The Ancient Romans were Sh*tposters

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  • Scientists have recently begun cataloguing graffiti found in Ancient Roman cities such as Pompeii. This video goes over some of my favorites.
    Sorry for the censored title, UA-cam's got some silly rules.
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  • @Huggbees
    @Huggbees  Рік тому +5297

    Look man, if it was up to me, every single title to every video on UA-cam would have lots of amazing profanity. But they've got arbitrary rules on what I can and can't put there, so enjoy your free asterisk.

  • @FulgrimDragon
    @FulgrimDragon Рік тому +6670

    I love how bathroom grafitti is the most human way to tie us to our ancestors

    • @chilfghfh1949
      @chilfghfh1949 Рік тому +107

      @Tacidian On November 20th I read your comment and then decided to post this.

    • @heaterpastel9997
      @heaterpastel9997 Рік тому +57

      @@chilfghfh1949 On November 22th, I replied to this comment and decided to go sleep for 5 consecutive 60 minute's

    • @ElpatitoCuakHD
      @ElpatitoCuakHD Рік тому +16

      November 22th

    • @BlissfulHues13
      @BlissfulHues13 Рік тому +8

      Tuesday Nov 22nd

    • @sup7499
      @sup7499 Рік тому +16

      @Tacidian on November 22nd, I decided to stay up very late and join in this chain.

  • @AgentTasmania
    @AgentTasmania Рік тому +10013

    I genuinely love this kind of "people were always people" historical minutiae

    • @Lucifersfursona
      @Lucifersfursona Рік тому +578

      Unironically it’s like my favorite thing about
      - history
      - people
      We were always chaotic goofballs. Always 😂

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam Рік тому +103

      TIL how to spell minutiae

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 Рік тому +125

      Minutiae Means:
      The small, precise, or trivial details of something.

    • @alex.g7317
      @alex.g7317 Рік тому +4

      *minute

    • @X3GreenTea
      @X3GreenTea Рік тому +56

      @@alex.g7317 minutiae and minute are two different words

  • @LegacyCatalyst
    @LegacyCatalyst Рік тому +20864

    Reminds me of this cave art somewhere in Europe, the writings were 20ft up on a wall. When they actually got up there to translate it, all it said was: “This is very high.”

    • @ye11owman29
      @ye11owman29 Рік тому +4181

      trolled

    • @jlco
      @jlco Рік тому +3519

      That has some Elden Ring energy.

    • @Demonic_Tang
      @Demonic_Tang Рік тому +3395

      It was in the Nordic regions of ancient Europe, made by vikings about 1500 years ago. Viking humor has always just been big trolls

    • @dane1382
      @dane1382 Рік тому +2188

      @@Demonic_Tang TFW you get to the attic in the Hagia Sophia and find some medieval Viking graffiti. you translate it, and it just says "Halfdan was here."

    • @2-bit567
      @2-bit567 Рік тому +1279

      Has the same energy as the sign that says "There are no Easter eggs up here. Go away." In San Andreas

  • @modifiedakm2651
    @modifiedakm2651 Рік тому +11604

    Imagine making a joke so good that you made someone laugh 2000 years later

    • @therealdarklizzy
      @therealdarklizzy Рік тому +736

      Imagine archeologists discover our comments one day...

    • @iianigd
      @iianigd Рік тому +361

      @@therealdarklizzy how would archeologists uncover our jokes. Just try and explain

    • @Mr-Chick
      @Mr-Chick Рік тому +91

      @@iianigd I think he is broken

    • @therealdarklizzy
      @therealdarklizzy Рік тому +283

      @@iianigd They would dig them out from the dirt and carbon date them.

    • @grousewithakeyboard
      @grousewithakeyboard Рік тому +67

      @@therealdarklizzy Most jokes are not written they are either spoken or added to the internet

  • @benb1396
    @benb1396 Рік тому +2157

    They weren’t shitposting everywhere. They were shitting everywhere.

  • @pezzie3201
    @pezzie3201 Рік тому +5885

    Imagine the mountain exploding one day and having your deepest desires uncovered like 2000 years later

    • @nickkohlmann
      @nickkohlmann Рік тому +47

      Lmaoo

    • @cy_torrent
      @cy_torrent Рік тому +269

      We just exposed Lesbianus' Likes

    • @himanbam
      @himanbam Рік тому +300

      Imagine in 2000 years when historians are looking at your browsing history

    • @Jesse-xg8rk
      @Jesse-xg8rk Рік тому

      Or your shitting spot

    • @danielfleck8065
      @danielfleck8065 Рік тому +43

      @@himanbam :(

  • @ultracrit9531
    @ultracrit9531 Рік тому +5841

    Human comedy has not changed in the slightest. Some Roman lead sling bullets excavated from battlefields have had messages such as "ouch" "crack your teeth" "catch" and "attack Pompeii's arsehole" engraved onto them

    • @anawfulperson
      @anawfulperson Рік тому +842

      and then people think modern humor was invented like 3 years ago

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Рік тому +516

      "War never changes."
      Also, "Ave, true to Caesar."

    • @ultracrit9531
      @ultracrit9531 Рік тому +1

      @@Xbalanque84 Fuck the NCR

    • @dane1382
      @dane1382 Рік тому +388

      for those who dont know: pompeii was also the name of a great roman general, caesar's rival

    • @2-bit567
      @2-bit567 Рік тому +67

      @@Xbalanque84
      Legion ain't funny enough to be Roman

  • @SuperSimputer
    @SuperSimputer Рік тому +2329

    I love how all of them are about shitting or sex, except the one with two bros just hanging out, which could very well still be about shitting or sex

    • @thedarklrd6714
      @thedarklrd6714 Рік тому +330

      Ah yes, the two most important things to human culture

    • @forestdude5168
      @forestdude5168 Рік тому +201

      @@thedarklrd6714 and also the one dude baking bread on 19th

    • @soylentgreenb
      @soylentgreenb Рік тому +90

      @@forestdude5168 Yeah, but I figure that's still just a euphemism for pinching off a loaf.

