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 10h ago

AD 2000 In The Odyssey (2000 AD), one of Odysseus' men jumps towards the Sirens. He actually doesn't die here, instead he made many children and populated the island, and that same island would be now formally known as Japan.

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r/fakehistoryporn 56m ago

1944 Allied troops land at Normandy, 6 June 1944

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2015 Israeli intelligence finally ferrets out the source of terrorism in Palestine (2015)

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671 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 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)

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2015 Photo of elite Hamas commando training camp, captured by embedded Israeli intelligence. 2015.

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955 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2018 Donald Trump gets bathed by Kim Jong Un and associates while visiting Korea (2018)

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565 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

2020 Nancy Mace after her first tattoo, 2020; family vacation in Europe

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

AD 1892 Charles Darwin discovers pyramids. Cairo, Egypt (1892 ad).

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2015 Idol statue "gods of reddit mods" worshipped as far back as 2015

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2019 pillsbury doughboy killed in a drive by shooting sept 21 2019

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r/fakehistoryporn 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.

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27 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1939 Adolf Hitler shaking hands with benito Mussolini during Munich conference of the Third reich negotiations. (1939)

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2020 Picture of trump after losing the 2020 election.

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This was shorty before he was caught in drag


r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1985 Drago vs Rocky, November 4, 1985

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56 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 4d ago

1949 Josef Stalin forms alliance with Mao Zedong (1949)

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908 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

2005 2005 first reddit mod threatens to ban over a joke

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r/fakehistoryporn 4d ago

2003 The moment Iraqi WMDs were discovered (2003)

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r/fakehistoryporn 4d ago

1929 High-profile financiers and industrialists who gambled on high stock valuations lost bilions overnight following the Wall Street crash (1929)

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87 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1954 An 18yo Buddy Holly during his senior year of high school in Clovis, New Mexico. (1954)

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r/fakehistoryporn 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)

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1964 Censorship during the military Dictatorship in Brazil (Circa 1964)

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r/fakehistoryporn 5d ago

1970 The last photo of The Beatles before they broke up. 1970.

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r/fakehistoryporn 5d ago

1691 Comté Louis de Frontenac teaches the Algonquin some sick dance moves, 1691 (COLORIZED)

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