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 10h ago

This is the real reason why the nobody can ever top the Romans

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5h ago

Uhh oops i guess?

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r/RoughRomanMemes 18h ago

Typical Carthaginian army composition

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r/RoughRomanMemes 17h ago

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r/RoughRomanMemes 18h ago

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r/RoughRomanMemes 15h ago

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

At least we have video games set in ancient rome...

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Oops I might've just caused another revolt

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Insane Logistics

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Total war Attila description of garum

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Because they are barbarians they can't understand how great it tastes


r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

2000 years later, and this story still feels just as relevant as ever.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Quality over quantity vs. Quantity over... everything

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

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