User:DongNguyen

First of all, I'm not Dong Nguyen, I'm a regular curious hacker and never wanted to cause any harm to anyone. In May 2013, A game called Flappy Bird was created and it never gained much attention until February 2014, I'm writing this when Flappy Bird is at its peak of attention and is the number 1 game on all the Apple and Android charts, Flappy Bird's graphics are the same as a old Nintendo game and the game play is repetitive and extremely frustrating. A lot of people have smashed their phones and become addicted to this game, In some cases caused attacks and near murders. A few hours ago, Dong Nguyen tweeted that he was going to take down the game in 22 hours because he cannot take it anymore. Read on and you will find out exactly what he cannot take.

10:32am 8/2/2014

Today was Saturday, I was halfway through my train journey when i stumbled on Dong's tweet, It read "I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore." I imminently was suspicious of what was wrong, He was earning $10k per day, Why the fuck was he planning on taking that kind of money away? There must be something behind this. It didn't have many re-tweets and wasn't noticed until around about now. Since i was on my phone, I didnt have the hacking tools needed to get into his twitter.

3:56pm 8/2/2014

I quickly booted up my laptop, logged on to twitter and checked if there was any more tweets, there was only 2, One said he wasn't selling Flappy Bird to anyone. So basically he is throwing away every cent of his money which there has to be a reason for. since i'm an experienced hacker, i have a few of my own programs to use. basic password cracks that work on an social media site are easy to create, and i had few prototypes i had used before on my desktop i booted up my most recent one (PHv5) and went to twitter. I copied Dong Nguyen's twitter URL into the box, obtained his email, and within 25 minutes i had his password. I logged on to his twitter nothing was different to the normal interface. I clicked onto his personal messages and there was a few suspicious and unusual conversations, The first was with a man called Dominic Nguyen. It took me about 20 mins to read the conversation and basically Dominic Nguyen is Dong's brother. They never got on well and had frequent arguments and both where in to game development, They where both very competitive and Dominic moved to Russia to work for another game company. When Flappy Bird started to gain attention, Dominic got fired from his job in Russia, His location is unknown and he then started to threaten Dong. One of the messages read "I have no idea what you are doing releasing the same game we both vowed never to release, Ill give you 22 hours before i tell the public the truth about this game, If you don't remove it. I know more about you than anyone else and have nothing to loose". Dong didn't reply. I got the chance to look at one more conversation before the password was changed, This conversation was a lot more sinister.

The messages where sent from a twitter account with no profile or name, just the message, I tried everything to retrieve a ID, I couldn't, Completely anonymous. The first few messages where about how this game that Dominic and Dong created would first cause a larger addiction than heroin, Moderate to extreme anger problems and then repeated paranoia, The game is so addicting that even though these conditions are present you still cannot stop playing, After 30 days of playing the game, Players will become very antisocial and depressed, They will have outbursts at people randomly. 50-60 days after being addicted to Flappy Bird, Players will self harm and have no sex drive whatsoever. In exactly 100 days after this, At 22:22, The player will commit suicide.

Why 22:22? Well let me tell you this.

Dominic Nguyen is 22 years old, He was born on 22:22 Dong Nguyen tweeted that he will remove the game in 22 hours 64% of Flappy Bird high scores are 22 Flappy Bird got into the top 200 on the 22nd of January. Psychologists measure suspects from 1-22, 22 being the most evil.

Written by Mike Delaney and Luke Mckenzie.

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