Loath as I am to recycle other peoples' blog content (this for various slippery-slope-style concerns), I think there has been some consistently great stuff coming out of Gothamist's Shanghai spinoff, cleverly dubbed Shanghaist, especially when it comes to cringeworthy spectacle that is the cultural fodder of my generation.

Behold MC强强, resident of Jiangsu:

And some thousand miles away, inmates in Cebu are up to some interesting mayhem:

I might be missing the whole point here, but: critically the enjoyment of this kind of thing hinges on the fact that one can watch these videos and feel, simultaneously, this kind of smug superiority to their general lameness and also genuine appreciation for the moves on display. It's like the slow-motion train wreck you can't turn away from, only the train wreck is not only awful and offensively empathy-inspiring but also extremely neat to watch for its base technical merits. I.e. dude is a fantastic dancer, but then he has indoor slippers on and he is not actually wearing a shirt (this being one of many habits of male Chinese that seems really kind of practical but yet fundamentally unclassy), or his grandmother or whoever is constructing or mending a garment in the traditional manner right behind him. How does he avoid slamming into her? How can she not be watching this guy the whole time? And then I wonder if you could get 1000 cons in the US to recreate the "Thriller" video. I'd like to think the answer is yes.