If you get off the internet and go to shows outside of the "doom" community I think you'll find most people have no idea about it. It amazes me how many musicians who are into heavy shit have never heard of Sleep. I can see how it would be annoying if you are not into it to see all of us going nuts over Doom shit here all the time, but there's a lot of folks that dont do the heavies here and I might not enjoy thier music and so what? I dont dig most of the Noise stuff but I still like talking gear with those guys. Who cares who plays what.
Now If glam rock comes back I'll eat those words lol. Cherrie pie anyone?
Edit: if you go to touring shows, regardless of genre, buy a shirt or something from the bands. At the royal thunder show I bought a shirt and they were really excited about it, as I was walking away I overheard "now we can eat!"
But anything that starts saying it is a boxed style is pretty limited which you would think would be stifling 
There, I said it. Just admit, it's pretty far from the more extreme apocapyptic, mourning, claustrophobic, psyched, bleak and absolutely suicidal stuff. You know. the doom metal that can get every bit as grim and extreme as black metal but without all that energy to blast and shred. 
