Belle Delphine

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language English
founding 2016
channels belle dolphins
Subscribers over 1,500,000
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Videos 6th
(updated Aug. 2020)

Mary-Belle Kirschner (* 23. October 1999 in Cape Town , South Africa ), better known by her stage name Belle dolphins is a British E-Girl , Instagram - Model and Webvideoproduzentin . In 2019, she made international headlines for selling her own bath water.

Life

Mary-Belle Kirscher was born in South Africa in 1999 and later immigrated to the United Kingdom with her family . There Kirschner attended a public school near Lymington , England , from which she dropped out at the age of 14. After that, she lived in a shared apartment and worked as a waitress, nanny and barista , while at the same time she started posting her first selfies on her Facebook page.

Career

Kirschner registered on the photo sharing website Instagram in 2015 and a year later on the video portal YouTube . In August 2016, she uploaded her first self-made video showing a makeup tutorial. In 2018 she started to regularly share photos of herself as "weird elves " or "cat girls" via Instagram , relying on accessories such as pink wigs and stockings. With cosplay photos as Harley Quinn or D.Va ( Overwatch ), she tried to become known primarily in the gaming scene . In addition, she increasingly produced NSFW content, which she offers on her Patreon site as "lewd content". In the course of 2019, the number of her Instagram followers rose to 4.5 million and that of Patreon supporters to over 4,000.

In June 2019, Delphine, now known for her ahegao, promised to create a Pornhub account for one million likes . They broke the promise indeed, but disappointed many fans by hochlud only non-pornographic material with ambiguous titles, including a video called PewDiePie goes all the way INSIDE Belle dolphins in which they with applied cat ears a photo of the Swedish YouTubers PewDiePie eaten . Nevertheless, at the end of the year she won the award in the “Top Celebrity” category.

Inspired by joking comments from some fans, Belle Delphine put her own bath water for sale in mason jars at £ 24 each starting July 1, 2019 . The bizarre product called GamerGirl Bath Water was sold out after three days and brought the 19-year-old media attention worldwide. Two weeks later, Instagram deleted her account on the grounds that it violated community guidelines.

After that, Belle Delphine became increasingly inactive on social media . In the fall, she claimed she was arrested by police after smearing the car of a person who stole their hamster at a party . In June 2020 she made a comeback via YouTube with a bizarre rap song , aesthetically based on 6ix9ines Gooba , and at the same time announced new activity on Instagram and TikTok as well as her own only fans . She cited injuries that she allegedly sustained while jumping from the roof into a paddling pool as the reason for her months of online abstinence .

Style and reception

Mary-Belle Kirschner, who is referred to as an e-girl due to her exclusive online presence , exaggerates the modern stereotype of the “gamer girl”, a young, innocent and sex-hungry girl who is the female counterpart to the with her Belle Delphine persona predominantly male gaming - Nerds to act. The dolphins , who are aesthetically somewhere between kawaii and hentai - EJ Dickson summarized their appearance under the term "Alien Disney princess porn star" - have been widely received in the media at the latest since their bathing water sale. In addition to scene magazines such as Kotaku and Vice , mainstream media such as Business Insider , Guardian and Rolling Stone reported on the unusual business model. Various publications categorize Belle Delphine as an internet troll and her bizarre, polarizing actions as stunts . While many commentators recognize ironic and satirical elements in their content , others argue that they are using sexist clichés and fetishes and deliberately manipulating their followers.

As the popularity of Belle Delphine grew, some controversy arose. Because of her cosplay, which is based on Japanese pop culture, she is accused of cultural appropriation or even of racism . She is also accused of eroticizing young girls. After she started uploading sexual (NSFW) content, allegations have been leveled against her for having passed off nude photos of her competitors as her own as a minor without their consent. It is also considered controversial in the sex industry because of its aggressive marketing strategy . In February 2019, Delphine caused a stir with a - now deleted - Instagram video that shows her dancing to a song about suicide with a gun in hand . Shortly thereafter, rumors emerged that she had passed away. Another controversial video published on YouTube called Meet my best friend shows her playing with a dead octopus with bulging eyes.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Kitty Guo: Belle Delphine and the Making of an E-Girl. Vice , June 26, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Madeleine Aggeler: Who Is Belle Delphine, the Gamer Girl Selling Her Bathwater? The Cut , October 8, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  3. ^ Winners Announced at the 2nd Pornhub Awards. AVN , October 12, 2019, accessed on July 20, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d EJ Dickson: Is Belle Delphine, aka Bathwater Gamer Girl, the Greatest Troll On the Internet? Rolling Stone , July 11, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Katie Bishop: Who is paying $ 30 for 'gamer girl' Belle Delphine's bath water? The Guardian , July 12, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Brett Molina: Belle Delphine, Internet star who sold her bath water, has Instagram account deleted. USA Today , July 19, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  7. ^ Louise Griffin, Belle Delphine 'jumped off a roof into paddling pool' as she reveals painful injuries behind YouTube absence. Metro, June 18, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ella London: Is Belle Delphine proof gaming culture can't escape its hyper-sexualized past? The Telegraph , July 31, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Megan C. Hills: Who is Belle Delphine? Bath water purveyor returns to social media with an Onlyfans page and NSFW music video. Evening Standard , June 18, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Lindsay Dodgson: An Instagram star tricked her fans into thinking she was making porn, but actually posted videos of her stroking stuffed toys and eating a picture of PewDiePie. Insider, June 21, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Meet my best friend. belle delphine / YouTube , June 14, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
  12. ↑ UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019 slides. Business Insider , October 10, 2019, accessed July 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dolphins, Belle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirschner, Mary-Belle (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British e-girl, model and web video producer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Town , South Africa