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Searched it up and found a tutorial for Linux, which is what I use.
https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/fake-webcam-streams
Pretty sure you can do it on any OS, though.
That post recommends using the v4l2loopback kernel module, which is what is most often used on Linux for making a virtual camera device, but there is also another out-of-tree module called akvcam which apparently creates a more convincing fake camera. So if you ever find that zoom/facebook/whatever detects and blocks your v4l2loopback camera, you could try that instead.
(I found it via Linux-Fake-Background-Webcam, which is a background replacement tool that can use either of v4l2loopback or akvcam.)