r/badhistory↗
The Mecca of bad history
Badhistory is your one-stop shop for casual dissertations on the historicity of everything from bestselling books to zero-budget adult films!
341k subscribers20 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~45% by known bots)11 authors / mosince 2013
r/badhistory has 341k members (+4.4% over the last 12 months). It gets about 20 posts a month from 11 people. Top topics: Civil War Confederacy, American History Controversies and Byzantine Empire.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Civil War Confederacy1.0%
- American History Controversies1.0%
- Byzantine Empire0.6%
- Oversimplified History Videos0.5%
- Crusades History0.4%
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Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Wikimedia
- Bluesky Social
- Bluesky
- JSTOR
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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