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http://www.quantcast.com/knowyourmeme.com

Also, user 9001 was this guy.

I'm disappointed too.

http://www.quantcast.com/knowyourmeme.com/demographics

Wait.. what ?

I think he was referring to the over 300,000 people visiting per month.

I'm going to steal this thread and ask a rhetorical question.

How many more youtube videos can we accept as memes?

See, I've always believed that a meme can begin in a video. But eventually it needs to seep its way into photos and references on forums. 51 things, top names,and dear sister fall under this category. Their only derivatives are minor parody videos. Some memes suck as mudkipz, over 9000, and dramatic prairie dog are memes in videos as well as outside of them. They are doing it right, so to speak.
Thoughts?

Nice traffic.

I’m going to steal this thread and ask a rhetorical question.

How many more youtube videos can we accept as memes?

See, I’ve always believed that a meme can begin in a video. But eventually it needs to seep its way into photos and references on forums. 51 things, top names,and dear sister fall under this category. Their only derivatives are minor parody videos. Some memes suck as mudkipz, over 9000, and dramatic prairie dog are memes in videos as well as outside of them. They are doing it right, so to speak.
Thoughts?

For these Youtube memes, I think that the fact they don't gather derivatives outside video format isn't a problem if the stream of derivatives is constant.

For "51 things in my room", as well as "Top Names", the derivatives aren't "parodies" in themselves, but people copying the concept with their own view. The correct word would be "pastiche" in that case, even if the humorous meaning isn't generally implied.

And, more importantly I think, there's no stop in these trends.
For "51 things", it began in November 2008 but there have been videos responses, or featuring persons doing the same thing nearly each month up to these days.

I don't really know for the other two video-based memes you mentionned but it's that point that covers the whole "meme" meaning as "something that is lasting long enough while gathering more different people doing it", methinks.

That's the same thing for the only-YTMNDs based memes like "epic maneuvers", "x has one weakness" and so forth.