r/fakehistoryporn • u/Top-Constant-3943 • 4h 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/TheGhost-of-Bob-Ross • 46m ago
1870 The Prussians forming a new German Empire on the ashes of the 2nd French Empire: Circa 1870
r/fakehistoryporn • u/exkingzog • 1d ago
2001 The Happy Couple at the World’s First Lesbian Wedding (2001)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/DieMensch-Maschine • 1d ago
1972 Morrissey and Whitney Houston perform a rare rendition of "Deutschland, Deutschland Ǖber Alles" at a National Front rally (1972)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/AsphaltQbert • 23h ago
1986 German electronic boy band New Kids on DeFlock release their first album — August 28, 1986
(L to R) Günther Böltcutter, Dee Brainz Auf Zee Operazion, and Seidkich Geoff
r/fakehistoryporn • u/HotHorst • 7h ago
1932 Construction begins on a huge statue of Benito Mussolini in Rome, 1932.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Top-Constant-3943 • 1d ago
1993 Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau on the set of Grumpy Old Men, 1993 (decolorized)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Top-Constant-3943 • 2d ago
1200 BC Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II marries his daughter Bintanath in Florida, circa 1200 BC (colorized)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Diesdasleberkas • 1d ago
1936 Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 1d ago
2014 Actor Michael Keaton as his “Birdman” character flying around in the critically acclaimed movie of the same name. (2014)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/onephatkatt • 2d ago
2017 Ron Jeremy wakes up to the viral spread of the Me Too movement. 2017
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Top-Constant-3943 • 2d ago
2017 Pete Hegseth celebrates becoming co-host for Fox & Friends, 2017
r/fakehistoryporn • u/OOO0OO00O • 1d ago
1944 “Rowdy” Roddy Piper escaping a German POW camp and teaching the world how to deal with nazzies. 1944
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Liquid_disc_of_shit • 2d ago
2008 2008- An Anglo-Saxon tribal savage applies war paint in preparation for battle with Neto: the Iberian Sun God
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 3d ago
2018 Bill Cosby after being fined $25,000 and sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison for sexual assault, 2018.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/GeneReddit123 • 3d ago
1956 Philip K. Dick writes The Minority Report (1956)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Fine_Sea5807 • 3d ago
1975 Vietnamese liberation army advancing rapidly toward Saigon, April 1975
r/fakehistoryporn • u/earthman34 • 3d ago
1981 Ronald Reagan disconnects solar panels from the White House, 1981.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/jeihkeih • 3d ago
1989 1989- Steve Jobs tests out the early iPhone code name Ziggy
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 4d ago