Really and truly, I am so glad that someone else found profound meaning in "You have no chance to survive, make your time." I've been waiting 25 years to encounter someone else who gets it. Thank you!
@@HarshitWise Yeah I'm about his age and was VERY online in the late 90s and early 00s and I could have given the exact same explanation of that video (which I first saw as a downloadable flash video) off the top of my head.
@@mckinnon42 Me too! Actually going back to websites to rewatch my favourites was a waste of precious bandwidth (and so much time, because dial-up), so I saved them all in a directory called - appropriately enough for the time - "r0x0r flash" 😂
And also explaining that it would be HISTORY. Like, telling a kid about “All Your Base are Belong to Us” today is comparable to telling a kid in the 90s about “Strawberry Fields Forever”
Btw, the actual translation is "Treasure what little time remains in your lives" (in Japanese: "せいぜい残り少ない命を、大切にしたまえ"), which is also nice when taken out of context.
“You have no chance to survive make your time” resonates with me in the way that I needed most at this moment in my life. Thanks to introducing it to me, John! I’m honestly make a poster of that phrase, maybe even get it as my first tattoo!
I love it! We frequently say “take your time” but as someone with ADHD and anxiety, it’s a foreign concept to my brain to let something go and give myself time / just allow whatever it is to come to pass / etc. I think “make your time” functionally makes way more sense to my brain cells!
You and Hank are truly unlocking some ancient memories for me, wow. I hadn't even made an account back then, that's when I was just lurking, watching videos...man.
Oh the title is such a good quote indeed then :) When I was a Dutch as a second language teacher I had a guy write a very sweet line on a postcard in not perfect Dutch, and he wanted me to correct it. But it would have f***ed up the meaning and therefore the sweet beauty of it, so I remember trying to explain to him that I really wanted to keep the "wrong" sentence. He wasn't immediately on board but I think we kept it in the end 💛
@@coryman125 It was for another teacher, who was in his last week at the school and it was something along the lines of "I wish for you good life". If I would have corrected it to "have a good life", it would have been completely different. That's casual and almost nonchalant. If I would have corrected it to something like "I very much wish you have a wonderful and fulfilling life" then it would have a) sounded more sort of, like, woolly and somehow a bit more distant, because it's less straightforward. And b) the guy who's card it was would have not understood half of the text on his own card. If I would have corrected it to "I wish you a good life" it would have been less personal, more like a genral line. The "for you" was very much part of the message, even in a more noticable way in Dutch. So I kept telling this sweet sweet middle aged Iranian bus driver that I, this young and friendly Dutch teacher he had here, wished for him to keep it as it was 😅 He really wanted a correct sentence because he thought that that was necessary and I didn't want to just sweep the message off his card completely because of stupid grammar rules 💛
I don't have anything of substance to add, I'm old, and I appreciate the nostalgia trips you've taken us on with the last two videos, so here's some engagement.
on the same note as that, the existence of the vocaloid community. like, people around the internet agreed that a voice synth mascot was really cool and we should pretend that it is an actual featured artist, and that it has its' own lore, that the company behind that synth then accepted those memes as canon and in many cases struck deals with the "inventor" internet users for merchandising and licensing purposes? also, hologram concerts, where a live band of skilled musicians decide to collaborate with a made up illusion of a singer? amazing
Time to rewatch the original video! The internet was so exciting and beautiful back then. It can be now too, and that's important to remember. Try and find the right places, that's all, and this is one of the right places
2 days of major nostalgia bombs. The sweet spot where we no longer had to follow dos prompts to get into folders but also didn’t really know what everyone in the world thought about hot Cheetos. Different times. Not better as you said but it’s crazy to me how different it was.
Oh the title is such a good quote indeed then :) When I was a Dutch as a second language teacher I had a guy write a very sweet line on a postcard in not perfect Dutch, and he wanted me to correct it. But it would have f***ed up the meaning and therefore the sweet beauty of it, so I remember trying to explain to him that I really wanted to keep the "wrong" sentence. He wasn't immediately on board but I think we kept it in the end
One small correction is in order though: The version of Zero Wing that the infamous line is derived from released only in Europe on the Mega Drive. The SEGA Genesis never got that version, and the original Arcade release (which was released in America) never had cutscenes. This makes “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US” a meme of European origin.
