u/No-Effect-3803

I understand that genres are never truly contained boxes, but it seems like in the past 3-5 years or so, shoegaze really blew up in popularity. Along with that, more bands were clumped under the genre that originally were more considered grunge, like Deftones, Smashing Pumpkins, and Hum. Is this just because of the distorted guitar tones? Because to me, those bands are very different from My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, LSD etc. (these are what I think of more as shoegaze) What are your thoughts on the shoegaze-ification of rock music in the past few years?