The relationship is done, I bet she just decorated to keep herself busy whilst she was living there until she could go back home. I think lockdown was miserable for her and she was constantly crying hence why in the few vlogs we did see her eyes were puffy.
I think so too.
I feel bad for her - all she's wanted is this image of a perfect jetsetter lifestyle with her rockstar boyfriend & a home in LA, but life has really smacked her in the face. She's spent the last few months cooking and cleaning up for him, not to mention zero effort from him on her birthday. She put up her own decorations, blew her own balloons up, and baked her own cake, with no help from him whatsoever. Of course we'll never really know what's going on between them, but he doesn't seem like a good boyfriend. Whatever chemistry first brought them together just doesn't seem to be there anymore. I wasn't there for their Instagram live but it sounded like an absolute trainwreck - like he was using her for her viewers and like they had begun to resent each other.
She's appeared pretty miserable in every vlog (which is awful & no one should have to feel like that) and this appearance of the perfect relationship has really worn away. She really loves to glorify travelling/living 'between' London & LA, but when she visits him in Los Angeles, she's likely just there doing his laundry the whole time. Young girls that follow her on Instagram and just see the smiling photos and bikini shots don't know the half of it - the lack of depth to their relationship, her body image issues, the compulsive lying.
Everything she seems to do is for her image and to keep up the facade of having an enviable #goals life, but I think Emily will find herself a lot happier when she starts being honest with herself, and with her audience.
Nobody's life is perfect, and it's unhealthy to hold yours to that standard - for the impressionable young people watching, and for your own mental health.