A scroll through her feed is just as likely to find colorful thirst traps as it is to see photos of her playing with a dead octopus." Īs her popularity grew, Delphine began to draw controversy for her content. Complex stated that she "posted clips of herself coyly eating a raw egg, shell and all. Her content began to notably and frequently include ahegao facial expressions, which are exaggerated expressions often featured in adult anime to signify an orgasm. Delphine's Instagram follower count surged from 850,000 in November 2018 to 4.2 million in July 2019. Delphine's image was subsequently spread around 4chan and Reddit, where users praised her "ironic approach to online thotting" as "genius" and "brilliant performance art".
She "quickly rose to the top of the 'For You' page on TikTok", after participating in the platform's trends and challenges. Rolling Stone noted that her style in this second video is more in-line with that of the one she later adopted during her rise to prominence, which they described as "alien Disney princess porn star." ĭelphine's popularity notably increased in the autumn of 2018. In September, she uploaded a second YouTube video featuring a tour of her room. In March 2018, Delphine launched a Patreon account, where supporters could receive access to her "lewd" photosets. She also regularly produced cosplay-related content, which included characters such as Harley Quinn and D.Va. In 2018, Delphine began to regularly upload pictures of her modelling on Instagram, using accessories such as pink wigs, thigh-high stockings, and cat ears to help create what she described as a "weird elf kitty girl" aesthetic.
The following month, she uploaded her first video, a makeup tutorial.
In July 2016, she registered a YouTube account. Online career Early years and Instagram modellingĭelphine has had an Instagram account since 2015. She began posting "low-res and dimly lit" pictures of her cosplay onto her Facebook account, which was later deleted. She found work as a waitress, babysitter, and barista. Around this time, she was treated for depression. Delphine expressed that she was isolated by her classmates after they disseminated screenshots of her dark humor jokes. She attended Priestlands School in Pennington, Hampshire, but dropped out at the age of 14 due to being bullied online. In her adolescence, Delphine was "an avid watcher of the anti- political correctness genre of YouTubers like iDubbbz" and also enjoyed watching the parody character Filthy Frank online. As of December 2020, she is living in Hove, England. After her parents divorced, she and her mother moved to England and settled in Lymington, Hampshire. She grew up in Cape Town, where she was raised in a devout Christian household.