LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — If you've been reading social media at all lately, you've undoubtedly encountered people saying Las Vegas is dead or dying .

Whether on X, or Reddit, or Instagram, there are people predicting that Las Vegas's demise is at hand.

The alleged culprit : High prices for hotel rooms, food, resort fees, paid parking and in-room minibars. Or cultural changes that see fewer young people traveling to gamble, or the cache of wide-open gambling getting stale. Or dirty streets, crime, homelessness and the pervasive smell of marijuana on the Strip.

The smell? Oh, yes: "Vegas is expensive and smells bad," said someone called Adult Human Female on X.

Channel 13 reached out to local experts to ask about the death of Las Vegas, and some of the reasons that people might be joining

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