My husband and I bonded together in college by collecting and playing terrible (and sometimes actually good) retro video games. Our favorite was the Streets of Rage series, which contained the line, “This concealed door has been used recently!” And a random sign that read, “It’s like Boo!”
I love that even though I wasn’t there at the time of their creations, I know about both this and xfiles because of reading my childhood Sunday comic Foxtrot. Jason Fox was the true first meme lord and he’s honestly the reason I’m so steeped in video games, pop culture, and knowing things that are relics of the early internet
I remember my older brother showing me Hampster Dance on our family Gateway when it was just a webpage with GIFs and that sample from Robin Hood playing endlessly
Having struggled with depression for a while and this year's Pizzamas lining up with the passing of my grandmother and the impending literally today as I'm writing this the day we will say goodbye to our family dog of 14 years that I've had in my life from the age of 17 to now 31. Weird how the world works. I also cry or tear up to most vlog brothers videos these days, whether they're depression or mental health related or when the actions of this community and news covered on it are the only glimpses of optimism I see in this country and world these days.
Sending virtual hugs. My summer was similar. My dad’s funeral was less than a week before my sweet cat lost her battle to cancer. Some days I can find comfort in the pieces of them that live on in me or the happy memories of better times. Other days depression or grief drain me of joy. I like John’s reminder to make your time in the light of this. My sister gets dragged under with regret for not spending more time with our dad. Regret is living in the past and can feel enticing while grieving. Being in the now requires a commitment to accepting our lost loved ones will only be part of our daily journey if we choose to carry the best of them into our here and now. I hope that in time you can find joy in the memories you have of your grandmother and your dog without those memories tasting like tears. I feel blessed for the time I had with my quirky wonderful dad and my quirky wonderful cat. Grief is a reflection of the love you shared and that love lives on in you. Often media paints things in simple dichotomies and overhyped clickbait. Real life is more blurry and messy. Love and pain, optimism and despair aren’t all separate from each other. They are all part of the messy chaos of living here and now and always. Make your time and try to find the sweetness in your memories. Try to see that dichotomies are an illusion. I have hope that more people are seeing that
It was released as an arcade cabinet in the US. The Sega Mega Drive version added the intro. The Mega Drive port did have a North American release, but not until 2020
Now THIS is something I both remember and participated in, pre-UA-cam! Ah, the fun of making absurd juxtapositions in photomontaged fashion. But never thought about how "make your time" could be seen through a philosophical lens. Doubly beautiful. Happy pizzamas everyone!
While we are here talking about older internet trends, one that I've become really fond of just now is UA-cam Poop Music Videos. This genre basically consists of taking a bunch of media (TV, UA-camrs, viral clips, etc) and autotuning clips to pretty much any song. It's not exactly a very mainstream genre, but what I'm starting to fully appreciate now is the amazing visuals people make with it. The majority of them have very simple editing and that works most of the time, but those that stand out REALLY stand out, some even using 3D software to push the visuals further. Don't even get me started on the remixes themselves, god they're such bangers.
Finally someone gets it! AYBABTU is one of my favorite videos because it paints this picture of an Internet where the only best thing to do AT ALL was tack a new photoshop onto the end of a photoshop meme thread. When a joke could just spontaneously get carried for two years one post at a time by any random stranger and it would still be, somehow, one of the funniest things anyone had ever seen. It was a time I miss, and to love this video you must understand why. Thanks for this.
The thing that makes the All You Base video work is if you actually look at the story conveyed by the intro it is not at all bad. It uses varying emotional states, expressive characters and creative camera angles, all with a background music that set the mood and sound effects that matches the actions. The only thing they really messed up with the intro was the translation, but despite it being goofy and full of errors it remains comprehensive. So the reaction is less "Uhhhh, I have no idea what they're trying to say..." and more "*snort* That's a weird/funny way to say that.". I would say it has the same appeal as lolcats. Also, I think it was when Zero Wing was brought to Europe, not the US, that they made the intro and thereby translation.
You have to understand, back in 2000 as middle-school kids we had no idea that photoshop was a thing or that it was so powerful. There was also not really a consensus that "people lie on the internet", or would have any reason to. So when we saw the AYBABTU music video, we were entirely sure that it was all real photographs. The meme had ascended to vast global sensation, and people really were writing it everywhere on signs and buildings and in advertisements. It felt powerful to know about it.
