NYC man wraps himself in carpet and blocks sidewalk pedestrians, because he “likes getting stepped on,” or is it art?

Right out of EATING RAOUL!

It's fetish, it's trampling. What a douche, he should be paying people for this but nowadays making the world indulge in your fetish unwittingly is the new thing.

This guy has been around NYC since the 80s. He calls himself “Kevin Carpet.” He gets press now and again, and is suddenly having a moment (again).

Via Reddit:

How many of you have a Kevin Carpet story?

For those of you that have no fucking idea what I'm talking about, Kevin Carpet is a staple of the NYC underground nightlife scene who has spent the past 20+ years at raves, goth/industrial parties, and other events rolling himself up in a carpet, usually in a doorway, so that unsuspecting people step on him as they pass.

Yes, I know what you're thinking. Obviously it's a weird fetish thing. But he would swear up and down that it wasn't but instead a performance art. According to him he's even received a grant from the government for it.

I honestly forgot about his existence until I received a message from him last year asking to participate in our first Sailor Moon rave. Of course he wanted to do his "performance art" at an event full of cosplays in short skirts. I politely declined.

Years ago when I first started raving I thought his presence was novel and hilarious. Now I find it to be off-putting and rather creepy. I'm not kink shaming. I'm happy for people who discover what they like and are able to enjoy that thing. What I can't condone is someone who essentially forces people to participate in his kink without their consent or even knowledge that it's happening. I have friends who were teenagers when they first stepped on Kevin Carpet that can't help but feel uncomfortable when they look back on it now as adults.

From 2022:

He's made it to TikTok. 8.3M views on this one.

Gawd, of course someone has to make sure to let you know they aren't kink shaming. Well, you fucking should, this assholes makes everyone partake in his creepy fetish, and again, he's not even paying them. Aren't we supposed to be sex work positive? Some dominatrix is getting shafted because he's having people walk on him for free.

He is a SAFETY HAZARD… a lawsuit waiting to happen!

Doesn’t he sustain injuries? After all these years? And the heat! Lint and dirt in your mouth!

Whatever…

Where’s his parade?

It's not art. He's a weirdo with a fetish. Any normal person can see this from space.

A true artist does other artistic things - not the same thing over and over and over for decades.

Amateur!

Big deal. Republicans in Congress have been stepped on since 2016 and love it, as long as it pleases their master.

Has anyone ever done doo-doo or pee-pee on this douchebag?