1) Sam fucked up their chance to play with the big boys with his 1488 Trump memes
2) He's alternating between innawoods, Atlanta good ol' boy living, LA car repair oddjobs and Boston beerfests until the WP money dries up. Hopefully the Pure Boys commune will be up and running by then so he can finally go off-grid
3) Using Persian rugs as ash trays
4) All their teen and 20s youthful energy was built up and poured into WP. Fame and glory was given and taken away from them in the space of a year, so now they're just trying to wade off the madness and become self-sufficient again so they can survive their 30s and not end up stuck in some Rhode Island ghetto when their parents retire
5 + 6) Youtube monetization, which was the main motivation for the MDE Youtube channel in the fist place, until the Adult Swim offer came along, has gone to shit due to Adpocalypse, so Sam and Charls are trying to think up new revenue streams while the MDE brand is still relevant for when the AS, Bitcoin and Pacman machine money dries up
8) Pretty much. Regardless of what Sam was doing, it was he who got them taken off the air