook.

Real people did not consent

Image generators learn from photos of real people, and editing tools can put a real person's body or face into something they never made. A deepfake of someone is a sexualised image they never agreed to, whether it shows their face or not. We do not want any part of that, which is why the rule bans it for anyone, not only for people on this site.

It is unfair to sellers who do the work

Real sellers think about the light, the setting, their pedicure and what their regulars like. They reshoot. They answer custom requests by actually doing them. Someone with an image generator could flood the feed with a hundred "perfect" posts a day and push those sellers out of sight. Keeping the feed real keeps it fair, and it keeps getting seen here a matter of effort rather than output volume.

Editing is not the same as generating

This is not a rule against touching your photos. Cropping, straightening, fixing the light or the colour: that is ordinary photography, and it still shows your feet as they are.

The line is crossed when a tool creates something that was not in front of the camera, or changes what your feet look like: generating a new image, reshaping toes or arches, replacing skin, adding a background or an object that was never there and presenting the result as a photo. If you would have to explain to a buyer that "it is not really what I look like", it does not belong here.

How we enforce it

• People review uploads. We review uploads and public content by hand. No item is removed and no account is suspended by an automated system: a person decides.
• Reports are read. If something looks generated to you, report it. The report form is reachable from every profile, post, comment and message, you get a ticket number at once, and the outcome arrives by email.
• When we are unsure, we ask. If we suspect AI content but cannot be certain, we can tell the seller what we think, ask them to remove it, and invite them to reply if the media is genuine. People take good photos; a sharp, well-lit picture is not proof of anything.
• Serious or repeated cases go further. The steps run from removing an item, through restricting or suspending the account, to closing it for good, with the identity document and email address blocked from signing up again. Anything involving a minor is reported to the authorities.

Every decision comes with reasons and can be appealed, as set out in the Content Rules.

The honest part

Being straight about this: nobody can reliably detect AI images today, and that includes us. Detection tools give confident answers that are often wrong in both directions, so we do not let one decide anything. We look at the images ourselves, compare them with the rest of the seller's gallery and their verification, and ask when we are unsure.

That means two things. Some generated content may stay up for a while before anyone notices it. And now and then we will ask a seller about a photo that turns out to be perfectly real. If that happens to you, reply, and we will take your word seriously and look again. We would rather ask an awkward question than quietly let the feed fill up with fakes.

If you are a seller

Post what you actually shoot. Your real feet, your real style, your real light. Buyers who come back do so because of you, not because of a flawless render. If you want help making real photos look their best, the seller toolkit is a good place to start, and the FAQ covers the rest.

If you are a buyer

What you see in the feed is meant to be the person you are talking to. If something feels off, report it. That is how the rule stays real.

Real feet, real people. That is the whole point.