It just shows that many people do not understand what is going one at all.
Sure it's a form of "entertainer" job, but actress, synchron speaker or comedian are also real jobs.
And no one would go and say "oh say just need to say some lines on stage so it's not a real job". It's not at all as simple as "just playing games in front of camera".
Sure some people do just that as a hobby, but then people also program as a hobby and programming is still a real job.
And sure many just barely make enough to cover living expanses, but that's true for many jobs which still are "real jobs".
No idea why people feel to denounce people which act as entertainers while also often managing a merch job and a community as "not having a real job"? Is it be of envy that some people have and at their job and where able to turn their hobby into a job?
Either-way it's not just a real job it's like many jobs from the entertainment business not an easy job to get successful with, without a "clear" path to success, requiring often both hard work, talent and luck and with often not-so rosy long term aspects and just a few managing to get rich or wealthy, while many other are sooner or later forced to change their job. You know like in many other jobs in the entertainment industries, e.g. musician/singer.