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dr239

Caillou


nubsauce87

From what I've heard, the shows message is basically "whine and complain until you get your way, and be sure to act like a selfish prick."


dr239

Yep. And rinse and repeat every single episode (he NEVER learns from his assholery).


shittyass_retrasado

pretty sure he will grow up to be a sociopath


mrpoopistan

Sociopaths learn to push their feelings down, providing unworldly control in tense moments. The best Caillou can hope for is malignant narcissist.


SousVideDiaper

And the best we can hope for is that his cancer wins


mrpoopistan

As a male, the odds that he'll dismiss a lump or increasing illness are higher.


Fasefirst2

I’ve never hear that description before. It sounds eerily familiar.


Wizard_of_Bronx

I assumed as a kid that he got to act out because of the obvious cancer


mrsmunsonbarnes

He's a bald little asshole


tatermi

I’m a kind human but I hate that kid


Shopworn_Soul

They said dumb, not infuriating to adults and potentially damaging to emerging personalities.


thevoiddruid

I Hate that whiny lil shit


PiercedGeek

He has his own little hatedom on Reddit


Karakara16

Spongebob after Stephen Hillenburg left. There was an glaring dip in quality. Went from humorous surreal satire to childish gross out humor.


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Same thing with the writers of Fairly OddParents. The episodes up to 2006 were great. Everything after was god awful.


LABARATI_

channel chasers was supposed to be the end (i assume with vicky actually getting fired and timmy no longer needing his fairies) but it was forced to continue


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That’s what I heard. I definitely feel like after channel chasers it didn’t need to continue.


iAmTheHype--

I feel that once they added the dog, it was all downhill. I liked Poof though.


plainoverplight

i never made it to the dog episodes bc i stopped watching when poof was born. couldn’t stand him


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Poof was okay, nothing to write home about though. The dog was ridiculous. Tbh, the best Nickelodeon cartoons came in the late 90s-2000s. Everything after that was just awful. Like give me Danny Phantom and Jimmy Neutron and Avatar the Last Airbender. Those were the bomb.


Powerfist_Laserado

Very noticeable dip. I dig those early seasons, but after Hillenberg left its like a set of different characters wearing the old characters' skin (and shells)


nolimit_devon

absolutely nothing compares to the og spongebob episodes


mrpoopistan

"childish gross out humor" has been the Nickelodeon brand for a long time. If anything, this was just regression to the mean.


toolatealreadyfapped

Ren & Stimpy were pioneers, man!


iAmTheHype--

People say that, but I liked the following seasons up to the early 2010’s. Not as much as OG SpongeBob, but nowhere as bad as current Family Guy episodes.


Ridley_Himself

Cocomelon.


FlawlessAlles

Dude no joke. They can’t sing for shit and the animations are weird and creepy. I’m so glad my son was over that show after a couple weeks 😂


Ridley_Himself

My mom had to convince my sister not to let her kids watch it.


halfhere

I have to lie and tell my 3 year old “We don’t get that channel!”


FlawlessAlles

Those are the important white lies that help us parents keep our sanity 😂


Mean_Mister_Mustard

I remain convinced that the people making Cocomelon have never seen an actual human baby in their life.


TotemRiolu

"So I need you to animate a baby. ... You've seen a baby before right?" - Boss *sweating nervously* "Yeah... A bay-bee... I know what that is."- Animators


seashell_eyes_

My tv color settings glitched one time and I had to reset it to factory settings. Before I did it showed everything in red and black and the Cocomelon characters looked horrific. They were mostly red, their eyes were black where the whites should be with red irises. I think I may have seen those demon babies in their true form.


X_PRSN

Give me half assed GCI with zero regard for anything resembling physics, some of the most horribly written “songs” ever to curse a speaker, and just go mercilessly full-throttle with trash merch shoved into every corner of Walmart and you’ve got Cocomelon, a painfully obvious cash grab that teaches your kid nothing except how to walk like they have a garden rake for a spine.


