The 'The Queen Has Breached Containment' meme draws heavily from the terminology of the SCP Foundation, a collaborative web fiction project about a secret organization that captures supernatural entities. The phrase 'breached containment' is used when an entity escapes its secure cell. In late 2019 and early 2020, various doctored images and videos of the late Queen Elizabeth II running at high speeds or appearing in ominous locations began circulating with this ominous caption. It plays on the popular 'immortal Queen' internet trope, suggesting she is an anomalous being of immense power that the government is struggling to keep under control. The meme is typically used to mock royal news or to create absurdist, high-stakes scenarios out of mundane photos of the British monarch.