r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 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/NavalProgrammer • 6h ago
1793 Thomas Jefferson chatting up Sally Hemings (1793)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 5h ago
2019 Itamar Ben-Gvir and his team inspect a prison for Palestinians shortly after he became a member of the Knesset in 2019.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/TourMission • 23h ago
1250 BC Ozymandias trying to inspire future generations about the fleeting nature of power and the hubris of tyrants (1250 BCE)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/GrandMoffTarkan • 1d ago
1897 Okhrana agent lauds success of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Czarist authorities. Letter, 1897
r/fakehistoryporn • u/ajmeeh6842 • 1d ago
2019 Reddit moderators banning r/waterniggas (2019, colorized)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/LennyLava • 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.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/complex-sphere • 22h ago
1943 Execution of a German POW by an American GI (1943, colorized)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 21m ago
2 middle eastern guys dancing/ jamming out to the Clash’s hit song, “Rock the Casbah” (1982)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/tta2013 • 19h ago
1840 Captain Clark sails to the Ottoman Empire in search of furniture, and architectural ventures (1840, colorized)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/TomatilloAccurate475 • 22h ago
2008 Afghan Rebel relaxing at home, circa 2008
r/fakehistoryporn • u/BadgersAndJam77 • 1d ago
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.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/michaeljehan16 • 2d ago
1936 adolf hitler watching his german athletes get beaten by jessie owens (1936)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/derpderb • 2d ago
1936 1936 FAI/CNT defeat German fascist invasion in response to the fall of Franco in Spain.
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r/fakehistoryporn • u/michaeljehan16 • 19h ago
2001 osama bin laden explains why he hates america in a live broadcast (September 12 2001)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/ApricotEileen • 2d ago
1958 The civil rights movement, 1958, colorized
r/fakehistoryporn • u/DieMensch-Maschine • 3d ago
1791 Marie Antoinette gets arrested by revolutionaries during the Flight to Varennes (June 21, 1791)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Stoned_D0G • 2d ago
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.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/BadgersAndJam77 • 2d ago
2015 February 10, 2015. Jon Stewart announces he was leaving The Daily Show.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Training-World-1897 • 2d ago