On one side, you have a viewerbase of lonely, straight, conservative men. On the other, you have a talentbase of (typically) married, (sometimes) gay/genderfluid, liberal women. The viewerbase wants a cute pretend trad anime girlfriend that likes gaming, and hates politics, and doesn’t have BPD woman moments like 3DPDs do, while the girl streamer wants as much money from these men for as little effort or compromise as possible.

In practice, this leads to the women streaming games they barely like, to men they don’t see as human, while constantly struggling not to lecture their audience on the orange man, or Palestine, or LGBTQIA2BLM+ rights. Until those women either inevitably fail or magically assume that their audience turned into liberal women overnight, and spit out an utterly pozzed take their male audience couldn’t care less to hear, at which point the men must simply pretend it didn’t happen, or leave the stream and hope her period’s over by tomorrow, so she can maintain the facade just a little bit better this time.

Man, when you put it this way, no wonder pickmetubers like Leaflit and Smugalana are starting to gain traction. A hot anime woman, without ANY risk of woman moments? Sounds like the dream of every man on the planet.