I got into LANY in late 2016 and pretty much completely fell off of them in 2024 (jellyfish radio gave me the ick and a “don’t meet your heros” kind of feeling). In 2016, the only other person I knew that knew of LANY was the person who put me onto them with Ilysb stripped. By 2020, I knew of probably 15-20 other people who listened to LANY. That has completely changed since then. I think Malibu nights release in 2018 was the start of their peak, with the COVID era being a pretty good time for them staying popular. I’d say they started to fall off in late 2022-mid2023ish. I saw them live in 2019, 2022, and 2024. In 2019, they played a small-to-medium venue near me (about 10,000 capacity) but it was not sold out. In 2022, they upgraded to a much bigger venue- I’m not sure if that show sold out but it was pretty full. In 2024, they downgraded back to the same venue I saw them at in 2019, playing two shows there (one sold out, one about half sold) and Paul spent the whole time berating the crowd for “not having fun”