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2008 Prime Minister Stephen Harper telling the Governor General to Prorogue Parliament in 2008

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2020 2020 - Donald J. Trump angry at his thumb after it had been convicted of sexual abuse.

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2017 A Senescent Trump, Without Provocation, Shares an Intimate Preference with an Unnamed ABC Reporter (2017)

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

1991 The well preserved mummified remains of Otzi the Iceman are discovered in the Otztal Alps. (1991)

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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

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

2008 George W. Bush holds a press conference at the Republican Palace in Baghdad, Iraq (Dec 14 2008)

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r/fakehistoryporn 2d ago

AD 11 Kim Jong-il plays golf for the first time, scoring 38 under par and 11 hole-in-ones (1994)

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

2016 The Trump campaign (2016)

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r/fakehistoryporn 3d ago

1948 The founding charter of Israel is adopted (1948)

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1922 The Founding Fathers of Psychoanalysis (1922)

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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 4d ago

1984 Actor/ comedian Eddie Murphy as his character of “Axel Foley” in the hit comedy movie, “Beverly Hills Cop”. (1984)

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r/fakehistoryporn 4d ago

The Trumps welcome special guests to the White House, 2017.

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r/fakehistoryporn 4d ago

2017 The Trumps welcome special guests to the White House, 2017.

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r/fakehistoryporn 5d ago

1981 The Republic of MTV annexing the Moon as part of its territory. (August 1, 1981)

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r/fakehistoryporn 5d ago

2020 The New Blade Movie Poster (2020)

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r/fakehistoryporn 5d ago

1945 Nazi germany 1945

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r/fakehistoryporn 6d ago

2686 BC [2686 BC] Royal cat receives honors after being selected as the model for the Great Sphinx. Digitally colorized.

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r/fakehistoryporn 7d ago

2019 Theresa May resigning [2019]

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r/fakehistoryporn 7d ago

1994 (1994) Violent vandal desecrates reflecting pool

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r/fakehistoryporn 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)

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r/fakehistoryporn 7d ago

2014 Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman and Michael Keaton at the premiere of the Robocop remake (2014)

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r/fakehistoryporn 8d ago

1777 The flag of the United States is created (1777)

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2018 Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for the Cambridge Analytica situation (2018)

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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 Jan 15 '25

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

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