Belle Delphine, a gamer who recently sold jars of her bathwater and trolled fans with Pornhub prank, has been removed from Instagram following an organized mass reporting campaign.
Previously a darling of the gaming community, Delphine pissed off a lot people in the gaming subreddit r/GamersRiseUp after promising to post NSFW content on Pornhub if she reached 1 million likes on a photo.
After the prank, fans threatened to “torpedo her career.” The threat apparently manifested with the organized mass reporting of her account for nudity and pornography, according to claims from multiple redditors.
Several users participating in the revenge campaign posted screenshots showing notifications from Instagram that said @belle.delphine had been removed for violating the site’s rules.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0FLkPpn9mF/
A spokesperson for Instagram confirmed to the Daily Dot that Delphine’s account was removed for violating community guidelines. Instagram maintains that multiple reports of an account only lead to the account’s removal if it does actually violate guidelines.
Delphine’s other social media accounts are still active, and she has not commented on the Instagram page takedown. On Friday afternoon, she was tweeting a mysterious countdown on her Twitter account.
Naturally, people have a lot of opinions. Some seem rather upset about her Instagram removal.
https://twitter.com/youngbean22/status/1152266652274364417
WHY DID BELLE DELPHINE GET DELETED OFF INSTA SHE’S AN ICON
— kt (@ktmcnb) July 19, 2019
https://twitter.com/sadnesslog/status/1152090285704265728
Other people are angry on her behalf.
People really fucking ran a campaign to get Belle Delphine’s Instagram deleted, and it worked. Fucking incels are just jealous this girl can make a career out of her body. Cuz that is her job, you know, and a bunch of incel 15yo just messed that up.
— gunk (@thetvcullen) July 19, 2019
What is with yall and belle delphine?? Like why tf would you get her accounted deleted for doing what every other insta model is doing??? Shes not a thot or a fucking slut. She did that shit for fun and there were followers who looked up to her. Smh
— Murder_me_pls (@MurderPls) July 19, 2019
people who got belle delphine banned just wanted her to resort to porn quicker #belledelephine #BelleDelphineDeleted
— Anna (all pronouns) (@prettytimidated) July 19, 2019
And some are utterly delighted.
https://twitter.com/popping_candi/status/1152098721678553088
https://twitter.com/althoxx/status/1152123707076165632
Belle Delphine’s IG was deleted… another victory for mankind
— Dagz (@cametofade) July 19, 2019
Holly shit @BelleDelphinee Instagram got deleted the gamers did it #belledelphine #gamer #bathwater #belle #thot #instagramDELETE #instagramdown #instagram @pewdiepie pic.twitter.com/ZzCdK8YoS2
— anime thot (@RobkeTattum) July 19, 2019
Many are just out for the drama and entertainment.
https://twitter.com/ckurdziel/status/1152212509505593344
https://twitter.com/Lisan_4l_Gaib/status/1152225004588847105
Listen, i didn’t want to do this, but in the wake of Belle Delphine being deleted, I’m going to step up and become the next ethot queen
— Mackelmores Biggest Fan (@LegoRockMonster) July 19, 2019
All belle delphine’s virgins without her softcore porn, now that her instagram is deleted 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/qssr6ER6fr
— Michael⚽️🏴🔝 (@mufcmikey) July 19, 2019
But as Twitter user @VariaJStrix points out, the mass reporting campaign presents a gross double standard.
“This should be upsetting because she got reported for NUDITY AND PORNOGRAPHY when her angry fans obviously wanted MORE NUDITY AND PORNOGRAPHY,” @VariaJStrix wrote. “They are trying to control her.”
https://twitter.com/VariaJStrix/status/1152230269031780352
In other words, her body was weaponized against her only because it wasn’t used how fans wanted. And that kind of toxic targeted action should worry everyone.
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