A part of me thinks it's best categorized as a religious movement, kind of like a creepy inverse of the 1950s religious revivals in the US. It's obviously very puritanical and essentially is a religion. And like an evil version of the 1950s, it got adopted everywhere and utterly permeated our culture, but it just won't last in the same form it did. Culture changes, and for once I'm optimistic that a lot of youth are seeing it to be like how the 60s boomers thought about the local Christians and all their whining about rock music and fun things like drugs and dudes with long hair. I mean let's get real, the counterculture has been right wing ever since 2014, 2015 at the latest. A lot of kids don't want to be the square having to apologize for every microaggression they commit and all the mandatory woke deeds like hating "problematic" creators or posting a video crying about Trump's election.
There’s a lot of millennials who had that humor and they turned out to be some of the most crazy far-leftists out there, I mean just look at many of the millennial lolcows like Moviebob, Patrick Klepek, and Cory Anotado they all used to be massive edgelords but now that it’s not PC they became far-left puritans.
I've always thought people born 1977-82 (oldest millennials) might as well be called Generation Lolcow given how many of the most active threads here from Rekieta to Moviebob to Brianna Wu to Fatrick Tomlinson are all from that age range and all have braindead takes on politics (even if Rekieta is a lolbert). Or the average Gamefaqs poster for instance since many were born around 1980 i.e. CyricZ, a fat woke lunatic whose blown 25+ years as a Gamefaqs jannie.
I think it's generationally shitty parenting, peak "raised by hippie boomers" shit mixed with growing up with 90s nihilism that made them easy converts to whatever the hip political ideology of the week is. Oh, and being the first generation to grow up with video games and computers probably didn't help matters.
I think zoomer woke and millennial woke is different. You get the feeling that if woke were no longer cool, NPCs like your CyricZs and Fatrick Tomlinsons would drift away from it. Kind of like Brianna Wu is trying to do. But Zoomers are more likely to be ideological believers, and extremely violent about it. Like for instance the Portland Antifa troon arrested for his video about how he will murder Rep. Nancy Mace. There's a lot of far leftoid zoomers active in Antifa or sending death threats to people like JK Rowling.
Modern wokeness? No.
That shit started in 2006.
Why 2006, you ask?
That's when Twitter launched.
Modern wokeness started on Twitter and it grew there.
That's why they hate that Musk owns it now, he ruined their HQ.
Modern wokeness came from Tumblr. It was late millennial/earliest zoomers taking what their hippie college professors said, making it somehow even more stupid, and then circle jerking each other into extremism. Oh, and complaining their professors weren't extreme enough so professors amped up the extremism themselves which helped bring it into the real world. Twitter used to be unbiased, I mean remember the Holocaust of gaming journalists, Gamergate, was huge on Twitter and you could make fun of dumb commie journos all you wanted since Twitter didn't have much censorship before 2016.
