People talk a good game but in the end most blindly follow the path of least resistance.

When I saw that Discord will allow people to upload a selfie of themselves and have Discord try and analyze their age without the need to upload a government ID, I realized that nothing will change.

People will think that it is a resonable compromise, and they have so much stuff on Discord that they will just keep going.

This isn't going to affect Discord in any meaningful way.

The vast majority of users are going to be flagged as adults and not have to do anything.

The majority of the remainder are using Discord for "teen-friendly" purposes and won't notice a difference.

The rest are gooners who are relatively new to Discord that will absolutely use a verification method to not lose access to the huge amount of porn that became permanently locked to the adult Discord community that they want access to.

You're likely in groups 1 or 2. And if that's news to you... then you need to learn to read past the headline that The Verge posted that got everyone up in arms.

They implemented age verification.

Definitely seem like they are. I deleted my discord account same day I heard the news.

Wait until those users find out that the same law is about to apply to all of the alternatives too.