    • @peanutcake.
      @peanutcake. Рік тому

      @@forestdude5168 Unless he shit the bread.

    • @MightyCaullie
      @MightyCaullie Рік тому +37

      The guy who made the bread on April 19th and the two friends, both are very wholesome

  • @_space_cat_
    @_space_cat_ Рік тому +1085

    "If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girfriend"
    This man doesn't fear to declare that waifus are real and proud to have one for himself. Absolute chad.

    • @mewmew8932
      @mewmew8932 Рік тому +71

      The og rizzler

    • @melonmusk8924
      @melonmusk8924 Рік тому +100

      Except he had a real woman, not a 2d waifu.

    • @MasterChaoko
      @MasterChaoko Рік тому +53

      ​@@melonmusk8924The ancients had to make do with what they had

    • @ligma445
      @ligma445 11 місяців тому

      that or he could be saying his girl is as fat as the planet Venus

    • @LethargicScientist
      @LethargicScientist 11 місяців тому +15

      The original wife guy

  • @samuraijackoff5354
    @samuraijackoff5354 Рік тому +1727

    These and Japanese/Chinese poems/letters about how weird their pet cats were are the best. I still love the painting of an armoured walking his pet cat.

    • @lightmorrison5404
      @lightmorrison5404 Рік тому +57

      Where could I find those poems

    • @CA-9526
      @CA-9526 Рік тому +85

      Rich ancient Egyptian making their dead pet cats into mummies seriously be like:

    • @PolarBear-rc4ks
      @PolarBear-rc4ks Рік тому +19

      I believe that image is just a recent illustration, not genuinely ancient

    • @RabbiHerschel
      @RabbiHerschel Рік тому +81

      There is a poem written in the 9th century by an Irish monk who lived in a German monastery about how the monk liked to watch his cat hunt mice while he studied.

    • @elhugox1
      @elhugox1 Рік тому +112

      Wasn't there one about a monk that said "no wind can push me", then another replied "fart", then the monk enraged when to the guy house, and the guy went "so, no wind can push you, but a fart is enough to send you here"?

  • @waffler-yz3gw
    @waffler-yz3gw Рік тому +4981

    i love stuff like this because it shows how even though they were alive thousands of years ago, had completely different culture and spoke an entirely different language, they still had a sense of humor

    • @greenishpiss3588
      @greenishpiss3588 Рік тому +161

      I find it beautiful.

    • @DecisionsAreQuestionable
      @DecisionsAreQuestionable Рік тому +274

      humour brings us all together as a species

    • @nyancatpoptart5441
      @nyancatpoptart5441 Рік тому +116

      @@DecisionsAreQuestionable unfortunately humor no longer is looked upon as acceptable anymore. So we are all divided.

    • @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger
      @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger Рік тому +158

      @@nyancatpoptart5441 My favorite stance on this is: everything is sacred or nothing is.
      I prefer the latter - mock everything, laugh at everyone.

    • @alejandropetit6573
      @alejandropetit6573 Рік тому +32

      @@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger same, I understand why firmalities exist, but I still love living life while laughing at everything, including myself, and just knowing that at the end of the day it's alright to screw up from time to time

  • @DrNotnert
    @DrNotnert Рік тому +3206

    The things in the graffiti they left shows just how little we have actually changed in thousands of years. My personal favorite of the ones I've seen is "Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog"

    • @johnsherfey3675
      @johnsherfey3675 Рік тому +662

      I feel like this is the ancient version of "get a room".

    • @aquelacoiso6684
      @aquelacoiso6684 Рік тому +598

      @@johnsherfey3675 If I recall correctly, performing oral sex on girls was a taboo and made people see the man as less masculine. So this would be the same as someone from a rural part of Texas writing "Brian, stop fucking men's asses on the alley"

    • @Lucifersfursona
      @Lucifersfursona Рік тому +118

      @@aquelacoiso6684 ancient Pompeii dj khalid

    • @johnsherfey3675
      @johnsherfey3675 Рік тому +41

      @@aquelacoiso6684 Aww okay that makes sense.

    • @JudgeNicodemus
      @JudgeNicodemus Рік тому +177

      @@aquelacoiso6684 if i recall correctly it was because Romans put great emphasis on oratory skills. So, as a man, giving oral to a woman was actually gonna get you seen as a slave in those times, it was a worse position to be found in than with another man in you.

  • @cherrypopscile3385
    @cherrypopscile3385 Рік тому +273

    The funniest thing about that bread quote: That quote outlived the autobiography of a roman emperor.

  • @Felix-xv3wg
    @Felix-xv3wg Рік тому +749

    For some reason this reminded me of how the Yucatan peninsula was named.
    When the Spaniards arrived at the Yucatan peninsula they asked the natives there what the name of their land was. The natives replied in their language “I don't know what you're saying” and the Spaniards took it as one word and now the name of that place is the "Yucatan peninsula"

    • @thedarklrd6714
      @thedarklrd6714 Рік тому +200

      That's so weirdly funny. The "I don't know what you're saying" peninsula

    • @gabry2558
      @gabry2558 Рік тому +44

      So same as kangaroos if it's true for both cases

    • @arkle519
      @arkle519 Рік тому +23

      lol I didn't know such an elegant sonuding name had such an frivolous etymology

    • @vornamenachname989
      @vornamenachname989 Рік тому +68

      Same with kangaroos actually, James Cook's men asked the locals for the name of the weird animal jumping on his hind legs, and the local just said "kangaroo" or in English "What did you say?" and they thought that was the actual name
      Edit: Forgot to write name at the end lmao

    • @lilenwasnothere6867
      @lilenwasnothere6867 Рік тому +43

      the avá people (or the guaraní) where named guaraní because that's what they yelled when they saw the spaniards. it meant "attack them".

