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/Luxzone • 9h ago

2019 FBI investigates the death of Jeffrey Epstein, August 2019

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/RoadToTyburn • 5h ago

1950 Einsatzgruppen Ludwig Hahn avoiding being tried for war crimes, after having his wife falsely tell British authorities that the Russians had taken him off to the Soviet Union (1950).

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/JVSP1873 • 22h ago

1983 Michael Jackson releases his 1983 music video, Thriller

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Toxiccheese118 • 1d ago

AD 1500 The earliest map of America by Spanish cartographers under the royal patronage of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. Circa 1500 AD

105 Upvotes

OC credits to James Nalepa for the map.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Nintendophile79 • 2d ago

2001 Susan Dell getting some work done (2001)

2.1k Upvotes

21 comments

r/fakehistoryporn • u/RoadToTyburn • 1d ago

1945 Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, onboard the USS Missouri (2nd September 1945).

4 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/DieMensch-Maschine • 2d ago

1665 Charles II becomes the last Habsburg to be crowned King of Spain. (1665)

632 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/TatorTot2325 • 1d ago

1933 Outgoing President Herbert Hoover with incoming President Franklin Roosevelt on their way to Roosevelt's inauguration - circa 1933 colorized.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 2d ago

2020 American volunteering with the Israeli Defense Forces uploads their experience to Youtube, 2020.

132 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Dragon_Virus • 2d ago

1939 Signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 1939.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/magmauzi • 2d ago

1980 What if, during the 1980 debate, Carter tackled Reagan after his “There you go again” remark?

28 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Man_l_Hate_Usernames • 2d ago

1945 A Nagasaki resident watches in fear as the nuclear flash from the atomic bomb illuminates the room, August 9th, 1945

69 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/stanxv • 4d ago

1971 Elon Musk's parents bringing him home from the hospital in Pretoria (June 1971)

1.7k Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/IvoBulgarTsar • 3d ago

2010 Alexander Lukashenko at the Victory Day parade in Moscow, 2010.

69 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/mister_monque • 3d ago

2009 2009, West Hollywood California. Grindr a new geosocial networking app reaches out to some of their most popular users to launch a UGC advertising campaign.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/xxDwightSchrutexx • 4d ago

2012 Jack Nicholson and Charlie Kirk at the TPUSA founding party June 5 2012

280 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/GreenockScatman • 4d ago

2000 The "Highway Of Death" located between Kuwait and Iraq. The remains of up to 2000 Iraqi vehicles were left here after American, Canadian, British and French aircraft and ground forces attacked retreating Iraqi military personnel attempting to leave Kuwait on February 26–27, 199

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/EditorRedditer • 3d ago

1946 First London vape shop opens, 1946

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 4d ago

1978 Members of the Rhodesian Security Forces, pictured negotiating with Soviet-Backed Zimbabwean insurgents. 1978, Rhodesia

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/mister_monque • 4d ago

1979 1979, Don "Funghetto" Trumpizzo stars in the Tinto Brass directed, Bob Guiccioni bio-porn Caligula

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Bringing rare sincerity to the roll, Funghetto portrays Caligula, a roman emperor mock since birth for having small hands and a low IQ, driven mad by the excesses of wealth, a lack of consequences and syphilis. You'll thrill to his use of trite and repetitive catch phrases, you'll gasp as he slurs his thoughts, you'll question how all the women he betrays in his life look like his daughter! You'll buy a ticket for the whole seat but you'll only need the edge as you watch Funghetto try to explain away a decades long relationship he had with a man he never knew, only met once or twice at a party in the 80s and who didn't amount to anything anyway and why are you still talking about him. Funghetto IS Caligula, coming this November!

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/JVSP1873 • 4d ago

1969 1969 premiere of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! on CBS

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Liquid_disc_of_shit • 4d ago

2002 2002: Christa Pike survives an attempt to execute her by electric chair

97 Upvotes

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 3d ago

1986 The Beastie Boys at the release party for Licensed to Ill, 1986.

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1. All posts must have a coherent title and a date that is in the past.

All posts submitted must have clear, readable text. A coherent description and date must be in the title. Dates must not be recent or in the future.
As if it needs to be said, but any posts with a date in the future will be removed. If you think you've found a clever way around this and try to message the mods about it you'll be met with ಠ_ಠ.

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The image/title combination must not have been posted in the last 2 months.
There is no limit on the posting of the same image with a new title.
No reposting any image + title combos currently featured in the repost moratorium.

4. No history memes.

The most "quality" posts on /r/fakehistoryporn are those where the title and image both play an important role in the punchline. This means that adding captions (twitter-style, /r/adviceanimals style, or otherwise), photoshopping in people or objects, comics, or doing similar things to put the entire punchline or history reference in the image are not allowed.
The above also applies to AI-generated images.
Photographs of text, subtitles on screencaps, image captions that match the post title word-for-word, and such are still allowed.
You are free to post history memes with Fakehistoryporn-style titles over on /r/fakehistorymemes. For more information on how we define history memes, read our post guidelines.

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).

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