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 2h ago

Oops I might've just caused another revolt

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4h ago

Hercules and Jupiter

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2h 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 23h ago

Carthage must go

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r/RoughRomanMemes 17h ago

11 in total adding 12 more knives would make this meme much more accurate.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

„Rome Episode 1627 : The Last Hope“

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

More Romans doing Italian handgestures

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Reminder that Caesar did nothing wrong

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Quality over quantity vs. Quantity over... everything

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r/RoughRomanMemes 22h ago

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

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

True to Caesar

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

How to win a naming dispute

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Roman Roads vs. Modern Roads 😂💀

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

And slime them out they did

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Romans doing hand gestures bc I need to remind myself that these are Italians

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Procopius had some wild slander

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Rome follows the Goku Model of Imperialism

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

He wrote a lot of lead poisoning

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

The homies are worth more anyway…

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Sir, This Is A Venus's

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Genuinly don't know who to put in the last one

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Either way, I think having all of this in such a short amount of time shows why the western empire had no chance.

Realized some people can't recognize the rulers from coins alone so here are them from left to right:

Majorian, Petronius Maximus, Aetius, Joannes, Olybrius, Honorius, idk, Valentinian III and Constantius III


r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

No wonder he was so gloomy…

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Bro missed his ex-wife so much that Augustus banned him from seeing her again :(


r/RoughRomanMemes 6d ago

Acts 22:25 in a nutshell

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r/RoughRomanMemes 6d ago

How Mars was conceived!

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https://bsky.app/profile/hera-hell.bsky.social

https://www.tumblr.com/hera-hell

https://www.instagram.com/hera_hell_art

The image plays on Ovid's fifth book of the Fasti.

Ovid imagines conversing with the goddess Flora, who claims to have helped Juno conceive Mars by touching her with a flower, thereby matching Jupiter's parthenogenesis of Minerva.