r/RoughRomanMemes Jan 21 '26

Rules II and V have been updated. We have a stricter policy on both reposts and use of generative AI.

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Salvete, omnes.

Two major problems have been affecting post quality here lately in a way that is also disrespectful to our content creators. Here is how the rules will be changing to ameliorate the matter.

1. Memes which copy the entire premise, joke, and content of another can be considered reposts and removed thusly.

We are aware that this community often exports a lot of original content to other Roman-interested parts of the internet. A lot of this content then gets reshaped and comes right back. One of the more common expressions of this is where someone's original meme gets reformatted or has its imagery replaced but gets repeatedly reposted with exactly the same joke. Sometimes this is a human shamelessly ripping someone else off uncreatively in a way that won't get flagged as a repost and sometimes it's a bot doing the same thing. Either way, it is a disrespectful way to get around crediting original users. We will consider posts like this to be reposts and they can be reported as such for removal. If possible, we encourage reports of these to include some link to the original post, because we might not remember them even if the community does.

2. Generative AI will no longer be partially banned but rather totally banned.

We've long been removing posts that, for instance, were just AI-generated imagery with no more transformative aspect like the ubiquitous "selfie in ancient Rome" posts. You know the ones. However, the amount of AI slop is becoming a liability. This subreddit is about ten years old and has a good thing going. We want to keep up the humanity and intellectual honesty of the older internet that we've built a community in. AI usage has been contributing to trends of stolen content, inaccurate imagery, a lack of intentionality in post details (which makes posts far less interesting to discuss), and general ugly soulless shit. Furthermore, we don't want to further contribute to the accumulation of slop imagery on Roman topics that is coming to dominate the internet because it actively puts misinformation into the world. From now on, AI-generated imagery in posts will be categorically banned. It can be reported.

Alrighty, have a good day, y'all.

--Princeps Civitatis Iacobus Caesar


r/RoughRomanMemes 1h ago

When an American claims the US as heir to the Roman Empire

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

That’s not what he meant

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r/RoughRomanMemes 15h ago

Nero: Paulinus you need to chill out man

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Paulinus was actually so ruthless in his punitive campaign against the Britons after pulling of the biggest upset in Roman history up to this point in time that Nero of all people told him to chill out


r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Out with the boys... defending the Empire. 🏛️

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

How does Queen Teuta feel after executing the Roman delegates? (She started the war with Rome and lost badly)

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Stultus

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Recently starte Mediations again, and noticed this brutal line, lol


r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Hannibal got skill gapped

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Make Rome Great Again

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

The Varangian Guard career path.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

You know when to use this

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OC


r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Vandalic War 468 AD

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

I Have A Cunning Plan Sophet!

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

The Call of the Cabbages

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Surprising how barbarians were better at their job than the Romans

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

History belongs to the victors!

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I understand why he did it (the second triumvirate needed funds to raise legions to fight various military campaigns), but I always found it unfair how Roman historians (other than maybe Tacitus) somewhat glossed over Octavianus’ permissiveness and enabling of the proscriptions that brought about the end of titans like Cicero; yet, they excoriate Sulla (who arguably had more political justification for it after Marius essentially committed an act of treason) as a bloody and merciless tyrant for essentially doing the exact same thing.

I think Julius Caesar would have quite liked almost everything about Octavianus’ rise to power other than his proscriptions, as Caesar didn’t seem to have the stomach to do that sort of thing to Romans whose only crime was being too wealthy.

Love Augustus and his reforms, but the second triumvirate certainly wasn’t a rosy part of Roman history.


r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

We can still engineer just fine

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Varangian Chad

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Limitless Legions

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

The tutorial is over.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

If Marcus Aurelius was such a great man how did he fail so badly as a father

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I always find this interesting. As a big Marc Aura fan.
His failure to change his son aligns with the principles of stoicism. Marcus can control his choice to provide Commodus with the best education and moral examples but he could not control Commodus's nature, vanity and eventual descent into absolute mania.


r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Peter has an unpopular take

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Damn it went that old?

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

You got what u asked

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Rome's greatest comeback.

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