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Also known as All Your Base, AYB, aybabtu, ayb, AYBAB2U

Internet meme about the poor translation from Japanese to English of a quote from a video game

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The phrase as it appears in the introduction to Zero Wing

"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing. The phrase first appeared on the European release of the 1991 Sega Mega Drive conversion of the 1989 Japanese arcade game.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “All your base are belong to us” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.