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A 19-year-old Instagram model had her account shut down in July, just weeks after going viral for selling her bathwater to “thirsty gamer boys” for US$30 a jar.

Belle Delphine, a British cosplayer famous for her provocative photos, has been on Instagram since 2015. But the bathwater stunt, combined with an earlier gag involving the website Pornhub, thrust her into the spotlight this year.

Before her accounts were shut down, Delphine boasted a combined 4.5 million Instagram followers. She also has almost 4,400 supporters on Patreon, where anybody who pledges US$25 a month or more can view her “lewd HD photosets”, and those who pay US$50 or more a month gets access to her Snapchat, which is described as her “naughtiest social media”.

Both of her Instagram accounts were shut down in July in what the photo-sharing app attributed to a violation of its rules – though the company declined to go into details. That’s contrary to earlier speculation that it may have been the result of a mass-reporting campaign.

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Here’s everything you need to know about the Instagram star Belle Delphine:

Belle Delphine is a 19-year-old model from the United Kingdom who has built a significant social media following since she started posting content on Instagram in 2015.

Delphine's content is usually provocative. She’s best known for making the “ahegao” facial expression in her photos.

We’ll let Wikipedia define that for you: “Ahegao is a term of Japanese pornography describing a facial expression of fictional characters during sex often used in pornographic video games, manga and anime.”

In other posts, she utilises provocative props – including an infamous video featuring a dead octopus, entitled “Meet my best friend”.

Delphine also runs a YouTube channel with nearly 600,000 subscribers. However, she’s only posted three videos there.

Delphine runs a Patreon account for “creating photos and lewd content” that has almost 2,700 paying fans. For US$50 or more a month, “patrons” can get access to Delphine’s premium Snapchat account, which features her “naughtiest” photos.

In June, Delphine went viral when she told her followers she’d create an account on the popular Pornhub site if one of her Instagram posts gained more than one million likes.

But instead of posting pornographic content, as her fans may have expected, she uploaded 12 videos to Pornhub that showed her doing things like cuddling two stuffed roosters and eating a picture of the YouTube personality PewDiePie.

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Fan responses included disappointment and glee, with one person comparing her to a “2019 Andy Warhol”.

In July, Delphine started selling US$30 bottles of “GamerGirl Bath Water” on her online store for “thirsty gamer boys”. She advertised the water by posting Instagram videos of her playing in a bathtub. To Delphine’s surprise, the jars of bathwater sold out in just three days.

Although Delphine sold the bathwater with the disclaimer that the water “is not for drinking”, people online were quick to consume it. People who posted reviews online said the water tasted “so salty” and “candy-like”.

Delphine’s two Instagram accounts were shut down in July after what the company said was a violation of its rules – though it did not go into details. However, reports have indicated it was due to a coordinated reporting campaign of claims of “nudity or pornography” made against her account.

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Jokes about Delphine’s bathwater eventually made it to an episode of PewDiePie’s popular Meme Review series in September. PewDiePie recently returned from his honeymoon, and posted a photo on Instagram of him sitting in a bathtub filled with flowers. Fans, including YouTuber James Charles, joked that he should sell his bathwater.

PewDiePie joked in the video that he would sell bottles of his bathwater for US$29, undercutting Delphine’s price by US$1. Although we wouldn’t put it past PewDiePie to go through with it, no bottles of bathwater have yet to appear for sale on his merchandise store.

Although Delphine’s Instagram was shut down in July, her Twitter, YouTube and Patreon accounts remain online at the time of writing.

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