Cosplayer and OnlyFans creator Belle Delphine recently revealed that she earned no money from her 2019 viral “Gamer Girl Bath Water” stunt because PayPal was charging her weird fees and keeping the funds for itself. Almost five years later, Business Insider reports that the internet celebrity’s “biggest L” has finally turned into a “W” as PayPal has decided to refund her the money she’d earned after getting called out online. “Since it’s been a couple years now I can finally share the biggest L I’ve ever taken,” Delphine tweeted on May 6.
“Not only did I not earn any money selling my bathwater, I in fact LOST money doing it. PayPal without any warning closed my PayPal account and took the $US90,000 that I earned from selling my bathwater.” She continued: There was nothing I could do, I tried phoning them up and they just said ‘sorry, nothing we can do!’ 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.
..Ultimately I’m still glad I did it since it was a really funny time on the internet when it happened, and I still did mail out all the bathwater people bought from me (which I did all by myself) Sooo.
.. fuck PayPal I guess? I apparently broke one of their ToS, and each time you break a ToS you receive a -$2,500 penalty.
So each payment of bathwater that went through was a break of ToS which resulted in -$2,500 every time without me realising. They wouldn’t t.
