You picked a rough year to start watching
Didn't really pick it.
I liked Slay the Princess a lot, watching numerous LetsPlays of it, including the one done by the voice-actress of the Princess - who happened to stream with a vtuber model.
Youtube algo has decided that hey, i see you there fucker, guess you like vtubers now and started sending me clips in recommended.
At first it was mostly twitch-indie clips, so my understanding of vtubing was "oh wow it's just coombaiters who are too shy to show their tits openly, huh", and then on Jan 19th, by some miracle, my recommended got me
this clip and i was pretty much hooked after the first two seconds LMAO, i ended up watching like 2 hours worth of Pippa clips from that channel on that day.
Then the next day i got recommended LEC's clip of Phase collab that included Pippa, and that was it. Still took a few weeks before i actually started watching streams, but at that point i was locked in on Phase.