Watching Salty's video was something of an ordeal, but grant he is a more even-handed critic of Emily Youcis and her work than most I've seen. His pipeline theory to explain the way her political views veered to far-Right extremes is off the mark, in my view. Human beings have agency. We make conscious choices. Emily believes what she believes for the same reason most people believe what they believe: because those beliefs help her make sense of the world. I don't agree with her views but also don't contest her right to hold them. You do you, Nazi girl.
I've seen most of Youcis' publicly available animation, I think. What I see (for the most part) is a severely traumatized but enormously talented woman working out her trauma through her art. Her lack of creative output over the last few years is easily explicable. Last I heard, she has two young kids. They take up all her time and energy. Most parents can relate.
I hope when Youcis starts working again she focuses on the creative rather than the political. No one wants to watch Nazi agitprop. What would be good is if we could see in her work evidence of growth, sanity, and healing, all of her demons beaten.