Possibly the weirdest ‘shit picture’ on OnlyFans.
On YouTuber Bernadette Banner’s channel, medieval clothing has always been the main content, followed by medieval life and bean knowledge in Old English.
With a solid level of clothing design business and clear logical eloquence, the blogger has accumulated over a million fans on several platforms in a few years. Although her usual video content is vertical and the audience is limited, she can also get an average of hundreds of thousands of views. The income from business cooperation and platform sharing is enough to support her full-time operation of this channel.
And Bernadette’s usual style of painting is like this:
But just two months ago, Bernadette suddenly posted an announcement announcing that he would open an account on the well-known “movie-selling website” OnlyFans, where he would post photos of his “medieval ankles”. This caused a heated discussion among fans and passersby for a while.
Some people can’t accept the collapse of Bernadette’s elegant image, and some people quickly accept the new setting, thinking that these ankle photos are pretty good.
But no matter their attitude, they all have the same question: Why would a serious women’s clothing blogger suddenly decide to be an “ankle blogger” on OnlyFans?
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For Bernadette fans, it’s not the first time her name has been associated with OnlyFans.
As early as April Fool’s Day this year, she joked that she opened a non-existent “ankle-only channel” on OnlyFans. But at the time, fans thought it was just a simple April Fool’s joke.
The most important reason is that fans of her channel are more or less involved in medieval culture. When people talk about the Victorian era, in addition to the prosperous Industrial Revolution, Gothic architecture and gorgeous costumes, they often bring up “ankle anecdotes”.
In these jokes, men at the time believed that the ankle was the sexiest part of a woman. As long as a woman accidentally exposes an ankle, a man will immediately be unable to walk. In the Victorian era, there were many paintings and photography that focused on the legs, in fact, because these were enough to meet the standard of “astringent pictures” at that time.
Because of this, women at that time would wear floor-length dresses to cover their ankles, install “Qianban” on the pedals of the carriage to block their feet, and even wrap the piano legs with a piece of cloth to avoid becoming too “sexy”. musical instrument.
In addition, Bernadette’s friends once joked that if he opened an account, his fans might not have as many fans as Bernadette’s feet. So at that time, many people only thought that she was taking advantage of April Fool’s Day to tell two jokes at the same time.
But people never expected that a few months later, a channel called “tis peak Bernadette Banner” was quietly launched on OnlyFans.
Screenshot of her fake channel on April Fool’s Day
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OnlyFans is an emerging social media platform in the past two years.
Like other similar platforms, OnlyFans encourages creators to sell their works to followers in the form of subscriptions or a single fee to create more benign creative feedback. However, the content scale it accepts is much larger than other platforms, so it has quickly become a new battlefield for various adult content creators, and it is also a “movie-selling website” in the eyes of many people.
When Bernadette was searching for OnlyFans’ operation guide, in addition to basic tips such as regular updates and interaction with fans, the guide also reminded her to add “sexy” and “hot” before her account name. Adjectives used in order to attract more attention from passersby.
So she added a confusing “tis peak” before her name. The phrase comes from an episode of the British comedy show “Famalam” about life in the Victorian era, “tis
peak” is exactly the interjection used by two of the men after seeing a picture of “ankle astringency”.
“Too peak”
After analysing a number of Victorian photos, Bernadette believes that what makes them attractive is not just because the women in them show their ankles, but because they deliberately lift their skirts.
In the Victorian era when bare ankles were considered “infidelity”, there was a sense of taboo-breaking mystery, and that was the most attractive part.
Although compared with other bloggers on OnlyFans, the photos she took didn’t even show a few inches of her skin, but Bernadette imitated the “Shitu” 200 years ago, and took a set of photos that are enough for her in contemporary times. Weekly photos are updated on the film-selling website.
A selfie with a drone
It is worth mentioning that in the description of each photo, Bernadette, who is keen to play memes, still hasn’t forgotten his old business. One of the photos is accompanied by a sentence in Old English that does not fit the preamble. It is actually from the Old English version of the title party’s famous song “Never”.
Gonna Give You Up”.
After arranging the update schedule for a week in advance, it stands to reason that all she needs to do next is to wait for the fans’ attention and rewards to be received. But she also has an important job during the week, which is to observe the reactions of fans.
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As said at the beginning of the article, Bernadette is not short of money, so her sudden opening of an OnlyFans account is not a bad script of “being forced to go to sea for a living”.
In fact, the account “tis peak Bernadette Banner” only existed on OnlyFans for a short week. Neither the account itself nor the tips it receives are the point, because this “moving on a movie site” is just an experiment for Bernadette — the fans who follow the account just for the ankle picture are her target.
