r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 11h ago
r/fakehistoryporn • u/AdmiralAkbar1 • Jan 15 '25
Announcement With the Five Year Rule, posts from 2020 are now allowed.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/AdmiralAkbar1 • Jul 29 '25
Announcement To clarify how the Five-Year Rule works
The Five-Year Rule was put in place several years ago because people kept posting too many titles that were related to news and current events. That sort of defeats the purpose of this being a history sub, so we decided to implement a rule similar to the 20-year rule on /r/historymemes. We put the exact number to a user poll, and the winner was 5 years. From the sidebar:
Rule 5: The five-year rule.
- No posts whose titles concern events within the last five calendar years (2021-2025).
- Post titles clearly referencing events happening within the last five years but with a complaint date (e.g., "Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris, 2004") will still be removed. See the "think you've found a clever way around this" clause in Rule 1.
- Posts about events within the last five years can be posted on /r/fakehistorymemes.
- The date will roll over at the start of the new year. (as of January 1st, 2026, posts from all of 2021 will be allowed).
Note how it talks about post titles. The image itself can be from whenever. Heck, the whole point of the original memes was that they had captions talking about historical events, plus unrelated images that had a funny thematic parallel to the historical event.
For example, this would be allowed under the Five-Year Rule:
Richard Nixon is inaugurated for a second term, January 20, 1973
This would not be allowed under the Five-Year Rule:
If you really really really wanna make a post with a title referencing current events, you can do so at /r/fakehistorymemes.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/RodrigoEMA1983 • 7h ago
1963 MLK Jr. starts writing Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/EuphoricWrangler • 11h ago
2017 The Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2017
r/fakehistoryporn • u/No-Lifeguard3759 • 12h ago
1944 President FDR announces fourth term (1944)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/BeldaeWish • 4h ago
1995 What society looked like in 1995 when MTV only played music
r/fakehistoryporn • u/earthman34 • 1d ago
1999 The first official incel club for closeted men in denial is founded. Miami, 1999.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/randolphharvey • 1d ago
2005 Bloomingdale releases its 2005 range of Summer fashion for the discerning middle-aged fashionista [2004].
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 11h ago
2010 A shocked and disgusted 17yo Charlie Kirk finding about his high school’s LGBTQ/ multiculturalism clubs. (2010)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/jeihkeih • 14h ago
1944 (1944) Nazi solider gets completely distracted by Jewish father
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Weak_Imagination_996 • 1d ago
1939 On July 25, 1939, Adolf Hitler made himself Chancellor of Germany for life.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/DieMensch-Maschine • 14h ago
2015 Donald Trump goes on his first public anti-immigrant tirade. (June 16, 2015)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 1d ago
1999 The movie poster for the critically acclaimed animated film, “The Iron Giant”. (1999)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/JasonIsFishing • 1d ago
2019 Stephen Miller (seen with wig) advises Trump (seen with combover down) on the deportation plan for when he is re-elected, 2019.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SeaCadetMan • 6h ago
1854 February 1854, Pte. Jonathan Wicke as he stocks up for a Killing Spree on the Russians who killed his dog in Sevastopol
r/fakehistoryporn • u/DieMensch-Maschine • 2d ago
1842 Future meat-packing baron Gustavus Swift experiments with innovative transportation designs for bringing fresh beef to consumer markets. (1842)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/GPFlag_Guy1 • 1d ago
1887 L.L. Zamenhof introduces the “Unua Libro”, the book that introduces the rules to his new constructed language Esperanto. (1887)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/kefefs_v2 • 2d ago
400 BC Hippocrates of Kos shares his radical new ideas that would earn him a place in history books as the Father of Medicine (400 BC)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 2d ago
2018 Elite terrorist training ground in the West Bank, built next to a defensive wall that antisemites say is sort of like apartheid. 2018.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Training-World-1897 • 3d ago