They aren't. People have it in their head that they must be for some reason, but its literally just streaming but with a fake face cam. Its not that complicated.
A huge portion of it has crossed over with Idol culture from Japan because that's the companies who basically created the genre and invest all the big money into it.
But by its raw definition, and how its used for the 90% of them that aren't from one of the big companies, is literally streaming with a tiny little anime character instead of your face.
They aren't. People have it in their head that they must be for some reason, but its literally just streaming but with a fake face cam. Its not that complicated.
A huge portion of it has crossed over with Idol culture from Japan because that's the companies who basically created the genre and invest all the big money into it.
But by its raw definition, and how its used for the 90% of them that aren't from one of the big companies, is literally streaming with a tiny little anime character instead of your face.