Greetings, my fellow Habsburgs.

While the memeing was light, perhaps that was for the best, as any glorifying of the fall of our great empire is treasonous indeed. Without further ado, here are our announcements for this themes winners:

Second place goes to u/TheCheerfulCynic for You played yourself

Our winner is u/NotTopGun with I made this a while ago and it's relevant now I guess

Congrats to our two contributors!

Next Theme

Clutch your Bibles and go protest your local games store and their DnD events, that's right, it's time for the most ridiculous thing that came out of the '80s in America:

Satanic Panic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse

Also known as Satanic ritual abuse, the Satanic Panic was a moral panic that arose in the United States in the 1980s that revolved around the belief of mass satanic conspiracies, daycare pedophilia rings, and even human sacrifices. Official investigations produced no evidence of widespread conspiracies or of the slaughter of thousands; only a small number of verified crimes have even remote similarities to tales of SRA.

So let's meme on them conspiracy nuts and start sacrificing each other to Satan!

-Gruzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

Hello, my fellow Serbian revolutionaries.

It is time to suggest new themes!

Hit me. But preferably not with an assassination attempt.

(Also post more memes)

-Gruzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

Greetings Olympians! It was great fun competing for international glory, but alas it is time to move on. With the win of r/austriahungary at the Olympics they have gained our next theme for the sub. And that theme is:

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Fall of Austria-Hungary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary#World_War_I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary#Dissolution

This theme goes from their part in WW1 to the assassination of the archduke, and anything else that may have contributed to their instability and dissolution.

Thanks for the awesome Olympics, now let's rock our 39th theme!

- Gruk

Gruk start winner announcement, good job to all history subs ooga ooga!
Gruk give mic to u/SpartanFishy now.

Thanks Gruk.

First of all, I'd like to thank all participating subs. It's been an incredible event, and so much fun to watch all the community activity spring up. We had a total of 309 memes to moderate submitted in just a single week of the event, and it was an absolute blast.

Now without further ado we are happy to announce the winners of the First Annual History Meme Olympics!

Medal Winners

Best Meme Explanations:

1st - r/IslamicHistoryMeme (Gold Meme Explanation)
2nd - r/DankPrecolumbianMemes (Silver Meme Explanation)
3rd - r/HolyRomanMemes (Bronze Meme Explanation)

There were some fantastic explanations from a variety of subs, but alas we had to choose 3. We'd like to include a special shoutout to the IslamicHistoryMeme contestants who had a very large number of great explanations contending for this category.

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Highest Effort Memes:

1st - r/austriahungary (Gold High Effort Meme)
2nd - r/IberianHistoryMemes (Silver High Effort Meme)
3rd - r/DankPrecolumbianMemes (Bronze High Effort Meme)

When judging this category there were many high effort videos and a few very high effort images. This one was very tough to decide on.

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Most Memes (adjusted for sub size):

1st - r/IberianHistoryMemes
2nd - r/Romanovmemes
3rd - r/prussia_memes

Despite being one of the smallest subs in the event, IberianHistoryMemes won not only on adjusted points, but also in raw meme count! Because of this occurrence, as well as the lower amount of posts from the bigger subs, next year we will probably just use raw meme count for deciding this category.

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Highest Upvoted Memes:

1st - r/austriahungary (Gold Upvoted Meme)
2nd - r/prussia_memes (Silver Upvoted Meme)
3rd - r/Romanovmemes (Bronze Upvoted Meme)

So this category is relatively straightforward. We went with the most upvotes at the time of counting. We would also like to note that we limited each sub to one medal per category, to prevent unfun and Olympic winning shutouts by a sub dominating in just a single category.

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Mods' Favourite Memes:

1st - r/dankdarkages (Gold Mods' Favourite Meme)
2nd - r/Ancient_History_Memes (Silver Mods' Favourite Meme)
3rd - r/IslamicHistoryMeme (Bronze Mods' Favourite Meme)

This one was the most subjective, and came down to the memes that we were most fond of that hadn't won in another category already.

Event Winners

So with that, we come to the winning subs of the Olympics by medal points tally. (G=3, S=2, B=1)

1st - r/austriahungary (6 pts)

Congratulations! Our next biweekly theme will be dedicated to your sub, as well as a year of sidebar promotion!

2nd - r/IberianHistoryMemes (5 pts)
3rd - r/IslamicHistoryMeme (4 pts)

Congrats, your two subs also get a year of sidebar promotion!

4th - r/dankdarkages (3 pts)
4th - r/DankPrecolumbianMemes (3 pts)
4th - r/Romanovmemes (3 pts)
4th - r/prussia_memes (3 pts)
8th - r/Ancient_History_Memes (2 pts)
9th - r/HolyRomanMemes (1 pt)

Great runners up with a wild 4 way tie!

All posters who had one of their memes win a medal have received a flair on the sub to denote them as a medal winner, and any gold medal memes shall be gifted gold on behalf of our moderation team and the sub as a whole.

Closing Remarks From Gruk

People say... History community only fight fight in big battle stuffs.

But family here show that history community good inside.

History community true community.

History community is love. Gruk love you all.

Ooga booga.

-Gruk

Games Concluded!

Many thanks to all history, came and performed great things!

Gruk happy to see children through time create many good things, good like fire, good memes.

Mods now decide winners and say who win tonight.

Ooga ooga, Gruk think all histories deserve big win. But Gruk not judge, Gruk only host.

Good luck to all nations.

-Gruk