What happens if you just send the example selfie instead of your own? Do they actually check it?

Yeah nah, the US president makes 400k USD a year + benefits. That should be more than enough for any person.

If not, how much would you counteroffer?

If someone attempted to bribe me I would automatically assume their proposal was a bad idea.

It was an april fools joke that they left up for a couple of months. Don't think there was ever any explict content there.

You can get prepaid sims which don't renew automatically. You can also find carrier's that allow you to cancel whenever no extra charge.

The cheapest option would be to just buy a cheap sim and verify the number with discord then throw the sim in the bin.