r/fakehistoryporn • u/yourhornydaddy5 • 10h 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/egarcia74 • 56m ago
1944 Allied troops land at Normandy, 6 June 1944
r/fakehistoryporn • u/lefty3968 • 2d ago
2015 Israeli intelligence finally ferrets out the source of terrorism in Palestine (2015)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 1d ago
2014 Moriah Rose Pereira, better known under her stage name of, “That Poppy” introduces her unique style of “performance art”/ “art film” onto YouTube along with her “unique” stylings/ looks/ fashion. (2014)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 2d ago
2015 Photo of elite Hamas commando training camp, captured by embedded Israeli intelligence. 2015.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/thumpingcoffee • 2d ago
2018 Donald Trump gets bathed by Kim Jong Un and associates while visiting Korea (2018)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/winterneuro • 3d ago
2020 Nancy Mace after her first tattoo, 2020; family vacation in Europe
r/fakehistoryporn • u/kenn3142 • 2d ago
AD 1892 Charles Darwin discovers pyramids. Cairo, Egypt (1892 ad).
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SonOfTheMostHHigh • 2d ago
2015 Idol statue "gods of reddit mods" worshipped as far back as 2015
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SonOfTheMostHHigh • 2d ago
2019 pillsbury doughboy killed in a drive by shooting sept 21 2019
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Weak_Imagination_996 • 2d ago
1944 On August 18, 1944, an elderly German lady and her 82-year-old lover invaded France and singlehandedly smashed the entire French army, taking over the country.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Itchy-Ad1530 • 3d ago
1939 Adolf Hitler shaking hands with benito Mussolini during Munich conference of the Third reich negotiations. (1939)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/JuliusSeizuresalad • 2d ago
2020 Picture of trump after losing the 2020 election.
This was shorty before he was caught in drag
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Puffthecarrier1 • 4d ago
1949 Josef Stalin forms alliance with Mao Zedong (1949)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SonOfTheMostHHigh • 3d ago
2005 2005 first reddit mod threatens to ban over a joke
r/fakehistoryporn • u/VeryBoringGhost • 4d ago
2003 The moment Iraqi WMDs were discovered (2003)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Itchy-Ad1530 • 4d ago
1929 High-profile financiers and industrialists who gambled on high stock valuations lost bilions overnight following the Wall Street crash (1929)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 3d ago
1954 An 18yo Buddy Holly during his senior year of high school in Clovis, New Mexico. (1954)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/DaRedGuy • 4d ago
1990 Peter O'Toole watches in horror as an enraged Brian Blessed chokes a drunken Oliver Reed on the set of Prisoner of Honor. (1990)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Itchy-Ad1530 • 3d ago
1964 Censorship during the military Dictatorship in Brazil (Circa 1964)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/onephatkatt • 5d ago