So... I never once knew of Emily Youcis before The Will Stancil Show, so I decided to watch Alfred's Playhouse Part 1.
I'm not gonna lie: it was genuinely disturbing. If I were still a 12-year-old perusing Albino Blacksheep and Newgrounds alongside the usual rotation of Notdoppler, Armor Games, AddictingGames, etc, Alfred's Playhouse would've probably given me nightmares. As an adult watching Alfred for the first time? It's disturbing insofar as "knowing" that Emily got diddled, and then getting a first person POV on the resulting neuroses, denial, escapism, and so on. Even more harrowing when you remember she was like 15-16 when she made Alfred's Playhouse Part 1.
There's one excerpt from the intro sequence that my mind keeps circling back to:
Alfred's Playhouse intro dijo:
You don’t have to feel that guy's sticky stuff in your hair
Just clap your heels three times and you're away from there
So forget about the humiliation and shame
Your innocence is not being snatched from you
Slight tangent: There's a book I read in middle school that was roughly contemporary with Alfred's Playhouse:
Identical by Ellen Hopkins. Spoiler alert: it's one of those mid-to-late 2000s novels-in-verse about a teenage girl with dissociative identity disorder brought about by her father's yearslong sexual abuse of her, followed by her drowning out the trauma with her dad's OxyContin, liquor, and increasingly risky sexual behaviour with strangers. I think I was like 13 or 14 when I first read that book, it was harrowing, but there was always this layer of "okay, she has to be playing this up for drama, right? Ain't no way this shit could possibly happen IRL."
Yeah, no. That excerpt from the Alfred's Playhouse intro song proves that Ellen Hopkins didn't use DID as a standalone plot device. If anything, Hopkins sanitised far too much whereas Emily Youcis opted for an unflinching, genital warts, sticky stuff in your hair, and all approach.
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