It's truly sad to see social networks being complicit in doxxing their users under the guise of "think of the children" by requiring age checks.
If it makes you feel any better, it's more trivially bypassed than any website age-gate I've ever seen. (that's more complicated than a checkbox)
Of course they can comply and then in five years nothing more than cat pictures gets posted online.
(Not that this would be inherently bad)