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.


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2017 US Senator Mitch McConnell gives landmark speech on why sick people should probably just die instead of asking for healthcare like lazy bums. 2017.

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1793 Thomas Jefferson chatting up Sally Hemings (1793)

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2019 Itamar Ben-Gvir and his team inspect a prison for Palestinians shortly after he became a member of the Knesset in 2019.

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r/fakehistoryporn 23h ago

1250 BC Ozymandias trying to inspire future generations about the fleeting nature of power and the hubris of tyrants (1250 BCE)

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464 Upvotes

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1897 Okhrana agent lauds success of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Czarist authorities. Letter, 1897

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679 Upvotes

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2019 Reddit moderators banning r/waterniggas (2019, colorized)

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r/fakehistoryporn 16h ago

2020 2020 - A typical Twitter exchange. This all changed for the better only when billionaire and philanthropist Elon Musk aquired the service to lead it back on track.

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r/fakehistoryporn 22h ago

1943 Execution of a German POW by an American GI (1943, colorized)

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2 middle eastern guys dancing/ jamming out to the Clash’s hit song, “Rock the Casbah” (1982)

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r/fakehistoryporn 19h ago

1840 Captain Clark sails to the Ottoman Empire in search of furniture, and architectural ventures (1840, colorized)

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r/fakehistoryporn 22h ago

1998 Helen of Troy, 1998

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r/fakehistoryporn 22h ago

2008 Afghan Rebel relaxing at home, circa 2008

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2002 On the morning of June 29, 2002, Dick Cheney served as acting president from 7:09 a.m. to 9:24 a.m., under the terms of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, while Bush underwent a colonoscopy.

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1936 adolf hitler watching his german athletes get beaten by jessie owens (1936)

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1936 1936 FAI/CNT defeat German fascist invasion in response to the fall of Franco in Spain.

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1936 The 1936 Olympics

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r/fakehistoryporn 19h ago

2001 osama bin laden explains why he hates america in a live broadcast (September 12 2001)

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1958 The civil rights movement, 1958, colorized

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1791 Marie Antoinette gets arrested by revolutionaries during the Flight to Varennes (June 21, 1791)

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1939 A woman at Spring Lake beach points to a sign explaining to her gay friend that he doesn't need his boyfriend to supervise him at the beach anymore. New Jersey, 1939.

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2015 February 10, 2015. Jon Stewart announces he was leaving The Daily Show.

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2004 Kanye west drops the album college dropout 2004

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1996 The controversial shock/ horror rocker/ singer Marilyn Manson wearing his grotesque “dental device” in the music video for his hit song, “The Beautiful People” (1996)

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