  • @hannahbrown2728
    @hannahbrown2728 Рік тому +4922

    As a history dweeb Im delighted you mentioned Herculaneum with Pompeii. So many folks ignore it despite it being just as important if not at least as well preserved. Edit: I wish I was a baker

    • @spicy1615
      @spicy1615 Рік тому +101

      You know... I always wanted to be a baker

    • @axeljuarez1593
      @axeljuarez1593 Рік тому +77

      I respect the dream of wanting to be a baker

    • @Knap4501
      @Knap4501 Рік тому +44

      Dude I remember touring Pompeii and seeing “so-and-so was here” and campaign slogans all over

    • @fabioalbert101
      @fabioalbert101 Рік тому +10

      You wish you were Hannah Baker?

    • @kmcclellan9820
      @kmcclellan9820 Рік тому +9

      I'm a baker. It's alright.

  • @Anime-Control
    @Anime-Control Рік тому +3598

    I’ve got to wonder if that baking bread one was a Latin euphemism lost to time, or if that guy was just really excited about making his bread

    • @wakawakawakawaka8804
      @wakawakawakawaka8804 Рік тому +542

      You know what, that's actually a possibility.

    • @jeremiahvires7864
      @jeremiahvires7864 Рік тому +471

      I was expecting him to say "this is a euphamism for losing his virginity"

    • @MerkyMan_
      @MerkyMan_ Рік тому +15

      I believe by making bread. he means taking a shit.

    • @red5t653
      @red5t653 Рік тому +431

      I mean isn't there that whole saying about pregnant women having a "bun in the oven?"

    • @shaventalz3092
      @shaventalz3092 Рік тому +209

      He put a little bun in the oven, wink wink nudge nudge.

  • @hobobohemian
    @hobobohemian Рік тому +1104

    This reminds me of that one inscription in the Hagia Sofia that was in Norse runes and people tried to decipher it and when they did it was a random carving by a Norse hired guard that said “Halfdan carved this”

    • @Raycheetah
      @Raycheetah Рік тому +192

      And thus did Halfdan achieve a form of immortality, known across the globe by many, centuries after his passing. =^[.]^=

    • @Demicleas
      @Demicleas Рік тому +107

      He was probably a vangarian guard then. They always did have a weird thing going on compared to most other Vikings.

    • @christopherstein2024
      @christopherstein2024 Рік тому +80

      Halfdan when Wholedan walk in: ᛘᛋᛘᚴ

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Рік тому +16

      When long enough time vandalism turn to hystoric artefak

    • @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179
      @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Рік тому +3

      @@Demicleas what do vikings have to do with Hagia Sophia???

  • @FedericBan-tz9cq
    @FedericBan-tz9cq 11 місяців тому +122

    The fact that Secundus had to clarify three times that it was the spot where he defecated, like an animal marking his own territory, never ceases to make me laugh.

  • @Tony36271
    @Tony36271 Рік тому +231

    3:23 “are you winning son?” 😂

    • @LandonMac32
      @LandonMac32 Рік тому +23

      Omg I didn't think about that lmao

  • @versebuchanan512
    @versebuchanan512 Рік тому +372

    Never forget Gaius and Aulus, besties for eternity.

  • @Enderlinkpawnu
    @Enderlinkpawnu Рік тому +1562

    man these guys were wild. Imagine being so proud of your sex life that you just have to write it down on a wall for everyone to see.

    • @moratolca
      @moratolca Рік тому +190

      we do the same on the internet tho

    • @Enderlinkpawnu
      @Enderlinkpawnu Рік тому +96

      @@moratolca I don't know saying the same thing on Twitter doesn't have the same gusto as literal graffiti.

    • @moratolca
      @moratolca Рік тому +176

      @@Enderlinkpawnu i agree. tweeting something takes seconds. but getting some paint and going out at 4am takes some real determination

    • @iplaygames8090
      @iplaygames8090 Рік тому

      @@moratolca 4 am? You mwan at noon while shitting on someone porch

    • @corndogonasticc
      @corndogonasticc Рік тому +38

      I love how it technically works the same as twitter, just less effort lmao. Human moment in 4k.

  • @bionicbirb9104
    @bionicbirb9104 Рік тому +735

    If you visit Pompeii, you can both visit the brothel (with Latin graffiti complaining about stds) or buy bookfuls of nsfw graffiti from the Romans

    • @circumferenced
      @circumferenced Рік тому +26

      Who do i gotta ask

    • @monkofdarktimes
      @monkofdarktimes Рік тому +10

      I remember reading it. I liked it

    • @gabry2558
      @gabry2558 Рік тому +26

      The brothel even had the "menu" on the wall in tiny mosaics

    • @arbsallaku6478
      @arbsallaku6478 Рік тому +23

      waiiiiiit....the romans DID HAVE FANFICTION

    • @milkuetea
      @milkuetea Рік тому +7

      Man, even if I would've died I wish I lived in the shit post capital pompeii in one of my past lives

  • @peterkimball3323
    @peterkimball3323 Рік тому +87

    This is a big win for us. It proves without a doubt that shit jokes, farts, and sex jokes are not inappropriate, it could be the very thing that makes us human. Faith restored

  • @wfcoaker1398
    @wfcoaker1398 Рік тому +139

    "I made bread" is the Roman equivalent of meal pics on Facebook.

  • @frownyclowny6955
    @frownyclowny6955 Рік тому +1073

    Gaius and Aulus’ message was so genuinely sweet to me that I wanted to honor them in a series I’m concepting. Sort of an “ordinary people from two different time periods reaching out” sorta thing

    • @mildlymarvelous
      @mildlymarvelous Рік тому +77

      Ikr? It genuinely touched my heart. Literally friends forever 🥺

    • @spacecowboy7568
      @spacecowboy7568 Рік тому +129

      @@mildlymarvelous And they ASKED if we wanted to know their names! Dead for over a thousand years and still has manners!

