Gloomy

There is very little evidence for the idea of persistence hunting ever beeing a thing.

Despite the idea’s foothold in popular culture, however, there is no hard evidence that ancient humans were persistence hunters, much less that persistence hunting shaped evolutionary traits. In fact, what evidence there is doesn’t support the notion that early humans acquired their meaty meals through feats of running endurance; it flatly contradicts it.

https://undark.org/2019/10/03/persistent-myth-persistence-hunting/

Yes, let’s have exponensial groth instead.

I know you are making fun and all, but things like this are indeed reproduced.

Basicly it’s a process of cultural and collective copy and pasting, where media and indivulas reproduce a concept by either activly using it (or not) or passives acepting it.

It’s a bit more complex than that, but you probably get the idea.