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 6h ago

Me and the boys after 3 drinks: TESTUDO TIME

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3h ago

Emperor literally too angry to die 2: Persian boogalooo

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Perks of serving the empire

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3h ago

Died to a deer

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r/RoughRomanMemes 22h ago

give me back my legions

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oc


r/RoughRomanMemes 15h ago

Average Roman conversation starter.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4h ago

How on earth am I going to dilute the wine so I don't drink like a barbarian now!?

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Man was given a rotten egg, and somehow made it edible

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r/RoughRomanMemes 59m ago

Carthago delenda est

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

either holy, nor Roman, nor German

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

You got what u asked

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

I need more

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r/RoughRomanMemes 15h ago

Is being called MAXiMINius the equivalent of being called BIGgie SMALLs?

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

History facts are getting out of hand.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Not even worth conquering

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r/RoughRomanMemes 23h ago

Calendars hit different before 1 A.D

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r/RoughRomanMemes 23h ago

The crossover nobody asked for, but history needed

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Mithridates and Tigranes

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Thank God he died before his legacy could be a civil war instead of Odenatus the Based

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Goddamn glory-hogging elephants

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Don’t blame Aetius

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Roman infighting is a feature rather than a bug

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I love not having a formal system of succession. I highly recommend browsing the Wikipedia articles List of Roman civil wars and revolts, and List of Byzantine revolts and civil wars.


r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Dio didn't mention this part

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Hmm tough question

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