Discord Account Age Checker

Checking when an account was created requires no API call and no permissions, because the creation time is encoded in the user ID itself. Shift the snowflake right by 22 bits and add the Discord epoch (1420070400000) and you have the exact millisecond the account was registered.

This is why the check works on any account, including ones you share no server with and ones that have blocked you. You are reading a number, not querying a profile. It is also why the answer cannot be faked: a user can change their username, avatar and every visible detail, but the creation date is structurally part of their permanent ID.

Mass-raid accounts are almost always freshly created, because banned accounts are cheap to replace and aged accounts are not. A minimum-account-age gate is therefore one of the highest-value, lowest-effort moderation settings available - it filters the overwhelming majority of throwaway accounts at zero cost to legitimate members.

Discord's built-in verification levels implement a coarse version of this. The 'Medium' level requires an account to be at least five minutes old, and 'High' requires the member to have been in the server for more than ten minutes. Bots that enforce a multi-day minimum are simply doing the same snowflake arithmetic with a stricter threshold.

It is worth remembering the limits. A determined attacker can age accounts in advance, so account age filters raids of opportunity rather than planned ones. It is a filter, not a wall.

Fresh accounts are a common red flag in raids and spam waves. A server that requires a minimum account age blocks most throwaway accounts automatically.