On Christmas Eve 2018, police officer Deidre "Dee Dee" Mengedoht, 32, was killed when a semi-truck crashed into her car. The funeral was announced by WSPD[1] Local 6 News on December 28th, 2018.

On December 30th, Redditor u/dayman789 made a post to /r/videos[6] titled "Deedee Megadoodoo" sharing a now-deleted video clip (shown below, reuploaded) of WSPD news anchor Brianna Clark reporting on the story of Mengedoht's death and funeral. In the video, Clark starts reporting on the story, mentions officer Mengedoht died, then hesitates as she arrives at the name, quickly mispronouncing it as "deedee megadoodoo." The recording cuts as she begins to apologize. The Reddit post gained over 33,900 upvotes in just over two years.