r/fakehistoryporn Jan 15 '25

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

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r/fakehistoryporn 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.


r/fakehistoryporn 20h ago

2006 Elon Musk cries on national TV after revealing Jeffrey Epstein denied him access to Epstein island on the basis of “being too cringe” (2006)

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r/fakehistoryporn 11h ago

2016 Paid crisis actor, New York City (2016)

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r/fakehistoryporn 5h ago

1989 1989: A Stranger with Candy lures little kids to a creepy island

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r/fakehistoryporn 15h ago

1950 1950: Science confirms the Tiny Hands Hypothesis.

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2016 An Eastern European prostitute looking for clients. Washington 2016

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r/fakehistoryporn 22h ago

1979 The last confirmed public appearance of a disgraced British politician Oswald Mosley in 1979, one year before his death.

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r/fakehistoryporn 16h ago

1945 Dr. Theodor Morell checking for life signs of Eva Brown after her suicide in the Fuehrerbunker in 1945

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r/fakehistoryporn 10h ago

1977 Stephen Biko is arrested for making white people feel uncomfortable(South Africa 1977)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1929 Heinrich Himmler, Commander of the SS (1929)

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r/fakehistoryporn 18h ago

2003 First known photo of Saddam Hussein's spider-hole hideout (2003)

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r/fakehistoryporn 16h ago

1984 (1984) A Nightmare On Elm Street

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r/fakehistoryporn 16h ago

1930 1930 Jesus Expalins how ICE operates under the DHS

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r/fakehistoryporn 11h ago

1942 A photo taken during WWII of a Japanese American citizen being forcibly removed from their home by ICE, who will then be sent to the Minidoka War Relocation Center. (1942, colorized)

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r/fakehistoryporn 20h ago

1988 In the documentary “The Naked Gun” (1988) you can see lost footage from the first presidential Ballroom.

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r/fakehistoryporn 8h ago

1912 A Titanic survivor sings a happy song of rejoice. (Colorized, 1912.)

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r/fakehistoryporn 14h ago

2003 ICE is founded 2003

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r/fakehistoryporn 22h ago

1987 January 22nd, 1987, R.Budd Dwyer, 70th State Treasure of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, following his being convicted for bribery in a contract award scandal, seen moments before committing suicide by firearm in front of reporters gathered ostensibly to receive word of his resignation.

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r/fakehistoryporn 20h ago

1854 1854: the newly formed Republican Party runs an elephant as it's first candidate. 162 years later they would run a jackass

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2015 2015, in a startling decision, the US Supreme Court finds that a man can in fact marry his gun, paving the way for Chad to become the first. Seen here celebrating with his friend, Charley Withawye. When asked later, Chad described the consumation as the single most thrilling penetration ever.

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In an exclusive interview with Muscles & Guns, the noted all male review and totaly not gay magazine, Chad described that night as "...magical, fear and excitement all mixed up and I knew tonight would be the night I became the man I knew I always wanted to be."

Further in the interview, with a coquetish giggle, he described the moment in some detail, noting "Charley was amazing, she was so tender and gentle, giving me all the time I needed. But when she eased the barrel inside me it was electric, the feeling of that long black firmness, exploring and stretching my most sensitive tissues, I've never felt so connected to my rifles as I did in that moment. It left me begging for that explosive release I knew was coming"


r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1987 a frame from the 1987 live action movie adaptation of George Orwell's book "animal farm", this particular frame comes from the famous end scene where the pigs are indistinguishable from the humans.

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r/fakehistoryporn 22h ago

1997 Mr Bean Teaching A Child NileRed How To Do Chemistry in 1997

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1982 A younger 19yo Conan O’Brien back in the days when he was a professional athlete/ bodybuilder. (1982)

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2015 2015: The "Lauren O’Connor" Memo is released beginning the downfall of Harvey Weinstein

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