This is just a theory, and it's getting a little bit "off topic" but I think guys like Alex Stein don't really keep friends around.
Alex moves from person to person, movement to movement, fandom to fandom, and controversy to controversy. Each time he moves, he pulls a few more viewers into his personal orbit. It's not about being "friends", it's business. The business of exposing your content to other people's viewers in the hopes that they become YOUR viewers.
If Alex spent too much time with somebody like Cecil, he'd stagnate. To guys like Alex, stagnation is death.
The only way to stick around a guy like that is to ride in their wake by becoming a monkey that performs at their command, like that Dontarius character.