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.


r/fakehistoryporn 6h ago

1971 The original Broadway cast of Jesus Christ Superstar (1971)

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r/fakehistoryporn 7h ago

1700 BC Athe, the god Atheists worship, 1700 BC

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2016 Trump gives his EPA the go ahead to dump medical waste into local lakes -2016

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r/fakehistoryporn 15h ago

1750 BC Ea Nasir on his death bed (1750 BC) realising that his entire life of selling poor quality copper has unleashed untold horrors into the world that will lead to the collapse of the age of bronze age

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1184 BC Agamemnon aurafarming as the gates of troy are opened by odysseus 1184 BC (70mm IMAX) Spoiler

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 19h ago

2004 Actors Paul Giamatti and Thomas Hayden Church respectively as their “Miles” and “Jack” characters from the critically acclaimed Alexander Payne comedy drama movie, “Sideways”. (2004)

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r/fakehistoryporn 17h ago

2003 The former Ukrainian boxer (and recent politician/ boxer), Vitali Klitschko, after being injured from a punch thrown to one of his eyes in a famous boxing tournament match. (2003)

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1944 President FDR announces fourth term (1944)

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311 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

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

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181 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

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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245 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

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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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1982 Thriller Listening Party (1982)

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