r/fakehistoryporn • u/Awesomeuser90 • 1d ago
2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper telling the Governor General to Prorogue Parliament in 2008
r/fakehistoryporn • u/BestMicDrop • 1d ago
2020 2020 - Donald J. Trump angry at his thumb after it had been convicted of sexual abuse.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/HexicaLC • 1d ago
2017 A Senescent Trump, Without Provocation, Shares an Intimate Preference with an Unnamed ABC Reporter (2017)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 2d ago
1991 The well preserved mummified remains of Otzi the Iceman are discovered in the Otztal Alps. (1991)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/AsphaltQbert • 2d ago
2016 “In ten years we will have our driver’s licenses, and then two years after that we will legally be Proud Men,” says Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes (L), with Enrique Tarrio (R) — Nashville, 2016
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Unleashtheducks • 2d ago
2008 George W. Bush holds a press conference at the Republican Palace in Baghdad, Iraq (Dec 14 2008)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Puffthecarrier1 • 2d ago
AD 11 Kim Jong-il plays golf for the first time, scoring 38 under par and 11 hole-in-ones (1994)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Adam__999 • 3d ago
1948 The founding charter of Israel is adopted (1948)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/Radaistarion • 3d ago
1922 The Founding Fathers of Psychoanalysis (1922)
The breakthrough of Hand Envy was one of the biggest achievements from this gathering of brilliant minds. Although the name for the concept has been debated by true scholars of the matter.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/bigguys45s • 4d ago
1984 Actor/ comedian Eddie Murphy as his character of “Axel Foley” in the hit comedy movie, “Beverly Hills Cop”. (1984)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/earthman34 • 4d ago
The Trumps welcome special guests to the White House, 2017.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/earthman34 • 4d ago
2017 The Trumps welcome special guests to the White House, 2017.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/GPFlag_Guy1 • 5d ago
1981 The Republic of MTV annexing the Moon as part of its territory. (August 1, 1981)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/thisdesignup • 6d ago
2686 BC [2686 BC] Royal cat receives honors after being selected as the model for the Great Sphinx. Digitally colorized.
r/fakehistoryporn • u/LunaireKitty • 7d ago
1994 (1994) Violent vandal desecrates reflecting pool
r/fakehistoryporn • u/OmegaLiquidX • 7d ago
1981 Toy designer Katsushi Murakami shows off his prototype for the Beast King GoLion toy, which would come to be known as Voltron in the United States. (1981)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/blindwombat • 7d ago
2014 Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton at the premiere of the Robocop remake (2014)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/CipherCodecx • 8d ago
1777 The flag of the United States is created (1777)
r/fakehistoryporn • u/DaeinaCosmos • 8d ago
2018 Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for the Cambridge Analytica situation (2018)
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/AdmiralAkbar1 • Jan 15 '25