Bitstrips Confirms $3M From Horizons, Sees 30M Avatars Created In Two Months (techcrunch.com)

Everyone is going to be saying how Bitstrips such as fad and whatnot. But they've been around since 2007 (see Founder's LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-kennedy/6/395/522)

It's only recently that they've had a big spike. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitstrip