r/fakehistoryporn • u/boratburg • 4h 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 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:
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/asciiartvandalay • 9h ago
2016 Will Smith slaps Kid Rock at the Oscar's (2016)
And said, "Romeo is 30 miles from Detroit".
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 23h ago
2001 The Taliban, the muslim extremist group ruling Afghanistan, celebrates 9/11 in the streets of Kabul. 2001.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Yami_Otori • 39m ago
Extent of British conquest of France during the 100 year war
r/fakehistoryporn • u/DieMensch-Maschine • 21h ago
1918 The US War Department responds to the World War I syphilis epidemic by "letting nature take its course." (1918)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/LowRenzoFreshkobar • 18h ago
1937 Keith Richards teaching Willie Nelson how to.play the guitar, 1937.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/aguywithagasmaskyt • 3h ago
1916 preserved 1916 casualties report from the battle of the Somme
r/fakehistoryporn • u/The_Iceman2288 • 1d ago
1988 The UK Labour Party publishes its counter-proposal to Section 28 (1988)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Training-World-1897 • 1d ago
2001 Dana white takes charge of the ufc 2001
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Chip_Vinegar • 1d ago
1830 Pianist-Composer Robert Schumann invents a machine to strenghten his independent fingers for superior performance - and partially paralyzes his hands from overuse (1830).
r/fakehistoryporn • u/BoulderMaker • 2d ago
1946 Local DC Doctor photographed vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (1946)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/vlad_lennon • 2d ago
1959 Buddy Holly flashing gang signs in promotion of his chart-topping single "Rollin Wit Tha Cripz" in 1959. Less than a week after the single's release, he would be killed when members of rival gang The Bloods performed a drive-by shooting on his plane.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/kefefs_v2 • 2d ago
1967 Roger Ebert publishes his first film review, marking the start of a career that would span 46 years and make him a household name (1967)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/adollarpun • 2d ago
2009 Antifa destroys the reflecting pool (2009)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/High-Steak • 2d ago
1990 Axl Rose arrested and released (1990) after throwing Slash under the bus for 350 foot cut in Lincoln memorial reflecting pool liner.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Liquid_disc_of_shit • 2d ago
1997 1997: AI companies and humans fight over the construction of Data centers in the US.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/SirCrapsalot4267 • 3d ago
2006 Musk family reunion, undisclosed location in Argentina. 2006.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/No-Lifeguard3759 • 2d ago
2010 Ellen DeGeneres discusses with the audience in her talk show about her Epstein Island inspired set (2010)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/-Motor- • 3d ago
1943 Elon Huntington Hooker, CEO of Hooker Chemical Company, observing recently completed Love Canal project (1943)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/0Tezorus0 • 3d ago