Belle Delphine

[1]
Mary-Belle Kirschner (born 23 October 1999), better known as Belle Delphine
Belle Delphine, is a South African-born English Internet celebrity,
pornographic actress, model, and YouTuber. Her Instagram
account features erotic and cosplay modelling, sometimes blending
the two together. Her posts on the platform were often influenced
by popular memes and trends. Media outlets have described her as
an "e-girl" and a cross between an Internet troll and a performance
artist. Delphine has also been cited as an influence on the e-girl
style commonly adopted by TikTok users.

Delphine's online persona began in 2018, through her

cosplay modeling on Instagram. In mid–2019, she gained Delphine in October 2020
notoriety through creating a satirical Pornhub account and Born Mary-Belle Kirschner
selling her "GamerGirl Bath Water" product through her online [1]
store. Shortly after, her Instagram account was deleted due to 23 October 1999 South
community guideline violations. After a hiatus from October Africa
2019 through June 2020, she started an OnlyFans account, Other names Bunny Delphine
on which she posts adult content. She also began uploading Occupation Internet celebrity ·
music videos on her YouTube channel, which often pornographic actress ·
functioned as promotions for her OnlyFans account.
model · YouTuber
[a]
Years active 2015–present
Contents Modelling information
[3]
Early life Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Online career Hair colour Brown
First stint as an online content creator (2015–2019) Eye colour Hazel
Early years and Instagram modelling YouTube information
Pornhub account and GamerGirl Bath Channel belle delphine (https://w
Water stunts ww.youtube.com/chann
Instagram account ban and social media hiatus el/UCXvKUavCtDOlA8b
Return to social media (2020–present) T1i2tI3w)
Transition to OnlyFans and pornographic content
Years active 2016, 2018–present
Media reception and public image Genre Beauty and makeup ·
Personal life music · vlog
Notes
Subscribers 1.95 million
References
Total views 46.8 million
External links
Creator Awards
[4]
100,000 subscribers 2018
Early life
1,000,000 subscribers 2020
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Delphine was born in South Africa on 23 October 1999. She Updated: 10 February 2021
[7]
was raised in a devout Christian household. After her parents
[6]
divorced, she and her mother moved to England and settled in Lymington, Hampshire. She attended
[1][6]
Priestlands School, but dropped out at the age of 14 due to being bullied online. Around this time, she
[6] [1]
was treated for depression. She found work as a waitress, babysitter, and barista. She began
posting pictures of her cosplay onto her Facebook account, which was later deleted, and
[1]
described her old cosplay posts as "low-res and dimly lit".

Online career

First stint as an online content creator (2015–2019)

Early years and Instagram modelling

[8]
Delphine has had an Instagram account since 2015. In July 2016, she registered a YouTube account, and in
[9][10][11]
August, uploaded a makeup tutorial. In 2018, Delphine began to regularly upload pictures of her
modelling on Instagram, which had a self-proclaimed "weird elf kitty girl" aesthetic, using accessories such as
[5] [5]
pink wigs, thigh-high stockings, and cat ears. She also regularly produced cosplay-related content, which
[11]
included characters such as Harley Quinn and D.Va. In March 2018, Delphine launched a Patreon account,
[8][11]
where supporters could receive access to self-described "lewd" photosets. In September, she uploaded a
[11]
second YouTube video featuring a tour of her room. Rolling Stone noted that her style in this
second video is more in-line with that of the one she later adopted during her rise to prominence,
[11]
which they described as "alien Disney princess porn star."
[11]
Delphine's Instagram follower count surged from 850,000 in November 2018 to 4.2 million in July 2019.
Her content began to notably and frequently include ahegao facial expressions, exaggerated expressions
[5][12][13]
that signify an orgasm often featured in adult anime. Complex stated that "she has posted clips of
herself coyly eating a raw egg, shell and all. A scroll through her feed is just as likely to find colorful thirst
[12]
traps as it is to see photos of her playing with a dead octopus." As her popularity grew, Delphine began
to draw controversy for her content. In January 2019, adult content creator Indigo White alleged that while
[11][14]
underage, Delphine used other sex workers' nude photos and represented them as her own. A
February video, in which Delphine danced to a song about suicide while holding a gun, also drew
[15][16]
controversy. Shortly after it was posted, false rumors of her death circulated online.
Delphine was listed as being involved with three companies that were incorporated between October 2018 and
[17][18][19]
July 2019: Innovative Artists, Plain Jane Investments, and Belle Store. Innovative Artists and Plain
Jane Investments additionally list an individual named Joshua John Gray, with Gray resigning from Innovative
[17][18] [17]
Artists in 2019. Innovative Artists was formerly named under Belle Delphine Limited.

