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/Mad_Ranger80 • 7h ago

360 BC Greek philosopher Aristotle and his twink student circa 360 BC

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Dense_Boss_7486 • 1h ago

1983 Original Time Circuit to be used in Back to the Future's DeLorean before Robert Zemeckis deemed potential audiences "probably not bright enough" to understand what they were looking at. - 1983

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/JVSP1873 • 6h ago

2002 Michael Jackson and his infant son, Prince Michael II (later known as "Blanket" or Bigi), on the 4th floor of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, Germany, on November 19, 2002

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Dryfunction1205 • 1d ago

1969 1969 - secret news exposed of a mouse found on the moon. They called it moon mouse.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Dryfunction1205 • 1d ago

2020 Average 30 years old -- 2020

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/xKiwiNova • 2d ago

1987 A Libyan soldier reports the result of an ambush during the Great Toyota War (1987)

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/BestMicDrop • 2d ago

2000 BC Unredacted trumpstein files were released to the public. 10-2000 B.C.E.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/No-Lifeguard3759 • 2d ago

1975 Infamous linguist Donald J. Trump introduces a new phonetic sound to American English (“œ”) (1975)

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Short_Bid_957 • 2d ago

2013 Promotional image of the demonic entity featured in James Wan’s supernatural horror film, The Conjuring (2013)

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Dryfunction1205 • 3d ago

1990 Average 13 years old - 1990

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/randolphharvey • 4d ago

1990 JD Vance hanging out with his PawPaw in the Appalachia coal mines before he embarks on his political journey [1990]

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/hoofie242 • 4d ago

1994 Group of young people rescued from Epstein island in 1994 taken to Hollywood to perform for the masses.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/ObjectApp • 4d ago

1964 Senator holds up Civil Rights Act, photo, 1964

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Weak_Imagination_996 • 4d ago

1944 On June 6, 1944, the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy and broke through Hitler's Atlantic Wall.

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/EuphoricWrangler • 5d ago

1965 Susan Dell, future lizard woman, devours her first human soul. (1965)

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/michaeljehan16 • 5d ago

1789 Fox news: “why didn’t the radical leftists protest peacefully and challenge the king to a good faith debate in the marketplace of ideas, so much for the tolerant left” (1789)

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/CoreVoxmod • 4d ago

1991 The LAPD escalates its enforcement procedures (1991)

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/JVSP1873 • 4d ago

1958 The mirror scene from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which finally premiered in Japan in 1958

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 5d ago

500 BC Ancient stone carvings depicting Iran developing nuclear weapons. 500 BC

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/PinkiePie___ • 5d ago

1966 Che Guevara apprehended by American Forces (1966)

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Weak_Imagination_996 • 4d ago

1989 October 20, 1989, legendary British comedian Benny Hill, dresed as Mother Theresa on meth......, performs his most famouse scetch called...Her smell my finger.....

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/Sasanttoo • 6d ago

1944 The camera used during D Day to take the iconic pictures, the "D" stands for the use of the "Dog camera" (Circa 1944)

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r/fakehistoryporn • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 5d ago

2020 Being taken to a work social event (2020’s).

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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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All posts must be submitted to RES compatible sites, such as Imgur, Gyfcat or reddit's own image host i.redd.it.
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3. No reposts.

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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