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Last week, Discord finally pulled the trigger<\/a> on the global rollout of its age estimation systems, which require users to provide age verification through an ID scan or selfie if the company’s estimation model can’t confidently surmise that you’re older than 18. While Discord estimated that 90% of users wouldn’t need to prove their age, accompanying bugginess drove the company to address the emerging issues by posting on X<\/a> with the air of being just a little guy.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nobody liked that. Discord’s ill-advised smol bean-posting has become a flashpoint for the internet’s collective frustration over being forced to swallow what’s widely perceived\u2014with good reason<\/a>\u2014as the prelude to an inevitable exposure of private information. To vent that simmering resentment, X users have turned to creative outlets. By which I mean they’ve been drawing Wumpus, Discord’s mascot, meeting a variety of grisly ends.<\/p>\n

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when you launch an extremely popular age assurance update that everyone on Discord was really looking forward to and it has bugs https:\/\/t.co\/I9dVu9ZhET pic.twitter.com\/BLAz9fWTSnSeptember 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

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While I don’t recommend you browse the full selection of ritualized Wumpus-slayings\u2014some of them are pretty gnarly\u2014here’s a survey of how the internet is processing its feelings about age verification.<\/p>\n

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Wumpus gets the Daguza Mackle treatment<\/a>, by @Cassius_comm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Saturn Devours His Chat Application, by @Ph4nt0m3nby<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Wumpus encounters the cruelties of fluid dynamics, by @Lizardbrainiak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And, in emulation of that moment from the 2014 Godzilla that made me say “Jesus, Godzilla, who taught you that,” there’s this work from X user @Atlanticaph0tic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: X user @Atlanticaph0tic)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are more, of course: There are illustrations of Wumpus being drawn and quartered<\/a> in historically brutal fashion, and .gifs of Wumpus being squished in a space pod<\/a> by a legendary super saiyan before being exploded\u2014both of which have been amassed a combined 400,000 likes and 8 million views.<\/p>\n

I’m not an expert, but when the masses are cheering for your company mascot’s cruel unmaking, I suspect there’s been a PR misstep somewhere along the way.<\/p>\n

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Last week, Discord finally pulled the trigger on the global rollout of its age estimation systems, which require users to provide age verification through an ID scan or selfie if the company’s estimation model can’t confidently surmise that you’re older than 18. While Discord estimated that 90% of users wouldn’t need to prove their age, accompanying bugginess drove the company to address the emerging issues by posting on X with the air of being just a little guy. Nobody liked that. Discord’s ill-advised smol bean-posting has become a flashpoint for the internet’s collective frustration over being forced to swallow what’s widely perceived\u2014with good reason\u2014as the prelude to an inevitable exposure of private information. To vent that simmering resentment, X users have turned to creative outlets.…<\/p>\n

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