" I have intercourse way more about lady of the house on bravo than I do the Roman Empire . " — @Kate_Chastain

IDK if you’ve noticed, but there’s been a lot of talk about a certain ancient civilization lately:

That’s right, everyone is talking (or at least thinking) about the Roman Empire. Why??? The trend seemingly started when Instagram user@gaiusflaviusposted areeltelling women to ask the men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire.

Pretty soon, the question became a trend on TikTok, and it turns out…men think about the Roman Empire quite a lot????

This trend is incredible . Some of the best ones#romanempire#romanempirecompilation

This issue forth as a complete electric shock to me , as I have n’t intend about the Roman Empire a single day in my life . But thanks to somehard - hitting journalismfrom my coworker and fellow BuzzFeed writer Julia , it turn over out there ’s in reality not a huge gender water parting here — woman think of the Roman Empire just as often as men do !

Regardless of who’s thinking about it, the Roman Empire quickly because a meme on Twitter (or is it X?? IDK anymore), and the jokes have me laugh-crying over my history textbook. Here are some of the best:

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I too think about the nightfall of the Roman Empire dailypic.twitter.com/MD9Od9ZvrN

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blank out the roman empire , how often do you reckon about the golden age of narniapic.twitter.com/BcEypXXvNs

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“ how often do you think about the roman empire?“str8 men : pic.twitter.com / pyrPAieiH1

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the girl version of the roman imperium is invariably thinking about that one thing that happened 7 years ago

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mayhap if you did your lesson as much as you thought about the roman imperium you ’d be fluent by now

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i fuck nothing about the romish imperium , but i can tell you everything about the taylor swift empirepic.twitter.com/SjS45F66f8

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my roman empirepic.twitter.com/gYOVGMr5MU

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The Roman Empire is for boy the Salem Witch Trials are for girls .

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how often does the Roman conglomerate recall of me 😔

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huh . i guess i do suppose about the roman print empirehttps://t.co/k5KJHN9NXK

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my mom just said her “ papist imperium ” is how the pioneer woman ’s family owns all the land killers of the flower moonshine is about

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the Roman Empire is for the wearisome . real men intend about ancient Egypt .

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recount my Kyd this was the gloam of the roman empirepic.twitter.com/63XW1NVbzK

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  • young pastor voice * I know one man who thought about the Roman Empire every day

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think about the Roman Empirepic.twitter.com/rG5ZrtrvcP

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Um girl think about the Roman Empire too ( caesar salads )

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I recognise right smart more about housewives on bravo than I do the Roman Empire

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i think about the romish imperium everydaypic.twitter.com/MpwGZ2V1te

An illustration of the Roman Empire