This is the tragic story of Dong Nguyen. An independent game developer who lost everything in return for fame and fortune. His game, Flappy Bird, was one of the most popular mobile games of all time until he deleted it.
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i love you Colonello err i mean nello
Done so mr.
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I WODR HOW IWODR WHY
I cannot believe how ridiculously underrated you are
I feel bad for this man. All he wanted to make was a game for something fun and was just bullied because people had their own issues and instead blamed him and not themselves
Agreed these people are so terrible because of them and how much hated the guy was, he was forced to delete the game
True. People can be so ignorant and idiotic sometimes...
@@jJJjJ725 they just don’t wanna be held accountable for their own actions
@@IceBlueStarCat or that.
I did something stupid its now your responsibility
imagine blaming a video game creator for your problems
That's the entire world, and that's a big part of why everything's fucked. Two words: Personal responsibility.
@@UnitSe7en if i was Dong, i wouldve had told these mfs to go kill themselves if they wanted to so bad. Like, lmao, how HUMANLY DEGRADATED u must be to become addictive over a game with a dumb bird?
Inmagine u say it as an joke but he actually believes it
Well, I need to blame someone, and that will not be me. /j
@@MicheleDelGiudice-mykys poopy grindset
Flappy Bird didn’t ruin his life. People did. “Games Journalists”, irresponsible parents, misinformed teachers, and clickbait news, these are just some of the groups that deserve the blame. Flappy Bird was a masterpiece for mobile gaming. Let’s put the blame where it actually belongs.
It also didnt help that he was being spammed by kids who were joking about the game ruining their lives, and since he's eastern he can't tell when westerners are being sarcastic. Its a combination of language barrier and age difference.
nah, he did
@@davidsantiago7808 He literally became a millionaire by this game, how does becoming a millionaire count as being ruined?
@@axd2312 did you even bother watching the video?
@@za6604 Of course, i watched it. It's not my habit to ccomment before watching the whole video. But still, if someone gave me 50,000$ per day and in return i got criticisms on my game, then i won't call it "being ruined"
the fact that this was deleted off of the app store because of people sending death threats to the creator over their own problems disgusts me. thank you dong for such a great game.
Imagine being so addicted to a game about a pixelated bird to the point where you smash your phone and blame it on the creator
Mhm..
i wonder why people blame the creator/inventor when it is their problem they got addicted
@@setlynn2 people hate admitting mistakes
@@asrieldreemurrthe1st yup i try to admit my mistakes but human nature sometimes just gets me into stupid arguments
Its like a mom accidentally dropped a plate and somehow put the blame on on the kid for using smartphone. It’s as crazy as that.
For anyone interested to know how he's doing right now, he's doing ok and still working as a game developer silently. Recently in an interview at his former university, he stated the period when Flappy Bird got famous as "success has killed his chance to grow and to have a simple life". Not only the players that got angry at him at that time, but also the local newspapers are desperate to get views that they create bad image for him that people continuously ask him bunch of stupid questions and ruined his daily life. He now still remains as his chill lifestyle and personality, which doesn't involve much onto the public and more focus on his work. Currently he works with his team to develop a new game that he stated to be very unique, and request to keep it a secret until it get officially released. Also if you're curious about the money he make, he spent his money to help the young developers to create their games if they show him real passion and dedication to their game. Not in an investment way, but more as charity work. This guy literally too good for this world, I really hope he will eventually get the true admiration he deserved and live his life happily again.
Thanks for the update
Thank you!
thenks
If everyone was like or kinda like this guy the world would be so much better.
thanks, hope he does get that life he wants one day and lives happy
The saddest part is everyone who harrassed Dong were never punished, and ironically they likely moved pass the whole thing like it was nothing.
Society just wasn't ready for that masterpiece of a game. Dong did the right thing for his own peace of mind. I wish him well.
This man singlehandedly exposed millions of addiction/anger issues across the globe.
For me, he actually showed how americans can be so selfish and insensitive that they can make a person's life miserable. Just remember that pewdiepie was reviewing the game in english. And most of those "reviews " were from american websites. People think you can simply drag others to the spotlight and nothing is going to happen. We are lucky that this story didn't end in death.
@@llss79 Yeah, phew
@@llss79 I thought of committing suicide after reading all these comments. Clearly that’s a joke; but seriously, it is very much upsetting to see people from even my home country be so god damn arrogant to do shit like this. And I think paparazzi is one of the most terrible things you can do to anyone, people with money usually don’t initially start with bad intentions. In reality, the public and people that are so fucking brain dead that can’t get over their own issues are many reasons why the wealthy are randomly invited into high-class society like federal politics for no reason. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be followed everywhere I go; and be asked in the bathroom: “Omg, are you Activity?!” (Cause I’m not randomly saying my real name on the shitty part of the internet lol)
@LL SS that's why we say Canada's nicer. (Not saying I don't like America chill)
Then all those exposed people blamed him for their own issues
Dong actually seems like a genuinely good person, but the pure negligence of a society trying to pin their own issues on someone else took a toll on him. Hope he found his own happiness now
I bet he lost faith in humanity and to be honest I don't blame him
Or in other words, Dong was naive and stupid. He blew his once in a lifetime opportunity.
