tbh, I was wondering the same because Mark left Nashville mid-August and was @ his folks' place, hanging out with his bff Donny, his sisters, and went solo-camping for like a month. And during that time Ethan released a bunch of videos and didn't seem at all bothered, so I was like I guess they're OK? lol And then Mark returned to Nashville for a week mid-September and posted the pic below captioned "it’s called bonding look it up" which I took as a response to not only the break up chatter (he's wearing what is *known* to be Ethan's shirt, by most that follow them) in both of their comments, but people grilling Ethan about their cat belonging to Mark too or whatever? before he hit the road again to visit family and hang w/ college friends in Florida.
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and like last week Ethan liked this YP post about "evolving together"
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so I suppose they're on some sort of mental health break? Maybe, the lockdown from the pandemic and everything going on in the world was making them both go stir-crazy (as per Ethan's depression and anxiety video) - Mark in particular (being a Virgo, after all), that's why he seems to be road tripping so much lately? IDK, part of me thinks they're broken up because they've been apart for long stretches of time, but at the same time that post Mark made holding their cat, wearing Ethan's shirt sends a clear message. And even tho they were apart for a month, they were together for a week and I guess they could have caught up on sex and whatnot before Mark went on to Florida? So, either they're trying to manipulate their fanbase into thinking they're still together (why?) or they're still together/a couple even tho they've obviously been spending a lot of time apart...
i'm really not sure, because if they *are* broken up, it seems like Mark gets their dog... and I would think Ethan would be somewhat sad about that?, even if he's fed up w/ Mark's bullshit and glad to be rid of him. LOL Like, Ethan still has her in his IG profile picture. Not to mention Mark's still using a picture Ethan took of him as his profile pic across all his soc media plus they both have playlists on their yt channels titled "videos with my boyfriend" (or something similar) still. And again - the pic wearing Ethan's shirt holding their cat mentioning
"bonding" - like, why do all that if the truth of their break up will eventually come out? It's just a bad look all around. So yeah, they're probs still *together* together but getting some space.