By PEDRO GONZALEZ and RAFAEL TABERA

J.Hop Times Staff Writers

FLAPPY Bird: When innocent fun gets deadly!

Fans went crazy and took to the net sending death threats to the developer.

“I am sorry ‘Flappy Bird‘ users, 22 hours from now, I will take ‘Flappy Bird’ down,” Dong posted from his Twitter account. “I cannot take this anymore.” (Feb 10, 2014)

Nguyen Ha Dong is the maker of the popular game Flappy Birds (was) available on Google Play. He decided to pull the game because it was starting to affect his private life. He was making $50,000 a day from the game out of advertising revenue. But that didn’t matter because it was also affecting his “simple life”.

This decision resulted in death threats. Here are some examples from Twitter timeline.

“YOU BEST NOT BE DELETING FLAPPY BIRD BECAUSE I WILL MURDER YOU IF U DO.”

“If you delete flappy bird I will literally kill myself. It’s my drug and I am so addicted!! PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS TO MEEE PLEASEE.”

“I’ll find you and i’ll kill you.”

“NO ONLY 1 HOUR I WILL KILL YOU IF U TAKE IT DOWN.”

Nguyen isn’t the only who suffered from this game.

There was a story floating around about a week ago that a kid from Chicago stabbed his brother because of his low scores on Flappy Bird. The younger brother got aggravated, then stabbed his older brother 17 times because he was mad about his high score.

Don’t worry fans. Nobody has actually died of the game Flappy Birds. It has been revealed that this news story is a hoax. Even the police report.

So what is Flappy Bird all about?

The game Flappy Bird is a game that tries your patients if you lose you get mad but keep on trying and trying until you’re addicted. The entire game involves tapping the screen again and again in order to guide the bird through the gaps between a series of pipes. Touch one, and the bird drops dead and does a beak-plant. Game over.

It sounds easy, right up until you try it.

The millions of people who have already downloaded the game can still play it on their phones. The rest of the world though will never know the frustration of fatally bonking that pixelated yellow head on a pixelated green pipe.

Devices with Flappy Birds installed are currently selling on eBay for as much as $100,000. Crazy huh?

WARNING

Since Flappy Bird was removed from Google Play, fake versions of the game containing malware have sprung up around the Internet.