I don't really know (and don't care enough to check) why, but a recently recurring question online, now even in major news-media, is "how often do you think about the Roman Empire" and apparently people identified as men think about it... a lot, in some cases they claim "daily".
What is not brought up much it seems is questions like "what are those thoughts" and "what was the context that may have triggered them?".

I probably "think about the Roman Empire" on average at least once a month, because it is brought up in university lectures on archeology, etc and the most common thoughts I have on the topic is that imperialism, authoritarianism and genocide is bad and the Roman Empire caused immense harm wiping out previous cultures for its own benefit leaving a tradition of "glory" in subjugation and militarism while the "positives" are questionable and when real would probably have spread anyway and I wonder what would have happened if e.g more trade-oriented Carthage or confederation-based Germanic/Celtic tribes would have won instead of more military conquest, occupation and eradication-based Rome. 

People going on and on about how the Roman Empire was somehow "good" on the other hand, either whitewash or promote some of the worst acts through human history and tend towards actual Fascism. 

 @4e538812 i also tend to think about it a lot because our ongoing civilizational collapse has some similarities.