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# Rolling Stone tracks down Flappy Bird creator. Learns of his chastisement by old women
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/rolling-stone-tracks-down-flappy-bird-creator-turns-out-he-pulled-it-because-old-women-were-chastising-him/
- Published: 2014-03-12T16:48:34.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:30:40.000Z
- Description: At this point, everyone knows the story of Flappy Bird. How could you not? But the question that remained is: Why? Was it nervous breakdown? Political pressure? Twitter death-threats? Severe chastisement from old women who don’t much care for videogames? Rolling Stone has tracked down the shy, home
- Author: Jason Johnson
- Tags: News, addiction, Dong Nguyen, Flappy Bird, iOS, pokemon, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

At this point, everyone knows the story of *Flappy Bird*. How could you not? But the question that remained is: Why? Was it nervous breakdown? Political pressure? Twitter death-threats? Severe chastisement from old women who don’t much care for videogames?

[Rolling Stone](http://m.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-flight-of-the-birdman-flappy-bird-creator-dong-nguyen-speaks-out-20140311?ref=killscreen.com) has tracked down the shy, home-dwelling Vietnamese wunderkind Dong Nguyen in Hanoi to find out why he pulled the plug on the strangest gaming craze outside Twitch Plays *Pokemon*. And his reason is as strange as anything else associated with this game: he kept receiving complaints that *Flappy Bird* addiction was ruining people’s lives.

> One is from a woman chastising him for “distracting the children of the world.”   
>  
> Another laments that “13 kids at my school broke their phones because of your game, and they still play it cause it’s addicting like crack.”

He goes on to mention e-mails from people who lost their jobs from Flappy Bird addiction, and mother who estranged herself from her kids for the sweet, seductive taste of face-planting a warp pipe. My first question is, What is wrong with these people? I understand that game addiction is a real issue and not to be taken lightly but being addicted to *Flappy Bird* is like being addicted to snapping and unsnapping a button on your cargo pants. My second: will we ever see Flappy Bird again? Although Nguyen currently has his hands full with an action-chess game and a game about a kitty on a jet-pack, he says he’s considering it. But he also says it will come with a warning label firmly affixed next time around.