Search for whether you can sell feet pics on Instagram and you will find dozens of confident answers. Almost none of them quote the rules. They quote each other.
So we read the documents — Meta's Community Standards, the Reddit Rules, TikTok's Community Guidelines, the OnlyFans Terms of Use, the App Store Review Guidelines and the Google Play Developer Policy — and pulled the exact wording. Checked 29 July 2026, with a link to every source. Where we could not read a document, we say so instead of guessing.
The most useful finding is an absence
We searched every one of those policies for feet, foot, toes, sole and barefoot.
Zero matches. Not one platform mentions feet anywhere — not to permit it, not to prohibit it.
That matters more than it sounds. Every article telling you "Instagram bans foot content" or "OnlyFans explicitly allows it" is describing somebody's interpretation of general wording, presented as policy. When someone quotes you a rule about feet, ask which document it is in, because we could not find one.
What the rules do contain is lists of body parts. Those lists are closed, and feet are on none of them.
TikTok comes closest, and not in your favour
TikTok is the only platform of the five whose wording describes something recognisably close. In the "NOT ALLOWED" block of Body Exposure and Sexualized Behaviors:
Fetish or kink behavior, such as BDSM or sexual behavior involving a focus on specific body parts
"A focus on specific body parts" is as near as any policy gets, and it sits under not allowed rather than restricted. Read that before you plan a TikTok strategy.
The same page also says something more forgiving, and it is worth knowing both halves:
Intent: We don't remove content just because someone finds it sexually arousing. The creator's intent matters, which we infer by looking at context: bios, hashtags, captions
So TikTok judges the framing around a video, not the video alone. What that means in practice for a given post is their call, not ours, and we are not going to pretend to know where they draw it.
Instagram: closed lists, and feet are not on them
Meta does not restrict fetish content as a category. It restricts a named list, and the entry that gets quoted most often is:
BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism), only when sexual indicators are also present
Foot fetish does not appear on that list.
The body-part rule works the same way. Where a part is the visual focus, Meta age-gates rather than removes — but only where there is no visible nudity and the person knew they were being filmed:
Photorealistic/digital imagery of persons where crotch, buttock or female breast(s) are the focus of the image
Crotch, buttocks, breasts. That is the whole list.
There is one rule that matters more to a seller than any of this, and it is about links rather than pictures. Meta separates two kinds of link. Links to pornographic sites are removed outright. Links to adult subscription sites are treated more leniently — age-restricted rather than removed:
Content that contains usernames, links to or logos of Adult Subscription Websites
On enforcement, Meta describes losing an account as the end of a sequence, not the response to one post:
For most violations, if you continue to post content that goes against the Community Standards after repeated warnings and restrictions, we will disable your account.
One thing we could not establish: whether Instagram's own monetisation tools may be used for adult content. Those policy pages moved to Meta's Business Help Center and return no readable text. We are not going to quote them from memory.
Reddit: labelling, not banning — but no money from Reddit
Reddit does not prohibit sexually explicit content site-wide. Rule 6 asks for labelling:
Ensure people have predictable experiences on Reddit by properly labeling content and communities, particularly content that is graphic, sexually-explicit, or offensive.
Note what that sentence covers: content and communities. It says nothing about your profile and nothing about selling. And the absence of a prohibition is an inference from silence, not a permission — individual subreddits set their own rules on top of these, and those bind you too.
Where Reddit is unambiguous is its own payouts. Their earnings programs exclude this content by name:
Your contributions must be eligible based on the rules of the earnings programs and our Earn Policy. Specifically, content must not be: In quarantined communities. Tagged Not Safe For Work (NSFW) or in NSFW communities (Contributor Program only). Sexual or suggestive content
Posting it is one question. Being paid by Reddit for it is another, and there the answer is no.
On linking to your own business, the framing is frequency rather than prohibition:
If your contributions to Reddit consist primarily of links to a business that you run, own, or otherwise benefit from, please be thoughtful about the frequency of posting
OnlyFans: the only one that says the words out loud
OnlyFans is alone in acknowledging adult material in its own Terms of Use, and in naming its cut plainly:
Our Fee is calculated as 20% of the total Fan Payment and will be deducted from each Fan Payment.
Opening a creator account requires documents:
Upload a valid form of ID and two photos of you;
Now the honest part. We could not read their Acceptable Use Policy. The page returns an empty application shell with no policy text under every method we tried — the same shell it returns for URLs that do not exist.
We mention this because of what happened when we looked for the text elsewhere. Three passages presented as quotations from the OnlyFans Acceptable Use Policy turned out to exist word-for-word on CandFans, a clone that copied the policy structure, with the name swapped and the date changed. They would have read as authentic. If you find a confident quotation from that document anywhere, check which site it is actually on.
The app stores, and why nobody in this niche has an app
People search constantly for the app that pays best. Here is why the answer keeps being "there isn't one".
Google Play's wording is the broader of the two, and it reaches past pornography:
We don't allow apps that contain or promote sexual content or profanity, including pornography, or any content or services intended to be sexually gratifying.
Apple judges an app by what it turns into:
Apps with user-generated content or services that end up being used primarily for pornographic content
An app cannot promise its creators one thing and its reviewer another. That is the constraint, and it applies to every platform in this market equally — including us. Feetsea runs in a browser, and we have written separately about why that is a feature rather than a shortfall.
The same questions, asked about us
It would be convenient to stop here, having audited five platforms and not the one writing the article. So, the same lens turned on Feetsea — and you should hold us to the standard this piece has been arguing for.
Is this content allowed? It is the entire platform. There is no ambiguity to interpret, no general wording to read between the lines of, and no clause that might be applied to you later.
What do we take? 15% on Starter, 10% on Pro, and a creator plan on top of that. Both numbers, the plan prices and the arithmetic behind them are on our pricing page — including the point at which the more expensive plan starts costing you less.
Can you be paid by us for it? Yes, and that is the difference from Reddit above. Reddit lets you post it and excludes it from earnings; we exist to pay for it. Earnings mature 14 days, withdrawals start at $50.
What do we require? Government ID and an age check before you publish — the same standard as OnlyFans, stricter than Feetify, which describes no document check at all.
Where we are worse. Instagram and Reddit take no cut, and neither does Feetify. That is not generosity: none of them handles the sale, so there is nothing to take a cut from. If you can find your own buyers and settle payment yourself, that route genuinely costs you less than ours, and we have written that comparison out platform by platform rather than leaving you to discover it.
How to use any of this
Three things worth carrying away.
Ask for the document. Any claim about what a platform allows should come with a link to the policy and a date. Ours are above; hold everyone else to the same standard.
Restricted is not banned. Most of the wording in these documents limits who can see something, not whether it may exist. Collapsing the two is the single most common error in this niche, and it points people away from things that are permitted.
Rules have dates. TikTok's guidelines above are the August 2025 revision. The OnlyFans Terms are August 2024. All of it was current on 29 July 2026 and some of it will not be by the time you read this — which is why the links are here rather than just the conclusions.
If the useful next step is comparing what each platform actually pays rather than what each permits, that is a different table and we keep it separately: fees, commission and payouts side by side. The questions people ask most often about selling here — and the ones we answer with "nobody can know that" — are in the FAQ.