Reading the survey results, I was struck by how this sub is split by two definitions of what "rave" means.

There are two types of person in this sub.

EDM ravers: EDM ravers go to concerts where EDM music is played. They love a big show on a stage. Lasers, visuals. They like their PLUR tchotchkes from sprouts to kandi. They like big room EDM. They like Ultra, EDC, Tomorrowland, etc., which they call "raves." They're younger, and they probably didn't grow up raving in the 90s and 00s. Even a seated event at the Las Vegas sphere is a rave, because for them, a rave happens when a certain type of music is played. Plus chemicals.

OG Ravers: Ravers are often (and on average) a bit older. They're less numerous now that the responsibilities of parenting and the impacts of aging are making it harder for them to rave all night. They tend to define a rave as an illegal, small-scale event that's not commercial and that is built around dance, music, and brain- and mood-altering chemicals. They look at EDM events as commercial concerts. They may go to club-based rave events for example at Berghain or Basement or Fold.

EDM ravers are clearly outnumbering OG Ravers. There's no commercial machine advertising OG raves and so the entry point into OG raving is harder to find. Most never find it.

If this trend continues, the EDM definition will be the dominant definition and the word "rave" will simply mean "seated or standing concert with dance music playing."