Not just his friend. Soda was the guy who he went to to learn how to stream and is the main reason he’s a variety streamer instead of a washed up overwatch pro. The guy who mentored him and put him up in his house when xqc was a nobody and the guy he says he respects more than anyone on twitch. If you watch that super cringe thing where he and soda rated all the other streamers on twitch you could see it pretty clearly the respect he has for soda when he put him on the top tier. He was practically gushing.

If he can explode in game because he felt slighted while still having that obvious level of respect for someone even when they did not mean to cause him disrespect in the game then he can mald at anyone and today just proves it even more.