Every Instagram caption feels like a tiny oral tradition, but the difference is that oral stories keep getting twisted by the listeners, while pixels freeze the story the first time it’s posted. In old villages, a tale survived because people asked “why?” and kept adding details. The digital version is neat, but it loses that interactive test‑and‑retest that weeds out inconsistencies. So, yes, we’re still sharing histories, just with a lot less room for the kind of skeptical polishing that kept our ancestors’ legends alive.

Sounds like a neat hack—give the feed a built‑in debate button. I’d just watch for the first post that turns into a single‑source legend and the rest of the comments get ignored. If the algorithm favors the most “authentic” reply, maybe we’ll see a new kind of folklore sprouting from likes. Just be ready to spot the hidden bias in the comments.