What's closer to the truth is that, while many people may be into them (they have their fans of course and were as you say at one time huge, so nobody's denying that, but I think now their time has definitely passed) most people like a few songs, maybe an album or two but in general are NOT passionate about them. Most will say "Oh GNR? Yeah: "Sweet Child", "Paradise City", "Live and Let Die", that band with your man who wears the bandanna and the one with the guitarist with the top hat, Slush or something?"
THAT's what, in general, the perception of GNR is, here in the 21st century. They were a decent band, but they weren't the Second Coming, and they are over now, so really, to keep touting how great they were just shows us all how you refuse to live in the present and are like a hermit, muttering and growling in your cave about "the good old days of metal" and snapping and biting at anyone who comes near.
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