Ask the 12.3 million who watched Travis Scott have a concert in Fortnite [1]

There is no way to convey this without being a little bit of a jerk, but I think your take demonstrates being out of touch, in the "no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame, also Dropbox is just some tooling around rsync" sense that HN tends to get sometimes. This is enough of a phenomenon that other mainstream artists are starting to get into it, which means there are enough people getting joy out of it for it to have a market of its own.

I think you ignore the metaverse (the concept, not Facebook's janky implementation) at your own peril. The next generation is growing up with virtual concerts, and in many cases virtual artists.

[1] https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/travis-scott-fortnite-...

i urge you to examine for any worldwide trends that were occurring in April 2020 that might have made people inclined to attend virtual events

And you think that inclination is temporary? I urge you to examine the history of concerts in that game. A bit under 11 million watched a concert by Marshmello a year prior.

And that's not counting the upcoming stuff. Trying to write off something this successful as a pandemic driven fad kinda speaks to that whole being out of touch thing I was talking about.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/28/22699014/fortnite-soundwa...

ok so a bunch of ppl were playing fornite in april 2020. that doesnt mean that people want to watch vr concerts

On the contrary, more than 12 million people watched the concert live. That's time spent in going to the VR concert, not playing a competitive shooter. Are you suggesting that all of them did something they had no desire to do?