By skyforbes 
Your Ancestors Drew Bison for Clout. You Post Reels. Same Thing. Humans Always Needed an Audience!
I’ve always believed that storytelling wasn’t born out of creativity. It was born out of desperation.
Specifically, the desperate need to be seen.
Long before TikTok trends and Substack newsletters, we were drawing bison on cave walls.
Not for food. Not for survival.
But because Ugh really wanted someone to say, “Wow, you captured the movement in that hunt so well. You’re like… the Da Vinci of dirt.”
This isn’t a deep academic dive — there are enough of those.
This is more like a mirror held up to the absurd, glorious, ever-evolving ways we’ve told stories — just to get a nod, a clap, or a “Hey, that was cool.”
And if you’re a writer or reader, I’m betting you’ll recognize bits of yourself in this timeline too.
The Original “Like” Button? Charcoal on Stone.
We tend to think of cavemen as grunting, club-wielding loners. But they were the first content creators.
Those early cave paintings weren’t just practical how-tos.