All I know is that the guy for some stupid reason shoot himself in the foot and missed out on potentially millions, with ad money, by not seizing when it became a meme and was the biggest thing on the internet. He did the equivalent of getting a winning lottery ticket, and burn it out of pettyness.
It's a silly way to kill time on public transportation. Video games nowadays are so badly designed that this is an accomplishment.
Time wasters like that have existed for a long time, it still doesn't explain the obsession with Flappy Bird, i'm sure there must have been games with the exact same gameplay before it, but Flappy Bird exploded upon normies like crazy because....
Oh gee whiz, you think?
There was, I remember playing a Java applet game called Helicopter on school computers back in middle school that had the exact same gameplay. I still think the reason the dev took Flappy Bird down was that he was under scrutiny for stolen art assets and using bots to get trending on the App Store.
I doubt it was more than a few journalists trying to report on the newest fad. Wouldn't have lasted more than a few weeks at worst. Even then I much doubt it was worth all the money he lost. Millions in ad revenue lost is not an understatement. It was huge. Weren't his parents aware of that?