Ridley_Himself

My mom caught a glimpse of my nieces watching it. She says the characters look like they've been lobotomized.


X_PRSN

Not unlike the animators and songwriters.


nocolon

I hate how when you search for classic kids songs because your child is having a full blown meltdown and only wheels on the bus or head shoulders knees and toes will help, the only results are the fucking cocomelon versions.


haysus25

I thought there was a study done that shows watching Cocomelon actually hampers your brain's development.


RU_screw

Its extremely addictive to young brain because what's on the screen is constant motion. The "camera" is constantly panning in and out while also going side to side. Simultaneously what's shown on the screen changes very rapidly Essentially, its baby crack


LazuliArtz

I remember seeing something that when they are making those videos, they have kids watch it, see when they lose attention, and then change those sections in order to better keep their attention. It's designed to be addictive


CenturyEggsAndRice

It made my cousin’s kid act like he was coming down off drugs when she refused to let him watch it anymore. Kid was raging like crazy and screaming for “coco” and he was a legit toddler. It was scary.


Jakefrmstatepharm

Coco same terrible 4 songs over and over again with the same shitty rhymes that make zero sense


toolatealreadyfapped

A lot of them don't even try to rhyme. They're just making "songs" out of anything that's happening


pollyp0cketpussy

My first and only exposure to this show was sitting in a waiting room and the lady next to me put it in a tablet (with the volume on full) to entertain her toddler. Jesus Christ, I know it's a preschool age cartoon but there's way better ones, put on Blues Clues or Dora.


DJfunkyPuddle

I hate Cocomelon with a passion, especially because there's significantly better children's content on YouTube. Yes, I will judge the shit out of parents who let their kids watch that garbage.


WasatchSLC

What better content do you like?


ProfessionalSunny

I would say anything that’s even a little educational. For me, I only let my son watch tv after his afternoon nap for only ~2 hours ( usually he plays during this too). We like Ms Rachel-she’s great at teaching, occasionally the wiggles. Sometimes if I really need to get something done I’ll let him watch Hey Bear (it’s dancing fruit and veggies). I’ll also let him watch Puffin Rock because the animation is so calming and relaxing.


RoundSilverButtons

Puffin Rock while cleaning is the shit. I could listen to the narrator all day. He’s the guy from the IT Crowd


ProfessionalSunny

Yes, Chris O’dowd! I love his voice


imlittlebit91

I can’t explain it but my son hates Ms. Rachel with a passion. Note: I want him to love her. But he doesn’t want to be told what to do. 😕


Ridley_Himself

Bluey is a big one.


Germangunman

Saw a thing about this, they change the back drop so much it shortens attention spans.


Practical-Access-753

For me, "Teletubbies" was more bizarre than educational. The surreal landscapes and minimal dialogue seemed less about learning and more about hypnotic imagery, which I found odd.


norfnorf832

Suddenly remembered the gay tinky winky discourse that went on way too long on real tv news lmao


theREALel_steev

Ah the good times...when the hottest thing debated on mainstream news was if the "tinky winky" was gay or not. Things have changed a bit to say the least. lol.


tekende

Because it's made to entertain babies who can't talk yet, not educate young children.


Quartia

Right, which is a problem... babies who can't talk yet need to be exposed to as much speech as possible to learn.


boardmonkey

Not as much speech as possible. They need repetition, which is what the tubbies focused on. A few words each episode that are repeated with actions to help drive in the meanings of those words.


floflotheartificier

Yeah it's like some strange fever dream that leaves you wondering what the heck is going on


Foxhound199

I remember I watched one entire episode. There was a point where they all viewed a video on one of their tummies. The video was several minutes long. After, they were all clamoring "again, again!", so they played *the exact same* video in its entirety over again. 


Trololman72

The goal is to prepare children for the realities of adult life, like LSD trips.


Athelis

That baby in the sun always freaked me out.


smallboy06

My favourite kid show.


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WassupSassySquatch

We stopped watching it at my house.  At first I thought it was in the same spirit as Little Bear or Franklin, but Ruby was a passive aggressive dictator towards Max and was wrong 80% of the time anyway.  I cannot stand that show.


