Flappy Bird

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"McNutt on the world."

- Armus

Flappy Bird is an innocuous Scratch game created by kingliam3 on January 31, 2014. On November 18, 2021, however, an anonymous user (Armus) on 4chan hacked the game to show Ronnie McNutt's suicide video when the player dies.

Gameplay
The game plays just like the original iOS and Android versions of Flappy Bird. However, there are now two game modes; normal and impossible. Impossible mode changes the color palette and makes the game faster. Losing the game, however, shows a looping GIF of Ronnie McNutt killing himself along with the song "Ruler of Everything" by Tally Hall, which begins with the lyrics: "So he shot at the sun with a gun".

4chan's Hack
On November 18, an anonymous user on 4chan's /b/ announced that they hacked into a large Scratch account that hosted a popular version of Flappy Bird. This user specifically attempted to try and get this onto the news by emailing this to multiple news stations with the claim that this game always had shocking content in it. OP called this Operation McNutt.

Armus also added "Armus#1111 if you have any technical issues" to the bottom of the page, possibly to get people's reactions.

Later that night, however, Scratch removed the game due to the gore.

Reposts
On November 23, 2021, a user named ArtemisCrystal (also known as Mega Osodashi on this wiki) rescued the hacked game by re-uploading it onto Scratch and replaced the Ronnie McNutt GIF with a rickroll GIF so the game would not be removed.

Creator response
See the first comment below.

Link
NOTE : The following game contains shocking content!
 * scratch.mit.edu/projects/17341536/
 * Original game download (no shocking content): https://files.catbox.moe/rp51xd.sb3
 * Permalink: web.archive.org/web/20211118223358/litter.catbox.moe/5k4ix5.sb3
 * Armus and friends hacking and pranking someone with the game (Also contains strong language): video.screamer.wiki/w/r9RM65z8GJgdEKgYVZGMoc
 * Reuploaded by ArtemisCrystal: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/605801506/