Well in that case, even with all of the fraud money they stole from their "legal fund" they almost certainly need those videos to be monetized. It sounds like they very well may be house poor/lifestyle poor.
I don't want to run the math but I know that Ethan is not making enough money to responsibly sustain the kind of lifestyle that comes with a $9 million home. I don't know how much money he's bringing in but I know it's not as much as Ethan THINKS it is. Also it's fair to say at this point that Ethan's channel is dying. It may not be dying fast but the subscriber count has leveled off/is no longer growing which is the dead bell for both tech companies and content creators.
It's the beginning of the end and now I'm starting to think that Ethan just assumed the number would continue to grow indefinitely because of his youtube connections/nepotism. After reading this thread for the past 2 weeks I have no doubts in my mind that Ethan really is stupid enough to have thought that.
If I am correct and he is starting to see future money problems in his tea leaves he's completely fucked and this will be the most catastrophic melt down we may ever get to witness.
God there are just so many layers to this whole thing... The Trisha/Moses thing, the 'alleged' divorce, the financial issues, the disabled child (dehydration up the thread). It's all so nuts how everything collapses all at once for these has been creators. I feel bad for most of them but I can't feel sorry for Ethan because he got the special treatment from almost day 1 and still managed to overspend and fuck himself over thinking he was going to be the next Pewdiepie.
There's a Terry Davis quote that I've been thinking about a lot. He just said "(to those that deny reality/aren't real with themselves) God's going to fuck you up and I get to watch." I don't think it is possible to put it an more succinctly.