    • @PrimataGamer
      @PrimataGamer Рік тому +14

      That sounds interesting! Good luck on your series

    • @floptaxie68
      @floptaxie68 Рік тому +3

      Wow that’s awesome

    • @undreadecembrie
      @undreadecembrie Рік тому

      I have never heard something cringier or more boring.

  • @David_Brinkerhoff93
    @David_Brinkerhoff93 Рік тому +1949

    'TODAY I BAKED BREAD"
    IMPLYING THAT the bread you ate on April 19th was baked with the same hands that wiped his ass on that stool.
    It's a greatest shitpost

  • @pfcparts7728
    @pfcparts7728 Рік тому +266

    My saddest one but favorite one:
    “We two dear men, friends forever were here. If you wish to know our names, it is Gaius and Aulus.”
    - found left of Pompeiian bar door
    😢
    Hope they’re reincarnated somewhere in modern Rome, still drunkenly writing their names and shitposts on a bar wall somewhere.

  • @Mr._Pancakes
    @Mr._Pancakes Рік тому +81

    4:19 Missed opportunity for Gayus and Analus

  • @thebush6077
    @thebush6077 Рік тому +897

    Is it weird that this is really humanizing and connecting them for me. Like, before they were just mysterious ancient people I never thought about beyond existing at some point... But now I'm realizing yeah they weren't actually that different...

    • @Paronak
      @Paronak Рік тому +90

      I shat in this spot

    • @PoeticNixon
      @PoeticNixon Рік тому

      Humans have always just been that, humans. Moving around our rock and trying to make sense of the world. And sharing our shit spots

    • @cybr69lol
      @cybr69lol Рік тому +75

      Today, on the 21st of November 2022 8:11 p.m. GMT +8 I took a shit on the toilet

    • @blo.8679
      @blo.8679 Рік тому +20

      I blo, peed a little and took a poop when reading this comment.

    • @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179
      @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Рік тому

      I poo pooed farted

  • @gabebenson6105
    @gabebenson6105 Рік тому +558

    The one about sticking it in fire burning you feels like the earliest attested version of “Don’t stick it in crazy.”

    • @endymallorn
      @endymallorn Рік тому +47

      Or, watch out for the clap.

    • @trueblueclue
      @trueblueclue Рік тому +57

      I thought he caught an STD

    • @hossdelgado626
      @hossdelgado626 Рік тому +21

      All of these answers are gold

    • @ShinChara
      @ShinChara Рік тому +5

      It's referring to the Flame Atronachs in Skyrim.

    • @surrk1057
      @surrk1057 Рік тому +3

      @@ShinChara they limited edition tho

  • @Eggyteevee
    @Eggyteevee Рік тому +425

    Something I learned today: shitposting is enraised in the human nature, and we cannot change this

    • @normanclatcher
      @normanclatcher Рік тому +12

      The enraisement can be settled with a cold shower.

    • @hossdelgado626
      @hossdelgado626 Рік тому +9

      The only good thing about us arguably

    • @Eggyteevee
      @Eggyteevee Рік тому +10

      @@hossdelgado626 depends of the pov tho
      A m o g u s

    • @Eggyteevee
      @Eggyteevee Рік тому +14

      @João P K in their case, yeah

  • @boxcarjoefromhalflife2
    @boxcarjoefromhalflife2 Рік тому +36

    i like to imagine that the female gods to the ancient romans were like anime waifus to modern day weebs

    • @wesleyfilms
      @wesleyfilms 4 місяці тому +5

      There’s were probably more than a few weirdos into Medusa and other monster girls lol

    • @LovedLamb
      @LovedLamb 4 місяці тому +5

      😂 I mean Greek Goddesses which were the same as Romans had fanclubs such as women who done rituals for Demeter.

  • @billclinton3862
    @billclinton3862 Рік тому +45

    "Oh my lusty son, With how many women have you had sexual relations?"
    I did not have sexual relations with any women

    • @pablo_giustiniani
      @pablo_giustiniani Місяць тому

      I momentarily thought this was a reference to Bill Clinton

  • @justsomeeggsinapot1784
    @justsomeeggsinapot1784 Рік тому +1851

    Fun fact, one guy is found encased in ash just jackin it. The world was collapsing around him and he decided to get one last one out.
    Legend.

    • @jokerman9623
      @jokerman9623 Рік тому +374

      I hope he was able to relieve himself before being encased in ash

    • @OhPhuckYou
      @OhPhuckYou Рік тому +139

      I'm getting ready to do the same thing.

    • @hossdelgado626
      @hossdelgado626 Рік тому +187

      Honestly, even as a teenager learning this I was like "yep, makes sense to me"

    • @Littlefighter1911
      @Littlefighter1911 Рік тому +65

      Stress relief.

    • @Masterdeath16
      @Masterdeath16 Рік тому +195

      the thing is he never got to finish because if he did he would not be in that pose

  • @gkraith2995
    @gkraith2995 Рік тому +411

    Just looking into historic findings of people in the past really cements the "the more things change the more things stay the same"
    I also recommend a youtuber called toldinstone for roman history more focused on roman's everyday life. My favourite is his videos about imaging how a time traveller will deal with visiting ancient rome.

    • @nickkohlmann
      @nickkohlmann Рік тому +6

      Thanks for the recommendation! Will check

    • @dildoswaffel6144
      @dildoswaffel6144 Рік тому +1

      @@nickkohlmann why is war bad?

    • @zhiracs
      @zhiracs Рік тому

      @@dildoswaffel6144 because the motherfuckers who start them never actually fight themselves.

