Emily Youcis

Overview

Emily Youcis, also known as Pistachio Girl, is an animator and white nationalist political commentator who gained a cult following on Newgrounds throughout the 2000s for her surrealist Alfred Alfer animations, starring a mentally ill dog with suppressed childhood trauma. Youcis posted her first animation in 2005 when she was still in high school and became known throughout the 2010s as the "Pistachio Girl" for her job as a food vendor at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Stadium where she was known to exuberantly yell "pistachios" and "peanuts" to attendees to sell packages of nuts. In late 2016, Youcis was fired from the stadium after she was seen attending a purported white nationalism conference in D.C. and for her increasingly public and controversial viewpoints, which many perceived as alt-right. That year, she released her final Alfred Alfer animation. Later, she married white nationalist Warren Balogh, a prominent member of the National Justice Party, and began co-hosting the Odyssee podcast Modern Politics with him. Throughout the 2020s, Youcis' Alfred Alfer content gained a further cult following on sites like TikTok where the animations were seen as a way for some to cope with childhood abuse and trauma.

History

Newgrounds, Alfred Alfer Animations

Emily Youcis posted her first animation to Newgrounds,^[1] titled "Osama Gets Low," on October 13th, 2005. On May 23rd, 2006, she posted her first animation to Newgrounds^[2] featuring the anthropomorphic dog Alfred Alfers, in which he escapes from getting neutered only to jump out of a high-rise apartment window, garnering over 84,000 views in 17 years (reupload shown below).

Between December 20th and 22nd, 2007, Youcis released the three-part series Alfred's Playhouse on Newgrounds,^[3][4][5] becoming some of the most well-known of the Alfred Alfter animations and garnering over a collective 250,000 views in 16 years (reuploads to YouTube shown below).

The surreal animations are about Alfer coping with and repressing his childhood trauma, including incidents of molestation and abuse, in particular one incident involving being molested with a popsicle, by living in "Alfred's Playhouse," a parody of Pee-Wee's Playhouse. The animation features several references to dictators like Hitler and Stalin throughout. In the third part of the series, Alfer's alter ego Dictator Pickles, in whom Alfer has stored all of his traumas and repressed memories, takes him hostage and reminds him of all his repressed trauma.

According to Youcis, in a comment (shown below) made by her on Newgrounds^[6][7] on May 20th, 2013, she suffered sexual "and other" abuse as a child, leaving her family "in shambles." Many have hypothesized that Alfred's Playhouse is inspired by these events. Youcis posted several other animations featuring Alfer between 2007 and 2016, each featuring the same reliance on surrealist, shocking humor and content.

Alfred Alfers Movie Announcement, Relationship With Troma Entertainment

In 2014, Youcis announced that she was working on a full-length Alfred Alfers movie through her Patreon.^[12] In the video, she boasts about how Lloyd Kaufman, founder of the film production company Troma Entertainment, watched and enjoyed her Alfred animations and had her attend TromaDance 2014, sharing footage of her interacting with him. On July 15th, 2016, she spoke further about her relationship with Troma on the Scrapple TV YouTube^[13] channel, on which she was interviewed (shown below).

MAGfest 2016 Animation Panel

On March 17th, 2016, MAGfest held an animation panel with several notable online animators, including Hazbin Hotel creator VivziePop.^[14] Around the 01:03:00 mark of the panel, Youcis came on stage and was allowed to stay by the panelists. During the panel she made several controversial comments, including telling VivziePop she should start drawing adult content with her characters, calling Ke$ha an "Illuminati puppet," claiming the Adult Swim show Mr. Pickles was an Alfred Alfer ripoff and telling an attendee that they should draw their mother being sexually assaulted and murdered if they hate them. The video gained over 273,000 views in seven years.

Pistachio Girl, Firing, Ties to White Nationalism

In 2016, Youcis began to gain more media and online attention as the "Pistachio Girl" for her eccentric personality while selling bags of pistachios and peanuts at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Stadium during Phillies games. On June 1st and August 16th, 2016, the goldenone82 YouTube^[15][16] channel posted videos of Youcis at the games yelling out "peanuts" and "pistachios" in her signature way while wearing a hat that reads "Make the Phillies Great Again" similar to the "MAGA" slogan (shown below, left and right).

On September 18th, the official MLB YouTube^[17] channel posted a video interviewing Youcis, garnering over 138,000 views in seven years (shown below).

On November 20th, 2016, the Philadelphia Enquirer^[19] reported that Youcis was seen at a purported white nationalist rally held in Washington, D.C. where she was filmed asking one attendee, "Do you hate white people?" She was purportedly also sprayed with spray paint by a protestor. According to the article, David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, tweeted approvingly of Youcis' actions.

On December 5th, 2016, the New York Post^[21] reported that Youcis had been fired from her job as the "pistachio girl" for her white nationalist beliefs.

