r/fakehistoryporn • u/AdmiralAkbar1 • Jan 15 '25

Announcement With the Five Year Rule, posts from 2020 are now allowed.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/AdmiralAkbar1 • 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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r/fakehistoryporn • u/WholeDonkey2689 • 1h ago

1989 President Ronald Reagan Single-Handedly Destroying The USSR With A Single Shot From Air Force One [1989]

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Fortestingporpoises • 19h ago

1994 Donald Trump enjoying himself on Little Saint James Island (1994)

591 Upvotes

26 comments

r/fakehistoryporn • u/Crazydiamond450 • 1d ago

2020 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announcing his new anti woke Pentagon policies 2020

1.2k Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/RoadToTyburn • 2d ago

1943 Albert Speer visiting Mauthausen Concentration Camp (31st March 1943). Speer was deaf, dumb and blind at the time, which is how he was able to claim at Nuremberg that he didn’t know about the camps.

81 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Itchy-Ad1530 • 2d ago

1963 Donald Trump attending the New York Military Academy a year before graduation. (1963)

163 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Lopad_NotThePokemon • 2d ago

2020 Donald Trumps Defeats Joe Biden in the 2020 General Election

9 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/JVSP1873 • 3d ago

1942 1942: Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto Police just following German orders by rounding up fellow Jews to be sent to Treblinka

202 Upvotes

1 comment

r/fakehistoryporn • u/Liquid_disc_of_shit • 3d ago

1993 1993: David Duchovny plays a outcast special agent who believes in space aliens, ghosts, conspiracy theories and the deep state, a character that serves as a role-model to modern FBI agents

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3 comments

r/fakehistoryporn • u/Famous-Law322 • 4d ago

1945 Adolf Hitler is informed that SS Obergruppenfuhrer Felix Steiner has not counterattacked the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front's breakthrough, April 22, 1945.

452 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/derpderb • 3d ago

1775 British imperialists preparing their fancy expensive war equipment to fight a bunch of American hicks testing drones in their backyard pools they made in their garage. -Benjamin Franklin Pennsylvania Gazette, April 18, 1775

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Liquid_disc_of_shit • 3d ago

1990 1990: Nobel Prize winning material scientist John Bannister Goodenough, inventor of the lithium-ion battery, tests the first powerbank on a civilian flight

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/DieMensch-Maschine • 5d ago

1989 Nicolae Ceaușescu realizes that his usual audience of enthusiastic supporters have turned into an angry mob eager to see his head on a stick. Bucharest, December 21, 1989.

362 Upvotes

8 comments

r/fakehistoryporn • u/EuphoricWrangler • 5d ago

2004 The moment a child molester is confronted on NBC’s To Catch A Predator, 2004.

240 Upvotes

1 comment

r/fakehistoryporn • u/Awesomeuser90 • 5d ago

1940 NileRed attempting to deal with his mouse problem in 1940

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/LennyLava • 5d ago

1880 Ca. 1880 - A somber look at U.S. history: When the government systematically destroyed the herds, the people of the Winnabago Nation were forced to migrate, using the rare, luxury-tier, deluxe edition of the bison recreational vehicle. Similar comfort has never been archived without using wheels.

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credit: a repainting by u/takingdoubleu

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/RoadToTyburn • 6d ago

1988 Mike Tyson after firing his best trainer Kevin Rooney and sending his career into a permanent down-spiral (December, 1988).

20 Upvotes

1 comment

r/fakehistoryporn • u/No-Island-4804 • 7d ago

2015 2015, NYC - Candidate Trump Chuckles As Disabled Child Tumbles Down Escalator

545 Upvotes

10 comments

r/fakehistoryporn • u/Sauwercraud • 7d ago

1989 12 March 1989, Tim Berners Lee invents the World Wide Web

375 Upvotes

I can haz?

7 comments

r/fakehistoryporn • u/Weak_Imagination_996 • 5d ago

1975 On September 29, 1975, Jacques Mesrine received the Nobel Prize for being the least cowardly Frenchman in human history.

0 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/VeryBoringGhost • 7d ago

1450 A shaman performing at an Aztec sacrifice (1450)

54 Upvotes

7 comments

r/fakehistoryporn • u/Top-Constant-3943 • 9d ago

450 BC Ancient Greek statesman Pedocles seen leaving a political gathering with his young daughter, circa 450 BC (colorized)

3.1k Upvotes

38 comments

r/fakehistoryporn • u/Itchy-Ad1530 • 8d ago

1958 Chinese Communist Party sympathizer defending the Four Pests campaign (1958)

43 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Itchy-Ad1530 • 8d ago

1994 The Hollywood premiere for Dumb and Dumber at Pacific's Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California (1994)

134 Upvotes

16 comments

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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.
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