Though Delphine’s Instagram posts started off with fairly standard cheesecake photos, over time her content began skewing more and more to a carefully crafted pastel-fairy-princess-anime aesthetic. It was the culmination of years of shrewd brand-building. Of course, the bathwater stunt didn't come out of nowhere. “Smh… Imagine going from wanting to be a gymnast in 2012 to being an internet thot who sells her infected bath water online in 2019…” writes another. “This makes me actually feel sad seeing what she turned into,” writes one user. The comments under the videos are alternately wistful and judgmental: In the video titled "youngest swing gymnastic", Delphine twirls and spins to the soundtrack of Louis Armstrong’s "What a Wonderful World". There's also a YouTube channel with the username “belle kirschner”, which features videos of a 12-year-old Delphine attempting aerial tricks on a tree swing. :| annoying” she tweeted on the 4th of November, 2012. “when i put anything in my pencil case… the next day it turns black from all the pencils, how is it even possible. “i <3 marcus Butler, alfie, sam peper, casper lee & jack and fin x,” she tweeted on the 27th of October, 2012. Dig deeper and you can also find two of her former Twitter accounts, one with the handle and the other which document the everyday inanities of a 13-year-old: She sports dramatic eyeliner and a mass of brown hair styled into a scene haircut, with fake hardware adorning her nose and lips. Her cosplay photos are low-res and dimly lit – a far cry from today’s slick glamour shots. Though Delphine has mostly scrubbed her early content from the internet, some traces still linger. When she turned 18, she moved to Instagram and began posting NSFW photos. Lacking a formal degree and with no desire to get a conventional job, Delphine decided to leverage her online presence into a career. Over the next two to three years, her online following grew to 100,000. Fourteen was also the age she started posting cosplay photos to her now-deleted Facebook page. However, she dropped out when she was 14 and supported herself doing odd jobs – waitress, nanny, barista. She moved to the UK to attend Priestlands School, a mixed comprehensive, in Lymington. Very little has been reported about Belle Delphine’s early life, but here's what we know: she was born Mary-Belle Kirschner on the 23rd of October, 1999 in South Africa.