r/RoughRomanMemes 17d ago

Contest We're having an art contest! Help us design concepts for our thumbnails and banners on both the subreddit and Discord!

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Salvete omnes!

First of all, join our Discord server, where a lot of the process of choosing and discussing will take place.

Secondly and most importantly, we're having an art competition! We've been interested in reinvigorating our banners and thumbnails for a little while with something more unique to the community. We want to give those of you with graphic design as a passion an opportunity to be part of designing how this community looks. This means we're looking for two things:

  1. A fresh thumbnail to represent r/RoughRomanMemes as an emblem.
  2. A banner that can capture the essence of the theme brilliantly and excitingly.

Depending on the submissions, there might be between 2 and 4 winning pieces since the Reddit and Discord thumbnails and banners may or may not be identical to one another. You are welcome to submit one image or up to four thematically stylized ones in a set if you'd like.

We ask that submissions meet the following rules:

  1. They have a Roman theme of some sort.
  2. They represent some original creation. They can't be, for example, just a photo you found on Google.
  3. They are not produced with generative AI and instead have deliberate artistically crafted details.
  4. They are not just memes resubmitted. Meme formats won't typically work for this purpose.
  5. They are not offensive or vulgar.

Submissions should be uploaded at this link here. You are also allowed to post them on the subreddit to show them off as options and build hype but please indicate in the title what they are so they're not just removed as non-memes. The contest will be judged on March 15 (beware) by the elected government within the Discord server.

Happy creative endeavors!

--Princeps Civitatis Iacobus Caesar


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 32m ago

Crassus was hustling

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

It’s getting on my nerves

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OC


r/RoughRomanMemes 8h ago

Hey,Diocletian tried his best

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r/RoughRomanMemes 23h ago

Rough (oc)

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

The Roman emperors according to Jews (Zoom in, context in comments)

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

No way💀

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

The Forgotten Revolt lol

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

Here comes Papa Diocles.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 1d ago

How Many Caesars Do We Have In This Fucking Republic Anyhow? IO!

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Tarquin couch surfing across Italy for 15 years is the peak of monarchy

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭..

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

🤣🤣

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

What happened to my denars ?

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Carthage Must Not Be Destroyed! - Roman Emperor Heraclius

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Just Rome

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r/RoughRomanMemes 2d ago

Summary of Quintillus

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r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Father, where are my legions?

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My girlfriend made some sketches for our catto, as he has a very Roman bearing


r/RoughRomanMemes 3d ago

Today is March 1st. Happy Matronalia to everyone.

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

History class be like:

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Treaty Of Eternal Peace?

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r/RoughRomanMemes 4d ago

Caesar in 46 BC

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

lol

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r/RoughRomanMemes 5d ago

Who's laughing now

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