Pornhub account and GamerGirl Bath Water stunts

In June 2019, Delphine made a post on Instagram in which she promised to create a Pornhub account if the post
[20] [21]
reached 1 million likes. Pornhub responded to the post, calling it "the best news." The post quickly earned
over 1.8 million likes; as promised, Delphine created a Pornhub account, to which she uploaded 12
[20]
videos. The videos were all troll videos that featured misleading titles and thumbnails and were not sexually
[11][21]
explicit. Each of the videos received poor like-to-dislike ratios, ranging between 66% and 77%
[22]
dislikes. Pornhub Insights published a statistics report detailing that Delphine's videos became the most-
[23]
disliked in the website's history. One of the videos, titled "PEWDIEPIE goes all the way INSIDE Belle
Delphine", was a minute-long clip which featured "a cat ear-clad Delphine eating a picture of YouTuber
[20] [15][24]
PewDiePie, winking throughout." The video drew a similarly joking response from PewDiePie.
[25]
Later in 2019, Delphine was nominated for a Pornhub Award. In December, Pornhub's annual statistics
[26]
report listed Delphine as the most-searched celebrity in 2019; "Belle Delphine" was also the site's fourth-
[27]
most-searched term in general during the year.
On 1 July 2019, Delphine launched her online storefront,
[28][29]
including a product dubbed "GamerGirl Bath Water".
The product was marketed as the remains of her bath water in
[28]
a jar and was priced at $30 (£24). Delphine stated that the
idea for the product to sell her bath water came from continued Wordmark logo for Belle Delphine's
online storefront.
fan comments on her photos saying they would drink her bath
[5]
water. Upon initially selling the product, Delphine added the
note: "This water is not for drinking and should only be used for
[28] [29]
sentimental purposes". The first run of the bath water sold out in three days. The GamerGirl Bath Water
[29][30]
was met with controversy, media coverage, and Internet memes. Two days after the bath water product
sold out, a website was created attempting to capitalize on its success, selling "GamerGirl Pee" for just under
[31]
$10,000; this was confirmed not to be associated with Delphine. @BakeRises, a since-banned
[24]
Twitter user, fabricated a headline alleging that Delphine's product caused a herpes outbreak,
[32]
which was debunked. YouTube video responses also sprung up featuring individuals
[11][30]
supposedly drinking, cooking, and vaping the bath water.
EJ Dickson of Rolling Stone noted that the response from media outlets alternated between "deriding
[11]
Delphine's fans for their naïvete and applauding her for her marketing savvy". Katie Bishop, writing
[33]
for The Guardian, reported that the sale was "widely mocked". International Business Times wrote
"while some people were amused by the idea of buying someone's bathwater, others have said that
[30]
anyone who bought the GamerGirl Bath Water was 'sad' and 'pathetic'". Patricia Hernandez of
Polygon commented "Perhaps this seems like a strange thing to do, but it's very similar to the
phenomenon of sex workers selling intimate items, such as panties". Hernandez additionally opined
"What's curious about Delphine's side hustle here is that it seems to be a mixture of business and
next-level performance art. In the video advertising the bath water, she outright calls this a stunt. And if
[28]
you look at her wider Instagram oeuvre, Delphine's work is defined by her willingness to go there."
In a July 2019 interview with The Guardian, Delphine stated "I'm lucky. I can do crazy things and get to see the
world react to it, and there's definitely enjoyment in that, even if it's sometimes a little scary. I get a bigger
[33]
reaction to my weirder content but I think that's only possible because I also make risqué content". She
added "I think it's been amazing and fun, but it's time to move on to new things. I have a diary next to my bed full
[33]
of crazy ideas. I'm not sure what will top this, but I'm looking forward to seeing what will come next".

