GAMOLOGY • The Best of Gaming on Instagram: "In 2025, the UK government enforced the Online Safety Act, requiring platforms like Discord and Reddit to verify users’ ages using facial recognition software — a controversial move meant to block underage access to adult content. But gamers found a workaround. Instead of uploading their real faces, users began submitting hyper-realistic selfies of Sam Porter Bridges, the protagonist from Death Stranding, rendered using the game’s advanced photo mode.

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