The internet is like our third space right?? After working all day you go there to talk to people and chill in different areas and with different groups and have community.
I remember seeing All Your Base Are Belong to Us on Newgrounds in 2001 on my college’s high speed internet. References to it appeared all over the place. It was as one of the first viral memes. I, too, watched it a million times to read each picture.
god the horse pizza john is going to make such an S-tier addition to my collection. One day, when I'm old, I hope my children will collect my wardrobe of only pizza john tshirts and make me a quilt.
Thanks for reminding me of the rest of that amazing meme/game. I've been saying all your base are belong to us for decades, but I'd forgotten that I have no chance to survive, make your time.
Just last week I had to engage in an emergency re-watching of the base video due to a critical ear worm infection, probably for the first time wondered about it and its creation. Then the universe provided, here is John with the answers to all my questions
That's funny, I always interpreted "You have no chance to survive make your time" as "You have no chance to survive with how little time you have left". Never thought a imaginary comma would make such a big difference.
I still wear my All Your Base shirt that I got from Think Geek back in the day. Explaining this shirt recently to my children, much like John today, was certainly a trip.
What a fun coincidence! I'm sure I'm not the only one here, but the "all your base are belong to us" clip (not the music video or meme compilation, just the clip) was the first video I ever saw on UA-cam!
I don’t remember my first youtube video I watched; but I do remember seeing my friend showing me the UA-cam App Icon on an iPhone - my brain wrinkled at the possibilities of people watching video on their PHONES. It was a fun time to see in my analytics the flip from mostly desktop/computer viewership to almost 100% mobile viewers.
Hank. John. More ancient Internet content plz. I’m like….enough younger than you guys that it isn’t that much as adults but it would have been a lot if we met when you watched these videos, but I saw them too. I need more.
How I remember working in the halls of Tripod, and someone on the floor would laugh out loud. A moment would pass and then a bunch of giggles elsewhere and then laughing everywhere as people got the link to the funny thing (now known as meme) in their email etc. I loved those waves of laughter going across my coworkers!
I think the first UA-cam video I ever saw was Rhett and Link's Taco Bell drive through song. I can't know for sure, but that's the earliest I can remember.
I remember even prior to its jump to UA-cam in 2005 people were making parody videos referencing All Your Base and posting them to a flash website called Newgrounds. RIP flash, RIP Newgrounds, most of the media of my childhood existed on the internet of the 00s and is now lost to time.
Wasn't expecting to see John talking about "All Your Base" today-not that I'm complaining, of course. The video that John watched actually dates back to at least 2001. By then it was up on Newgrounds.
Now we need "Badgers", Nyancat, Leekspin, "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard-gard-gard!", and Numa Numa to really complete my old nostalgia tour. Oh, and of course a giant binging of all of Homestarrunner. And the Trogdor comes in the NIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
All my base
Are belong to you. ❤
Aww.
I love this
Hahaha love it
Good for a valentine's day card, and then inside that card it would say "For great justice,take off every zig"
I first saw this with hex codes for the colors. It adds _something_, although I'm not quite sure what exactly.
John making All Your Base Are Belong to Us into something so sincere and meaningful is peak John 😂💚
It’s one of my favorites, if not my true favorite.
....for great justice!
Really and truly, I am so glad that someone else found profound meaning in "You have no chance to survive, make your time." I've been waiting 25 years to encounter someone else who gets it. Thank you!
That connection between people is 100 percent my favorite part of the internet.
I'm just sad that John didn't end the video with the next line: "Ha Ha Ha"
mmmmmmmm zig
You can always count on John Green to memento mori
Gotta respect the researched, complex videos happening during Pizzamas.
I bet John knew all this already from the top of his head.
@@HarshitWise Yeah I'm about his age and was VERY online in the late 90s and early 00s and I could have given the exact same explanation of that video (which I first saw as a downloadable flash video) off the top of my head.
I like how the first video John saw was a meme that significantly predated UA-cam
I was behind the times even then :) -John
I was gonna say,I remember seeing it for the first time on newgrounds
I still have a copy of the old swf on my computer.
