Fake History memes involve pairing a modern photograph—often involving celebrities, movies, or absurd stock images—with a caption that describes a major historical event. This trend gained massive traction on platforms like Reddit and Twitter as a way to satirize the seriousness of history textbooks by applying their clinical descriptions to chaotic modern scenes. Whether it is depicting a scene from a superhero movie as a pivotal battle from World War II or a chaotic celebrity party as the fall of the Roman Empire, these memes rely on the cognitive dissonance between the visual and the historical label to generate humor.