Yo Coolandgood006 wtf is wrong with u? Do u blame your problems on strangers too?
@@coolandgood0062 no he wasn't. He was stressed and honestly I don't blame him at all. People just wanted to exploit his success and they dragged him down. Mental health is more important than that.
@@coolandgood0062 It never ceases to astound me how American superiority complex trumps empathy.
This guy is so wholesome, shame people attacked him over their own inadequacy
I remember being in middle school when this game exploded, it was a trend amongst us to leave negative reviews on the App Store about how addicted we all were even though it was total BS. I’m confident that at least amongst this generation, all the hate was just a joke and we didn’t know it was actually tormenting Dong… I still feel bad all these years later
So you all find it funny to bully people. Especially about something they depend their livelihood on and probably spend weeks making it. So it's only a joke to ruin people's work. Got it
@@titaniumj9824 Obviously I don’t think that way now lol. I’m just saying what happened nearly a decade ago when I was in middle school and stupid. Also I don’t think anyone thought the creator was actually taking the comments seriously, since we didn’t have much capacity to think about the consequences of our actions. I’m 21 now though, and I do feel bad about contributing to his suffering back then
@@JackHagar understood. Kids are stupid lol. Also we forget sometimes that there are people who take things at face value
He seems like a good guy, crazy story..
Indeed, sad how people without anything better to do started sending him hate messages and all that.
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@@halamanggamotminamahalka6835 Kay why ess
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I completely understand his initial reactions. As someone who likes a quieter life, it can be really stressful to be metaphorically dragged kicking and screaming into the spotlight like he was.
Its still weird though. Cant you continue to real in the money and quit later or hire someone to do everything for you so you dont have to be part of it anymore?.
man explain it to me cause i don't get it! with all that money he could've bought a lambo, a boat, or had so many girls on his D, you'd have to be INSANE to give it up!
@@overmind06 not everyone wants or cares about that. Some people just want a simple stress free life which makes absolute sense
@@konicanrex7153 none of what i said is stressful man, like, how can you feel stressed in a supercar? it's stress relief man, the exact opposite you know? you sit in it and you know you're past the grind man, you've made it. park that thing at the club and just watch, you'll be clapping cheeks in 10 minutes straight! he had won a god damn life jackpot right there! i'm sorry for this dude man, i really am. maybe he wasn't all there, people just born weird sometimes but i'm not gonna judge. anyway man, gotta run! peace.
@@overmind06 Yes but aren't you more likely to be shamed and ridiculed for ridiculous things while being in a lambo and being insanely famous than just having a quiet, but happy and rich life? If you are rich and show it off, bad people on the internet will come to you, but if you are rich enough to have a happy and successful life and dont Show it off, you wont have bad people around you. And not everyone wants to live the high life, you know the saying, "More money, More problems." or whatever.
I am from Vietnam too, and I feel so bad for Đông. He was just an innocent man just trying to make a simple game!
Growing up in a somewhat average income family in Vietnam, I didn't even know the full story until years later after the whole story ended. All I know about Dong up until I knew the truth was through the Newspaper and TV coverage about him (more specifically, about how addictive Flappy Bird is) (and yes, although I was around 10, a TV is the most modern thing I can touch in my house at that time, my dad did have an old Samsung phone but I wasn't allowed to use it, so no playing Flappy Bird or "news from the Internet" for me). As a young and impressionable kid, I thought to myself "wow, this man is so malicious, he made people addicted to a game to gain millions from it". The news never talked about his life nor how the game was just a fun idea that he had and it didn't even succeed when it first release, only how addictive it was. Only in 2016 when I first got my own laptop (for studying purposes, mainly English) that I learn of the truth and this man's tragic story. What did I learn from this? Never f**king trust everything at first sight, always listen to both sides of the story (which will NEVER happens through traditional medias) And I hope Dong all the best in his future tho, may he appears in the public spotlight once again (with a lot less backlash and bad publicity this time, that man has went through a lot of bad situations that he didn't even deserve)
The most surprising part of this is that Nintendo DIDN'T sue him
>using Eerie Similar assets to the main mascot of a company It's ok >Making a Fangame with no Monetary incentive in mind REAL SH1+!!!
Maybe the creator is too rich to be sued
@@kellyhamer9709 Do you hear yourself?
@@kellyhamer9709 It's NINTENDO. One of the richest corporations in the world. They have a legal team probably consisting of hundreds of some of the best.
