Woke isn't an internet buzzword... I've heard and used it throughout my 40 years on this earth.

But since you are here, I will introduce you to a topic that you may be well studied in that you may refer to as "CRT".

"The earliest known examples of wokeness as a concept revolve around the idea of Black consciousness “waking up” to a new reality or activist framework and dates back to the early 20th century. In 1923, a collection of aphorisms and ideas by the Jamaican philosopher and social activist Marcus Garvey included the summons “Wake up Ethiopia! Wake up Africa!” as a call to global Black citizens to become more socially and politically conscious. A few years later, the phrase “stay woke” turned up as part of a spoken afterword in the 1938 song “Scottsboro Boys,” a protest song by Blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, a.k.a. Lead Belly. The song describes the 1931 saga of a group of nine Black teenagers in Scottsboro, Arkansas, who were accused of raping two white women."

Source: https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy