Angry Birds Fans



A Fan is defined as a person who has a strong interest in or admiration for a particular person or thing. In this case, the "thing" in question is about the Angry Birds-series of media.

2009-2012
This generation is known as the " Original Players ". This group of fans have the largest and most diverse group in many fields. A member of this group can range from a person being 5 to 95 years old. This is the group that favors more of the "casual" gameplay in the Angry Birds games. As well as this, fan sites such as AngryBirdsNest started appearing which archived events in AB games and created walkthrough video tutorials to help players beat a specific level.

2012-2015
This generation is known as the " Golden Age ". While the global popularity of Angry Birds was leaning during this time, newer games were releasing, such as Angry Birds Go!, Angry Birds Transformers, Angry Birds Epic and Angry Birds Stella. The biggest influx of fans came from this era due to the large amounts of manufactured Angry Birds-goods from companies such as Commonwealth Toys, Mattel, Hasbro, Fazer and more. This is where we start to see the series evolve and experiment with ideas to fit the trends of that era.

2015-2018
This generation is known as the " Movie Generation ". Since the Sneak Peek Tournament's release in late 2014, current and newer fans were interested in the new designs of the Birds and Pigs. When more trailers and promotional images were releasing throughout 2015, more people found an old/new interest in the series once more. When the movie released across 2016, many received the film to be mediocre, but with the marketability of the film and new brand partnerships in industry fields such as in the food and entertainment, people flocked to the games once more to relive the days of casual mobile gaming.

2018-2021
This generation is known as the " Hard Times ". These fans have witnessed the expansion of the series with new characters from media such as Angry Birds Evolution and The Angry Birds Movie 2 with examples being Zeta, Courtney and Garry. The marketing for the 2nd film in the series wasn't as strong as it was in 2016, however the higher critic approval gave hope to the series as a whole and with the 10th anniversary occurring in 2019, this brought even more fans back to celebrate the decade old game and what Rovio Entertainment was accomplished with the series since then. Sadly around a month before the anniversary, many of the older games such as Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Go! and Angry Birds Epic were delisted from the Appstore and Google Play store due to "testing purposes", so many of the fans during the anniversary were asking the company to relist them once more.

2020 was more of a stale year for Angry Birds fans, with not much occurring besides #bringback2012 being shared on social media to get Rovio's attention to the situation, few games being released such as Angry Birds Casual (now Journey), Angry Birds Tennis and Angry Birds Legends, and Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Star Wars, and it’s sequel being discontinued due to the license expiring.

In 2021, there were a few new game releases, such as Angry Birds Reloaded, which excited fans, but the fans quickly realized that it is an Apple Arcade exclusive game, meaning that only players with an iOS device and a monthly subscription could play the game. However, mid-2021 was the time that fans were brought together once more all due in part of a single blog post titled, "A letter to our fans." In this letter, Rovio acknowledged the problems longtime fans of the series were going through and came clean about their intentions. They explained that the older games couldn't be updated accordingly due to outdated game engines (I.e: Box2D), so they planned on recreating the original Angry Birds game from the ground up in the Unity engine and there being a possibility for creating new pieces of nostalgic merchandise.

2021-present
This generation is known as the " Newcomers ". This is the generation that is the most recent in times and is alive and well to this day. This is the most active generation and are members of Angry Birds communities on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Discord and more. This generation has also seen many newer and older fans come back to the series with media releases such as Angry Birds Summer Madness and most importantly Rovio Classics: Angry Birds, which can set the stage for more iconic Angry Birds games to be re-released in the future.