I know the title is very stupid, like what do you mean "age verification trend"? I do know it's not a trend and usually controlled by the law, but companies tend to add it for 1 country, for example, the UK or Australia, and then, guess what? They're rolling out the update globally.

In my own opinion, age verification is:

  1. really stupid

  2. pointless

  3. ruinning platform’s reputation

I don’t understand why it's so hard thing to keep this age verification from everyone? If their country doesn’t have strict age verification laws, what’s the problem?

Age verification won’t stop pedophiles, groomers, or child sexual abuse problems.

This contains: It's the classic Simpsons bit where Homer sneaks up behind Marge in his underwear trying to be sexy, but when she turns around it's actually Abe Simpson — old, gross, and deeply unwanted. Here, Homer in his underwear is labeled 'Age Verification to protect child safety online,' Marge is 'Governments