Howdy r/badhistory! It's time for another round of Modmail Madness, where we compile some of the best (or worst) historical takes across Reddit, along with some stats about our sub. It's a bit shorter this month but there's some gems nevertheless.

First off, if you missed it, the r/AskHistorians April Fool's Day post features a podcast discussion of Tartaria, and our very own u/EnclavedMicrostate.

Apparently, it's only recently that anyone has started saying Czar Nicholas II was a bad leader; he was "probably the best leader ever" until that revisionist history kicked in.

Everyone wants to know who the true successor the Roman Empire is. This guy says it's the USA, because they controlled the Mediterranean for 100 years, and other increasingly, uh, interesting claims.

We have apparently started to haunt the thoughts of aspiring fiction writers. For the record, no post on this sub has ever gotten anywhere close to 13 gold awards.

Whatifalthist-aboos (aficionados?) counter badhistory's criticism of their beloved youtuber with facts and reason--no, just kidding, they do it by saying we have political motivations. You'll be shocked to know the individual who insists they had an argument over here where all the responses were politically motivated lies about Ethiopia of all things has never commented on this sub.

And finally, a new political spectrum chart that, in the words of a now-deleted commenter, "looks like Ben Shapiro drew it."

And now, for thread mentions! Mentions are counted only once per unique thread, regardless of how many users mention it, because otherwise, Mother Theresa would get 30 mentions every single time r/AskReddit recycles it's secretly bad people from history question. Mother Theresa did, however, still surge back to the top this month, as she was mentioned in 14 unique threads. The pagan origins of Easter were mentioned in 9 unique threads, good for second place, and Mark Felton's plagiarism rounds us out with 4 mentions. Altogether, 36 r/badhistory threads were linked across Reddit in 68 unique conversations. That's all for now, but join us next month for more silly takes and statistics!

edit: fixed a grammar error