Get verified, then get your age changed back
Life pro tip. Works for both SA and WYP.
Problem: When I first created my account on SA, I lied about my age, figuring I'd land in searches more if I picked a younger number. It was all well and good until I decided to get verified. Boom! Suddenly I was 13 years older, and all my contacts could see that my age changed. I was regretting it. I eventually closed my account to stop sugar for a while (for other reasons).
When I created my new account, knowing this age / verification issue, I used generic images with no face, a lame description just to get the account established. The age was accurate, and I purposefully made the guy poor, with little net worth. That was so I could see who would still take interest. It was an eye opener! I was only using it in the free mode to slowly get back into sugaring. When I decided to go premium, several things happened. Including getting my account suspended.
I changed too many things at once when I started spiffing up my profile to go real again: income / net worth, images, descriptions. I even used a couple of AI images I generated that resembled me as a sort of joke. It was too much for the bots, and my account got suspended within minutes. So I engaged support, and they got me back on track, but I was able to keep my AI images as part of the unhidden images, with my real images being private (they resemble each other, and I only show a half-face with the AI images. I do not recommend).
I used that opportunity during account suspension and support follow-up to ask if there was a way to avoid having my age change once I'm verified and found out they will issue a "one-time" change of age request after getting verified.
Solution: get verified, then request support to change your age to whatever makes the most sense for you. They will do that.
Some of you have issues with the verification process. I find it helps ease the conversation more. Who knows for sure? The bigger issue I am having now that I'm live and unhidden briefly for two cities is filling in the gap of 13 years once the convos get involved. Not a big deal, but a little dishonesty can cause more issues later, so YMMV.