These people are so disingenuous that I can't even tell if they believe their own bullshit or not, with Gator I'm convinced he actually believes his own lies, he actually believes he "pokes fun at Ralph" and that he creates "controversy" when rambling about demons like an insane person, that he is an expert when it comes to women and not an incel, and all the other shit he lies about online.
As much as I dislike Dax, I'm pretty sure some of it is just to keep up the persona/grift and because he cannot stand being contradicted, being made fun of, or humiliated, and just lies to keep his paypigs from ever going into his thread and finding out what Marie actually looks like, that he likes to suck cock and get pegged, that the whole pedophile thing is not as ironic as he pretends it is, etc.
So one is disconnected from reality because the truth would likely destroy him and the other is just a dishonest conman that does whatever he needs to to keep the money coming in. No wonder they are Ralph's only friends.