All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "
AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that sparked an internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002, with the spread of a Flash animation that depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening
cut scene of the European Sega Mega Drive version of Zero Wing, a Japanese video game by
Toaplan which was rushed and so was rather poorly translated into English, and is often regarded as butchering the English language.