I first remember it being used to describe Get Out, because there's the song "Stay Woke" in that movie. Now every film is basically called "woke" unless the Daily Wire made it.
share"Woke" means to be aware of social issues. It started whenever people started seeing injustice.
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I'm not quite sure when 'woke' replaced 'political correctness (gone mad)' as the go-to pejorative, but essentially the two terms cover the exact same grievances and misapprehensions -- and have a similar history of starting as a jokey self-descriptor on one side of the aisle before being co-opted by political opponents.
But people basically make the same arguments now as people were making forty years ago, so in that sense none of it is particularly new. It's just that social media has changed the language being used a little and amplified certain voices.
When did "wokeness" become a thing?
When Trump won in 2016 and everyone on the Left lost their minds over it
It's gone by many names, but its first public appearance in the west was the cultural revolution back in the 60s. The seeds for it however, were sown generations before.
share"When did "wokeness" become a thing?"
The word or the thing?
I would imagine there has always been resistance to change for the better by those not benefitting ( or even losing out ) from it.
Woke is a term like "political correct" to describe certain modern tropes in movies that is not put in there for artistic reasons but because it is the "current thing".
It has happened slowly, but accelerated. A certain amount I guess has always been in the "liberal art". You could argue that "12 angry men" is woke. Isn´t it about bigotry in people against blacks? How only one man looks beyond the skin colour.
But people dont complain about that. Or How to Kill a Mocking Bird. These movies are "woke" but we dont call them woke, as woke is a negative term.
Woke now is forcing ideas and themes into movies, with "too on the nose" commentary on social issues that isnt uniting people but polarize. Its unnatural overrepresentation of minorities racial, sexual or "other" into everything.
And when did that begin? Around 2015 I think.
The first time I felt annoyed by it was on the first season of Doctor Who (2005). From the very first scene I felt that the creators were forcing ideas into the story and as I watched episode after episode it became clear it was almost a fetish.
But by 2015 I think it was in EVERYTHING.