"Woke" originally meant that one in the black community is aware, informed, educated, and conscious of the political and social climate in the world around them.
"Woke" only became a punchline after being appropriated by white "anything and everything" activists such as those participating in the "trans" fad, or those placing sexually explicit books in grade schools, or those chanting about marching all of the Jews into the red sea.
Those people, those "Karens", made "woke" a joke.