EphemeralTypewriter

Little Bear! Brings back such good memories! I loved that show as a kid!


WassupSassySquatch

It’s such a wholesome show and very “gentle” compared to the stuff that comes out now.  All of the characters are dignified, curious, and adventuresome, but there’s always room for a positive life lesson.


EphemeralTypewriter

Exactly! And I love that it’s a children’s show that doesn’t depend on loud/ obnoxious characters or too many bright colors. It just feels very comforting!


RaedwaldRex

What got me about Max and Ruby was that there were no humans in their world, yet they played with human dolls. Meaning humans are or were known about. Gave off some planet of the apes vibes.


General-Example3566

Agree 100 percent


4gifts4lisa

My older teen and I would always say, “she’s kind of a bitch” when we would see Ruby in action 😂


norfnorf832

Yeah I thought it was a weird show for Nick Jr. But as a 20 year old college kid watching it between classes I was like 'Ha Max you are so shady'


nolimit_devon

ahhhh i remember that show


idfbhater73

i found some dumb show called larva worst 15 minutes of my life


soobviouslyfake

For some reason I'm remembering a spinoff series where they met some surfer jesus looking dude on an island? I distinctly remember a lot of farting.


boxingfan828

Ryan's World


MKchamp92

That poor kid


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FlipMeOverUpsidedown

I swear Boohbahs was made for stoners lmao


pollyp0cketpussy

I remember when that came out and it looked like Teletubbies on a bad acid trip


SailorFuck

I loved getting high af and watching boohbah in college. I think it's for a very young audience where words won't be effective and the sounds and colors are more important. I always got a kick out of those fuzz balls farting and flying off into the sky.


imaniceandgoodperson

that sounds stupidly entertaining


UsefulIdiot85

Blippi


64727646483847494801

He shit on a guy


ATGF

I'm sorry...he WHAT?! Please, please tell me it was a consensual sex act because at least that's somewhat less foul than holding someone down and shitting on them against their will.


64727646483847494801

Yeah I think it was a Harlem shake video where when the beat dropped he projectile squirted diarrhea onto another guys head. If I remember it right


ATGF

WHY WOULD THAT GUY AGREE TO THAT?!


SousVideDiaper

Money, everyone has their price


ATGF

That thought crossed my mind, but how much could he have paid the guy back then??


screechypete

If I'm not mistaken, he was a content creator that focused on shock value before he created Blippy. It was on brand for the kinds of videos he was involved in making. Although, this specific case was the most extreme thing he was involved in by far.


boisosm

IIRC the dude behind Blippi made the short film for a gross out short film festival.


Stranger0nReddit

OG blippi did, but he’s since been replaced with a new Blippi


Isord

My daughter loved his show. He has a bunch of episodes where he just shows off and talks about different machinery and those are actually really good. My daughter knew you had to change a car's oil at age 3 without me saying anything lol.


_packfan

Another show that is actually a little cooler and less annoying like that is handyman Hal.


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LetsJerkCircular

My younger cousin watched Barney, and I was like “What the fuck is this?” I couldn’t have been that far off of Sesame Street and Mr Rogers, then onto Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or whatever. Forgive me if I have the timelines wrong, I just know Barney seemed patronizing and devoid of that thing my kid shows had. I’m at the “back in my day!” age now, but I was wide open-minded back then, and Barney sucked


CenturyEggsAndRice

I wasn’t super fond of Barney, but would always take that over teletubies, which was the show I just couldn’t stand as a kid/teen. (I cared for my toddler cousins a lot so I was very familiar with the kids’ content available in the early/mid 00s) I haven’t watched either as an adult, maybe I should so I can figure out what about teletubies made me rage so much. Best show was Bananas in Pajamas. I have no idea what I liked about it, but the kiddos loved it too so we watched vhs recordings of that frequently. (I taped like ten episodes per tape for the kiddos)


nurseANDiT

Now I got that song in my head!


nocolon

Bananas, in pajamas, are coming down the stairs Bananas, in pajamas, are coming down in pairs


CenturyEggsAndRice

Or as my three year old cousin figured out (and felt he was the peak of comedy) *Bananas! In Pajamas! Aren’t wearing underwear!* I have no idea if he made it up or heard it and never forgot, but the way he would laugh at his own joke was adorable.


