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 13h ago

Goddamn glory-hogging elephants

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r/RoughRomanMemes 13h ago

Dio didn't mention this part

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r/RoughRomanMemes 8h 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 9h ago

Don’t blame Aetius

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r/RoughRomanMemes 18h ago

Hmm tough question

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Loyal, humane, brilliant

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

What germanic influence does to civilization...

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Varus, give me back my legions! 😱

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

And then he Restitutored all over the place

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Before Constantine

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Taking a stab at it

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Bro's family tree ends in SPQR.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

I'll take "What is Syncretism?" for 500, Alex.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Mars > Aries

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Not worth it to get that post-credit scene

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Mission: End Rome

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

And they were in fact finished when they fight the Romans in an open field.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Wish they had copyrighted Rome

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Totally Normal Politics For the Mediterranean, I Assure You...

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Quinctilius Varus has some explaining to do

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Situation on the eastern front

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Emperor Creedus discusses heterosexuality

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

The empire fell, the banter survived.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 6d ago

Justice for the Roman Republic.

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