Belle Delphine has been many things on the internet — cosplayer, troll, OnlyFans top-earner, Cape Town expat, hamster owner, defendant in roughly twelve thousand Reddit threads — but she has, more than anything else, been for sale. Specifically for sale to a kind of customer she has been incredibly forthcoming about. In a 2020 Cold Ones appearance, she walked the hosts through her custom-request inbox in the casual, slightly bemused tone of a person who has stopped being surprised by anything. What follows is the field guide.
Some of these requests she fulfilled. Some she charged a fortune for. Some she politely declined. All of them are real, and all of them are sourced from her own mouth or her own merch store.
1. To play a dead girl on the Mortal Kombat "Game Over" screen
The line item that proves the genre. On Cold Ones, Belle describes a customer — using "customer" the way you'd describe a regular at a sandwich shop — whose particular interest is the moment in Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter when a defeated female character is shown sprawled motionless on the floor. "He requested," she explains, "he paid so much to see me just act dead as if I were like a Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter character." The price tag isn't disclosed. The price tag was apparently enough.
2. To physically inflate, Willy Wonka-style
Another regular has asked Belle, repeatedly, to inflate. Not in a metaphor. "They want me to like go like really fat," she tells the hosts, "and like — you know — have you seen Willy Wonka? The girl he gets?" She means Violet Beauregarde, the blueberry. There is an entire community of people who would like Belle Delphine to become a blueberry. They are willing to pay for the journey.
3. To do the inflation thing, but Sonic the Hedgehog edition
A close cousin of #2, and apparently a much larger fandom than you'd expect. "The inflation kink displayed with the Sonic fandom," Belle says, "I see a lot of DeviantArt drawings." Reader, this is real. There is enough fan art at the intersection of Sonic the Hedgehog and adult inflation imagery that Belle Delphine — a person whose job is to be aware of weird internet things — flagged it as notable. Sega has no comment.
4. A $30 jar of her bathwater
The one everyone knows. In July 2019, Belle posted a video of herself in a tub captioned "i am now selling my BATH WATER for all you THIRSTY gamer boys 💦." The jars cost $30. They sold out in two days. To fill the orders, she ran seven baths — confirmed on the H3 podcast — and, she added when pressed, "I think I spat in some of the jars." The eBay aftermarket pushed individual jars as high as $15,000. Howard Stern talked about it on his show. Belle later told the H3 hosts the whole experience was "fun." A man named Vito Gesualdi made a video where he appeared to vape the bathwater. He has not, to date, recovered his reputation.
5. Premium Snapchat at $5 to $2,500 a month
Before OnlyFans existed in its current form, Belle's main revenue stream was a tiered Patreon that granted access to a private Snapchat where she posted what she described as "lewd content." Pricing started at $5 a month and went up to $2,500 a month, according to Rolling Stone's 2019 reporting. Two thousand five hundred dollars. A month. The actual contents of the $2,500 tier remain, to those who did not pay $2,500 a month, a mystery — which was, of course, the entire pricing strategy.
6. A handmade mystery box, contents undisclosed
When Belle disappeared from the internet in late 2019 and was preparing her 2020 comeback, her plan was, in her words, to "make these mystery boxes to all the people that I really, really love on the internet." This is the "love" of a person whose customer relationships are mediated by Stripe. The mystery boxes contained crafts she made by hand: drawings, paintings, weird little assemblages of items, occasionally — based on the unboxing videos — a sword. They were marketed as gifts and they functioned as drops. Supreme would have admired the execution.
7. A pack of "GamerGirl"-branded condoms
In July 2020 — exactly one year after the bathwater — Belle dropped a line of branded condoms, marketed under the same pink-anime aesthetic as her main feed. They sold out in a day, per multiple reports. There is no public information about a second drop. There is also no public information about anyone actually using one for its intended purpose, but the consumer-goods world has long understood that "sold" and "used" are different categories.
8. The right to watch her not make porn on Pornhub
In June 2019, Belle promised to make a Pornhub channel if a single Instagram post got a million likes. The post got over 1.8 million. She made the channel. She uploaded twelve videos with titles like "Belle Delphine strokes two BIG cocks" and "Belle Delphine plays with her PUSSY." The videos showed her holding two roosters and petting two stuffed cats, respectively. Searches for Belle Delphine on Pornhub spiked 7,798%. The videos became the most-disliked content in Pornhub's history. She did not, technically, get paid for this. The attention she got was worth more.
9. (REFUSED) To pretend she's getting pregnant
In her Cold Ones appearance, Belle ran through a list of kinks she'd encountered and the ones she wouldn't touch. The clearest no: "Breeding is a thing people get off on — the idea that, like, to breed you, like in Pokemon. There's a few things that I just won't do, and I think things that cross the border into, like, pregnancy is something that I just don't want to do." A clean line. Pokémon analogy not optional.
10. (REFUSED) The full Daddy Dom diaper experience
Belle has openly discussed the DDLG (Daddy Dom / Little Girl) dynamic as one of her stated aesthetic interests. But there is, she explained on the same podcast, a "whole spectrum" — and the deep end is where the customer wears diapers and the dominant changes them. "I am not thinking of my dad," she clarified, which is the kind of disclaimer you should be able to issue without it being relevant, and yet. She is, for the record, into the light end. The diaper part is a hard pass.
The takeaway, such as there is one
Belle Delphine has spent six years building an entire commercial enterprise on what is essentially a single insight: people will pay extraordinary sums of money for things they cannot get anywhere else, and the scarcer the thing, the more they will pay. A jar of regular bathwater is free. A jar of Belle Delphine's bathwater is $30. A custom video of Belle pretending to be unconscious in the Mortal Kombat defeat pose, recorded by her, only for the customer who paid, is some unknown but presumably astonishing number.
The genius of the operation is that the requests themselves keep getting weirder, and Belle keeps treating them with the deadpan professionalism of a UPS Store manager. Of course someone wants the Mortal Kombat death scene. Of course someone wants the inflation video. Of course someone is willing to spend $2,500 a month on Snapchat. I have a business to run.
The bathwater is the punchline. The Pokémon breeding rejection is the punchline. The pink wig and the diaper boundary are the punchline. You can sneer at any of it. Belle just kept counting the money.
Sources: H3 Podcast (October 2020), Cold Ones (October 2020), Rolling Stone (2019), Vice (2020), Wikipedia, Newsweek.