The whole article reads like satire.

I am so shocked, I have to put all my shock into a spoiler:

Did you catch how shocked I am? I’ll do it again:

Ok, maybe not that shocked.

I had a bad feeling when I saw another developer had picked it up. This sounds worse than I imagined.

The original author made an incredible hit and everyone got so jealous that they bullied him off the internet. Really sad story.

Now this crappy wannabe group buys the trademark years later and thinks they can fool people?

I feel like they’re a couple years late to the boat on that (already sunken) fad

First Neopets, and now Flappy Bird? No thanks.