Discord users 'massacre' mascot Wumpus to protest age verification system

Discord artists are posting gruesome images of the platform's mascot Wumpus to protest its new age verification system. The backlash followed a sarcastic Discord post on X calling the buggy update 'extremely popular,' which drew 36K likes and nearly 10K replies.

• Discord's sarcastic post about the 'popular' age verification update got 36K likes
• Top reply depicting Wumpus being quartered reached 260K likes
• Users cite privacy concerns after a major data breach last year
• Discord fixed bugs blocking age-restricted servers but hasn't addressed the criticism