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This Is My Kingdom Come refers to the pre-chorus part of the 2013 Imagine Dragons song "Demons." In 2021, the part gained viral popularity in memes as a joke about semen, being paired with videos of various white liquids being sprayed or spilled.

Origin

On January 28th, 2013, American rock band Imagine Dragons released "Demons,"^[1] the fourth single from their studio album Night Visions (music video shown below). In the pre-chorus part of the song, the lyric "this is my kingdom come" is repeated twice. The term "kingdom come" has Biblical origin and means "forever" or "heaven."^[2]

In the late 2000s, advertising agency CHEETHAM BELL created a series of commercials for the antacid Gaviscon in which firemen extinguish fires burning in stomachs with a white liquid (shown below, right).^[3]

No matter what we breed, we still are made of greed
This is my kingdom come, this is my kingdom come

Prior to December 2020, several memes in which the lyric "this is my kingdom come" was used as a joke about semen were posted online. On June 19th, 2020, an iFunny^[4] user posted a Gemini31292's Seizure Reaction GIF caption captioned with the lyric. The post gained over 120 smiles (shown below, left). On September 21st, 2020, YouTuber^[5] FXE 6023 posted a Cum Chalice meme that gained over 9,300 views in one year (shown below, center). On November 12th, 2020, Instagram^[6] user oggren99 posted a meme that received over 49,200 views and 9,700 likes in eight months (shown below, right).

Ogreen99's video received viral spread online in the following weeks with multiple reposts. For example, on November 13th, Instagram^[7] user creamy1s reposted the meme, gaining over 309,000 views and 43,400 likes.

On December 11th, 2020, TikToker^[8] billiejean23 posted a video in which they filmed the Gaviscon firemen advertisement playing on their PC screen while "Demons" by Imagine Dragons played (shown below). The TikTok received over 1.6 million views and 349,000 likes in seven months.

Spread

Starting in late January 2021, a cropped version of the TikTok received viral spread online. On January 31st, 2021, Instagram^[9] user 4chantv2.0 reposted the video, with the reupload gaining over 240,000 views and 25,500 likes in five months. On February 1st, 2021, YouTuber^[10] Leôncio_ shitpost reposted a version of the video subtitled "this is my kingdom cum" that gained over 5,500 views in five months. On February 8th, iFunny^[11] user Nubzaup reuploaded the subtitled video, with the repost gaining over 20,800 smiles.

Following the viral spread of the Gaviscon ad meme, the part of the song gained viral popularity in edits, particularly in those in which it was combined with videos of various white liquids. On February 15th, 2021, YouTuber^[12] gig posted a Gachimuchi version that received over 133,800 views (shown below, left). On March 16th, YouTuber^[13] ObirAles reposted a This Is My Kingdom Come meme based on a clip of YouTuber Brandon Farris (shown below, right).

Additionally, a version of the song with its lyrics rearranged in a sexually provocative way also gained popularity.

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