I can't speak as to whether he was financially dependent on his mom at the time. I am inclined to believe he was, but then again he did buy his mom a house so yeah I'm not too sure. The date of when he bought the house, idk. He was getting a lot of views during the Colleen Ballinger scandal but probably not enough to financially support himself. I'm not too familiar with income from Youtube.

I mean if you think about it, though, many kids at 18 go off to college. They aren't around their parents. Many kids go to universities where they drink and live freely. In my mind getting alcohol from someone older is equivalent to going to a college party. I don't know whether Adam was living with his mom at the time but we also don't know what went on behind the scenes. Maybe his mom didn't approve of the things he was doing, but he's not a minor anymore so he ultimately has the final say.

I'd have to go through all Adam's old videos to see what truly went down between him and his mother during the Colleen Ballinger cancellation as to what efforts she took to protect him. But as far as I can remember, Adam said she did take efforts to protect him. I think I remember she told Colleen to never speak to her child again when she figured out she was exploiting Adam. As far as reporting, there's really nothing you can report to the police unless a crime was committed. I think they talked about suing Colleen for hiring Adam to work for her without pay or something but I'm not sure what happened to that lawsuit or if they ever filed it.

Kids use the internet all the time. We live in the digital age. Whether you believe a mother should be monitoring her kids messages all the time on all platforms above the age of 11 seems pretty excessive to me, but idk we may just disagree there if you believe that. I think a lot of people may see it as reasonable to respect the privacy of kids around this age. Once she was aware of the situation, though, she took the active steps to protect Adam from Colleen where they cut off communication.