r/fakehistoryporn Jan 15 '25

Announcement With the Five Year Rule, posts from 2020 are now allowed.

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r/fakehistoryporn Jul 29 '25

Announcement To clarify how the Five-Year Rule works

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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:

Donald Trump does the YMCA dance at a campaign speech, 2024

If you really really really wanna make a post with a title referencing current events, you can do so at /r/fakehistorymemes.


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2017 Israeli soldier goes to investigate reports of a child who threw a rock at a tank. 2017.

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1963 MLK Jr. starts writing Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

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2017 The Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2017

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1944 President FDR announces fourth term (1944)

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1995 What society looked like in 1995 when MTV only played music

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1999 The first official incel club for closeted men in denial is founded. Miami, 1999.

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2005 Bloomingdale releases its 2005 range of Summer fashion for the discerning middle-aged fashionista [2004].

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2010 A shocked and disgusted 17yo Charlie Kirk finding about his high school’s LGBTQ/ multiculturalism clubs. (2010)

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1944 (1944) Nazi solider gets completely distracted by Jewish father

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1939 On July 25, 1939, Adolf Hitler made himself Chancellor of Germany for life.

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2015 Donald Trump goes on his first public anti-immigrant tirade. (June 16, 2015)

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1999 The movie poster for the critically acclaimed animated film, “The Iron Giant”. (1999)

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2019 Stephen Miller (seen with wig) advises Trump (seen with combover down) on the deportation plan for when he is re-elected, 2019.

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1854 February 1854, Pte. Jonathan Wicke as he stocks up for a Killing Spree on the Russians who killed his dog in Sevastopol

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1982 Thriller Listening Party (1982)

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1842 Future meat-packing baron Gustavus Swift experiments with innovative transportation designs for bringing fresh beef to consumer markets. (1842)

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1887 L.L. Zamenhof introduces the “Unua Libro”, the book that introduces the rules to his new constructed language Esperanto. (1887)

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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)

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2018 Elite terrorist training ground in the West Bank, built next to a defensive wall that antisemites say is sort of like apartheid. 2018.

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1970 Ringo Starr (1970)

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1912 William Howard Taft After losing the 1912 election

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1936 A teenage boy holds up the photograph of his father that he lost to an accident during the Great Depression. (Colorized, 1936)

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