Why don't you mentioned igaming as the major propeller of the metaverse craze instead calling on face adoptions of a new name meta, to be the reason for the hype around metaverse sometimes ago?
Metaverse was also a hype just like web3 projects and the AI projects, although there is a bit difference in all of the mentioned hype's, but one thing is a common characteristics of all of them and that is hype crazy hypes around them when the first come into the space.