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I've never seen any vtubers. I was basing my impression of it on other comments from this thread, particularly the top comment by @qooqie.
Honestly their impression seems super biased based on their perception of one streamer they liked. Vtubers - just like other streamers/content creators - range from "primarily doing porn" to "guy that has been streaming for 10 years decides to get a cute anime girl vtuber avatar for fun".
There's a tendency for roleplaying a character, but it's not a necessity and definitely not always sexualized and plenty of vtubers are just regular streamers with an anime avatar.
There's of course some weird simp culture in many audiences, but that's no different from other female streamers either. From what streamers have said it's hard to prevent unless you stop anything close to it from happening, and few people want to do that when it also just factually brings in a significant amount of revenue.
Most also don't mind or even like people drawing porn of their avatars, but that's more due to humans being horny by default rather than particularly exploiting that for money.