    • @dildoswaffel6144
      @dildoswaffel6144 Рік тому +2

      @@zhiracs look up general butt naaked

    • @mehmetgurdal
      @mehmetgurdal Рік тому

      Oh jeez.
      Now I have a week worth of binge material and won't be able to get work done.
      Are you happy now? :D

  • @TheInvisibleCactusYT
    @TheInvisibleCactusYT Рік тому +293

    This is exactly why I love this channel
    In a word where all content and media is reposted and recycled, it’s so refreshing to have so many original ideas for videos!
    And it’s entertaining every single time

    • @V_SABITRON
      @V_SABITRON Рік тому +27

      Huggbees is just reposting memes from 79 A.D. smh

    • @nickkohlmann
      @nickkohlmann Рік тому +1

      @@V_SABITRON lmaoooo

  • @stuckonaslide
    @stuckonaslide Рік тому +62

    5:16
    first historical account of
    "fuck around and find out"

  • @tweedledoo22
    @tweedledoo22 Рік тому +15

    On April 19, he made bread. ON APRIL 19, THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, AND INDIVIDUAL MADE BREAD. ON THIS VERY DAY, APRIL 19, CENTURIES AGO, A PASTRY WAS MADE. WE SHALL REJOICE THAT ON THIS DAY, APRIL 19, SOMEONE MADE BREAD TO EAT.

  • @dschehutinefer5627
    @dschehutinefer5627 Рік тому +251

    The thing that impresses me the most about Roman graffiti is that I feel like it's also a good indicator about how surprisingly literate city-dwelling Romans were. We know there were schools and teachers for the upper class and some of these boys were probably among those crass and bored enough to write these graffiti, but I feel like their omnipresence in these preserved cities makes it much more likely that these were simple commoners who had to learn to read and write in order to get by one way or another.

    • @gayusschwulius8490
      @gayusschwulius8490 Рік тому +5

      Some estimates say that over 90 % of Roman citizens were literate at its peak, and in Italy itself it was probably even higher than that. They really had a very solid culture.

    • @germanmemerboi3157
      @germanmemerboi3157 Рік тому +19

      Afaik, they even had public teachers teaching kids in the street, so for an ancient culture, comparatively well literate.

  • @OhPhuckYou
    @OhPhuckYou Рік тому +8012

    "Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity." I think this is my new favorite Roman quote.

    • @TurtleShroom3
      @TurtleShroom3 Рік тому +613

      I want to see that in the original Latin.

    • @Gabriel-br4qe
      @Gabriel-br4qe Рік тому +345

      real mgtow moment

    • @amelia078
      @amelia078 Рік тому +187

      @@TurtleShroom3 I've been looking everywhere but so far I haven't been able to find it rip

    • @lukegavin124
      @lukegavin124 Рік тому +198

      This is the greatest quote ever made

    • @wta1518
      @wta1518 Рік тому +320

      @@TurtleShroom3 It's definitely not the original, but using Google Translate to translate it to Latin: Clama, puellae. Cerebrum tibi dedi. Sequebatur autem eum populus. Vale, mira femina
      Edit: translating that back to English makes it better: Shout out, girls. I gave you a brain. And the people followed him. Farewell, wonderful woman

  • @HighGradeTitanium
    @HighGradeTitanium Рік тому +687

    With the restitutus and restituta thing in Roman culture girls would take on the feminine version of their husbands name after marriage and before marriage their names would be the feminine form of their father’s name and they would’ve differentiated from their sister by order of birth such as “prima” being what the first born daughter was called and “secunda” being what the second daughter would be called. Kinda fucked up they didn’t get their own names but this was like 2000 years ago.

    • @renderproductions1032
      @renderproductions1032 Рік тому +55

      That’s pretty crazy, although it is quite similar to what we have today with last names.

    • @Astavyastataa
      @Astavyastataa Рік тому +89

      Bruh the men were also named by numbers. This was common across the world. Get out of here with this SJW crap.

    • @shadowcween7890
      @shadowcween7890 Рік тому +83

      @@Astavyastataa Why is that the response? It's just weird to have a family name but not your own name. No thing more.

    • @Astavyastataa
      @Astavyastataa Рік тому +40

      @@shadowcween7890 that was literally common practice throughout history for many ages and is still the case in many places. Don’t apply modern cultural sensibilities to history.

    • @diegoidepersia
      @diegoidepersia Рік тому +67

      @@Astavyastataa romans while they did sometimes number the children it was the norm for females and a less strict rule for men

  • @ferretyluv
    @ferretyluv Рік тому +737

    It wasn’t social media. It was bathroom graffiti, which hasn’t changed in millennia.
    It’s “CEL-a-dus” and “Thray-shun.”
    I’m sure the “I made bread” thing was a euphemism or an inside joke.

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Рік тому +26

      I Made bread in bathroom graffity implilyng he bake the bread after or before go to bathroom the same day with same hand !!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @soloapricot
      @soloapricot Рік тому +18

      In fact, I remember one very local arthouse film about two prisoners, where one of them comes with a plate of shit to the other and literally says, "brother, I brought some sweet bread to eat", so I suspect the essence of the inscription may be in such an idiotic but funny statement and if so, it's funny how much the choice of words, the very essence of humor and so on has not changed in a couple of millennia

    • @pedrofreitas4262
      @pedrofreitas4262 Рік тому +3

      You mean Keh-la-dus and Tra-ksi-ahnus (or Tra-ks, depending of how is writen in the original)?

    • @curtisthomas2670
      @curtisthomas2670 Рік тому +2

      Made bread was a euphemism for taking a dump, a good firm stool looked like a loaf of bread 😅

    • @ДаниилВолбушко
      @ДаниилВолбушко Рік тому

      ​@@soloapricotthe green elephant

  • @nibulsheep8214
    @nibulsheep8214 Рік тому +75

    I love how these graffitis just show how persistent the Human spirit is, it doesn't matter how many years pass, nor how many cataclysm we suffer, the human will always remain an animal.

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Рік тому +7

      I mean we are animal .to big to be germ to fast to be plant 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Edens_Bones
    @Edens_Bones Рік тому +67

    Huggbees humble beginnings with How it’s Made evolving into this..? I’m here for it.

  • @JTheDemiboy
    @JTheDemiboy Рік тому +415

    thank you for the history lesson my teachers wouldn't give me because it's "Too unscientific" and "What the fuck is this" and "How did you get in my house" like, just tell me nicely.

