Belle Delphine, the E-girl who went viral for selling jars of her own bathwater in 2019, has revealed that the stunt earned her $90k in profits. In a thread on X, the OnlyFans creator explained that PayPal took her profits – until now. 

“PayPal, without any warning closed my account and took the $90,000 that I earned from selling my bathwater,” Belle Delphine wrote, describing the event as her “biggest L I’ve ever taken”. Now, PayPal has reversed this decision, with the company returning to Belle Delphine all the proceeds from the bathwater stunt five years later.

As one of the OG E-girls to go viral online, Delphine is best known for bringing ‘ahegao’ face to the masses – a facial expression used in hentai to show an orgasm. Following several incidents of Delphine trolling her Extremely Online audience, including a video claiming to stroke ‘two cocks’ on Pornhub’ featuring a pair of roosters, Delphine launched the infamous GamerGirl bathwater merch on her official website for $30 each, selling out hundreds of jars in three days.

“I knew it would be a better news story to say that I made ‘sOoOo much money’ from selling my bathwater so I just kept this secret,” Delphine wrote on X. “Ultimately I’m still glad I did since it was a really funny time on the internet when it happened.” To make matters worse, Delphine revealed that PayPal fined her $2,500 for each violation of its rules – so that’s each bottle of bathwater.

After Delphine posted about her problems with PayPal, the $90,000 was returned to her this week. “If I didn't have any [social media] following, they wouldn't have given my money back,” Delphine told Business Insider. “Which is so shitty because what are all the normal non-social media users meant to do in this situation? I followed all the normal protocols and was roadblocked and gave up.”

“The Twitter post I made about it had SO many comments of people saying PayPal did the exact same thing to them,” Delphine said. “It was shocking, to be honest.”