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 17h ago

1934 SA member captured by the SS During the Night of the Long Knives. 1934, Colorized.

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r/fakehistoryporn 13h ago

1642 King Charles I, of Great Britain, prepares to storm the House of Commons to arrest five unruly members, January, 1642

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r/fakehistoryporn 21h ago

1940 Natalie Harp's grandma is trying to kiss Charlie Chaplin during an autograph signing session (1940)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2009 Trump promotes unhealthy eating habits to protest against the Affordable Care Act (2009)

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2004 A younger 13yo Ed Sheeran with his siblings in the back seat on the way to UK primary school. (2004)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1972 John Lennon writing the lyrics for “Woman Is the N****r of the World” (1972)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1994 After conquering the business world, Entrepreneur Henry Ford attempted to conquer the physical world by playing Defensive End for the Arkansas Razorbacks (1994)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1691 Salem witch gathering 1691

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1944 Oskar Dirlewanger was a military officer widely considered one of the most extreme and sadistic executioners of World War II, known for unprecedented brutality, mass rape, and the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians in Belarus and Poland. Pictured here in Warsaw, 1944.

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1988 The cast of the ABC family comedy sitcom tv series, “Roseanne”. (1988)

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1946 Hans Frank and Wilhelm Frick Hang for their Crimes, Nuremberg, 1946

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

AD 2013 Jeffrey Epstein at a lunch buffet on Little St. James Island, 2013.

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2001 Osama bin laden announcing that he is planning a surprise for america on september 11 2001

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

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

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202 BC 202BC - Scipio Africanus crushes Hannibal at the battle of Zama

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r/fakehistoryporn 4d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 5d ago

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 4d ago

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

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