@@mckinnon42 Me too! Actually going back to websites to rewatch my favourites was a waste of precious bandwidth (and so much time, because dial-up), so I saved them all in a directory called - appropriately enough for the time - "r0x0r flash" 😂
@@mckinnon42Same
Oh hell yeah. Hank set us up the bomb, and now John delivers. This is shaping up to be the best Pizzamas ever. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
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Honestly these videos have been my favourite nerdfighteria content in a long time. Absolute bangers
Someone set us up the vlog.
*up us
We get signal
Move every zig.
How did u comment 47 mins ago on a video that says it was posted 37 mins ago
What you say?
Imagine telling someone in 2005 that All Your Base Are Belong To Us would not just feel nostalgic but be used as a metaphor for LIFE ITSELF
It kinda /was/ nostalgic in 2005. The original meme took off in 1998/9 and this video was on Newgrounds in 2001.
And also explaining that it would be HISTORY. Like, telling a kid about “All Your Base are Belong to Us” today is comparable to telling a kid in the 90s about “Strawberry Fields Forever”
@@undine120 yeah, it feels like a lifetime separated aybabtu from the big memes of 2005 like numa numa
@@tinfang-warble For some people like me who went through high school between 2001 and 2005, "a lifetime" is an understatement.
@@undine120 great point, especially vs my frame of reference! I was a kid when it came out on UA-cam 😂
Thank you for including both GIF and GIF
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also, the gifs of that time period do not resemble modern gifs at all!
The G in my name sounds like GIF too.
Alas only one of these is a valid and correct pronunciation
Ahh, but he forgot GIF!
Btw, the actual translation is "Treasure what little time remains in your lives" (in Japanese: "せいぜい残り少ない命を、大切にしたまえ"), which is also nice when taken out of context.
Patient presented with a terminal case of life, the prognosis is “too short”.
All his base is belong to us
Life is no way to treat an animal.
I think life is too long tbh
Thank you for explaining the joke. I have gone through my life pretending to get the joke because people thought I did. I am as old as the joke.
“All your pizza are belong to us”
Pixel Art of pizza John as Cats
Omg nerdfighteria get on this asap
I'll be waiting to buy this next Pizzamas.
I need it
Shut up and take my money!
Yes
I have rarely clicked on a Vlogbrothers SO FAST.
How are you gentlemen.
For great justice
You know what you doing
What you say?!
What you say !!
“You have no chance to survive make your time” resonates with me in the way that I needed most at this moment in my life. Thanks to introducing it to me, John! I’m honestly make a poster of that phrase, maybe even get it as my first tattoo!
I love it! We frequently say “take your time” but as someone with ADHD and anxiety, it’s a foreign concept to my brain to let something go and give myself time / just allow whatever it is to come to pass / etc. I think “make your time” functionally makes way more sense to my brain cells!
You and Hank are truly unlocking some ancient memories for me, wow. I hadn't even made an account back then, that's when I was just lurking, watching videos...man.
I just showed the All Your Base video to my kids a few weeks ago! It's like internet archaeology, and it's a fun throwback! Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you for keeping the meme and legacy going. :)
Oh the title is such a good quote indeed then :) When I was a Dutch as a second language teacher I had a guy write a very sweet line on a postcard in not perfect Dutch, and he wanted me to correct it. But it would have f***ed up the meaning and therefore the sweet beauty of it, so I remember trying to explain to him that I really wanted to keep the "wrong" sentence. He wasn't immediately on board but I think we kept it in the end 💛
Oh dit is lief ❤
Do you happen to remember the line?
@@coryman125 It was for another teacher, who was in his last week at the school and it was something along the lines of "I wish for you good life".
If I would have corrected it to "have a good life", it would have been completely different. That's casual and almost nonchalant.
If I would have corrected it to something like "I very much wish you have a wonderful and fulfilling life" then it would have a) sounded more sort of, like, woolly and somehow a bit more distant, because it's less straightforward. And b) the guy who's card it was would have not understood half of the text on his own card.
If I would have corrected it to "I wish you a good life" it would have been less personal, more like a genral line. The "for you" was very much part of the message, even in a more noticable way in Dutch.
So I kept telling this sweet sweet middle aged Iranian bus driver that I, this young and friendly Dutch teacher he had here, wished for him to keep it as it was 😅 He really wanted a correct sentence because he thought that that was necessary and I didn't want to just sweep the message off his card completely because of stupid grammar rules 💛
This is giving me one heck of a nostalgia kick.
