Your disturbance is justified as the description is arsebackwards in term of history. First (probable) use of shoegaze was during 1991 and the Cocteau's had already released seven albums by then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegaze

"You with all the modesty of Big Tech in boom... You bored my friends from out of town with the virtues of shoegaze" 😂 Ooooh, it's very good, innit?

That's a conservative estimate. How we love the freewheelin', here-today-gone-today tech bro platform half-life algorithm... 😀