At the beginning of this experiment, in order to allow the account to quickly accumulate initial fans and get better recommendations from the platform, she posted dynamic traffic on other platforms where she has millions of fans, but this almost turned her experiment overturned .
In the beginning, her private messages were all messages from existing fans to her. Most of them have seen a lot of Bernadette’s medieval science, and can easily see that this account is a performance art that pays tribute to the “ankle joke”.
But fortunately, with the foreshadowing of these hundreds of fans, the algorithm successfully pushed this account to more people, and she gradually gained some unfamiliar fans.
The first thing that caught her attention were some users with strange IDs. Some of them are called Fitzwilliam Darcy, some are called George Knightley, and they are all characters from works such as “Pride and Prejudice” by the medieval female writer Jane Austen. These people are like role-playing. Even on a website with a unique style like OnlyFans, they still follow their own personalities and follow Bernadette, an account with the same medieval style.
Elizabeth and Darcy in Pride and Prejudice 2005
There is also a 25-year-old guy with a “Legend of Zelda” avatar and a reward of hundreds of knives. In a private message, he expressed his appreciation for Bernadette, “the most beautiful woman he has ever seen in his life,” and told her that he found the medieval costumes in the photos were beautifully cut and reminded him of his own long-lost clothes Design dreams.
Strange dream sensational part
And fans, like other bloggers on OnlyFans, bluntly told Bernadette to take off his socks in a private message because it would make him “flood.” Although she had done enough psychological construction before opening the account, Bernadette still felt that the experiment was out of control when there were fans of “good this mouth”.
But he didn’t take it too seriously. Instead, he felt that the people on this platform were very polite, not cursing or nitpicking. Even if he wanted to say a more direct and offensive word like “flood”, he would add “request” in front of it. Words like your forgiveness” constitute a strange style of painting.
After a week of stable updates, Bernadette finally got 1,200 followers and more than $600 in rewards when she opened the picture for free. She donated all these income to non-profit organizations, because she has achieved the most important purpose of this experiment.
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Bernadette was actually skeptical of the Medieval Ankle Joke before she conceived of the experiment with “mediaeval ankle bloggers on movie sites.”
Although there are a large number of image works of the ankle in various collections and galleries of the Victorian era, it is very unreasonable to find almost no literature describing this “sexiest part of the time” alone. In contrast, there are a lot of regulations on “how to shape a perfect ankle” in the materials of the time.
There are many of them, which are quite unreliable in our opinion right now. Summaries like “Women who play hockey have nasty ankles,” or “Women with round faces and flat noses look good with their ankles,” are demeaning no matter how you look at them.
Photographs of women with tight wraps at the end of Victoria
In the Victorian era, it was not so much that people generally appreciated the beauty of ankles, it was better to say that under the discipline of social pressure at that time, people were yearning for the temptation to break the bondage of dross.
Because the ankle is right on the edge of the urn cage, it becomes a waypoint for people to test the rules, which may be the mystery of the “deliberately showing the ankle” as Bernadette calls it.
But on the other hand, the period when the “ankle aesthetic” unique to the Victorian period was most often teased and criticized was not the 21st century nor the mid-late 20th century, but the early 20th century. Many related caricatures and jokes were produced during this period.
Of course, there are factors that change the social status of women, but it is also obviously accompanied by an aesthetic iteration. Just like people always love to complain about the decoration style of the previous generation, but they can appreciate the charm of the older house. A few decades away is called obsolete, but it can become retro fashion after a long time. People always seek a sense of progress in this aesthetic cycle.
Many Victorian ankle jokes have been proven to be exaggerated and even distorted. Things like “piano legs are so sexy so I need to wear socks” may actually just be an everyday act to prevent furniture from scratching the floor, just as our elders always like to put cloth covers on appliances.
I wonder if in a few years we’ll be recorded as “thinking TV is too sexy”
Bernadette wanted to do this quirky experiment, not only to tell her fans that the “medieval ankle joke” really reflected the degrading women of the time, but also to prove that even in modern times without those strange restrictions , the medieval ankle-themed work still has its own unique beauty, and there are still people who can appreciate it.
Progress is not about constantly overturning and reconstructing aesthetic rules, but about respecting the choices of every niche group. She respects fans who cosplay on OnlyFans, and doesn’t blame Frank for wanting to see her ankle DMs. Bernadette doesn’t think it’s surprising that even if she doesn’t appear on OnlyFans, there will be bloggers specializing in medieval themes sooner or later.
This is why, knowing that the audience is extremely narrow, she still insists on running an account that only talks about medieval clothing. In fact, it is just her love for this niche aesthetic.
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