Belle Delphine
About
Belle Delphine is the pseudonym of United Kingdom-based cosplayer and model Mary-Belle Kirschner, who gained much online notoriety for posting videos and photographs of herself performing ahegao faces.
History
On March 27th, 2015, the earliest known picture was posted to the @belle.delphine Instagram page (shown below).
YouTube
On August 14th, 2016, Delphine uploaded a makeup tutorial as her first YouTube video (shown below, left). On September 5th, 2018, a second video was uploaded to the channel, in which Delphine gives a tour of her bedroom (shown below, right).
Patreon
On March 21st, 2018, Delphine launched a Patreon titled “Belle Delphine is creating photos and lewd content,” where users who donate are given access to her locked posts and private Snapchat. Within the next eight months, the page accumulated upwards of 1,190 patrons.
On September 21st, the /r/BelleDelphine subreddit was created for fans of Delphine. Within one month, the community gained over 22,000 subscribers.
Ahegao Faces
On September 10th, Delphine posted a picture of herself wearing elf ears while making an ahegao face on Instagram (shown below). Over the next two months, the post received more than 35,200 likes.
On September 13th, Delphine posted a video of herself cosplaying as D.Va from Overwatch while performing an ahegao-style expression (shown below).
On September 18th, she posted a video in which she is wearing catgirl ears while making the face (shown below). Within two months, both videos gained over three million views each.
On September 23rd, 2018, YouTuber dr!p uploaded a compilation of Belle Delphine making an ahegao face (shown below).
On October 13th, Urban Dictionary user Dontgetyourpantiesinatwist submitted an entry for “belle delphine,” describing her as a “thot” who gained online fame for doing ahegao faces (shown below).
On October 25th, Lushsux posted a mural based on Delphine’s catgirl ahegao video (shown below).
On November 12th, YouTuber PewDiePie posted a video featuring a content aware scaled version of Delphine’s catgirl ahegao video (shown below, left). On November 14th, Delphine was included in the thumbnail of another PewDiePie video titled “Protect waman at all cost!” (shown below, right).
Patreon Videos
On February 4th, 2019, YouTuber WilNE uploaded a video titled “I Spent $2500 on Belle Delphine’s Patreon,” showing footage of himself purchasing a high tier reward on Delphine’s Patreon page, which garnered more than 7.2 million views and 23,400 comments in one month (shown below, left). On February 16th, 2019, YouTuber Pyrocynical uploaded a video titled “I paid Belle Delphine $3,000 to be my girlfriend” (shown below, right). Within two weeks, the video received upwards of 2.3 million views and 16,600 comments.
On March 1st, 2019, PewDiePie uploaded a video titled “I Paid Belle 0$,” in which he reacts to a video of Belle Delphine dancing to his diss track “Bitch Lasagna” (shown below).
Belle Delphine in a Fridge
Belle Delphine in a Fridge refers to two social media posts by Belle Delphine in which she is shown sitting inside a refrigerator. Starting in mid-June 2019, the posts were heavily mocked online, with memes based on the posts appearing on Reddit, Instagram, Twitter and other platforms.
Belle Delphine’s Pornhub Account
On June 16th, 2019, Belle Delphine made a post in her Instagram account, promising to create a Pornhub account should it get a million likes. The post gained over 1.8 million likes in five days.
In the following days, multiple memes speculating on whether Delphine would fulfill her promise were circulated online on Instagram and on other online platforms (examples shown below).
On June 20th, 2019, Belle Delphine has created her official Pornhub account. On the launch, she uploaded a total of twelve non-pornographic videos with provoking titles. For example, a video titled “Belle Delphine strokes two BIG cocks” contained footage of Delphine petting two roosters. In the video “Belle Delphine Squirts All Over the Floor” she shot a water gun.
In the following hours, multiple memes referencing the prank nature of the account were posted online on Instagram, Reddit and other platforms (examples shown below).
Online Store
On July 1st, 2019, Delphine launched BelleDelphineStore, an online store selling Belle Delphine-themed merchandise, including mousepads, posters and “GamerGirl Bath Water” (shown below).
The following day, Delphine posted a photograph to Instagram of herself cosplaying as the Overwatch character D.Va while sitting in a bathtub announcing she would be selling her own bath water on the new online store (shown below).
That day, Twitter user @wsupden tweeted about the bathwater, along with screenshots of the Instagram post and store page (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet gained over 5,400 likes and 1,600 retweets. Also on July 2nd, Ebaum’s World published an article titled “Living Meme Belle Delphine is Selling Bottles of Her Bathwater for all the Thirsty Boys.”
This girl is selling “gamer girl bath water”
pic.twitter.com/NxjXVQ34DR
— lil shorty bulgogi (@wsupden) July 2, 2019
Gamer Girl Bath Water Herpes Controversy
Soon after Belle Delphine started selling her ‘Gamer Girl’ bath water, rumors began to spread online that 50 or more people had contracted herpes from her product. On July 9th, 2019, the news was proven to be a hoax. Although Delphine’s orders for her bath water product had been sold out, she claims to have not shipped the orders yet at the time of the rumor, which makes it impossible for that many people to have contracted herpes from the product so rapidly .
July 18th Instagram Ban
On July 18th, 2019, Belle Delphine’s Instagram account belle.delpine was banned due to the violation of the Instagram community guidelines. Following the ban, posts containing screenshots of various Instagram users reporting the account for “nudity or pornography” and receiving a notification that the account had been banned were circulated online on Instagram and Reddit (shown below).
In the hours following the ban, multiple memes and posts about it were submitted by users online. For example, on July 18th, 2019, Instagram user humanity.gone24 posted a Crab Rave meme referencing the account removal (shown below).
In the following hours several news outlets posted news articles about the ban, including pieces by Dexetro, Metro and Unilad.
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