In truth, though, Delphine’s success is not all that surprising - the only thing the internet loves more than a hot, half-naked gamer girl, is a hot, half-naked gamer girl who’s expert at trolling. (The latter image, which was tweeted by YouTuber Vito Gesualdi, turned out to be a stunt to promote his video: the fact that it went viral, with many mocking Gesualdi for falling for Delphine’s scam, “has been a very good lesson in how eagerly people will accept a lie if it’s entertaining,” Gesualdi tells Rolling Stone.) The stunt also spawned a small cottage industry of reaction videos from YouTubers who had bought her bathwater, with a handful of her fans - mostly young men in their teens or twenties - drinking it, cooking with it, and even vaping it. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules' The story went viral, with media outlets alternately deriding Delphine’s fans for their naïvete and applauding her for her marketing savvy as well as a number of (later debunked) claims that people who had purchased Delphine’s bathwater had been sent to the hospital, or been diagnosed with herpes, or that Delphine was now selling her urine for $9,999. Immediately, as if drawn by the call of the Sirens, many of Delphine’s 4.1 million followers flocked to her newly established store, where her so-called “ Gamer Girl Bathwater,” which she sold for $30 per jar, sold out instantly. In later Instagram videos, she films herself splashing around in the bath, wearing a tight aqua T-shirt and a thong, then spitting bathwater into a jar while winking coyly and making a wide range of facial expressions that can only be described as criminally horny. “i am now selling my BATH WATER for all you THIRSTY gamer boys ?,” she wrote in the caption, accompanied by a link to her online store. Last week, a 19-year-old cosplayer and Instagram model named Belle Delphine posted a photo of herself in the tub, holding a jar and a pastel pink game controller.