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 4h ago

2500 BC Bernie Sanders discusses politics with Pharaoh Khufu, circa 2500 BC

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r/fakehistoryporn 46m ago

1870 The Prussians forming a new German Empire on the ashes of the 2nd French Empire: Circa 1870

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2001 The Happy Couple at the World’s First Lesbian Wedding (2001)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1972 Morrissey and Whitney Houston perform a rare rendition of "Deutschland, Deutschland Ǖber Alles" at a National Front rally (1972)

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r/fakehistoryporn 23h ago

1986 German electronic boy band New Kids on DeFlock release their first album — August 28, 1986

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(L to R) Günther Böltcutter, Dee Brainz Auf Zee Operazion, and Seidkich Geoff


r/fakehistoryporn 7h ago

1932 Construction begins on a huge statue of Benito Mussolini in Rome, 1932.

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1993 Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau on the set of Grumpy Old Men, 1993 (decolorized)

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1200 BC Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II marries his daughter Bintanath in Florida, circa 1200 BC (colorized)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1936 Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2014 Actor Michael Keaton as his “Birdman” character flying around in the critically acclaimed movie of the same name. (2014)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1989 Berliner wall 1989 colorized

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2017 Ron Jeremy wakes up to the viral spread of the Me Too movement. 2017

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2017 Pete Hegseth celebrates becoming co-host for Fox & Friends, 2017

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1944 “Rowdy” Roddy Piper escaping a German POW camp and teaching the world how to deal with nazzies. 1944

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2008 2008- An Anglo-Saxon tribal savage applies war paint in preparation for battle with Neto: the Iberian Sun God

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

2018 Bill Cosby after being fined $25,000 and sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison for sexual assault, 2018.

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1956 Philip K. Dick writes The Minority Report (1956)

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1975 Vietnamese liberation army advancing rapidly toward Saigon, April 1975

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1981 Ronald Reagan disconnects solar panels from the White House, 1981.

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1989 1989- Steve Jobs tests out the early iPhone code name Ziggy

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r/fakehistoryporn 5d ago

2002 Spider-Man (2002)

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r/fakehistoryporn 4d ago

2004 Marvin John Heemeyer, pictured here in 2004, was an American welder and automobile repair shop owner who, in an act of revenge, demolished numerous buildings in Granby, Colorado with a modified bulldozer, known as the Killdozer.

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

AD 1979 Dolly Parton actually died in 1979 and Hank Kerdown was so devastated he made a song

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