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All your base are belong to us

Meme & format · 1999 · Viral

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A game mistranslation spread through Flash; a study counted 7,070 monthly Usenet matches.

Clip · Bitwave Games on YouTube
All your base are belong to us
Wikipedia (non-free, fair use)
Wikimedia's Maker Faire 2008 donation sign reused the phrase.
Brion Vibber, CC BY 3.0
Tracking the All Your Base Meme with Usenet - Waxy.org
Waxy.org / Andy Baio
File:All your base are belong to us at US-50.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons / Gerd Badur

Spread Score

How it works
ReachNo data yetContagion65Breadth60VelocityNo data yetLongevity9070

Numbers

Observed peak date
Mar 2001
Feb 1999 to Mar 2001
Platforms
6
Started on Open web
Origin
Organic
Culture (no sector)

Mechanics

  • Catchphrase
  • Identity badge
  • Platform jumpPrimary
  • Press loop
  • Controversy

How it spread

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A Zero Wing opening GIF became a forum joke, and users edited the phrase into photographs. A Flash video paired the images with a techno remix and reached the wider web. Shirts and later software references followed.

Observed peak within the documented measurement window; not an all-time maximum. Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.

Monthly Usenet phrase matches2000-08-01: 02000-09-01: 12000-10-01: 02000-11-01: 82000-12-01: 262001-01-01: 2672001-02-01: 3,1602001-03-01: 7,0702001-04-01: 3,8802001-05-01: 2,9502001-06-01: 2,2102001-07-01: 1,8702001-08-01: 1,5202001-09-01: 1,3602001-10-01: 1,4602001-11-01: 1,0402001-12-01: 1,0102002-01-01: 9642002-02-01: 7432002-03-01: 9902002-04-01: 8452002-05-01: 5992002-06-01: 3892002-07-01: 5852002-08-01: 4522002-09-01: 4222002-10-01: 3522002-11-01: 2702002-12-01: 2932003-01-01: 2492003-02-01: 5532003-03-01: 3672003-04-01: 4172003-05-01: 1652003-06-01: 1,3902003-07-01: 6542003-08-01: 7062003-09-01: 3582003-10-01: 2212003-11-01: 1872003-12-01: 1692004-01-01: 1882004-02-01: 2232004-03-01: 4302004-04-01: 2982004-05-01: 1362004-06-01: 1102004-07-01: 271Mar ’98Jul ’99Jan ’01SepNov ’03Mar ’05Aug ’07Feb ’12Aug ’16Dec ’19Oct ’21Jul ’23Observed peakOpen webAudioPressTVYouTubeX
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Monthly Usenet phrase matches: 48 dated figures from Waxy.org / Andy Baio, each checked against the source. Measured at the time, not estimated.

Timeline (13)

  1. February 1999

    Teel / Zany Video Game Quotes seed · Feb 1999

    Zany Video Game Quotes featured the opening GIF in an index linked to a February archive.[1]

    Open the first post ↗

  2. November 2000

    Jeffrey Ray Roberts / The Laziest Men on Mars platform jump · Nov 2000

    Jeffrey Ray Roberts remixed the dialogue and game music into Invasion of the Gabber Robots.[2][3]

  3. February 2001

    Bad-CRC / Newgrounds platform jump · Feb 16 ’01

    Bad-CRC uploaded a Flash video combining the remix with images made by forum users.[4][5]

  1. press · Feb 20 ’01

  2. commercial · Feb 23 ’01

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Origin
Organic
Sector
Culture (no sector)
Region
Global
Reported figure
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Evidence
Grade B

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