    • @RadioMan2023
      @RadioMan2023 Рік тому +4

      Lol

    • @NewCanada
      @NewCanada Рік тому +8

      He has a point. How did you get in his house? 🤔

    • @alfatazer_8991
      @alfatazer_8991 9 місяців тому

      ​@@NewCanada Through the front door duh...?

  • @lordfriedrick7911
    @lordfriedrick7911 Рік тому +84

    That "On april 19th i made bread" has another significance...
    Let's just say that writing was on the same wall where Restituta was nominated...

  • @Relaxin-N-Chillin
    @Relaxin-N-Chillin Рік тому +22

    Holy shit this is the high/middle school toilets but old and in a fancier language.

  • @darkranger116
    @darkranger116 Рік тому +372

    I love how the Romans were like "state sanctioned violence, femboys and shitposting"
    And Americans just straight up copied the homework.

    • @alexodeh
      @alexodeh Рік тому +39

      America and Rome are literally the same state with language differences

    • @pleasureisgood5957
      @pleasureisgood5957 Рік тому

      I wish,npt enough femboys.in America,we need more.

    • @_blank-_
      @_blank-_ Рік тому

      @@alexodeh
      Based on slavery: check
      Aggressive expansion and genocide: check
      Love their army: check
      Morally and sexually deviant: check
      Crazy inflation and rotten economic system: check
      Probably going to be toppled by crazy Christians: check
      Works because of an army of (wage) slaves: check
      An aristocracy pretending to be a republic: check

    • @alexodeh
      @alexodeh Рік тому

      @@_blank-_ yes

    • @stephenrusso6019
      @stephenrusso6019 Рік тому +16

      @@alexodeh probably going to go out the same way too. It's Ironic really being of Italian origin. this is what my ancestors saw but even dumber. The similarities between the two are actually pretty disturbing.

  • @GoofballAndi
    @GoofballAndi Рік тому +93

    aw yeah, was waiting for a video on the best bromance in history
    GAIUS AND AULUS
    BROS4LIFE

  • @nintenx1235
    @nintenx1235 Рік тому +125

    You ever wonder why we call money "bread" it's because in ancient times bakers were GETTING. THAT. BREAD.

    • @PossibleBat
      @PossibleBat Рік тому +17

      Even better, salary, comes from salt, as in ancient people were payed in salt (rare resource, very valuable, to preserve food amongst other things)

  • @Raphe9000
    @Raphe9000 Рік тому +935

    Fun fact, that "weep you girls" graffito is actually a poem written as an elegiac couplet, so it can be sung like the works of the greatest poets.
    "Vōs mea dēservit iam verpa dolēte puellae
    pēdīcat cūlum cunne superbe valē"
    "-" represents a long syllable and "u" a short one. In this poem, "x" is long (though it can be a short syllable in the place of a long one in some other poems). A ˈ means the syllable is stressed (which in Latin is independent from syllable length, though you can use said length to know where stress will fall).
    A vowel with a - over it is held for around twice the length. Any syllable ending in a consonant is also held at that consonant for longer.
    - u u / - - / - - / - u u / - u u / - x
    - - / - - / - / - u u / - u u / x
    ˈVōs ˈme a / dē ˈser / vit jam / ˈver pa do / ˈlē te pu / el lae
    Pē ˈdī / cat ˈcū / lum / ˈcun ne su / ˈper be ˈva / lē

    • @CleopatraKing
      @CleopatraKing Рік тому +124

      HELL YEA FUCKIN OTHER LATIN STUDENTS

    • @kell_0741
      @kell_0741 Рік тому +71

      ayy get a load of this guy

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 Рік тому +26

      *[INSERT FLASHBACKS TO "SHADILAY" HERE]*
      Sometimes, I really love our species.

    • @WestOfLee100
      @WestOfLee100 Рік тому

      what the fuck?

    • @sneeble8342
      @sneeble8342 Рік тому +8

      This was not in fact, a fun fact

  • @thedarkness4052
    @thedarkness4052 6 місяців тому +3

    "You that shits in this place" might be my favorite line of all time.

  • @thepit7868
    @thepit7868 5 місяців тому +4

    A friendship like Gaius and Aulus's is something many of us can only dream of.

  • @rainonanya
    @rainonanya Рік тому +186

    As a classics student who recently visited Herculaneum and Pompeii, and someone whose day has been real sh¡tty; this video was honestly a gift from the gods and the perfect way of drying tears, thank you huggbees.

    • @ynpavo
      @ynpavo Рік тому +5

      hey bro, I'm here if you need to talk to someone

    • @rainonanya
      @rainonanya Рік тому +3

      @@ynpavo thank you so much, I really appreciate it

    • @ynpavo
      @ynpavo Рік тому +3

      @@rainonanya np bro

    • @DJHastingsFeverPitch
      @DJHastingsFeverPitch Рік тому

      Don't you mean a grift from the gods

  • @KandyKoatedCreature
    @KandyKoatedCreature Рік тому +65

    4:00
    Mans really said "To hell with Pussy... BUSSY'S WHERE IT'S AT!!!!"
    LET'S FUCKING GOOO!!!

  • @FlameAtronauch
    @FlameAtronauch Рік тому +40

    I love the new angle Hugbees is working on, putting some kind of self-reflecting message at the end of his videos. Really makes me appreciate the already fantastic content that much more

  • @jarekwrzosek2048
    @jarekwrzosek2048 Рік тому +17

    Caius and Aulus: The best bromance you never heard of.

  • @Blaze_1379
    @Blaze_1379 11 місяців тому +8

    me when a mountain explodes and 2000 years later historians check your search history:

  • @jckitkat4499
    @jckitkat4499 Рік тому +91

    Always remember that several people in Pompeii, in their final moments decided to get one out and ended up doing it for the rest of time

  • @Justanotherpersonontheinternet
    @Justanotherpersonontheinternet Рік тому +53

    This is going into my “insult your worst enemy” playlist

  • @Xbalanque84
    @Xbalanque84 Рік тому +32

    7:08 Centurion: "Between the dates of April 19th and April 22nd, I teleported bread."

