Aztrosist

Astrid Ztar, better known online as Aztrosist (or Aztro), is an American Commentary YouTuber, Musician, Artist and Game developer. She makes videos talking about video games and the web. She also makes music under the alias Lilac Boy, and makes art under Insect Christmas. She also records the Sleep Deprived Podcast with fellow YouTubers Jschlatt, Mikasacus, and Apandah,^[1] and collaborates on music with Mikasacus, also known as Alex Unknown.^[2] She also has a personal account where she posts random videos, mainly about bugs or the internet.^[3]

History

Astrid created her YouTube account on August 12th, 2015, where she usually uploads videos based around her thoughts and opinions on various topics. They have a collective view amount of 47 million views. She created the YouTube channel titled Lilac Boy on November 12, 2017, where she uploads videos of her music. She then created the account astrid ztar on February 26th, 2024, with its first video being uploaded around a month later, on March 27th, 2024, where she uploads personal videos.

She joined the Sleep Deprived Podcast on Episode 3, posted on November 5th, 2017, on jschlatt's YouTube channel. ^[4] She created her Twitch highlights account Aztrosist LIVE on September 10th, 2020, which is now inactive, and created her VODs account Aztrosist VODS on January 6th, 2022, where she posts full recordings of all of her streams. She joined the SDMP Minecraft Server at its launch, and posts videos on it sporadically.

Since January, 2022, Astrid has been collaborating with Know Your Meme on their meme review series, where she explains and reviews memes and has done so in over 240 videos.^[5]

Website

In late 2022, Astrid created her website insect.christmas. This incarnation wasn't very fleshed out, only having a few buttons and lacking her signature style. By March of the next year, the site was more fleshed out, including more images and easier access to her related projects. About a year after the site's launch, it became more indicative of her style, including many bugs and large links on ants to its various sub-areas. In February of 2024, she decided to completely rehaul the entire site, ditching the previous website builder she was using and instead coding it from scratch, in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Eventually she added a navigation bar, first putting it on the right but eventually switching it to the right side, providing a design that fits the space. This latter design was the first appearance of the mascot of the site, Izzy the bug, as well as featuring music. She eventually switched to a cleaner table design, custom navigation icons, a random picture of her cats, Kiwi and Koko, and a text butterfly that follows your mouse cursor.

Personal Life

Astrid identifies as a woman.^[6] On June 1st, 2024, she said that her pronouns are "she/her," and on her website insect.christmas she notes the same.^[6][7] She is 5'11" (181 cm) tall.^[8]

Trivia

• On October 2021, Astrid developed a video game titled "TV Kid", a rogue-like clicker game.
• Astrid has another game currently in works code-named BugSquirrel. ^[9]
• Astrid's only known contribution directly to the SiIvaGunner channel is "An Aztronomical Announcement", announcement video for Grand Dad 64.
• She can speak Japanese.^[10]

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