Discord Users are Massacring Wumpus in Increasingly Gruesome Ways to Protest Platform's Age Verification System
Discord artists are tearing the company's purple mascot, Wumpus, limb from limb in increasingly gruesome ways to protest its controversial age verification system.
Discord's purple mascot, Wumpus, is the subject of increasingly gruesome fan art as a protest against the platform's age verification system. Despite initial backlash, Discord continued to mock the system, which only fueled the outrage. The company's tweet about the system's popularity, filled with bugs, prompted fans to unleash their anger through art depicting Wumpus being tortured in various ways.
One fan created a hyper-realistic image of Wumpus being "quartered," a method of execution where a person is pulled into pieces by horses tied to their limbs. This post, which doesn't use any text, has garnered over 260,000 likes. Other fans expressed their disappointment on Twitter, with some saying they will never forget Wumpus.
Users criticized Discord's privacy concerns following a significant data breach, stating that the company cannot continue to present itself as a serious data harvesting platform.
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