What Does This Mean?
A topic, obsession, or recurring thought that someone thinks about far more often than outsiders would ever expect.
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TRT World · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Public transit maps are my Roman Empire; I think about them daily for no reason."
LORE & ORIGIN
Went massively viral after a TikTok trend asking women how often the men in their lives think about the Roman Empire, then widened into shorthand for hidden fixations.
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