"You guys suck!"

Thirty-seven years ago, in 1983, a friend and I went to see a band he’d heard about. Near the end of their set, the band - Bonnie Hayes and the Wild Combo - lashed out at the relatively small crowd. Apparently we weren’t meeting their expectations of how an audience should respond, so they let us know that we sucked.
 
Turns out a lot of performers, speakers, athletes, and others who do their thing in front of a crowd fall back on blaming the audience when they don’t get the reaction they want and think they deserve. That's a mistake. 
 
It’s never the crowd’s fault. If people don’t show up for our performance, talk, or game it's because we didn’t give them a good enough reason to come. If they don’t laugh, applaud, or cheer to our satisfaction then we can assume we came up short. Blaming the audience - especially to their faces - is never the answer.

It's on us to compel people to attend and to reward attendees with a great experience. And it's their job, not ours, to decide if it's great. 

Just for fun, here's a bootleg recording of the band that was shot a few months after we saw them; you can decide for yourself if the problem was the audience or their performance...