I don't understand.
I'm not a big Dogecoin fan but it looks like it's the
most successful scrypt fork of 2013 year. I know that it was start as joke, but it's not joke anymore!
Here is coinmarketcap statistics on 23 january 2014:
# Name Market Cap Price Total Supply Volume (24h)
1 Bitcoin 12,301,125 BTC 1.00 BTC 12,301,125 BTC 18,834 BTC
3 Litecoin 673,424 BTC 0.02684 BTC 25,090,304 LTC 12,043 BTC
7 DogeCoin 63,688 BTC 1.85e-06 BTC 34,426,022,271 DOGE 5,261 BTC
If you look at volume section you'll see that it is the
most traded coin after Bitcoin and Litecoin!