I don't have anything of substance to add, I'm old, and I appreciate the nostalgia trips you've taken us on with the last two videos, so here's some engagement.
Thank you for differentiating between gifs on the one hand, and gifs on the other.
"levan polka" is this for me. Such an awesome collaboration
on the same note as that, the existence of the vocaloid community. like, people around the internet agreed that a voice synth mascot was really cool and we should pretend that it is an actual featured artist, and that it has its' own lore, that the company behind that synth then accepted those memes as canon and in many cases struck deals with the "inventor" internet users for merchandising and licensing purposes? also, hologram concerts, where a live band of skilled musicians decide to collaborate with a made up illusion of a singer? amazing
Time to rewatch the original video! The internet was so exciting and beautiful back then. It can be now too, and that's important to remember. Try and find the right places, that's all, and this is one of the right places
We need a policy genius sponsorship on this
I yelled so loudly and with so much happiness when I saw this is about all your base are belong to us. ❤️❤️❤️
2 days of major nostalgia bombs. The sweet spot where we no longer had to follow dos prompts to get into folders but also didn’t really know what everyone in the world thought about hot Cheetos. Different times. Not better as you said but it’s crazy to me how different it was.
Can't wait for your next upload!
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All your base was not the first video I saw on UA-cam, but it was one of the first that made me fall in love with the platform.
All Your Base Are Belong To Us is our generation's Skibidi Toilet. Now, I know I can't be objective, but I prefer our way.
I didn’t know the source of the title, so I worried this would get too existential, but it was hilarious and delightful
this look back in time is so healing. Thank you.
All Your Base and Homestar Runner defined culture for several years.
Oh the title is such a good quote indeed then :) When I was a Dutch as a second language teacher I had a guy write a very sweet line on a postcard in not perfect Dutch, and he wanted me to correct it. But it would have f***ed up the meaning and therefore the sweet beauty of it, so I remember trying to explain to him that I really wanted to keep the "wrong" sentence. He wasn't immediately on board but I think we kept it in the end
One small correction is in order though:
The version of Zero Wing that the infamous line is derived from released only in Europe on the Mega Drive. The SEGA Genesis never got that version, and the original Arcade release (which was released in America) never had cutscenes.
This makes “ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US” a meme of European origin.
All my purpose for opening this video on laptop are belong to you.
You are so good, John. Wholesome, honest, funny, earnest, and just… you. Thank you for being so awesome.
My husband and I bonded together in college by collecting and playing terrible (and sometimes actually good) retro video games. Our favorite was the Streets of Rage series, which contained the line, “This concealed door has been used recently!” And a random sign that read, “It’s like Boo!”
As a scholar of community play on Something Awful, I didn't know that I would get my special interest scratched today!
Main screen turn on!
I love that even though I wasn’t there at the time of their creations, I know about both this and xfiles because of reading my childhood Sunday comic Foxtrot. Jason Fox was the true first meme lord and he’s honestly the reason I’m so steeped in video games, pop culture, and knowing things that are relics of the early internet
I didn't remember Hank's video but this one is burned into my brain for all time
Hampster Dance is the first internet meme I remember. The first UA-cam I really remember is lonelygirl15.
I remember my older brother showing me Hampster Dance on our family Gateway when it was just a webpage with GIFs and that sample from Robin Hood playing endlessly
Hampster Dance is why I incorrectly believed 'hamster' had a 'p' in for at least a decade afterwards.
I am living for Pizzamas meme archaeology. What's next? Salad fingers? Hampsterdance? YTMND? Yatta???
Having struggled with depression for a while and this year's Pizzamas lining up with the passing of my grandmother and the impending literally today as I'm writing this the day we will say goodbye to our family dog of 14 years that I've had in my life from the age of 17 to now 31.
Weird how the world works.
I also cry or tear up to most vlog brothers videos these days, whether they're depression or mental health related or when the actions of this community and news covered on it are the only glimpses of optimism I see in this country and world these days.
So sorry you're going through all that. Sending love your way 💜
Sending virtual hugs. My summer was similar. My dad’s funeral was less than a week before my sweet cat lost her battle to cancer. Some days I can find comfort in the pieces of them that live on in me or the happy memories of better times. Other days depression or grief drain me of joy.
