2013 was quite a year filled with many positives and negatives, but one thing appeared within a blink of an eye and disappeared without any warning.

Flappy Bird! This game was explosive during it’s time and quite the addictive game for the people. Anyone who had the game knows it provided quality entertainment, especially with friends! Trying to beat your previous high score and always usually coming just short of it was endlessly engaging.

However, suddenly this viral game disappeared without any warning and or notice. Even after the disappearance of Flappy Bird, people who still had the game on their phone would sell their device for high prices and make money!

People wondered if the game would ever come back from the dead.

Wait no longer and rejoice! After a 10 year hiatus, the Flappy Bird Brand has hit the open market, and Thomas Sharpe, an adjunct assistant professor at Temple University’s School of Theater, Film and Media Arts, was the first to snatch it up. He plans to release the game some time in 2025 on multiple platforms, but the creator of the game, Dong Nguyen, seems opposed to his game’s rebirth on the open market.  He said, “I have no related [sic] with their game. I did not sell anything.”

Nguyen decided to take the game down for personal reasons stating, “I can call ‘Flappy Bird’ a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it. It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore”.

Bringing Flappy Bird back might create some bad relationships between the old creator and new developer, and that’s not only the negative thing that might come out of this. People already suffer from short attention spans in this smart phone age, and  Flappy Bird will not help that in any way. Teachers will probably have trouble keeping flapping students’ attention in class and want to confiscate phones or limit their usage. Flappy Bird may be responsible for finally forcing school to put phones in bags at the start of school and only giving them back at the end of the school day.

Either way you look at it, the return of Flappy Bird will cause a splash. Flap responsibly when the opportunity arises.