🐱 Nero dubbed ‘the original neckbeard’ after image of realistic sculpture spreads

Nero dubbed 'the original neckbeard' after image of realistic sculpture spreads

Twitter users are amazed and astonished at a realistic sculpture of Roman emperor Nero that makes the imperator look like a right-wing internet user.

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Twitter is burning, and it’s all Nero’s fault. The Roman emperor is going viral after users stumbled across an incredibly realistic sculpture of the Roman imperator, who looks more like he belongs on Reddit’s r/KotakuInAction than ruling Rome.

Early Tuesday morning, The Enthusiast author Josh Fruhlinger shared three photos showing off a hyper-realistic artistic depiction of Nero, complete with excruciatingly detailed hair, skin blemishes, a Roman nose, and an arrogant smirk. Together, Nero looks a lot like an “internet neckbeard,” or a (usually cis, straight, and white) man who spends their time complaining about women on the internet.

Observe.




It’s shockingly accurate.

“Someone made some a super lifelike nero head based on one of the most famous portrait busts of him and folks,” Fruhlinger tweeted, “i am horrified.”

The Daily Dot reached out to Fruhlinger for comment.

For the record, the sculpture is from Spanish artist Césares de Roma, who creates realistic busts of historical Roman figures. Case in point, his Nero piece might as well be a profile picture from a Comicsgate fan review-bombing Captain Marvel on Rotten Tomatoes. It’s so lifelike, it’s hard to see anything but a basement dweller in his face.

Twitter quickly took notice, dubbing Nero “the original neckbeard.”

Oh, and for the record, r/KotakuInAction is having a normal one over this. One Redditor shared an A.V. Club article on Neckbeard Nero to r/KotakuInAction, warning the site “libels gamers and people who hated the Last Jedi.” Because clearly, that’s what libel is.

“What nonsense is this? Everyone knows that Nero is a cute fuckable waifu,” one gamer replied, linking to a Google Image search of Nero Cladius from Fate/Grand Order. “Duh…”

Sometimes, the stories write themselves.

 

[TheMonkeyMan]

I had a hunch that this would be another Ana Valens article, and I was right. Txe really needs txir own thread.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

Well, Nero was poisoned by Agrippina.

 

[Hux]

Nero also fed Christians to lions, so now this shit makes even more sense

 

[shartshooter]

Sometimes, the stories write themselves.

Even Ana Valens marvels at how predictable her articles are.

 

[Cool kitties club]

Late roman emperors were pretty exceptional though

 

[Luigi]

People keep trying to make Nero look bad for all these years, that's a lot of grudge huh.

“What nonsense is this? Everyone knows that Nero is a cute fuckable waifu,” one gamer replied, linking to a Google Image search of Nero Cladius from Fate/Grand Order. “Duh…”

I came here expecting Umu-posting, I was not disappointed.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Twitter users are amazed and astonished at a realistic sculpture of Roman emperor Nero that makes the imperator look like a right-wing internet user."

So any "right wing internet user" is a stereotypical neckbeard?

Quality unbiased journalism.

 

[Judge Holden]

Setting aside Catparty's continued crush on Ana Valens and this absolute nadir of using any random shit to shriek about a 5 year old flamewar and using some sperg redditor making an anime joke as "proof" they are so mad, are we to qualify this latest tranny cow as either

a) cynically gaming the clickbait addicts for outrage/"LOL DUNK'D" clicks
b) desperately trying to "redeem" himself for being on the pro GG side of autism for years
c) just another mentally ill attention whore looking for validation from anyone and everyone like every other narcissist troon on the web

 

[User names must be unique]

Fun fact: The numeric value of the Hebrew letters in the name 'Nero' add up to 666 some theologians believe that nero was the 'beast'. He also tried to MGTOW out of bongistan after Boadicea attacked.

Neckbeards haven't changed since 54 AD.

 

[Gus]

Late roman emperors were pretty exceptional though

Reminder that Nero was a fairly early one. And I'd say that most Roman emperors were exceptional. I can count on my fingers how many good ones there were. There was a reason most of them couldn't hold eight seconds in office.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

A statue of a historical European male looks astonishingly like a modern European male. Stop the presses!

 

[Haramburger]

Setting aside Catparty's continued crush on Ana Valens and this absolute nadir of using any random shit to shriek about a 5 year old flamewar and using some sperg redditor making an anime joke as "proof" they are so mad, are we to qualify this latest tranny cow as either

a) cynically gaming the clickbait addicts for outrage/"LOL DUNK'D" clicks
b) desperately trying to "redeem" himself for being on the pro GG side of autism for years
c) just another mentally ill attention whore looking for validation from anyone and everyone like every other narcissist troon on the web

Def c), they have complex thoughts that progressivism is good but Zoe Quinn is bad

 

[Very Honest Content]

I herd that Nero fiddled in hell while John Paul Neumann burned.

(True and honest though, he's been dead for almost literal millennia now, who fucking cares?)

 

[Judge Holden]

Reminder that Nero was a fairly early one. And I'd say that most Roman emperors were exceptional. I can count on my fingers how many good ones there were. There was a reason most of them couldn't hold eight seconds in office.

Counter-reminder. Thanks to most of the sources of the alleged depravities and atrocities of emperors like Nero and Caligula coming from heavily politicised accounts written decades/centuries after their reigns by those who had an active interest in shittalking them, we cant really be sure of just how retarded these emperors truly were.

Indeed it has been argued that just about all of their bad rep stems from both Nero and Caligula seriously pissing off the noble classes, with both being populists who actively courted the support of the plebian classes while actively and openly talking shit about the nobility and the senate, whose descendants would later go on to write the history books about how the two emperors ate babies and raped skinned dogs in the street or whatever.

Hell, even Caligula's infamous pledge to make his horse a Consul which was retold as "proof" of his madness and destructiveness towards the state was actually just him saying the senate was so goddamn incompetent that he may as well have his horse be put in charge.

Odds are they were probably not egregiously worse than their contemporary emperors in terms of morality or sanity, but since they got put on the establishment's shit list they were turned over the decades/centuries after their deaths into semi mythological figures of evil and depravity

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Just looks like a generic just like how Ana Valens looks like a generic troon.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

And I'd say that most Roman emperors were exceptional.

Didn't they think mercury was medicinal or otherwise beneficial?

I think they also used lead in plumbing (the Latin word for lead is plumbum).

 

[Judge Holden]

I herd that Nero fiddled in hell while John Paul Neumann burned.

(True and honest though, he's been dead for almost literal centuries now, who fucking cares?)

Funnily enough though, contemporary accounts record Nero as having been out the city when the fire started, but after hearing about it immediately returned to rome and began actively and effectively coordinating relief efforts, and in the aftermath opened up his palace for those made homeless.

 

[PoisonedBun]

I miss when neckbeard was just any obnoxious nerd on the internet with 0 people skills and not an apparently politically charged term.

 

[frozenrunner]

I miss when neckbeard was just any obnoxious nerd on the internet with 0 people skills and not an apparently politically charged term.

EVERYTHING'S POLITICAL, pissbaby!