1. In mid-2019, Delphine gained notoriety through creating a satirical Pornhub account and selling her "GamerGirl Bath Water" product through her online store.
34 Facts About Belle Delphine
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Belle Delphine has been cited as an influence on the e-girl style commonly adopted by TikTok users.
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Belle Delphine attended Priestlands School in Pennington, but dropped out at the age of 14 due to being bullied online.
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Belle Delphine expressed that she was isolated by her classmates after they disseminated screenshots of her dark humor jokes.
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Belle Delphine found work as a babysitter, barista, and waitress.
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Belle Delphine began posting "low-res and dimly lit" pictures of her cosplay on her Facebook account, which was later deleted.
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In 2018, Belle Delphine began to regularly upload pictures of her modelling on Instagram, using accessories such as pink wigs, thigh-high stockings, and cat ears to help create what she described as a "weird elf kitty girl" aesthetic.
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In March 2018, Belle Delphine launched a Patreon account, where supporters could receive access to her "lewd" photosets.
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Belle Delphine "quickly rose to the top of the 'For You' page on TikTok", after participating in the platform's trends and challenges.
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Belle Delphine's content began to notably and frequently include ahegao facial expressions, which are exaggerated expressions often featured in adult anime to signify an orgasm.
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In June 2019, Belle Delphine made a post on Instagram in which she promised to create a Pornhub account if the post reached 1 million likes.
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The post quickly earned over 1.8 million likes; as promised, Belle Delphine created a Pornhub account, to which she uploaded 12 videos.
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Pornhub Insights published a statistics report detailing that Belle Delphine's videos became the most-disliked in the website's history.
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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 PewDiePie, winking throughout".
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Later in 2019, Belle Delphine won the Top Celebrity Pornhub Award.
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In December, Pornhub's annual statistics report listed Delphine as the most-searched celebrity in 2019; "Belle Delphine" was the site's fourth-most-searched term in general during the year.
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Belle Delphine stated that the idea for the product to sell her bath water came from continued fan comments on her photos saying they would drink her bath water.
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In May 2024, Belle Delphine stated on X that PayPal, which she had used to process the payments from selling jars of her bathwater in 2019, had frozen her account for violating its terms of service and withheld over $90,000 in proceeds from selling the bathwater from her for nearly five years, since each violation of PayPal's terms of service carried with it a $2,500 fine.
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Shortly after Belle Delphine tweeted about the situation and several media outlets contacted PayPal about it, the company released the funds and returned the money to Belle Delphine.
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On 7 October 2019, Belle Delphine tweeted an image of her mugshot, with a caption detailing that she was arrested.
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Belle Delphine later stated that someone had stolen her pet hamster at a party and that she vandalised that person's car in retaliation, resulting in her arrest.
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In June 2020, Belle Delphine returned to social media with a YouTube music video parodying the song "Gooba" by American rapper 6ix9ine.
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Belle Delphine's channel had around 1.8 million subscribers and 78 million video views prior to its termination.
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The termination drew criticism from both Belle Delphine and her fans, who questioned if there was a double standard between mainstream celebrities and independent content creators like Belle Delphine.
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Belle Delphine's channel was shortly reinstated with YouTube attributing the termination to "a mistake by the review team".
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Around this time, Belle Delphine started posting adult and explicit content on her Twitter account.
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Belle Delphine's erotic posing was often accompanied by gaming paraphernalia.
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Belle Delphine defended her post, stating "there is nothing wrong with enjoying power-play and BDSM where both people are consensual".
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Belle Delphine took another hiatus from the Internet in 2021, sharing on Twitter that she "vowed never to do porn again," wanting instead to live in a cottage and travel.
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Belle Delphine gained a huge online following through her love of cosplay and her ability to replicate real-life ahegao faces.
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Business Insider stated Belle Delphine was "most famous" for her ahegao photos, while The Spectator referred to her replication of the facial expression as her "break-out" online.
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Dickson wrote that the references to Japanese culture in Belle Delphine's content have sparked criticism, as she has been "accused of racism and cultural appropriation in her cosplay, as well as capitalizing on the eroticisation of young girls".
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Kitty Guo of Vice noted that over time, Belle Delphine "moulded herself into the platonic ideal of an e-girl," as her content began leaning more into "a carefully crafted pastel-fairy-princess-anime aesthetic".
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Belle Delphine herself has become something of an online Rorschach test, a figure in whom people see either a brilliant performance artist making a scathing commentary on the expectations of women online or someone cravenly taking advantage of misogynistic tropes of women gamers and appropriating Japanese cosplay culture.