[weisk]

"Do you confirm you are above 18 years of age (or the planet-rotation equivalent in your local star cluster)?"

i am so confused, whats the reason behind this little event handler?

[arcfour]

It is a joke about how stupid and pointless pushes to require "age verification" online are. Such efforts have been in the news a lot recently.

[keepamovin]

You understood it! I’m so proud of you. Actually I think you’re kind of special because the reference requires stitching together some desperate signals. I think you’re pretty creative.

[ctrlmeta]

The website has been made by AI. May be it has learned from its training that this kind of confirm box is cheeky humor for humans?

[smcin]

Probably because a few articles contain curse words (which corporate filters may hiccup on).