My YouTube account is old enough to vote at this point…

I’ll be waiting, you can only check the age of my eggs

So it's off to PeerTube then, I guess? People could post the same video on both (yt and pt), and then on yt write something like "why not watch this on PeerTube instead?" although it'd probably get taken down.

Save us Hideo Kojima.

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/brits-can-get-around-discords-age-verification-thanks-to-death-strandings-photo-mode-bypassing-the-measure-introduced-with-the-uks-online-safety-act-we-tried-it-and-it-works-thanks-kojima/

I’m surprised the toy market & microtransaction industries are not aggressively fighting this. YouTube has been the primary way for them to reach kids for the past decade.

For an excellent, and hilarious, take on this, check out Venus Theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7INRHrObI

Sick, you can check my elderly face from thispersondoesntexist

Good thing I don't use YouTube anymore because they block me for using an ad blocker even though it doesn't do much on YouTube since they switched to serving ads natively.