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About

“All Your Base Are Belong to Us” is a classic internet meme that has been spawning derivatives at some level since at least 1998. Most of the early derivatives took the form of image macros and Flash animations, although the meme has spread to Youtube videos as well.

Appeal

The poor grammar present in “All Your Base” is an example of Engrish; phrases originally written in an Asian language but translated poorly into its closest English approximation. Quite often, instances of All Your Base are accompanied by the song “Attack of the Gabber Robots” by The Laziest Men on Mars; a song created using samples from the game.

Origin

The phrase and game footage used in the meme come from the 1989 side-scrolling arcade shooter Zero Wing.

[[research needed for first appearance in “rage games” site mentioned in video]]

Spread

“All Your Base” was so well-known to the Something Awful community that the joke was referenced a number of times on the site’s front page a number of times in 2001.

Albino Black Sheep

On December 23rd, 2001, an All Your Base flash animation was uploaded to Albinoblacksheep.

Newgrounds

“All Your Base” flash animations were also popular on Newgrounds in the early 2000’s.

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26 Comments

hornlessunicorn
Jan 17, 2009 at 11:27PM UTC , hornlessunicorn wrote:

websites explaining memes? ***Facepalm***

Max Dominik Weber
Mar 11, 2009 at 10:00PM UTC , Max Dominik Weber wrote:

how are you rocketboom
all your meme are belong to us

David
Apr 04, 2009 at 04:12AM UTC , David wrote:

I was seriously the first one to upload the original gif? :O

ano nymous
Apr 23, 2009 at 12:19AM UTC , ano nymous wrote:

it won’t die out

The Crazy Tom
May 04, 2009 at 06:36PM UTC , The Crazy Tom wrote:

‘’All your base are belong to us’’ is also a cheat in Warcraft 3 to win the mission.

Captain Blubber
May 08, 2009 at 01:56AM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

Cool music video about this.

Selene
May 17, 2009 at 05:15PM UTC , Selene wrote:

I love the think geek t-shirt that has this meme…

YesLoitering
Jun 01, 2009 at 02:59PM UTC , YesLoitering wrote:

Don’t look down it’s motherf*@ckin’ DAVE

HPPH
Jun 27, 2009 at 11:30AM UTC , HPPH wrote:

argh, I imagine you’ve had a million emails on this but I wince every time you boldly and erroneously claim it to be 8 bit graphics. No, Sega Genesis was 16 bits, man…But yeah, you’ve probably heard this complaint a bunch.

Jon McLaren
Jul 14, 2009 at 04:57AM UTC , Jon McLaren wrote:

the picture of batman has no significance here

Cooper Smith
Jul 23, 2009 at 03:03PM UTC , Cooper Smith wrote:

the game empire earth has a cheat code that reads: all your base are belong to us.

pokecatchsoul
Aug 09, 2009 at 07:58PM UTC , pokecatchsoul wrote:

hi….. O___O all your base are belong to us.

Grrawr
Aug 15, 2009 at 03:45PM UTC , Grrawr wrote:

I once sent a guy a valentine’s card that said that one thing.

Roses are red
Violets are Blue
All my base
are belong to you.

Next day, I got a return card.
It said

that’s kay, cuz i was in ur base killin ur d00ds ne wayz.

I love that guy.

G33K
Aug 17, 2009 at 07:39PM UTC , G33K wrote:

AYB on the way to destruction? What you say!!

Guardsman
Sep 12, 2009 at 10:51PM UTC , Guardsman wrote:

This even gets a nod in Rome:Total War, when another country tries to force you into becoming a client state, they declare “All your base are belong to us”.

Dan Green
Sep 15, 2009 at 11:00PM UTC , Dan Green wrote:

You are on the way to destruction
make your time!

zlex
Oct 21, 2009 at 10:49PM UTC , zlex wrote:

How was Bad_CRC of TribalWar fame not mentioned as the creator the video that eventually exploded AYBABTU?

http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24539&page=51

Video was originally posted on
http://www.planetstarseige.com/allyourbase

The more you knew

spamz mcface
Dec 20, 2009 at 04:25AM UTC , spamz mcface wrote:

This could possibly be the first meme evar.

first name last name
Dec 25, 2009 at 02:41AM UTC , first name last name wrote:

an all your base vid I made…

G1drake
Feb 01, 2010 at 03:31PM UTC , G1drake wrote:

don,t forget the megadriver remix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOG2t8RTuc

Brad Kim
Feb 01, 2010 at 03:53PM UTC , Brad Kim wrote:

here’s an assortment of related thread/news links: http://www.sirlinksalot.net/ayb.html

Watcher
Feb 15, 2010 at 12:44AM UTC , Watcher wrote:

Ymm Ouin Pyca Yna Pamuhk Du Ic.

Vegeta9007
Feb 16, 2010 at 04:53PM UTC , Vegeta9007 wrote:

still researching? what do? hurr up guise, yew maek tiem jew anger.

ShoopDaWoop
Feb 17, 2010 at 05:12PM UTC , ShoopDaWoop wrote:

this meme is n scribblenauts, it spawns a large panel with a cyborg face on a computer.

gamexmaster
Mar 02, 2010 at 07:17PM UTC , gamexmaster wrote:

it should also be pointed up that in the late 90s, RTS gamers used this phrase as a predecesor to “owned”

also, this is 16 bit, not 8-bit.

ownagepie24
Mar 07, 2010 at 03:56AM UTC , ownagepie24 wrote:

I don’t know what this guy is thinking. All your base are belong to Chuck Norris.

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