>>14267019 (OP)they tend to be incredibly insecure and lack personal validation in their lives, so they are attracted to cutesy, feminine characters who display simillar negative traits they recognise in themselves, but are validated (in a meta way by fans of the media) for being cutesy and feminine.
It's a kind of jealousy and explains why these people tend to be troons or troon adjacent, they think all their problems would go away if they could just be a cute girl, and to be fair for a lot of them that's probably fairly accurate.