Instagram account ban and social media hiatus

[34]
On 19 July 2019, Delphine's Instagram account was banned. A spokesperson for Instagram
[35]
stated that her account had violated the community guidelines, though the specific post or
[36]
reason was not provided. At the time of the ban, the "belle.delphine" account had accumulated
[35][37]
over 4.5 million followers, according to Business Insider and Social Blade. Delphine stated
[38]
she was in contact with Instagram to restore her account.
Delphine continued using her Patreon and Twitter accounts. At one point, her Patreon account had over 4,400
[8]
supporters. Polygon noted that "at least one man" spent $2,500 in exchange for a personal Skype
[28] [39]
conversation with Delphine. In late August, Delphine became inactive on her social media platforms,
making many Patreon supporters believe they were being scammed out of previously promised
[39][40]
upcoming content.
On 7 October 2019, Delphine tweeted an image of mugshot of herself, with a caption detailing that she was
[39]
arrested. The image contained a "Metropolitan Police Service" watermark, although there was not any
[38][39]
external proof of an arrest from the Metropolitan Police or otherwise. Delphine later stated that
someone had stolen her pet hamster at a party and that she vandalised that person's car in retaliation,
[40][41] [40]
resulting in her arrest. Online publications and users questioned the authenticity of her claims.
[42]
Delphine uploaded her fourth YouTube video in November 2019, before taking a break.

Return to social media (2020–present)

Transition to OnlyFans and pornographic content

In June 2020, Delphine returned to social media with a YouTube music video parodying the song
[2][43]
"Gooba" by American rapper 6ix9ine. The video also promoted her newly-launched
[2][43] [44]
Instagram, TikTok, and OnlyFans accounts. She was later banned from TikTok. The
Spectator and Business Insider reported that her OnlyFans account draws in over $1.2 million (£1
[6][45]
million) per month. In September, Delphine uploaded a music video for Doll.ia's "Plushie
[46]
Gun" song, which featured her twerking, licking a razor blade, and playing with toy guns.
On 20 November 2020, Delphine's YouTube channel was terminated without warning "due to multiple or
[46][47]
severe violations of YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content". Prior to this, many of her videos
[46]
had been age-restricted for their adult content. Her channel had around 1.8 million subscribers and 78 million
[46][48]
video views prior to its termination. The termination drew criticism from both Delphine and general
YouTube audiences, who questioned if there was a double standard between mainstream celebrities
[47]
and independent content creators like Delphine. Her channel was shortly reinstated with
[49]
YouTube attributing the termination to "a mistake by the review team." Around this time,
Delphine started posting adult and explicit content on her Twitter account. On 25 December 2020,
[6][50]
she uploaded homemade hardcore porn featuring her boyfriend to her OnlyFans account.
In 2021, Delphine posted images of a staged-kidnapping fantasy shoot, which led to several
[51]
Twitter users accusing her of promoting rape. Delphine defended her post, stating "there is
[51]
nothing wrong with enjoying power-play and BDSM where both people are consensual."