@@NukelearFallout lmao chill he was prob joking
Dong is the kind of people too kind to live in this world.
It is almost like a weakness, things just weigh to heavy on his heart
He’s too sympathized to thrive on the social media
@AstroBlaster Is he still in Vietnam tho? I'm Viet so I think I can take care of his ascension swiftly :D
@AstroBlaster o7
Because social networks in Vietnam are very toxic.
I remember, after it was revealed that the creator of Flappy Bird was going through many issues, people essentially used him as an example. Like: kNoW wHaT pOpuLariTy cAN gIvE yOu (or something along those lines). It's disturbing how people used him only as an example and still continued to kind-of shit on him. Essentially seeing him as like an embarrassment or something (without giving a shit about, ya know, the dude's mental well-being). Like what the fuck was wrong with those people.
Hate bandwagon and hive mind, I hate the game but not the creator.
I agree so much with what you just said.. What about him? His well-being is so important. Sounds like a lot of those people didn't want to take responsibility for their own actions and they used him and his game as a scapegoat. Not one bit fair to Dong :( in person he seems like he'd be a really down to earth guy to be able to talk to. I'm literally secondhand embarrassed by all those other people, though. It's sickening. I hope he is doing better now that he has stepped back and is still doing the things he enjoys doing
One of the first things I learned when learning to code and make games was to make a flappy bird clone. It was in the curriculum for a class. That's unreal if you ask me
Unfortunately for a lot of people, when faced with a problem, their most important question is not "How can I solve this problem?" but "Who can I blame for this problem?".
thats sad
damn margue27, you said it
I’m guilty of that too
@@redbars2747 yeah you should be ashamed
@@woofy8373you should be ashamed of that profile picture 💀
This is less of a problem with the game being addictive, and more of people just being really stupid.
It’s not just flappy bird either
Twitter. Screw Twitter.
Exactly, humanity didnt pass yet another test
@@pet4byte559 Exactly! I can't wait until elon musk deletes twitter 🙄
This game doesn't seems addictive to me when I played couple of times. The problem is not the games addiction, is the people's behaviour and stupidity using addiction as an excuse to ruin someones career. If people complains so much videogames are addictive then why the hell they don't ban the whole game industry in very beginning? This developer should not give a dam what people says about his game and he should start flipping the middle finger to all of the parents telling " if my game is really a problem then why aren't you spending time with your child on weekends instead of working and consuming products like this?"
I haven’t played this game in years and even just watching clips of this game now still gives me anxiety
You guys should read about this guy biography, this dude despite having really low GPA in highschool but constantly hitting top on any programing/coding competition and went to one of the most prestigious university for engineering in my country. This guy is legendary as fuck
video games can make you rich, and miserable.
@@POPE. The game didn't make the creator miserable, people did ://
@@zoew.8940 the game made people misreable cause they couldnt get a certain score.
@Kurono Kai i mean wasnt the point to beat ur friends high score or whoever, didnt really play it much but i would assume people not getting as far as they hope was the main issue right?
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It disgusts me how our society reacted so negatively to something as innocent as a man creating a free game. Don't even get me started on how invasive paparazzi photographers are, they should all be ashamed of themselves. I'm glad Dong is trying to push forward and keep working in spite of this situation, good for him.
it's life, when you make something good there's will always be people out there who will make Fun by talking nonsense trolling you're works just to get lots of views the only way tackle people like them is to never read the comment good or Bad, they always bring the worst in you, and ignore the haters, caused when you become a video game developer you don't just do it for them, you do it because you want to and it also your passion that should have been the first basic thing he needs to know when he wants to developed a game
I have only had one viral video on youtube and i can tell you from experience that the moment video got 100k , Bullies got started , it got worst by every additional 100k , they called me names and ... ,(You can go and read them yourself if you want) , But guess what? That happens when you expose your self to the world, people with mental problems come and try to insult you , in order to feel empowered , you just have to learn to not care
They did not react negatively actually. They just reacted normally with the addition that flappy bird is inherently aggravating, and they just channeled that into their reactions. I think most people who said bad things about the game, or displaced their anger on the dev, never actually seriously meant those things. They just vented. And he also took those comments way too seriously and sensitively. When he should have just recognized them as the average manifestation of attention.
Most people were joking. Others were just following the ironic outrage trend that Flappy Bird created. But he had no way of knowing, because he didn't live in America or speak English as a first language.
@@Gardor I get what you’re saying, but people taking out their frustrations on game developers is a whole problem in and of itself.
That is it. This man is the best video game developer ever made. A game so addicting it had to be removed from existence. Nothing can beat that. Not even the original Super Mario Bros.
This deserves an episode in BlackMirror. It is unfortunate how social media pressure can get the worst of victims.
