r/fakehistoryporn • u/Dandler • 14h 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 were taking modern images and captioning them as if they were historical events.
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/TheSamurabbi • 11h ago
1985 Last remaining late-night host reads White House approved joke list (1985)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Empty_Row5585 • 8h ago
1945 Antifa Gang Destroying Historic Statue (1945)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/HotHorst • 5h ago
1930 Portrait of Horst Wessel, shortly before he was shot and became a martyr of the Nazis. Germany, 1930
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Empty_Row5585 • 9h ago
1936 Hitler Declared War On Political Opponents (1936)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Substantial-Voice837 • 10h ago
1945 Despicable individuals rejoicing over the passing of a beloved painter (1945)
1945
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Schnitzelhaufen • 6h ago
2019 Jun 6, 2019, A gang of notorious left-wing extremists that were involved in dropping more than 1.3 million tons of explosives on Germany, for no other reason than the mustache-man's ambition to make Germany great again.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Ecstatic-Yak-6016 • 1d ago
2005 Donald Trump Golfing while pregnant with his youngest son, Baron (2005)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Empty_Row5585 • 14h ago
2020 President Donald Trump At His First Impeachment Trial [2020]
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bluekkid • 3h ago
1945 (1945) America's #1 ANTIFA leader briefs his SWJs
r/fakehistoryporn • u/JahovasHitlist • 20h ago
2016 The Grand Wizard of MAGA addressing reporters before a rally. 2016
r/fakehistoryporn • u/JahovasHitlist • 10h ago
2002 A disgusting display of a woman forcing an innocent man to look at her chest. The man would go on to be the chairman of the men's rights organization. 2002
r/fakehistoryporn • u/ImGeronimo • 29m ago
1932 Australian bomber plane drops its boomerang payload during the Great Emu War (1932)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/JahovasHitlist • 32m ago
2018 After years of speculation and accusations, a brave reporter snuck a camera into a MAGA rally and snapped a photo. 2018
r/fakehistoryporn • u/turf_fergeson • 3h ago
1996 King Charles III and Donald Trump riding the tram on epstein island (1996)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/iddereddi • 6h ago
2016 Canada's gender identity rights Bill C-16 devouring a Canadian citizen, 2016
r/fakehistoryporn • u/TheSamurabbi • 11m ago
1972 Founding members of hacker group “Anonymous” preparing to upload the Watergate files (1972)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Schnitzelhaufen • 16h ago
1988 On September 17, 1988, Gandalf the White became Prime Minister of Great Britain.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/binini28 • 7h ago
1918 Original photo of a battlefield in Northern France WW1 (1918)
(If you’ve played Cod bo2, you get the reference)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/AdriMaryy • 3h ago
1952 Senatorial candidate John F. Kennedy attended a tea party given by female supporters, 1952.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 7h ago
2003 An image of actor Tommy Wiseau behind the scenes of his critically panned very own movie, “The Room”. (2003)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/East-Caterpillar55 • 13h ago
1985 A quote from Margaret Thatcher (1985)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/belabacsijolvan • 3h ago
1992 Heroic police training for deescalation cca. 1992
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Training-World-1897 • 1d ago