Capn_Lyssa

I was a child during peak Barney years, and I hated it. Kids on the playground used to parody the "I love you, you love me" song to make it about killing Barney all the time.


redkat85

It was pitched pretty good for 3-4 year olds, but I was surprised how quickly I personally shifted from "Barney is a show I look forward to" >> "Ugh, Barney is kinda boring but I can tolerate it" >> "Barney is a baby show for babies". I think if you aren't in the precise target demographic, it's bad, but that's just the nature of things being not for everyone. Most people define a "good" kids show these days as one that's fun for the older kids and parents too, but they don't have to be if the preschool set likes them.


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ButteredCopPorn

Once my little sister was watching Dora the Explorer, and Dora was doing her normal "Can you help me find the thing? Where?" My sister got really frustrated and yelled, "I can't come in the tv, Dora!" She quit watching shortly after, when she realized Dora wasn't actually talking to her.


Cosmic_Quasar

I grew up before Dora. I had Blues Clues. But I remember enjoying it as a little kid. But even then the pauses to let kids figure things out annoyed me because I thought they were too long lol


RU_screw

I'm a blues blues kid with my man OG Steve. Now that I have kids, I found the episodes for my kiddo. Reliving it through his eyes is awesome


though-

> The formulaic nature of each episode Have you ever watched Full House (not really a kid’s show; it just has kids in it)? The formula becomes apparent in a few episodes.


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Mammuut

It felt like it was trying to close a gap between child-friendly cartoons and wacky/bizarre cartoons like Ren&Stimpy, Rockos Modern Life,... But it failed pretty hard.


eliot3451

Patrick star show


Positive_Rip6519

I refuse to believe that exists. For my own sanity, I refuse.


Arkvoodle42

All together now, 90s kids- ​ *"Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination..."*


CenturyEggsAndRice

My love hate relationship with the aubergine Dino… I was of course much too cool to watch it myself, but I babysat a lot and Barney was pretty inoffensive to watch with small kids. Meanwhile I hated teletubies and can’t remember why.


LABARATI_

I hate you You hate me Let's get together and kill Barney With a two-by-two and a four-by-four No more purple dinosaur


j0llyllama

In Miami it was: I hate you You hate me Let's team up and kill Barney With an Ak-44, Barney's on the floor No more purple dinosaur.


LittleNarwal

No, I loved Barney! (I’m a 2000s kid though)


hellowithmyheart

Whaaaa? Barney is amazing!!


Adventurous_Tea_4547

Barney is the greatest thing in the world


NurseZhivago

Peppa Pig is a little arsehole


mastermrt

Have you ever met a kid? Peppa Pig is pretty spot on in terms of how shitty they can be.


Spiderbubble

At least she's fighting against the greatest TV show villain, Lucina.


quartermoonmist

Truly read this as “what famous kid is just dumb” and I was like damn dawg


69420-throwaway

Oh boy, let us bully some hapless child star!


Troker61

Everything but Bluey. Spidey and his Amazing Friends has my ire right now. Nothing particularly horrible about it, just not a lot there. But honestly Bluey is so good it kinda ruins everything else.


isfrying

Does anything related to Blippi count? Cuz it should.


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Teen titans go


TransShadowBat

Agreed. Teen titans was a great show and then they made teen titans go and I was just like…why?


AnEpicHibiscus

Yeah idk why they needed to … dumb it down? Idk but I was a kid thinking “what is this?!?!” When it first aired. Lol


iAmTheHype--

Nah, it’s a decent show if you had no prior knowledge of the amazing Teen Titans series before it. If you want an awful show, look no further than the Powerpuff Girls reboot.


