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Dong Nguyen and Flappy Bird
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- 0:00He made the most downloaded game [music]
- 0:01on the App Store.
- 0:02Then he deleted it.
- 0:04Dong Nguyen, a quiet developer in Hanoi,
- 0:06built Flappy [music] Bird in two or
- 0:08three days. He released it in May 2013
- 0:11and for months nothing happened. Then in
- 0:13January it exploded. Number one on the
- 0:16App Store, 50 million downloads. The ads
- 0:19alone [music] were paying him $50,000 a
- 0:21day. But the fame came with it, the
- 0:23press, the hate mail, players saying it
- 0:25ruined their lives. He tweeted, "It also
- 0:28ruins my simple life and now I hate it.
- 0:31Then 22 hours from now I will take
- 0:33Flappy Bird down. I cannot [music] take
- 0:35this anymore."
- 0:36On February 9th, 2014, it was gone.
- 0:39Phones that still had it installed were
- 0:40listed on eBay for thousands. He walked
- 0:43away from $50,000 a day because he
- 0:45thought it was too addictive.
- 0:4710 years later [music] someone else
- 0:48brought it back without him.
- 0:51Follow Viber Economies for more.
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