Belle Delphine

Mary-Belle Kirschner (born 23 October 1999), better known as Belle Delphine, is a South African-born British media personality, pornographic actress, model, and YouTuber.

Her social media accounts feature erotic and cosplay modelling, sometimes blending the two together.

Delphine was born Mary-Belle Kirschner in Cape Town on 23 October 1999.

She grew up in a devout Christian household.

After her parents divorced, she moved to England with her mother and settled in Lymington.

Delphine has had an Instagram account since 2015.

In July 2016, she registered a YouTube account.

The following month, she uploaded her first video, a makeup tutorial.

Her online persona began in 2018 through her cosplay modeling on Instagram.

Her posts on the platform were often influenced by popular memes and trends.

In 2018, 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.

She also regularly produced cosplay-related content, which included characters such as Harley Quinn and D.Va.

In March 2018, Delphine launched a Patreon account, where supporters could receive access to her "lewd" photosets.

In September, she uploaded a 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, which they described as "alien Disney princess porn star".

Delphine's popularity notably increased in the autumn of 2018.

She "quickly rose to the top of the 'For You' page on TikTok", after participating in the platform's trends and challenges.

Delphine's image was subsequently spread around 4chan and Reddit, where users praised her "ironic approach to online thotting" as "genius" and "brilliant performance art".

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, which are exaggerated expressions often featured in adult anime to signify an orgasm.

Complex stated that she "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 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 mid-2019, Delphine gained notoriety through creating a satirical Pornhub account and selling her "GamerGirl Bath Water" product through her online store.

Shortly after, her Instagram account was deleted due to community guideline violations and she went on hiatus.

Upon returning to online content creation, she launched an OnlyFans account on which she posts adult content and began uploading YouTube music videos that were markedly explicit.

Media outlets have described Delphine 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.

In January 2019, adult content creator Indigo White alleged that, while underage, Delphine passed off the photos of other sex workers as her own.

A February video, in which Delphine danced to a song about suicide while holding a gun, also drew controversy.

Shortly after it was posted, false rumors of her death circulated online.

In June 2019, Delphine made a post on Instagram in which she promised to create a Pornhub account if the post 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 videos.

As of December 2020, she was living in Hove.

In her adolescence, she was "an avid watcher of the anti-political correctness genre of YouTubers like IDubbbz" and also enjoyed watching the parody character Filthy Frank online.

She attended Priestlands School in Pennington, but dropped out at the age of 14 due to being bullied online.

Delphine expressed that she was isolated by her classmates after they disseminated screenshots of her dark humor jokes.

Around this time, she was treated for depression.

She found work as a babysitter, barista, and waitress.

She began posting "low-res and dimly lit" pictures of her cosplay on her Facebook account, which was later deleted.