http://www.pokemon-online.eu/threads/well-58-finchinator.22776/ - thread (probably a lot of cringeworthy things in here and a lot of inside jokes / references people won't get, so I wouldn't bother reading it)

Relevant part:
"When my competitive pokemon career inaugurated, I was on the Smogon University server of Pokemon Online in September of 2011. There was a rule known as COPPA. Essentially, COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) prohibited users under the age of thirteen (who are classified as children) from having freedom on the internet.

In real life, I’m a 15 year old now. I was 12 years and 11 months old at the time I joined smogon, but they banned rule-breakers for a year minimum, according to a server moderator in their main chat. So, I was kinda forced to using the story that I was ten years older than I actually was.

After some time passed, this story stuck with me as the people I talked to on the server such as Ripamon and CasedVictory all thought I was in my twenties. I claimed to be at Rutgers, studying to be an accountant. I made up all kinds of stories, lies, and a somewhat realistic sounding, but fabricated life."