Thread:CoolGamer23/@comment-30676952-20190208175418/@comment-5683044-20190208175637

COPPA is short for the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, this is a law that prohibits websites from collecting personal information from children 12 and under without parental permission. This is the reason why users have to be 13 or older to have an account on Wikia.

You can read more about it under Dream Logos Wiki: The Underage Ban.