So... Let me Summarize this: Dong Nguyen, a creator of the biggest game was being bullied by people. And this got so irritating he officialy removed the game.. Claiming it was ruining his simple life and he was being sent death threats and hate especially from parents who don't know parenting. Wow man. Just wow.
Asian parents be like:
@@phamvinh1709 You just summarized the story in 4 words.
Yeah most parents fail to realise its their parenting and not the video games
he fom vietnam
people are just like that, and thats really sad
Always had a feeling this is what happened to flappy bird and it’s creator. I hope Dong has people in his life that let him know he is not to blame for people’s ignorance/rudeness online. From the information provided he seems like a good man who takes personal accountability for the addictiveness of phones/games because he contributed. Contributing is not inherently evil or bad though. His game brought so much fun and joy into so many people’s lives. But sadly, the rudeness/insults of people online is what cut through. If anyone out there knows Dong show him some love ❤️ and let him know his game did not have a negative impact on humanity but rather brought people together
100% agree, I personally really enjoyed Flappy Bird and was sad to see it go
yeah I only really played it casually sometimes when I was bored. Idk why people got so mad about it.
He didn't contribute to anything and doesn't have to take accountability for anything. If people get addicted to games then they should probably seek psychological help
I played this game when I was in high school, I'm not that fan of games so I didn't play it that much but I remember the people around me saying that the game is toxic, it's ruining people's lives, kids are fighting with each other and a rumor also said someone committed suicide because of it (I didn't pay attention to all of that because I'm usually just in the corner reading Wattpad lol!). Now that I think about it, people really love blaming other people for their failures
agree Dong is the type of people who took all the responsibility on his creation without even care what about to happend
All this actually happened, I remember living through every stage of how this all went down
Same, I still have the original game on an old phone.
He just wanted to live his life, now helping others probably educating them on his experiences. Sounds like a cool guy. Wish him all the best
Its disgusting seeing society blaming Dong for their problems,the saddest thing is that he couldn't do anything but take it and move on.
"Its disgusting seeing society blaming Dong for their problems" That's What She Said.🤣
@@SuperEman500 your 12
@@SuperEman500 ur joke doesn't even make sense
@@SuperEman500 First of all, don’t argue, second, look superebayman696, this is masterchef no masterbait, End of story
@@SuperEman500 You got told. LOL!
Flappy Bird didn't ruined his life. Immature videogame-playing manchildren and kids raised with bad parenting ruined his life.
How does one know its a manchild?
Very true, and him being young and sensitive. He was addicted to reading people's comments and messages just as much as people were addicted to playing the game.
Video game players aren’t all like that!
So true!
I dont feel like a manchild but maybe I am. I started crying when I couldnt download flappy bird on my iphone;(
Anything that you create (even if it's as simple as a bird flapping its wings) will have anyone sacrifice the entire world just to see that thing destroyed.
That's so sad, hope he comes across this video and maybe read the comments to show that we appreciate his game and that it's not his fault.
From Chad to sad to Chad again, this guy is amazing, I hope he's doing okay
I hope so too, he’s had an incredible life haha
TBH (and I'm someone who doesn't think the world should work this way) _Flappy Bird_ *did* either copy or closely recreate Nintendo assets in such a way that Nguyen likely had a copyright suit in his future. I think he pulled the game off the market before that could happen. A smart move, and I wish him all the best.
@@MegaZeta green pipe is not copyrighted by Nintendo, anything else like pirahna plants and Mario are totally fake and only appear in a fan game.
@Doe Chompski those fangames use copyrighted works you can't copyright a green colored pipe
@@TorutheRedFox And because it was Dong's own work, they couldn't sue him over a green coloured pipe. It's not made by Nintendo anyway.
This actually hurt my feelings really bad. I feel awful for this man. I genuinely hope he is okay and at peace. Sn: Twitter is a cesspool and I hate it. I don't have an account for that reason, people are cruel and don't know when enough is enough.
I hate how some of the comments are STILL people bullying him......
I dont really understand why does it affect him so much. I would just reply with : dont blame me blame your retarded brain and i would send a picture from some nice holiday thanking the person for supporting :D
Tf why is their bots always in the replies
@@michaelbecket4901 cry about it some more
@@kayla-the-rus-female-tbk-killr u know what i WILL cry about it!!!!!!
The worst part about this is he actually DID feel guilty where most people wouldn’t. He literally felt like he was ruining peoples lives when he just wanted people to have fun with a game.
I remember Flappy Bird just vanishing one day, and I never thought much about it. Then I saw this video, and now it makes a bit more sense.
I feel so bad for him, people were hating on him, just because they had life issues. And the worst part is, when he took the game down from the hate, it got worst. It ruined his simple life, a life anyone would want to live, but they decided to ruin his live, to benefit their lives.
