Well it's other people voting for you, for whatever reason they have. You make something to sell, produce content, and they buy it with an upvote which allocates some rewards. I would also like all my votes to be authentic and honest appreciation for the value of the content, but I can't know that. So just take the upvotes, since you can't really know. If you want to get out of those votes, then go ahead and try to contact them on steemit.chat to get removed, that is your right to ask, but they can also keep voting you ;) It's commendable you want to get real meaningful votes from ppl who like your content, rather than just trying to support a "newbie". Good principle to live by!