    • @goldngamer1365
      @goldngamer1365 Рік тому +5

      *HOW MUCH?!?!*

    • @Blueskies2513
      @Blueskies2513 Рік тому +5

      ​@@goldngamer1365 i have done nothing but teleport bread for the past 3 days

    • @CatiosPizza
      @CatiosPizza Рік тому +2

      ​@@Blueskies2513☠️

    • @Merasus
      @Merasus Рік тому

      ​@@Blueskies2513 VHERE!?!?!? VHERE HAVE YOU'VE BEEN SENDING IT!?!?!?

    • @pablo_giustiniani
      @pablo_giustiniani Місяць тому

      ​@@Merasus -said the medicus, in a strong gothic accent

  • @marti5420
    @marti5420 Рік тому +35

    5:32 I audibly awww'ed at that.

  • @TheAdvertisement
    @TheAdvertisement Рік тому +17

    3:57 That's gotta be the baddest coming out sentence ever.

  • @totsugekiii
    @totsugekiii Рік тому +25

    I remember first reading up on some of the Pompeii graffiti a few years ago and it's still one of my favorite things to go back to and read. Really just goes to show how the only thing that's changed is where we put our messages.
    Thank you for covering this very important topic.

  • @Monkiydude
    @Monkiydude Рік тому +32

    3:23 sounds like the earliest version of the "are ya winning son?" meme.

  • @poketales9207
    @poketales9207 Рік тому +37

    reminds me of some ancient viking writing found waaaay up high in an ancient cave, which once was thought to be religious, actaully saying "this spot is high"

    • @TurtleShroom3
      @TurtleShroom3 Рік тому +5

      I remember reading about Varangarian runes in Constantinople literally reading "[DUDE'S NAME] carved these runes!".

    • @memesfromdeepspace1075
      @memesfromdeepspace1075 Рік тому +1

      Troll 100

  • @eges72
    @eges72 Рік тому +5

    This is incredibly similar to those random "shitposts" in communal toilets in the Ottoman era, such as: "Bunu yazan Tosun, okuyana gosu,n" meaning "Tosun who wrote this, will beat anyone who reads this" so hilarious even if it doesn't make any sense 😂

  • @dontparticipate240
    @dontparticipate240 Рік тому +4

    “The one who buggers a fire burns his penis.”
    I felt that one.

  • @whatbroicanhave50character35
    @whatbroicanhave50character35 Рік тому +14

    Loving the frequency of uploads right now. I rewatch these videos so often, it's so exciting to get something new!

  • @Lozoot2
    @Lozoot2 Рік тому +43

    I can't believe you didn't cover my favorite piece of ancient graffiti:
    _"Lo, my gentile readers, this wall engraving hath been commissioned by Lord Raid, Legend of Shadow. Come hither, using mine reference words "Fecal Wall", to acquire riches and women as your heart desires!"_

  • @bobby_greene
    @bobby_greene Рік тому +122

    To be fair, the last one was probably about a turd that was shaped like a loaf of bread

    • @exotic1405
      @exotic1405 Рік тому +2

      Sneaky

    • @greenhowie
      @greenhowie Рік тому +7

      careful it's not in the oven too long or you'll struggle to get the door open

    • @bobby_greene
      @bobby_greene Рік тому +6

      @@greenhowie worse than that is when it overproofs and gets too gassy and spills out of the pan

  • @majorpwner241
    @majorpwner241 Рік тому +14

    1:15 The greenscreen made it look like his headphones are just kinda floating there. I would like to acquire some of these futuristic floaty phones.

  • @Scav-Goblin
    @Scav-Goblin 5 місяців тому +3

    6:42AM CST April 7th 2024: I'm currently Making the Shit on the "Wall" of My Toilet. Praying no gigantic burning rocks find me.

  • @TheUnillustratedChaos
    @TheUnillustratedChaos Рік тому +250

    I wonder if the people back in those days had something like "My Immortal". Like, did people write steamy and godawful fanfics about roman gods doing it and it was so notoriously bad that it actually got a bit of attention? (maybe even a venus self-insert fanfiction 😁)

    • @FredFake
      @FredFake Рік тому +128

      Like 90% of Greek tales involve one god or another fucking something, so I would say you're pretty spot on.

    • @takebacktheholyland9306
      @takebacktheholyland9306 Рік тому +85

      therr must've been 100% it's just lost to time, i mean if Dante's inferno was a fanfic about his political enemies dying in horrible ways then surely there's more to it than just that

    • @bluexephosfan970
      @bluexephosfan970 Рік тому +40

      Not written fanfiction, most means of writing then were either limited, impermanent, or expensive, but in other media forms like memorizable stories or plays or what have you, yeah probably lmao

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Рік тому +18

      @@bluexephosfan970 That implies that some scribe never got bored... I'm sure there's some codified stuff too. Its just most likely extremely obscure or burned down at Alexandria, cause only the important stuff was widely distributed.

    • @ye11owman29
      @ye11owman29 Рік тому

      not really bc not that many people could read or write even in Roman times

  • @gregoryhouldsworth2189
    @gregoryhouldsworth2189 Рік тому +84

    It's nice to know that, although we are worlds apart in terms of technology, ancient humans were pretty much exactly like us.

    • @Dan_Kanerva
      @Dan_Kanerva Рік тому +13

      i wouldn't say "worlds apart"... These guys had better concrete and roads that we have now , had running water and home-heat systems , advanced knowledge of germs , efficient sewers , compass and observatoriums , flexible glass , surgical instruments , and even analogical computers like the famous antikythera device.
      The Romans were so ridiculously advanced , that many of their inventions weren't re-discovered until the 18 century.

