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Belle Delphine

English Internet celebrity, pornographic actress, and model (born 1999)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ65115154
Source-derived summary

Mary-Belle Kirschner (born 23 October 1999), better known as Belle Delphine, is a British social media personality, pornographic actress, model, and YouTuber. Her social media accounts feature erotic and cosplay modelling, sometimes blending the two. Her online persona began in 2018 through her cosplay modeling on Instagram. Her posts on the platform were often influenced by popular memes and trends.

In mid-2019, Delphine gained notoriety through creating a satirical Pornhub account and selling her "GamerGirl Bath Water" product through her online store. Shortly after, her Instagram account was deleted due to community guideline violations and she went on hiatus. Upon returning to online content creation, she launched an OnlyFans account on which she posts adult content and began uploading YouTube music videos that were markedly explicit.

Media outlets have described Delphine as an "e-girl" and a cross between an internet troll and a performance artist. Delphine has also been cited as an influence on the e-girl style commonly adopted by TikTok users.

Early life

Delphine was born Mary-Belle Kirschner in Cape Town on 23 October 1999.

Editorial summary

“Belle Delphine” enters the record as english Internet celebrity, pornographic actress, and model (born 1999). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Belle, Delphine and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-10-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Belle, Delphine and English.
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“Belle Delphine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Belle, Delphine and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65115154. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2018 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from Belle Delphine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.