Was there always so many foot fetishists and we're just realizing because of social media comments, or is it a generational thing?

It's probably related to your brain. https://www.livescience.com/33525-foot-fetishes-toe-suck-fai... . Makes sense to me that despite all the "hype" around feet for the last decade, I still find them the ugliest part of the female body.

Why did the open that article talking about someone who assaulted another person? That just seems random and unrelated, like if if an article about sex toys just randomly opened with a paragraph about rape.