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I Want One, I Want My Own Army, I Want My Own Planet is a line that comes from an episode of Steven Universe. The line, said to a vision of Yellow Diamond, is used by others online to show off their collections of pop culture iconography.

Origin

The line is said in the 12th episode of season five, titled "Jungle Moon" with the majority of the episode being contained within a dream shared by Steven and Connie. The episode originally aired on January 5th, 2018, with the line itself being separated from the rest of the episode and uploaded to YouTube^[1] on December 26th, 2022 by the channel Someone Once Again, earning over 17,000 views in six months (shown below).

Spread

On March 8th, 2023, an extended version of the scene was uploaded to TikTok^[2] by candysouthpark, where it earned over 350,000 likes in two months, creating the audio that would spawn over 33,000 other TikToks using it (shown below).

On April 30th, 2023, the TikToker^[3] dempsterswholewheatbread uploaded the most liked version of the trend, with the context being that they had collected Shopkins in 2014, starting with one and quickly escalating to a large-scale force, earning 3.2 million likes in one week (shown below).

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