The line comes from Darkest Dungeon, the 2016 turn-based RPG by Red Hook Studios, narrated by Wayne June as the Ancestor. It plays when a hero becomes overconfident after surviving death's door, and the quote quickly escaped the game to become a gaming meme. Creators paste it over speedruns, ranked losses, and sports blunders, where the narrator's doom-laden voice mocks anyone flying too high. A decade later it still lands because every fandom knows the sting of hubris.