the point i'm making is that from 2014-2020, it was relatively easy to find a show to go see on a friday night in detroit. now, half the venues i would have gone to are closed and the other half are booking things i have no interest in at all and that are broadly speaking largely aristically dead.
the algorithms have made it hard for creative or interesting music to get enough of an audience to get a venue to book them, and the shift in culture has made a lot of the venues disinterested in holding events. i would be less concerned if i saw new venues popping up, as the issue is easily resolvable, but i'm not. what it suggests is that there's a lack of interest amongst young people in underground culture as a gathering point, that young people would rather chat online than go to an underground concert, which is going to kill the industry. bands can't survive selling music. they need to perform to exist and if there's nowhere to perform they don't exist. it doesn't push things to the margins (what i'm pointing out is that there are no margins, that the margins are disappearing), it pushes them into the centre. it doesn't create heterogeneous, idiosyncratic art, it produces homogenization and commodification, because you can't exist at all unless you reflect a cliche, because nobody wants to organize anything anymore.
and what i'm ultimately pointing out is that what it means, for me, is that there's nowhere to go anymore, so i'd rather just stay in and read a book.