Stick RPG began as a browser Flash game from XGen Studios, following a stick figure building a life in the 2D city of Paper Thin City with jobs, stats and rented rooms. Its interior track, labelled simply Inside, became one of the small musical cues players remembered from spending time indoors between activities. As Flash games were archived, clipped and shared on soundboards and video edits, the loop survived apart from the game itself, kept in use mainly for its quiet, early internet atmosphere rather than as a joke or reaction sound.