    • @joe-op2gr
      @joe-op2gr Рік тому

      @@Dan_Kanerva shits crazy

  • @fedoramaster6035
    @fedoramaster6035 Рік тому +71

    5:00 a Thracian is also a type of gladiator. I’ve heard of that graffiti in reference to gladiators, and in rome they were seen as basically sex symbols. So it’s more likely he was a gladiator than some dude from the balkans. Especially because thracians were seen as barbarians, so it’s not something you’d generally catch a native bragging about.

    • @kukifitte7357
      @kukifitte7357 9 місяців тому

      A thracian is just someone from thrace

  • @Konstantinsen
    @Konstantinsen Рік тому +16

    There's actually a whole list of all the recorded graffiti in Pompei and Herculaneum (and elsewhere across in the former Roman Empire) and a lot of it is basically the same stuff. Even an entire menu chiseled on a wall was uncovered in Pomeii after they excavated a thermopolium (an ancient Roman restaurant/buffet line), prices and all.

    • @kevaughnmerrill6534
      @kevaughnmerrill6534 Рік тому +2

      That's awesome. An accurate roman menu with prices!

    • @mrtrollnator123
      @mrtrollnator123 Рік тому +4

      I know it's dark to say this, but thank god Mt vesuvius nuked pompeii and burned it to the ashes, since it preserved almost everything

  • @curtisthomas2670
    @curtisthomas2670 Рік тому +3

    He left out the most direct "l screwed the barmaid"😅

  • @griddy_energy_official
    @griddy_energy_official Рік тому +33

    "What was one thing you can name originated from Ancient Rome and changed the world?"
    "Shitposting"

  • @D3vilrain
    @D3vilrain Рік тому +38

    My favorite part of history is when mount Vesuvius said "It's Vesuviusing time." And Vesuvius'd all over Pompeii

  • @OligoGlyco-ui8sk
    @OligoGlyco-ui8sk Рік тому +12

    In many medieval manuscripts knights were depicted fighting snails as a sort of parody of traditional stories of the time.
    It was accentually a meme.

  • @theaetherknight5614
    @theaetherknight5614 Рік тому +4

    Secundus. The first man in recorded history who made a literal shitpost.

  • @al145
    @al145 Рік тому +82

    I heard somewhere that back then "baking bread" could be a euphemism for taking a dump, pinching a loaf as it were. Taking the Browns to the superbowl, or the coliseum in this case

    • @hossdelgado626
      @hossdelgado626 Рік тому +3

      Yeah, it's a long brown round thing that's steaming hot. Drawing the same joke with the same logic isn't hard, just speculation on our part without something to back it uo

    • @orfeo793
      @orfeo793 Рік тому +3

      yeah, thought that euphemism was obvious to most people haha

  • @presentrama
    @presentrama Рік тому +186

    you know you're a geography person when you knew about thracian being from the balkans without this guy telling you

    • @jextra1313
      @jextra1313 Рік тому +44

      I feel like being bosnian gives you a slight advantage

    • @ZALJK
      @ZALJK Рік тому +7

      whats up my epic balkan bro

    • @awesome346
      @awesome346 Рік тому +2

      Jesus loves you!

    • @chadiusgigadious7017
      @chadiusgigadious7017 Рік тому +3

      I’m not a “geography person” and I knew it. I guess it’s just my chad energy then.

    • @presentrama
      @presentrama Рік тому +1

      @@jextra1313 that is true though

  • @N0VaDa
    @N0VaDa Рік тому +51

    It's incredible how Andrew can make a video about any random topic, and yet somehow it fits perfectly in what you call 'huggbees content'

  • @portalfreak7628
    @portalfreak7628 Рік тому +36

    6:08 Honestly what floors me here is the fact that apparently the word "potty" existed in the times of ancient Rome

  • @jamiejames416
    @jamiejames416 Рік тому +11

    Nordic runes were once found on the hagia Sofia, everyone expected it to be some amazing. When translate it simply said, "Halfdan was here"

  • @mecoolguy3780
    @mecoolguy3780 Рік тому +86

    Thanks for what you do, man who hugs bees.

  • @chillzedd8179
    @chillzedd8179 Рік тому +39

    Im pretty sure that "baking bread" was slang for taking a shit back then.

  • @faucettepineda3359
    @faucettepineda3359 Рік тому +13

    We need a 3 hour video of similar content. Absolute gold

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 Рік тому +3

    "Because this shit is getting hot"
    ....
    I'm really hoping that "getting hot" thing isn't a disguised reference to the volcanic eruption that killed the person that wrote that and everyone he knew.

  • @sureindubitably3771
    @sureindubitably3771 Рік тому +17

    3:45 Glad to know horny bdsm is quite alive and well in Ancient Rome 😂🤣

    • @ciphergacha9100
      @ciphergacha9100 Рік тому +5

      I don’t know how to tell you this, but they are all dead

  • @KeenC
    @KeenC Рік тому +31

    If the Roman’s aren’t talking about Qundale Dingle when I get my time traveling device done, then I’m gonna be disappointed
    I’m back and I see why they fell

  • @captainbongwater7790
    @captainbongwater7790 Рік тому +14

    "I made bread," was probably a euphemism for taking a huge dump.

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ Рік тому +46

    Imagine a graffiti artist who only tags historical graffiti in proper Latin. Just to confuse people and see if anyone gets it.

  • @cccoolbucket1285
    @cccoolbucket1285 Рік тому +10

    1:51 "Forward this email to seven friends or get ten years of bad luck"

  • @dawudsandstorm7852
    @dawudsandstorm7852 Рік тому +8

    I love how shitposting literally began with people taking a shit and writing about it on a wall.

  • @cooperbrooks1401
    @cooperbrooks1401 Рік тому +42

    as a ancient roman i can guarantee this is 100% true

  • @venerablebrothergoriate5844
    @venerablebrothergoriate5844 Рік тому +18

    “This guy was hitting it so good that God decided to auto-balance him.”
    Dude stop I can’t fucking breathe 😂