The Ascent of Alfred

The final Alfer animation, titled The Ascent of Alfred, was released on Newgrounds^[8] on October 23rd, 2016 (shown below). In the animation, Alfer essentially becomes an alt-right, nationalist figure online. The animation features references to well-known 4chan memes, general memes and figures within alt-right circles, including spurdo sparde, Pepe the Frog and Sam Hyde. The animation is purportedly a segment of what would be the Alfred Alfer movie, although the movie was never completed.

"Which Way White Woman?" Comic

Sometime around May 14th, 2017, Youcis published a comic titled "Which Way White Woman?" that makes explicit references to white nationalism. The comic compares the life and desires of a "traditional" Western woman to a "degenerate" one (shown below). The comic has gone viral numerous times since 2017, including a post that day to the subreddit /r/TheRightCantMeme^[22] that gained over 5,200 upvotes in six years.

Wuhan! (Got You All Infected)

On March 4th, 2020, Youcis uploaded a music video for an original song about the coronavirus to Bitchute,^[33] garnering over 61,000 views in three years (reupload shown below).

Modern Politics Podcast

On March 2nd, 2021, Youcis began co-hosting the Modern Politics podcast with her husband Warren Barogh, a known white nationalist, on Odysee.^[31] The show features the two discussing politics from an alt-right standpoint.

Additional Notable Online Appearances

Midwest FurFest

In 2015, Youcis appeared at the furry convention Midwest FurFest in costume as Alfred where she was filmed interacting with attendees (shown below). She posted a video of herself trolling the convention to BitChute^[28] in 2019.

Heckling Nick Denton

On August 11th, 2016, Youcis was filmed heckling Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, over his sharing of the Hulk Hogan sex tape (shown below). The story was reported on by PhillyMag^[18] that month.

He Will Not Divide Us

In January 2017, Youcis was seen at Shia LaBeouf's He Will Not Divide Us performance art show, where she shouted, "white power" into the camera (shown below).^[20]

Nuke Africa Comment

Around April 2018, Youcis went viral for claiming that the U.S. should "nuke Africa" on Jean-François Gariépy's podcast. The clip was archived on AltCensored^[32] on April 30th, 2018.

Online Presence

Emily Youcis is currently banned on X. She is available on BitChute^[29] and Odysee.^[30]

Video Essays

On September 29th, 2023, YouTuber^[27] SleepLIVE posted a video essay about Alfred's Playhouse and Emily Youcis, garnering over 400,000 views in three months (shown below).

TikTok Presence

In 2023, TikTokers began discussing Alfred Alfer and Alfred's Playhouse on the app, with some claiming the series helps them deal with their own trauma. On June 12th, 2023, TikToker^[23] @combustableparticles posted a scene from the series, captioned, "he genuinely makes me so sad I fr don’t think I’ve ever watched this episode without crying," garnering over 1.2 million views in six months (shown below, left).

On August 20th, TikToker^[24] @vincent_hallberg posted a clip, writing, "I do not support Alfreds playhouse or the creator I just think it's a perfect representation of what trauma and insanity does to a person," garnering over 1.3 million views in four months (shown below, right).

Throughout 2023, an original sound consisting of the theme song to Alfred's Playhouse gained significant popularity on the app, with over 1,500 uses by December 2023. On November 20th, TikToker^[25] @ur.fav.pair.ofnutz posted a video where they claim they don't support Youcis, but celebrate how Alfred's Playhouse, in their opinion, accurately represents the effects of being assaulted as a child, garnering over 1.1 million views in a month (shown below, left). On December 6th, TikToker^[26] @forest_fairy_444 posted a video expressing disbelief that people watch the series to deal with their trauma, garnering over 1.6 million views in two weeks (shown below, right).

Personal Life

Emily Youcis was born on May 30th, 1990. She is currently married to Warren Barogh, a purported white nationalist figure. Youcis has a Xanga^[11] blog, weedyweedyweed, that she published to between 2005 and 2013, offering further incites into her life throughout high school.

According to Youcis, she "always" had alt-right beliefs. Before she was banned from X, Youcis once shared drawings allegedly made by her in 2005 where she stereotyped Jewish people and also claimed that would "make fun of Jewish kids" in her childhood (shown below, left and right).^[34][35]

Relationship With Jimmy Screamerclauz

Between 2012 and 2013, she dated controversial animator Jimmy Screamerclauz, known best for his movie Where the Dead Go to Die, which features a cameo appearance from Youcis' character Alfred Alfer.^[9] In turn, Screamerclauz's dog character Labby has appeared in several Alfred Alfer animations. In January 2013, Youcis posted an archived /f/ 4chan thread to Newgrounds^[10] where she interacted with anons telling them about her and Jimmy's breakup, writing that he dumped her over the phone, writing:

a man i thought loved me for over a year just dumped me over the phone. He animates 3d cartoons and has a fucked up dog character named Labby, as you see here. So this is very much based on a true story.

>> tfw the only other person on the internet who has as much as a fucked up perverse dog character as you dumps you ovr the phone

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