But like, what benefit did they get? A few moments of disgusting satisfaction? Throwing the darkness in their hearts at him to feel better, thats why i always stand up for myself when I feel like someone is making me his punching bag, only if he is a horrible person or his reason is stupid
@@vcommandarv5916 but if he has an actual problem I let him do it
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@@ilbrasciolarochearrostelac8762 Bro, really? *(Insert Shame)* Like, my guy, atleast try to make that sound a little "not wrong"
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I have always found this story fascinating. Glad to see you branch out.
Glad you enjoyed it! :D
I LiKe ThE ViDeO
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It is sad how some parts of society judge game creators for basically nothing wrong, even today. I hope he is doing alright now
I hope he's doing on these days. He seems like a genuinely good guy
it is 2021. i teach my students programming and the first "real" thing we made was a flappy bird clone :D simplicity is king.
That's awesome! :D
What game name is it is it in mobile????
@@entertainment-ox8gl no
YES
sick
I remember years ago hearing that he took his own life because of all the backlash. I'm glad to hear that it's not true.
@@halamanggamotminamahalka6835 Who asked?
Almost want to ended his life. That what i heard as well, can't stand the social media pressure
@@Nobody-hc1rw I think it’s a bot
@@Nobody-hc1rw its a good message bruh
@@Nobody-hc1rw who tf U talking to? There's no other comment there
2:42 omg this is exactly how I felt when my crazy, but loving mother bought me a new car. I just wanted her simple old one. I felt so bad and guilty. It ruined how I was doing in school. This I guess is how she wanted to make up for the years of instability and lack of love. I definitely feel grateful for the fact that we have two cars though because where I live you can do literally nothing without a vehicle.
So basically the game didnt ruin his life. People did.
He sounds like a very good, thoughtful, conscientious person. He definitely doesn’t deserve to feel bad and I genuinely hope he accepts that he has no control or ownership of others unhappiness.
On the filp, I hope people start to learn how to have responsibility and accountability for themselves. How people can blame a video game or its creator for lacking in that is beyond me.
If someone other than Dong Nguyen had led the course of Flappy Bird, they would've probably taken advantage of people's issues and addiction to the game to build their business, but Don Nguyen was a champ and took down the app because people couldn't quit for themselves.
it's not even a fun game 😭😭😭
@@ThrustersX but it's too rewarding if you had high score, since the game did not ask you to win but to have as high of a score as possible...
If he ever wants to re release it he could give it a life system where a certain number of losses means you can't play until it refills.
@@niccolodeparmapanini2036 that's just the definition of "don't play me"
This is so stupid to me honestly. There are millions of video games. Flappy Bird was a trend and it would have just ended normally. He overreacted
I lived thru this, I fking LOVED the game. Even my teachers in highschool played it. What really made the game so great is the fact that anybody and everybody could pick it up and play it but the ceiling to become a true master was infinite (literally) bc the game went on forever as long as you don’t mess up.
Such a humble guy
At 2:35, there's a part about Đông not telling his parents about his success despite still living with them. I just wanna point out that in Việt Nam, we don't have the "culture" where when people reach a certain age of life, they have to move out. Rather, we have this choice to live with our parents, to take care of them in return for how they give birth and raise us until we're capable to live on ourselves. Usually in VN, people choose to move out because they prefer living alone, or they get married and wanna have a more private life (and avoid the conflict between their parents with their spouse too). And at some point, even though they move out they can invite their parents to come to live with them, especially when one of their parents passes away. So Đông living with his parents is normal and actually so nice of him. I think Đông didn't wanna talk about his personal success because he's so humble. It's exactly what his professor in his old college tells about Đông, that he's humble and shy and sincere. And in 2019, he once shared that he didn't handle the pressure so well, one of the reasons urges him to delete Flappy Bird. IMO, by doing that, he also protected his family from the paparazzi because he's still living with his parents.
Blaming the creator of your addiction for your own problems is just plain idiotic. It's not his fault you were addicted, it's just a game. It's like blaming the creator of a chocolate company for your obesity.
Well 2 girls sued McDonalds for being obese so it’s just the American way to blame other people for your problems.
@@bubblepipemedia3414 the thing is, most of those games have developers/owners that want it to be addictive and don't care about negative user reviews
Its equivalent to killing a man with a gun and blaming the factory as to why they made it. Or doing drugs and blaming the drug traffickers.
@@nothinguselesschannel3434 well, it is indeed the traffickers' fault(partly, or mostly), that's why they're being arrested, at least in my country.
or Ford for your family getting killed by someone driving a Mustang at 250kmh
I am sure people who oneday hated him are now pretending they never hated him...
At that time, even Vietnamese Facebook and other social medias has a lot of mean posts and comments on his success too. It's so sad to see the game taken down.