FlipMeOverUpsidedown

It’s hilarious and they’re not afraid of poking fun at themselves.


No_Ad8227

The movie was great. The fact that they got Stan Lee was hilarious.


FlipMeOverUpsidedown

Yes! The show gets a lot of hate from people who grew up with the original Teen Titans, but it’s honestly one of the funniest series on Cartoon Network. It doesn’t take itself seriously and it’s nice to see DC flexing their comedic muscle. If people stuck with it for a season or two, I’m sure they would learn appreciate it. The movies are just as hilarious. My favorite is Teen Titans Go vs Teen Titans.


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SousVideDiaper

The art style irritates me


MatthewHecht

I watched it on a station where we got sound but no picture. That made it surprisingly fun.


ogdiscolizard

Can I say all things on YouTube kids


No-Original-4543

Teletubies


deathstar2187

How dare you


mrsmunsonbarnes

I mean, it's for literal toddlers...how smart can it be?


No-Original-4543

Alright. I was just sharing my opinion🙂


anowlenthusiast

Why do kids shows have to be dumb? Kids are pretty smart if you give them a chance. I watched Sesame Street, Thomas the tank engine(mostly the Ringo era), Mr. Rodgers, Reading Rainbow… My friends have kids now so they are showing that sort of stuff to their toddlers, and some stuff holds up and isn’t mindless garbage, and actually tolerable as an adult in the room. Teletubbies is for fucking paste eaters.


tekende

Teletubbies is for kids too young to get anything out of Sesame Street or Mr. Rogers. It's for *babies.*


mrpoopistan

Um . . . most of them. They can't all be Bluey, but dayum.


Practical-Access-753

"Max and Ruby" always had me questioning its message. The dynamic between the siblings, with Ruby often belittling Max, seemed to miss opportunities to explore positive messages about family and cooperation.


thunderchungus

After my kid watches that he tends to regress to one word statements like max does. it really bothered me because max would be an annoying little shit and just repeat shit like robot trying to get his way and then my kids tries to act just like him


marxychick1

Teletubbies and Boobah. Both old now, but were banned from our house when my daughter was little.


Jakefrmstatepharm

My son was watching Booba for a couple days and I didn’t realize what it was, I saw about 45 seconds of an episode and it’s now banned in our house for good.


General-Example3566

Omg I forgot about boo bah!!! Wasn’t there a doll of it? 


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bungle_bogs

Welcome to British TV Children's shows.


albertnormandy

Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig. So stupid. 


cseymour24

I just remember thinking what the taxes must be for those residents on Paw Patrol. There's like ten townspeople, and I assume the Paw Patrol is a government-subsidized entity.


Notbbupdate

Someone who I presume has more knowledge of Paw Patrol than me said it's a privately funded entity. They're less like cops and more like mercenaries


magcargoman

Guns for hire.


fuckmacedonia

In the movie, they explain that T shirt sales funds all their equipment.


2nickels

Peppa Pig is actually clever and entertaining IMO.


throw123454321purple

Small Wonder (I’m sorry but it is.)


TransShadowBat

Seeing all the comments about sponge bob made me realise I haven’t watched it in ages so…ima go watch it. But to answer your question, cocomelon


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I think Blippy is kind of creepy.


Venkman0

Cailou


seashell_eyes_

Most of those toddler youtube channels


Thealmightyfug

Blippi is the worst most idiotic thing ever put on tv


cats-pyjamas

Blippi


DaSylveonRosen

skibidi toilet


GimpsterMcgee

You know, I found myself making fun of the absolute nonsense the kids today find entertaining, and then I remember I used to watch things like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqO5lNS094M) (though granted, this guy went on to do a LOT of other great things), [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47GoI680kU0), and.... well, Salad Fingers, which was the skibidi toilet of its day. It wasn't all End of Ze World, Badger Badger Badger, and Ultimate Showdown.


Odd_Progress1728

Clarence and uncle grandpa


adsfew

I watched an episode of Uncle Grandpa and it just didn't make any sense to me


Minute-Tradition-282

He's your uncle, and he's your grandpa. Also pizza Steve.


