So I'm watching a YouTube video of a guy going through and reviewing every episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, the 90's Nickelodeon kids horror anthology show. It's a show I remember fondly from when I was a kid, and the review video is pretty great. But one thing seeing all these clips really jumps out at me. The sheer amount of racemixing couples that were in various episodes. I've seen like 5 or 6 black guy/White girl 'relationships' so far, and I'm only at season 2. It's the usual 'oooooo she has a crush' kid shit, but it's the amount of it that is jumping out at me now. 12yo me of course never noticed, but now that I'm seeing again, and knowing how rare it was in real life back then for White girls to date blacks, I can't help but suspect this sort of thing was included on purpose to normalize it, even decades before what we now see as the 'woke' era.

Can you think of any other examples of things that you didn't notice at the time, but looking back you realize they were attempts to push woke ideology long before it was known as such?