I don't find a single point to blame him. He is a game developer. It's his job to develop a game! The main issue is us. If we are addicted on it. It's our fault. Did he tell you to play the game all day long like that?? Then why should he take responsibility of your mental health issue? I feel so sorry for this man.
It‘s sad that people don’t find joy in games… Sure, it gets frustrating at certain points but when that happens you have to tell yourself to stop. Games are meant to be fun, if you don’t enjoy them then it‘s either the game developer‘s fault for designing it wrong or your own (which is the case 99% of the time). Ironically, people really should learn how to give up when it comes to reward based games xD
@@meridoberman6740 Exactly man! You caught me on the last line.
@@meridoberman6740 Got a point there
Exactly!!!!!! Personal accountability is SEVERELY LACKING amongst most people.
Exactly. I can name plenty of reasons why almost every complaint made against this man holds no weight. For starters, people claiming his game was ripping off Mario just because of the similar scenery is stupid because it’s the only thing that they share in common. The gameplay isn’t even remotely similar and it’s hard to call something a ripoff if it isn’t blatantly copying something. Also it’s almost hypocritical to make complaints about a game being addictive especially nowadays. Do people want to go back to the age of pong consoles and Atari games? No? Then they need to appreciate when someone designs something simple but fun. I mentioned this recently that there’s a fine line between frustration and fun in games. If it’s too easy it’s boring, but if there’s just enough difficulty then it makes you want to keep playing. Imagine if there was little to no challenge in games like Super Mario Bros., Mega Man 2, or Castlevania. That’s also what made Halo one of the most popular games on the original Xbox. When it comes to any games, I pick hard and frustrating over easy and boring anytime
Thats the most good game developer i have ever heard of and instead of supporting and respect him people kept trolling and harassing him!guess people love getting robbed by loot boxes and expensive trash
most good
Subscribed because I like supporting decent content creators. You are above decent. Keep going buddy
For context The creator was making loads of money around 40k a day. But he let The negativity and News story’s into his mind Making him believe he was a “bad guy” and then he shuts it down.😢
He did not deserve that whatsoever. He gets immensely trolled and bullied by so many people and sources, and then he gets threatened for deciding to remove the game. People are so revolting. America is SO full of hate and immaturity in so many different ways unimaginable, even for the most minor reasons like this. This game was completely free and it was just a simple little game and this is how he is treated for it? We always take advantage of the people that are actually nice and bring no harm whatsoever. It's no wonder we are in this pathetic state right now. I feel so sorry for him.
thats why i cant blame anyone for bombing them
As an american you are not wrong. For all these dumb protests out of nowhere while our forests are burning. But although, not all people in America are idiots. Some are open minded and also go against the idiots playing flappy bird for 8 hours strait. The people that are addicted just blame others.Common sense is not so common these days
What protests are you referring to?
And the *very* conservative mindset of Vietnamese bring even more shit into his live
@@canceledlook417 common sense is a malediction, because even with "common" on it, it's never was common. And you have to deal with those who didn't have it. And they are a big majority, and not only in america, it's everywhere.
Hidetaka Miyazaki designed some of the hardest games I've ever played and received plenty of death threats. He embraced it though, and FromSoftware has adapted to its new meta of challenging and addicting games. Some people accept success differently.
First! Haha caught ya biatch! Somebody once told meh
Yeah, Dong lost a lot of money and success by deleting his game, terrible decision
@@LionMob I think you didn't get the point...
That’s so stupid though. People should grow up it’s just a game & death threats are illegal
@@Kaloapoele "Death threats are illegal" Yeah, like every other crime in existence, yet people still commit crimes
I have loved this game since I was little. I feel so bad what he has been through.
Awh man, I feel bad for Dong. Someone should’ve just told him. He has a big heart.
People always blame the maker of something, even though its their own fault, honestly dude its sad that this guy made a simple cool game that blew up and all he got was back lash and hate for it when he didn't even do anything wrong
Yep, Our society is fucked up.
Probably how god felt too
@@aisyahchance who?
@@aisyahchance oh no, you mentioned God on the internet, prepare for the Attack of the Edgy Atheists.
@@Ferrdar ah shit noooo not my internet points
That's sad, even though he's under the shadows and not as known right now I hope he's doing okay. If someone's addicted to a game they need a therapist instead of blaming it on the creator of the game.
GOD LOVES you REPENT and TRUST in JESUS before it's too late. Romans 10:9 if you declare with your mouth that, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead you will be saved. brothers and sister repent and trust in God cause there is nothing in this world that can make you whole and save you EXEPT for God so brothers and sister ponder about what i commented here today and make your own judgement ok bye God Loves you repent and trust in Him (GOD) before it's too late.....
Imagine making something so good that people demand you to remove it. Insanity
No one liked or replied to this comment except for Nello. Wth?