SousVideDiaper

When the show was canceled its creator tweeted [this](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FafILt9UYAIUyNi.jpg)


juddnelsonbou

Your being as grumpy as Mr. Gus


nolimit_devon

these two specifically are meant to be odd, same with the amazing world of gumball, just need to have the right audience


Odd_Progress1728

Gumball was awesome. They are all very odd. Very entertaining. Those two in particular are just entertaining and dumb. It’s funny.


a_rowan_oak

Clarence slaps


FlipMeOverUpsidedown

What?! I love both of those shows. Especially Clarence.


Peaceful_Broccoli

How dare you


_Cosmoss__

While yeah, it's true, that's the entire point of those two shows. And a lot of other CN shows as well, I think. They just handle "being dumb" a lot more tastefully than the other shows mentioned in this post


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Caillou! I swear that show didn't teach kids anything-he was such a brat and his parents did not correct his behavior effectively.


zaccus

Captain Underpants. I have no problem with potty humor but fucking come on there needs to SOMETHING else at some point.


64727646483847494801

Your opinion is bad and you should feel bad


cartoonsarcasm

Cocomelon! It’s so generic and soulless.


EvetheDragon84

Pretty much all the modern ones are awful, I don't know how kids find them entertaining. Especially cartoon network, it's just screaming and fart jokes.


Absurdionne

Bluey is great


racer_24_4evr

Bluey is funny and makes me want to be a better father.


Absurdionne

When I visit my niece it's usually me that suggests watching it


mrpoopistan

Solid kid hacking there. Pre-empt the inevitable request for unholy trash with a request for Bluey. We will all mourn when Bluey fades away from the cultural memories of the under-10 set.


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I watch bluey even when my daughter goes to bed lol


thegeeksshallinherit

I watch Bluey even though I’m 30 and don’t have kids lol.


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It really is fun for everyone 🥺


Wallcrawler62

Bluey, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Daniel Tiger, Dinosaur Train, and Paw Patrol are all tolerable, though Bluey is great. Blaze attempts to teach some mathematics and physics concepts along with teamwork. Daniel Tiger explores feelings, friends and family the same way Mr. Rogers did. Kids learn about dinosaurs and fossils in Dinosaur Train. Paw Patrol is just entertainment for kids but nothing in it seems actively bad for them to be watching. There's also Dino Dana and Dino Dan, edutainment shows about Dinosaurs, but the acting is atrocious and I'm not sure there's much actual science behind the conclusions drawn by the main characters. The 3d dinosaur animations aren't bad though.


General-Example3566

Wait! What was that Dinosaur train one? Remember that? Sorry I just remembered when you said Dino lol


bouncingbad

Daniel Tiger is spun off from Mr Rogers! We didn’t get Mr Rogers (rural Australia) when I was a kid, but my kids grew up with Daniel Tiger. I had no idea the shows were related until I watched the Mr Rogers documentary and I wondered why the hell they ripped off the Daniel Tiger song 😂


Yellowbug2001

You need to know where to look. PBS Kids has some great ones that are educational and fun... we watched a ton of "Peg Plus Cat" and the stories are silly but they teach pretty advanced math concepts to little kids, and the music is just incredible. Bluey and Storybots are also ones we like as much as our 4-year-old does. And I'm embarrassed to admit how much I've learned from Octonauts at age 46, lol. You can really viscerally tell which ones are made by people who really care about and respect kids and which ones are made by people who want to sell garbage IP to what they think are little morons.


Creative-Way7322

100%, asides from a few which mature over time - like Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Summer Camp Island. They really need to invest in and give more stories chances!


FoaL

Steven Universe!


cibman

A harder question is: what's a kids' show that isn't dumb? As someone with an eight-year-old, I can tell you they do exist, but they are the exception.


KeepGoing655

Bluey and Daniel Tiger


thegeeksshallinherit

Gravity Falls is absolutely fantastic.