Roman Empire

What does Roman Empire mean?

Someone’s Roman Empire (or roman empire) is something they think about often or can’t stop thinking about.

Examples of _Roman Empire _

This song is my roman empire 😮‍💨
—@pat.rattanasuwan, Threads, 29 Sept. 2026

Alberta’s rat eradication program is my Roman Empire
—@dalyprose, BlueSky, 26 Sept. 2026

Your Roman Empire is the fact that Lou Bega was born in 1975 which means Mambo No. 5 was sung by a 24-year-old man.
—Jen Zoratti, The Winnipeg Free Press, 9 Dec. 2023

“What if aliens, like the stereotypical green guy with big black eyes, are actually just super evolved humans in the future?” Vaynblat, who also writes for NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” mused in an interview this week. This, she said, was her Roman Empire.
—Sopan Deb, The New York Times, 20 Sept. 2023

Here I must also inform you that there is an insane fan theory that Taylor attended a Jets game in her courtship with Travis Kelce in order to have a ‘Taylor Swift jets’ Google search yield pictures of her smiling at a football game, instead of tallies of her carbon emissions. This seems excessive even to me. But that theory is still one of my Roman Empires.
—Sophie Culpepper, Nieman Journalism Lab, 22 Nov. 2023

Where does Roman Empire come from?

This use of Roman Empire originated in a viral social media trend involving women asking men how often they think about the Roman Empire. This trend took off in 2023, after being started in late 2022 by a Swedish influencer named Saskia Cort.

How is Roman Empire used?

If the quotes above didn’t make it clear, anything—from songs to speculations to … rat eradication programs—can be someone’s Roman Empire. To each their own! Roman Empire is also used frequently, and often humorously and for exaggerated effect, as a reaction or response to something else posted on the internet, including a video or image.