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A video game programmer made waves in 2014 when his simple smartphone app made headlines – even becoming the most downloaded free game in the App Store later that month.

Dong Nguyen was not even 30 when he made the app Flappy Birds – which earned him around $50,000 a day at one point.

MailOnline charts Mr Nguyen’s story from his huge success to the guilt he harboured that drained his mental health so badly he deleted the game from the App Store, as well as its Android equivalent, now known as Google Play.

To this day, its success is so iconic that Twitter users still plead the mysterious tech millionaire, who is only active on Twitter, to bring the game back to the App Store, with the hashtag #bringbackflappybird last seeing momentum as late as 2022.

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