I’ve also heard some hoaxes that he killed himself just because of this game. People were sick for spreading misinformation.
"How among us took years to get discovered" Shows a graph that's only a year and a half long.
Good point haha! I probably should've re-worded that part :)
@Comfy Frog maybe you don't get a joke
@Comfy Frog Who tf cares if English is someone's first language, or not?! The fxcking funny thing is English is your ONLY language, and still your vocabulary consists of words only a child uses. Besides, the English language was fxcking derived from several hundred languages, the most dominant of which being Latin.
@Comfy Frog in a way, that's still correct. Just in "Spanish orientation"
@Comfy Frog 🤡
i remember flappy bird being taken down. was actually a good decision on his part. i hope he feels like his conscience is cleared
@@NukelearFallout didn’t know he was the first ever person to invent a simple yet addictive game
@@NukelearFallout that’s exactly what it sounds like you’re implying when you say that he started the issue lmao
@@MexiCooki Go worry about something actually fucking important in our dying world, and diminishing society.
@@MexiCooki shut up
@@NukelearFallout shut up
Parents "You're ruining my kids!" No. You are ruining your kids. Take some personal accountability.
It is like damaging someone or something with a knife and blaming on the knife and it's creator. The narcissism and idiocy of some people has no boundaries.
As a local vietnamese, i can feel the pain of the creator. It took me 5 years of learning english just to figure out people were just making jokes and not being serious
Are you serious? :D
@@arvydas86 he is serious
@@artermist6680 its a joke lolll i got it
Yeah, but on the other side, people need to be more aware of how they interact online. Not only that, but take PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY for their addictive behaviors, as well as those who enable them (parents with kids).
Same in Bangladesh. A lot of people don't understand
The way this affected him just shows how agreeable and well tempered he is.He seems like such a sweet kid even when he got really successful with the money he didn't forget about his friends. But people just lash out and blame others for their own shortcomings, it's stupid.
It is, and what makes it just foolish is that some of these people when they were kids were emulating anything that they were growing up in, and who knows what they picked that they thought was a good idea. Put a kid with a horrible upbringing and a poor learning and understanding in the world he or she lives in, combined with the usual school with its own set of problems, having little to no support from anybody and be stuck in your own ego making up whatever to justify any bad emotions, and you got a person who needs a lot of time and proper help to help with his self-awareness and slowly try to learn to live better.
GOD LOVES you REPENT and TRUST in JESUS before it's too late. Romans 10:9 if you declare with your mouth that, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead you will be saved. brothers and sister repent and trust in God cause there is nothing in this world that can make you whole and save you EXEPT for God so brothers and sister ponder about what i commented here today and make your own judgement ok bye God Loves you repent and trust in Him (GOD) before it's too late....
i've been ssing around on a friends soft soft for years, finally bought it. I found your videos and instantly subscribed and have been
I don't think I would ever be able to be that kind. I would not give two shits if my game caused some 10 year old to break his phone. I would have told them to get a life.
Dong sounds like a really heartfelt and compassionate guy. And so of course the world sought only to tear him down. They hated him for creating the game. They hated him for unproven allegations that could have been made up by anyone. And when he ultimately decided to pull it off the market because all of this convinced him that it was the right thing to do,they hated him for THAT too. All while death threats were being made here and there towards the poor guy. There are a lot of lessons about human nature to be learned here. Most of which do not cast a favorable light upon people on the whole.
Oof, that hit hard dude
I’m just so disgusted that some people act in this way.. so disappointing. I remember playing this as a kid and it was addicting.. but I never blamed anyone 🤨
@@isabel5066 I totally agree. It seems like such a pervasive mindset these days, doesn't it!? Someone perceives something to be wrong with an aspect of their lives,and there is always some external factor that they can point to and declare that it's the cause. It doesn't seem like it matters what it actually is so much as that it's NOT themselves.
I was in college as a Computer Engineering student when this all went down. I had wanted to challenge myself to make an app for a while, and decided to make a clone. I made “Fatty Bird” from scratch, with hand drawn custom art work. Sure it was a stupid clone, but I was proud of it for my first app. I took it off the App Store when the ad revenue was no longer enough to pay the $99 annual developer fee. I still have screenshots of it if anyone is interested
Lol the title "fatty bird"
@@huff8887 *F* *A* *T* *T* *I*
Please post it on your KZhead Channel. I would love to see!
Yeah post in on your channel when you get the chance
lol scratch is a fun app.