I like John’s reminder to make your time in the light of this. My sister gets dragged under with regret for not spending more time with our dad. Regret is living in the past and can feel enticing while grieving. Being in the now requires a commitment to accepting our lost loved ones will only be part of our daily journey if we choose to carry the best of them into our here and now.
I hope that in time you can find joy in the memories you have of your grandmother and your dog without those memories tasting like tears. I feel blessed for the time I had with my quirky wonderful dad and my quirky wonderful cat. Grief is a reflection of the love you shared and that love lives on in you. Often media paints things in simple dichotomies and overhyped clickbait. Real life is more blurry and messy. Love and pain, optimism and despair aren’t all separate from each other. They are all part of the messy chaos of living here and now and always. Make your time and try to find the sweetness in your memories. Try to see that dichotomies are an illusion. I have hope that more people are seeing that
John where did your mustache go
It was in the base, that now belongs to Cats. (John had some speaking engagements IRL)
this is going in my top ten list of Most Ominous Titles of UA-cam Videos Recommended To Me
It was actually the European localization. Zero Wing never got a North American release back in the day.
It was released as an arcade cabinet in the US. The Sega Mega Drive version added the intro. The Mega Drive port did have a North American release, but not until 2020
Waiting for hank to post before making your video was 10,000% the right move
OMG, I remember that video! Such a classic.
Now THIS is something I both remember and participated in, pre-UA-cam! Ah, the fun of making absurd juxtapositions in photomontaged fashion. But never thought about how "make your time" could be seen through a philosophical lens. Doubly beautiful. Happy pizzamas everyone!
While we are here talking about older internet trends, one that I've become really fond of just now is UA-cam Poop Music Videos.
This genre basically consists of taking a bunch of media (TV, UA-camrs, viral clips, etc) and autotuning clips to pretty much any song. It's not exactly a very mainstream genre, but what I'm starting to fully appreciate now is the amazing visuals people make with it. The majority of them have very simple editing and that works most of the time, but those that stand out REALLY stand out, some even using 3D software to push the visuals further. Don't even get me started on the remixes themselves, god they're such bangers.
Finally someone gets it!
AYBABTU is one of my favorite videos because it paints this picture of an Internet where the only best thing to do AT ALL was tack a new photoshop onto the end of a photoshop meme thread. When a joke could just spontaneously get carried for two years one post at a time by any random stranger and it would still be, somehow, one of the funniest things anyone had ever seen.
It was a time I miss, and to love this video you must understand why.
Thanks for this.
I did not know the origin of All Your Base! This was delightful, thank you.
The thing that makes the All You Base video work is if you actually look at the story conveyed by the intro it is not at all bad. It uses varying emotional states, expressive characters and creative camera angles, all with a background music that set the mood and sound effects that matches the actions. The only thing they really messed up with the intro was the translation, but despite it being goofy and full of errors it remains comprehensive. So the reaction is less "Uhhhh, I have no idea what they're trying to say..." and more "*snort* That's a weird/funny way to say that.". I would say it has the same appeal as lolcats.
Also, I think it was when Zero Wing was brought to Europe, not the US, that they made the intro and thereby translation.
You have to understand, back in 2000 as middle-school kids we had no idea that photoshop was a thing or that it was so powerful. There was also not really a consensus that "people lie on the internet", or would have any reason to.
So when we saw the AYBABTU music video, we were entirely sure that it was all real photographs. The meme had ascended to vast global sensation, and people really were writing it everywhere on signs and buildings and in advertisements. It felt powerful to know about it.
Move every zig
The internet is like our third space right?? After working all day you go there to talk to people and chill in different areas and with different groups and have community.
I’m glad that 8th grade me and adult shaped quasi-adult John Green shared a similar experience in 2005.
4:03 - Among us
As a pretty young person I didn't realize I was missing and really needed this explanation of where this meme came from
I remember seeing All Your Base Are Belong to Us on Newgrounds in 2001 on my college’s high speed internet. References to it appeared all over the place. It was as one of the first viral memes.
I, too, watched it a million times to read each picture.
Mine was certainly the Llama Song and I was so mesmerized.
