How to Fix / Debug Errors (Invalid Arrayify Value) When Deploying a Solidity Contract in Remix

Problem

I am trying to deploy a smart contract via Remix. Unfortunately, it fails with a very unhelpful error message.

Error Message

creation of MyContract errored: Error encoding arguments: Error: invalid arrayify value (argument="value", value="", code=INVALID_ARGUMENT, version=bytes/5.5.0)

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