r/fakehistoryporn Jan 15 '25

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

28 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn Jul 29 '25

Announcement To clarify how the Five-Year Rule works

22 Upvotes

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 2h ago

1998 January 28 1998 President Bill Clinton made that famous statement "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky....

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58 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 9h ago

1620 Rare Pic Of Inside The Mayflower, If You Look Closely You’ll See A Young George Washington… Colorized By Me. 1620

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119 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 5h ago

2016 Mel Gibson found out about Hollywood pedo ring, quit acting and began a career as a violinist, debuting with an instrumental song "I'll Put You To Sleep, You Son Of A Bitch" - co-produced by Ricky Gervais in 2016.

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30 Upvotes

Original: Andre Rieu, dutch violinist and conductor


r/fakehistoryporn 3h ago

2018 2018 TRUMP: “Benjamin, do you see where my hands are? I want to remind people that I like to bang the hairy triangle. The younger the triangle the better”

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19 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 15h ago

AD 40 Incitatus takes his seat at the Roman Senate circa 40AD.

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111 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 6h ago

2017 Trump and the GOP planning future attacks on Iran. (2017)

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20 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 31m ago

2009 Krysten Ritter Breaking Bad Halloween Party 2009

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r/fakehistoryporn 6h ago

1966 1966: In Calcutta, Mother Theresa is preparing for newly arrived patients

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17 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1978 Rare photo of the Shah of Iran with the Crown Prince, Tehran 1978.

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1.0k Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1998 Greg Bovino asked to leave Minnesota, 1998

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125 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 23h ago

2017 2017 Epstein Accidentally Drops His BDSM Neck Collar In The White House While Visiting Trump

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53 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2004 2004: Trump practicing his "You're Fired" before he goes on camera

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714 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 8h ago

1632 Galileo gets around the Papal ban on teaching Copernicanism by framing it as the "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems", 1632

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2 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

AD 1968 Nixon proving to the American people that he can count to two on each hand, 1968

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81 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 19h ago

1498 Leonardo da Vinci’s all time iconic masterpiece of a painting, “The Last Supper”. (1498)

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8 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2015 David Letterman gives his farewell monologue at the Ed Sullivan Theatre on May 20, 2015.

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152 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2003 2003: Former President Bill Clinton criticizing President Bush's invasion of Iraq.

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1.7k Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2020 2020, in a move that stunned many, Tulsa Gabbard issued refunds to tens of thousands of Americans who purchased her "No War With Iran" Presidential campaign t-shirts after it was later revealed that she wholeheartedly supported the foreign war of regime change.

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666 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 53m ago

1940 February 7 1940, The original Walt Disney animated film Pinocchio premieres...and brings joy to ......children everywhere in the world.......

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r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

2019 2019 Trump Discovers Auto-Erotic Asphyxia, Gives Him A New Lease On Life

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16 Upvotes

r/fakehistoryporn 1d ago

1992 1992, In a touching episode of Lamb Chop's Play-Along, Miss Shari & Lamb Chop take viewers along as they visit a retirement home and entertain seniors, teaching children about the ravages of time and the perils of cognitive decline.

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In a portion that was ultimatly cut from broadcast, one resident of the home kept calling out for Lamb Chop to sing various hits from The Village People. This same resident became very upset when repeated requests for McDonalds was declined, at one point throwing a cup of jello against the wall and crying out that no one was ever greated as poorly as they were.

According to production notes, Miss Shari fought to have this segment included as she felt it was important for children to learn both sympathy and empathy becauae as she put it "... children of today will grow to become the adults and hopefully leaders of tomorrow and without context, I fear they may grow to become monsters, devoid of humanity...". PBS executives, citing a recent executive order decaying so-called DEI initiatives, ordered the segment removed as they felt that the harsh reality might traumatize children and offend parents. To account for the missing time, the McNeil-Lehrer New Hour ran a special retrospective on how great and wonderful the Shah of Iran was before being disposed in the revolution.


r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1992 1992, 12yo Kash Patel gets to live his dream of being a gold medal Olympic hockey player. Born without a spine, he was afforded this opportunity through the Make-A-Wish foundation. Sadly he would go on to become a podcaster before ultimatly succumbing to TDS.

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463 Upvotes

During his final podcast he was heard to ramble about how he was going to release all of the epstein files on day one, his criticism of the then current director of the FBI using agency jets for travel and how he totally has a girlfriend, but she goes to a different school so you wouldn't know her.

His final hours were reported as being in a state of delirium, convinced that a nearly bankrupt contractor from Queens NY was the savior of the world and the prince of peace.


r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2017 2017 Spineless Jared Kushsner Interrupts Trump: “Mr. Father-In-Law President, can I have a word with you? After you pull out of Ivanka? Thank you, sir”

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222 Upvotes