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What Does 'All Your Base Are Belong to Us' Mean?

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A famously broken machine-translated line from a 1990s video game's opening cutscene, spread as a snowclone-able catchphrase and Photoshop meme celebrating deliberately bad English grammar as comedy in itself.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"All your base are belong to us, was the caption slapped on literally every Photoshop meme that year."

LORE & ORIGIN

Sourced from the English localization of Zero Wing (1989/1992), the phrase spread online starting around 1998 and exploded into a massive Photoshop meme phenomenon on Something Awful and TribalWar forums in 2000-2001, later spreading further through early Flash/Newgrounds culture.

FIRST SEEN
1998
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Internet Canon Revival)
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang

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