Media reception and public image

Delphine's persona and content has garnered curiosity and
scrutiny from online users and media outlets alike. Various outlets,
including Business Insider, The Cut, Kotaku, and Polygon have
described her as a "troll", and several instances of her activity
[5][8][24][28]
online as "stunts". Many of those outlets also assert
that Delphine's often erotic content has a satirical and ironic layer
[11][24][44]
to it. Delphine herself views her modelling as falling into
[45]
the category of erotica, but in December 2020, when asked on Belle Delphine's ahegao face attracted
if she considers her online activity as performance art, Delphine [5][52]
considerable online media attention.
[44]
disputed the idea. Instead, she described her actions as "just
jokes," and went on to say she
[44]
enjoys "playing" around online, calling the internet "a really fun place to tease and mess around with".
Writing for Vice, Kitty Guo described Delphine's humour as "tongue-in-cheek and deliberately gross-
[1]
out", and commented that her modelling shots have a "slick glamour". Bishop wrote that Delphine
"has successfully tapped into an online subculture by creating content that exists somewhere between
Internet pranks and erotic modelling. For many of her followers, Delphine is a personality before she is
[33]
a pornographic model". Alex Galbraith, writing for Complex, commented that her "exceptionally
[12]
weird" stunts "seem to be satirizing the whole idea of sexiness". Writing for Kotaku, Joshua Rivera
opined that the overt sexuality in Delphine's content was presented satirically, "given her long list of
[24]
stunts that all tend to subvert or toy with well-established fetish tropes". On the sexuality found in
her social media posts, James Cook of The Telegraph commented on Delphine being "one of a new
breed of mostly young social media celebrities to have found a way to harness obsessive, sexualised
[44]
internet culture to make huge amounts of money", albeit in a "dubious fashion."
Her association with an e-girl image has been covered in the media, with publications having cited her as
[53][54]
influencing the e-girl aesthetic commonly found on TikTok. Kotaku and Business Insider have described
[55]
Delphine as a "peak self-aware e-girl", and as a figure that some may point to as "a symbol of the first wave
[53]
of e-girl", respectively. Her association with a gamer girl image and its tropes has also been acknowledged.
After the success of the GamerGirl Bath Water product, Rivera opined "even the notion of 'gamer girl bath water'
plays with all manner of stereotypes about women in games and how some men see
[24]
them: as mythical unicorns to lust after". Rolling Stones's EJ Dickson described Delphine's posts as
being more "bizarre" and "ridiculous", rather than "overtly sexual", and opined that "Such content appears
to indicate that Delphine is leaning into — if not overtly parodying — the perception of the ideal girl as a hot,
innocent young thing whose desire to play Fortnite is only eclipsed by her desire for nerdy gamer boy dick".
[11]
Dickson also opined on why Delphine attracts much controversy, writing that:

Delphine markets herself as a 'gamer girl', which engages with a very specific stereotype
about women in gaming. In the gaming community, there's a longstanding perception of
female gamers as desperate attention-seekers who sexualise themselves to get more
[11]
views and capitalise on horny dudes' desire for nerdy female counterparts.

Lela London, writing for The Telegraph, opined that "for women to truly escape gaming's gendered grip, we
need to raise more non-fetishised Gamer Girls to the top. Belle Delphine is proof there is still quite a way to
[52]
go." Aoife Wilson, Head of Video at Eurogamer has conversely commented positively on Delphine's
online persona and content, asserting that "[Delphine] is an incredibly savvy businesswoman. She gained a
huge online following through her love of cosplay and her ability to replicate real-life ahegao faces. She's
kept that momentum going by engaging with her followers and trying new things, always skirting the line
[52]
between sexy and surreal. She absolutely knows her audience".
Delphine's polarising social media presence has also been noted, with the London Evening
Standard writing that she "has sparked a flurry of debate online, with fans branding her everything
[56]
from a master manipulator to a harmful sexist stereotype of gamer girls." Business Insider cited
[8]
one fan response in particular, which likened Delphine to a "2019 Andy Warhol". Citing her as "a
surrealist troll that became too much for Instagram", Business Insider ranked Delphine 89th on the
[57]
2019 edition of its UK Tech 100 list. The list's purpose is to feature the one-hundred "most
[57]
interesting, innovative, and influential people shaping the UK tech scene."
Her content's use of themes from Japanese popular culture has also been examined. Dickson
wrote that the references to Japanese culture in Delphine's content have sparked criticism, as she
has been "accused of racism and cultural appropriation in her cosplay, as well as capitalizing on
[11]
the eroticisation of young girls". Conversely, Japanese adult performer Marica Hase stated "I
[11]
see her manga characters as more of an homage and not racist."
Personal life
Delphine has a boyfriend, who often serves as the photographer of her modeling content and
[6][44]
chooses to remain anonymous. He anonymously performed with her in her hardcore porn
[6][58]
debut, which was released on her OnlyFans account in December 2020.

Notes
[2]
a. Delphine took a hiatus from October 2019–June 2020.

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