What's the deal with work gloves?

This has been something I've been wondering about for a while, way before I joined this server. Why are work gloves specifically so popular? Like why not scroll a lvl 100 glove with better clean stats? Is it solely because it's easier for the scroller, as it has no class bearing? And why gloves and not, say, earrings with weapon attack or certain stats?

Maybe I'm just not thinking it through enough but it's always seemed like the most random thing to be the most searched item on FM, I wanna see if there's actually a good explanation for this.