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15.09.2023 - 23:49 / variety.com
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. There’s an often-stated, invented fact that men think about sex every seven seconds. While psychologists have mostly disproven the fun factoid, TikTok may have helped prove that it’s not sex that men are thinking about at all times but…the Roman Empire.
In thousands of posts shared on social media, women have been asking the men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire. “I thought about it yesterday, I thought about it today. On average, half of the days, but sometimes I think about it every day,” one says.
“Constantly,” another says without a shred of sarcasm. In the few videos in which the men are pressed to explain this apparently rabid fascination, they cite its inarguable influence on everyday American life — from our structure of government to highways to architecture. Some can’t get past that it’s “just cool.” Many seem to have recently watched Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” (now streaming on Prime Video).
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Michaela Zee Francis Ford Coppola is joining the Roman Empire TikTok trend by answering the question: “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” “How often do I think of Ancient Rome? Quite a lot, as the Roman Republic served as the example for my country America and its institutions, and was the inspiration for my upcoming film ‘Megalopolis,'” the “Apocalypse Now” and “Godfather” director wrote on Instagram Friday. In the recent trend on TikTok, women ask the men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire, with most men claiming that they think about it daily or multiple times a week.
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