Reason: any image that has characters being visibly barefoot (warranting the tag), also has feet.
Maybe it should be an alias in fact... Though, one could have an image of some cut off feet and that would qualify for the feet tag but not so much barefoot. (Weird example, I know.)
EDIT: it seems some images with feet with socks on are also tagged as feet, so yeah, implication is the way to go I reckon.
I remember someone making the distinction before that an individual can be barefoot without the image having any particular focus on the feet. Is that a distinction we're still making? In that case, they wouldn't be implicated.
No. Barefoot means someone isn't wearing footwear in the pic. Feet means the pic concentrates on or prominently features the feet. They're very much not the same thing. See post #382979 or post #382787 for example.
スラッシュ said: Very inconvenient in fact, since there's no good reason why the feet tag arbitrarily only contains pictures that "focus" on the feet, but okay.
*cough*. Because some of us like this kind of pictures. That's all.