We live in a world where kindness is a weakness
dong : i just wanna live everyone : i just wanna be a karen
It's YOUR responsibility when you have an addiction, not anybody elses. I feel so bad for him. He's a genuinely good person and he's beating himself up over a dumb pixel bird game because of people who can't just delete an APP, as if it's his fault. People are so nasty. You can never please everybody.
i cant believe people would send death threats to Dong,and because he took down a game that was making people mad?As a fellow Vietnamese,im glad hes doing well now
Ikr that's sad what did dong do
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As a cat
Being matured is about taking responsibility. But sometimes if not many times people will critics the things you do when they see its successful thus its always important to remain with your goal of achieving something. An example of this is that people did not complain when 100s of other flappy birds were made this goes to prove that almost all critics are made out of envy so don't mind them.
Dong Nguyen sounds like a loving, empathetic, kind guy who just wanted to make a simple yet fun game for people to enjoy in their times of boredom. I'm disappointed in the fact that so many people out there weren't taking responsibility for their actions on the things they were doing wrong so they had him as a scapegoat. They made their problems his fault when it was never his fault and he took it in because he does have love and empathy in his heart and he just wanted people to be happy. P.S. You did really well on creating this video and it gave me insight on why Flappy Bird disappeared off Google Play Store and I'm sending good vibes his way and your way, also I subscribed to you~ I'll be checking out more of you content!
If you continue to make videos this entertaining, you're going to take off like a rocketship! I can't even tell you how many hours were wasted on this game by my family. Great to know a bit more detail about the origins and the eventual fallout. Thanks for creating this!
Thank you so much for watching, and your kind words!! :D
The fact that some parents would go as far as messaging the creator of a game and blaming them instead of just disciplining their child and taking their phones or tablets away is really… confusing..
That's a pretty obvious sign of a terrible parents at work.
Wasn't there a game called "Copter" before FlappyBird came, that was similar but with a helicopter!
If only more people were like this guy. He took down a product because he thought it was harming people, which is something that most people aren’t willing to do. I’m sure if anyone else made this game, they’d either deflect all the criticism they got, or they’d just keep it up for a profit. I’m not saying Flappy Bird was at all harmful though, since even if it did harm people, it’s not nearly as bad as other games/products that people sell. But that’s aside the point, since the creator saw that there was a problem, and tried to fix it.
3:24 “The local news in Vietnam” shows clip of Philippine local news
Same thing.
dan you hilarious bro no joke 🤣🤣🤣
@@klauss.2696 The most Southeast Asian thing ever is to see a motorcycle with extreme overload. Filipinas, Vietnam, Cambodia and other places around there in the world's tail share this culture of putting money first, and safety last.
nothing like casual racism
@@klauss.2696 nothing like confusing culture with race.
I think the takeaway from this, is that people are dumb, and Dong is really empathetic toward others and how he thinks about his creation affecting other people.
Even tho I never played floppy birds, I remember it's popularity. I hate it when people blame others for something they can't accomplish
He sounds like the nicest dude ever. Hope he's okay
Seems like a very wholesome dude. Definitely didn’t deserve all the flack. Flappy bird was fun as hell and both the simple mechanics and sound design made it so addicting lol. (I still remember the THWACK sound every time a bird hit the pipe XD) I hope for the best for Dong and his endeavors.
GOD LOVES you REPENT and TRUST in JESUS before it's too late. Romans 10:9 if you declare with your mouth that, "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead you will be saved. brothers and sister repent and trust in God cause there is nothing in this world that can make you whole and save you EXEPT for God so brothers and sister ponder about what i commented here today and make your own judgement ok bye God Loves you repent and trust in Him (GOD) before it's too late.....
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@@halamanggamotminamahalka6835 Amen
Definitely didn't deserve all the flap
Out of your first 4 replies 3 of them were bot spam, youtube really sucks at dealing with bots.
hi nello omg ive watched every 1 of ur vids im a huge fan keep it up!!!
omg mudkip!! big fan big fan
You're alright kid, don't log into Falador tomorrow.
Same been here since day one you’ll blow up one day
We love YOU Wetdirtkip 😘
@Bladekill1298thank you for sharing your Creative
Im a simple guy, played the Game, saw its addicting, played it more for a week, saw myself get way to angry at it, deleted it, moved on. Anyone, who couldn't do this, is a brat that needs to grow up.
to be honest i liked flappy bird a lot but back then i didn’t have a device to play them so when i finally had, the app was gone. kinda sad and i still quite miss the original flappy bird
How to makes your game without ruining your life : 1. Finish your game 2. Delete Twitter
Imagine sending death threats and ruthlessly trolling such a wholesome innocent guy
I’d never forgive myself if I were to do that.
@@riv3r_mango705 Me neither, good thing we didn't
Sheesh even I wouldn't do such thing because I get angry at some game that is hard as hell
@@redfatseal2407 bro I'm pretty sure I would put myself in hell for that
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Alternate title: How a hit mobile game brought out the evil in humanity
The dude is so wholesome! it's one of the reasons I've always said money is not worth fame!