"Flappy Doge" Is Evidence The Internet Has Reached Peak Flappy Bird

    Its creator tried to kill it, and he's just made it stronger.

    Alan White
    by Alan White

    BuzzFeed News Reporter, UK

    On Saturday, the game's creator had an announcement to make.

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    The designer, Nguyen Ha Dong, based in Hanoi, had decided to take down a game he had made in just a few nights. He'd told the media he was making $50,000 a day from advertising. There were rumours the decision was prompted by a warning letter from Nintendo.

    The game was already a major internet talking point: it was the most-downloaded mobile game on Apple and Google's online stores.

    This is the amount of Google searches you get when a game is downloaded 50 million times.

    But now things are getting ridiculous.

    Via ebay.com

    Yes, that is an iPhone with Flappy Bird installed about to reach $100,000 on eBay. The opening bid was $650.

    In retrospect, it was entirely inevitable that this would happen.

    Via dogetek.co

    (And that this would happen when you die).

    Via dogetek.co

    Twitter was a bit like this now.

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    So by the time this happened, no one was surprised.

    Oli Scarff / Getty / Alan White / BuzzFeed

    Note: this might not have been exactly how it happened.