I assumed this was going to be about Stick Death but I was mistaken! I had never heard of XiaoXiao before this article...

Stick Death was online when I first starting used the WWW, I was obsessed with it! It was just incredibly to me that someone could easily make these animations and get them online for everyone to see! I believe this around the same time as 2advanced and the "Flash intro" craze...

I immediately thought of Animator vs Animation!