Discord will soon enact age verification for all users, a move aimed at teen safety — but one that sparked intense backlash from adults on the platform.

The company stressed not everyone will need to verify their age, and that for many users their experience using Discord won't change. "Thanks for confirming that you've always been spying on your users," one Twitter user wrote in response, and that sentiment has been echoed by others.

Social media company Discord are trying their best to reassure people irked by the recently announced global rollout of some new age verification measures.

On Discord's end, the company promises that its "age assurance" approaches will protect user privacy, saying that video selfies, which AI will use to estimate a user's age, will never leave their device, and that any identity documents users submit will be deleted immediately after their age is confirmed.

Discord enforces teen-by-default settings globally, requiring age verification for safe access to sensitive content.