@Crazyshark70,
I wouldn’t call those videos parodies. They’re imitations, tributes, maybe even spoofs, but a parody makes fun of the subject. When the original subject was already a joke, and other people tell that same joke, they aren’t creating a parody. They aren’t adding any new context.
That’s not to say that all memes have to be made up of parodies. But when someone creates fan art of a subject that comes directly from mass media, the idea doesn’t get passed simply from one person to another online.
The idea is passed from the writer, to the production staff, to the marketers, to the distributers, to the content delivery network, to the viewers who then say, “I like this professionally produced product, so I’ll reference it.” Unless someone puts a unique spin on it, there is no point in tracing the route of spread online. The message was delivered to the audience from the top down.
A good meme is something that can be clearly identified as something that grew out of the internet, and not just anything that people do on it.
Check it out. Here’s a bunch of Grey’s Anatomy fan art. There’s nothing about this that I would call memetic. I don’t think we need to consider every bit of fandom to be memetic. http://www.fanpop.com/spots/greys-anatomy/fanart