Have you ever seen a llama kiss a llama on the llama?
god the horse pizza john is going to make such an S-tier addition to my collection. One day, when I'm old, I hope my children will collect my wardrobe of only pizza john tshirts and make me a quilt.
Unlocking long repressed memories with John? 10/10
I'm so happy they don't have to make it less than four minutes because I think it saved them lots of time.
Thanks for reminding me of the rest of that amazing meme/game. I've been saying all your base are belong to us for decades, but I'd forgotten that I have no chance to survive, make your time.
I used to have an All Your Base shirt. Confused people to no end...
Just last week I had to engage in an emergency re-watching of the base video due to a critical ear worm infection, probably for the first time wondered about it and its creation. Then the universe provided, here is John with the answers to all my questions
That's funny, I always interpreted "You have no chance to survive make your time" as "You have no chance to survive with how little time you have left". Never thought a imaginary comma would make such a big difference.
Backdoor pilot for Crash Course History of Memes
oh my god I remember all of this I am completely in my feelings right now.
I never really considered how poetic those words are until now. Really makes you think.
Same with "how is babby formed." "Too lady to rest. I am truely sorry for your lots"
"All your base" is still the best thing the internet has ever produced bar none.
I still wear my All Your Base shirt that I got from Think Geek back in the day. Explaining this shirt recently to my children, much like John today, was certainly a trip.
What a fun coincidence! I'm sure I'm not the only one here, but the "all your base are belong to us" clip (not the music video or meme compilation, just the clip) was the first video I ever saw on UA-cam!
I remember my first UA-cam video was one of Ryan higas “how to be” videos, I was like 7 and my class was obsessed with them.
I don’t remember my first youtube video I watched; but I do remember seeing my friend showing me the UA-cam App Icon on an iPhone - my brain wrinkled at the possibilities of people watching video on their PHONES. It was a fun time to see in my analytics the flip from mostly desktop/computer viewership to almost 100% mobile viewers.
Hank. John.
More ancient Internet content plz. I’m like….enough younger than you guys that it isn’t that much as adults but it would have been a lot if we met when you watched these videos, but I saw them too.
I need more.
I heard this in my head just from reading your title .
How I remember working in the halls of Tripod, and someone on the floor would laugh out loud. A moment would pass and then a bunch of giggles elsewhere and then laughing everywhere as people got the link to the funny thing (now known as meme) in their email etc. I loved those waves of laughter going across my coworkers!
The fact that I did not know about Hank's video but did remember John's pretty accurately dates my peak Internet hipness to the mid '00s.
All your Pizzamas are belong to Nerdfighters.
"All your base" again?
The nostalgia keeps coming
Fun blast from the past
I think the first UA-cam video I ever saw was Rhett and Link's Taco Bell drive through song. I can't know for sure, but that's the earliest I can remember.
I remember even prior to its jump to UA-cam in 2005 people were making parody videos referencing All Your Base and posting them to a flash website called Newgrounds. RIP flash, RIP Newgrounds, most of the media of my childhood existed on the internet of the 00s and is now lost to time.
I love these internet history videos!
It definitely feels prophetic for that to be among the first internet creations
Mine is nigahiga's mock informercial for the Sham-Wow called the Sham-Woohoo.
Damn, I miss Ryan.
Wasn't expecting to see John talking about "All Your Base" today-not that I'm complaining, of course.
The video that John watched actually dates back to at least 2001. By then it was up on Newgrounds.
Now we need "Badgers", Nyancat, Leekspin, "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard-gard-gard!", and Numa Numa to really complete my old nostalgia tour. Oh, and of course a giant binging of all of Homestarrunner. And the Trogdor comes in the NIIIIIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i remember so many 12 year olds hacking other 12 year olds and using songs like that as a "haha u got owned" message
I’m loving these memes from the vault videos 😁
How to be Ninja and the Smosh Pokemon parody are the first things i remember.
For years I make time every time UA-cam notifies me you uploaded a new video. All my base now belong to you, apparently.
You set us up the nostalgia-bomb!
Amazing.
I feel proud that when I saw the title of this video, I didn't just think of Zero Wing or the memes, but the specific video that John talks about.
An All Your Base remix called 'Zero Wing Rhapsody' is one of my first UA-cam videos I saw, and still one of my favorites!!!
I love the nostalgia. My first UA-cam video... the evolution of dance!