What is Belle Delphine's Net Worth?
Belle Delphine is an Internet personality, model, and pornographic actress who has a net worth of $10 million. Belle Delphine is known for her erotic and cosplay modeling on social media. In 2019, she gained notoriety through a satirical Pornhub account, and in 2020 began an OnlyFans account. Delphine has been considered by many in the media as a cross between an Internet troll and a performance artist. According to her own receipts, Belle Delphine makes an average of $1 million per month off OnlyFans.
Early Life and Education
Belle Delphine, whose real name is Mary-Belle Kirschner, was born on October 23, 1999 in Cape Town, South Africa to devout Christian parents. Following her parents' divorce, she moved with her mother to England, where they settled in Lymington, Hampshire. In Pennington, Hampshire, Kirschner attended Priestlands School, but dropped out when she was 14 due to being bullied online. She went on to work some odd jobs, including as a waitress and babysitter.
Social Media Beginnings
Delphine began her social media career when she opened an Instagram account in 2015. The following year, she started a YouTube account and uploaded her first video, which was a makeup tutorial. Delphine began regularly posting to her Instagram account in 2018, appearing in photos wearing pink wigs, cat ears, and thigh-high stockings. She also posted cosplay pictures of her dressed as Harley Quinn and D.Va, among other fictional characters. Additionally, Delphine launched a Patreon account as a means of sending her more risqué pictures to fans.
Career Breakthroughs
Delphine's online popularity surged in late 2018 when she went viral on TikTok for participating in various trends and challenges. Her image was subsequently disseminated around the websites Reddit and 4chan, where users lauded her style. From November of 2018 to July of 2019, Delphine's total Instagram followers rose from 850,000 to 4.2 million. During this time, her content became increasingly pornographic, featuring her making exaggerated facial expressions as if she was in the throes of orgasm. Delphine could also be seen eating raw egg and playing with a dead octopus. She became even more infamous online in mid-2019 when she created a satirical account on Pornhub, on which she uploaded troll videos with misleading titles and thumbnails. Despite her videos becoming the most-disliked in Pornhub's history, Delphine was also the most-searched celebrity on the site in 2019.
A little after launching her Pornhub account, Delphine launched an online storefront. The most notable product she began selling was her "GamerGirl Bath Water," marketed as her bath water in a jar for $30. Although widely mocked, the product sold out within three days of its first run. Many YouTube response videos subsequently cropped up featuring individuals pretending to cook with, drink, or vape the bath water. Due to the publicity around the stunt, Delphine was interviewed by the Guardian.
Instagram Ban
In July of 2019, Delphine was banned from Instagram for undisclosed reasons, although the service stated vaguely it was due to violating community guidelines. She continued posting on Twitter, but became inactive on all her social media accounts by late August. In October, she tweeted a mugshot suggesting that she had been arrested, although the veracity of the arrest was questioned. After uploading some videos to YouTube in November, Delphine took a hiatus from social media.
Pornographic Content
Delphine returned from her social media hiatus in mid-2020 with a YouTube music video parody of the 6ix9ine song "Gooba." The video also served as a promotion for her newly created TikTok and OnlyFans accounts, the former of which was soon suspended. Delphine's YouTube account was also terminated due to violations of the service's policies on nudity and sexual content; however, YouTube reinstated the account after Delphine and her fans protested the decision. Delphine went on to produce increasingly pornographic content and post it on her Twitter account. On Christmas, she uploaded her first homemade hardcore porn video to her OnlyFans account. In 2021, Delphine took another hiatus from social media and vowed she was quitting porn. However, she returned in the spring of 2022.
Delphine's pornographic content has been called satirical, ironic, and tongue-in-cheek by many media observers. Critics have noted that she exists somewhere in the intersection of erotic modeling and online trolling, and that her popularity stems from her canny ability to combine overt sexuality with a surrealist self-reflexivity. Delphine has also been recognized for her appropriation of tropes from Japanese popular culture, most significantly her replication of "ahegao" orgasmic facial expressions seen in mangas. Further, she has been called an "e-girl" and an "extremely online" individual.
Controversies
Delphine's bawdy persona and explicit content have garnered substantial controversy. In 2019, adult content creator Indigo White claimed that Delphine was passing off photos of other sex workers as her own. She elicited more controversy in early 2021 when she uploaded images of a staged-kidnapping fantasy that some argued promoted rape. Elsewhere, Delphine has been criticized for cultural appropriation, sexist stereotyping, and the eroticization of young girls.
