Not that I mind, but… wearing shoes has a purpose… and the most important one IMO is to make sure our feet stay harms way from broken bottles, nails, stuff like that.
I’m not even gonna get into how cold it must be not wearing them in the winter… or how hot the asfalt might get during the summer. The asfalt can go up to 80, 90°C where I live during the summer, people have fried eggs on it for kicks.
People just do stupid shit for internet attention
Walking barefoot can help with better postures and alleviate back pain, but the same can be achieved with proper soles or shoe inlays.
These guys are probably just doing it for the clicks though… As if they’d have cut open their $20k shoe collection.
And if you like walking on bare feet, you can just… you know… not wear shoes to begin with.
Source: I like walking barefooted. I also have elephant hide under my feet and usually do short trips outside, such as take out the trash, barefooted. This includes during scandinavian winters. I have to stand still on ice for quite a while before it becomes uncomfortanle.
EDIT: “Our shoe collection is worth iver $20.000”… yeah, I call bullshit. That video is probably just ragebait to attract engagement and followers, similar to those incredibly stupid make-art-by-driving-over-a-paint-bucket tiktoks.
I also call BS. His foot looks too clean if they are going barefoot outside.
My sock collection is worth 10k.
I went in to Sephora and people complimented me on my socks.
Are there any shoe people here than can confirm 7-10 pairs of shoes are $20k? I find that hard to believe
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They talk about the benefits of being barefoot as if the grass required to give those health benefits is anywhere in sight. The city environment has as many chemicals as a natural environment has bacteria and vitamins. It really won’t help them, and I’m surprised nobody noticed, since shoes aren’t like skirts where the exposed part is always facing down, unless they were taking baby steps the whole way.
Poe’s Law. But for TikTok morons/“influencers”.
Is it a moron? Is it someone “pretending” to be a moron for attention?
They’re the same picture.
A rare island of certainty in an otherwise bayesian nightmare
People in poor countries: he’s too poor to afford shoes.
These dipshits:
fucking gross and dumb
I doubt that there’s any real benefit to walking barefoot. There seems to be very little science to support it that I can find, but I’d be interested to see if anyone can find some.
I question the benefits mostly because it’s well known by historians that before the invention of modern shoes, most people walked very differently than we do now. Heel-to-toe walking basically didn’t exist until modern thick-soled shoes became commonplace, and instead toe-to-heel or rather ball-of-the-foot-to-heel was the norm.
If you’re going to walk barefoot, make sure you learn how to walk barefoot safely. Here’s a pretty good video about how to do it correctly: https://pi.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=3iLJ0frWE9E
Don’t be like the idiots in the video. If anybody actually wants something like this, barefoot shoes are a thing. They’re thin enough that you can feel the ground underneath you, while still protecting you from random nails and glass and shit. If you like being barefoot, give them a try. They’re a nice middle ground.
This is something I can avtually get behind.
Pretty sure this is also a good way to verucas and other infections.
I grew up being barefoot in the tropics, but in colder climates there are reasons for shoes.
Shoes are prisons for the feets.
Still i think this is dumb tho.Why would they not just buy some cheap shoes to destroy.
I love walking barefoot and I cannot stand those two people who I have never seen or heard from before but now I don’t like them.
