Another day, another beloved game studio smothered by corporate duvets. This time it's Rainbow Butterfly Funtime Games that finds itself unceremoniously flattened by the steamroller of Big Business.
Sources say that despite record-breaking sales of their award-winning "Pixie Meadow Explore-o-Rama" series, the numbers didn't quite reach that lofty 578% annual growth projection. Savage resource re-allocation was the only humane solution.
"Look, we crunched every formula in the big calculator and there's just no other way," said newly appointed Profits Ops Optimizer Seymour Crunch IV. "When the spreadsheets speak, you listen. Or get fed into the cell shredder."
Shocking footage has emerged of developers being frogmarched out of the studio by men in green visors. Their hard drives were then Drano'd and every last whimsical doodle sold off to ursury subsidiaries.
But wait, there's more! Not only was RBFG shuttered with extreme prejudice, they've been replaced by a new Blockchain app initiative. Insiders report that going forward, all new products must implement a decentralized, trustless, and ultimately moronically useless distribution algorithm. "We're very excited for the upcoming launch of CryptoFunBucks," beamed Crunch through a mirthless rictus grin. "For the low price of $80 in gas fees, users will be able to mint a toadstool NFT that doesn't even show up properly on most devices!"
When asked for comment, one ex-dev who requested anonymity due to fears of sector-wide funtime blacklisting could only pause to cry softly into her unicorn plushie. A sight we've become grimly accustomed to as the charnel pit of artistic ambition burgeons ever deeper.