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Wumpus Being Tortured Arts refers to an Twitter / X post acknowledging bugs in their new age assurance update on Discord, as well as the follow-up posts detailing fixes for blocked adult access to restricted servers, device mismatches, and note prior age systems.

The post drew criticism and controversy, with people disagreeing with the "extremely popular age assurance update" segment. This also led to the trend of artists drawing Wumbus being tortured, killed, or subjected to other incidents.

Origin

On September 24th, 2026, Twitter / X^[1] user @errorexella uploaded a quote-retweet post criticizing the Discord age verification as her account got age restriction with caption "Discord I am 26 years old and I am turning 27 in a week WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS". The post received more than 13,000 likes and 8.8 million views in four days.

On the same day, the official Discord Twitter / X^[2] replying @errorexella's with a drawing of their mascot, Wumpus, and caption "when you launch an extremely popular age assurance update that everyone on Discord was really looking forward to and it has bugs". The post received more than 43,000 likes and 93,4 million views in four days.

Spread

Starting late September 2026, the artists on Twitter / X starting to drawing Wumpus getting torture in various ways as their reactions to Discord responding their user critics. For example on September 25th, 2026, Twitter / X^[3] user @asianfissureman uploaded a drawing of Wumpus getting pulled by four horses. The post received more than 292,000 likes and 6.2 million likes in three days.

On September 26th, 2026, Twitter / X^[4] user @redapol14 uploaded an art of Wumpus standing on a machine referencing the Fukouna Shoujo 03. The post received more than 49,000 likes and 1.9 million views in two days.

On the next day, Twitter / X^[5] user @randomclevent_3 uploaded an edit of Wumpus referencing the Charlie Kirk Shooting at Utah Valley University. The post received more than 47,000 likes and 555,000 views in one day.

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