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In 2014, Flappy Bird, a mobile game, was earning $50,000 a day when its creator Dong Nguyen pulled it from app stores himself — citing guilt over its addictiveness and the anxiety and insomnia sudden fame brought him. He turned down every ad and buyout offer.
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