Flappy Bird was completely wiped from existence by its own creator because it was actually generating too much money and ruining his peaceful life.

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Flappy Bird was completely wiped from existence by its own creator because it was actually generating too much money and ruining his peaceful life. Dong Nguyen was making approximately fifty thousand dollars a day in ad revenue from the maddeningly difficult mobile game where players simply tap a screen to guide a bird through green pipes. Instead of buying a yacht and retiring like a normal human being, Nguyen became overwhelmed by guilt over the game's addictive nature and the constant harassment he received from frustrated players. He abruptly deleted it from all app stores at the absolute peak of its popularity, causing a hysterical secondary market where people sold iPhones with the game pre-installed for thousands of dollars. It remains a legendary anomaly in the tech world, a rare instance where someone looked at endless passive income and decided their mental peace was actually more important