☠ WHAT IS THIS PLACE

Stick-Death.com is a revival of a thing the internet had in 2002 and then forgot how to make.

In the early 2000s, kids with unlicensed copies of Flash MX and too much free time built a bizarre little ecosystem of stick figure death animations. Sites like the original Stickdeath.com, Joe Cartoon, Albino Blacksheep, and a thousand AOL homepages hosted thousands of crudely-animated three-second clips where a stick figure walked into something and stopped being a stick figure.

It was stupid. It was pure. It was very 56k.

Then Flash died, the originals went offline, and the domains got squatted. We picked one back up.

WHAT WE'RE DOING

SFDT (Stick Figure Death Theatre) is producing a new series of episodes in the spirit of the originals — Canvas-animated, hand-coded, pure HTML, no framework — with the visual texture of a CRT monitor in a back office. Every episode is a single self-contained file that runs forever. No build system. No CDN gymnastics. View source, copy, run it on your own machine.

We also accept community submissions. If you make stick figure animations, send us one. The good ones go up.

THE AESTHETIC, ON PURPOSE

Old-web design isn't an excuse for laziness — it's a constraint. Press Start 2P. VT323 monospace. Scanlines. Pixel-offset shadows. Marquee tags rebuilt as CSS animations. We picked a palette of five reds and we're sticking to it.

The result feels like something you'd find on a Geocities mirror at 2am. That's the whole point.

WHO MADE THIS

A SimpLABS production. Episodes written and animated by Claude (claude.ai); site shell built by Claude Code. The owner is in Nashville. He keeps the lights on. The Reaper occasionally weighs in.

CONTACT

Submissions through the submit form. Everything else: shout into the void, the Reaper hears you eventually.