Besiege is a physics-based building game that became a staple of internet humor shortly after its 2015 release due to its emergent and often destructive gameplay. While the objective is to build siege engines to destroy fortifications, players quickly discovered that the real fun lies in the catastrophic failure of their own creations. The Besiege meme format typically showcases the contrast between a player's ambitious, over-engineered design and the chaotic reality of it exploding or collapsing under its own weight. It has since evolved to represent any situation where a complex plan fails spectacularly or where an absurdly over-complicated solution is applied to a simple problem.