They're back

Not unrelated to the previous post. Remember those hilarious singing (presumably) Chinese kids?

Here's more of them. And some other Asian kids parodying them but maybe doing a bit too much. And some others who do maybe just a bit better.

None of these, of course, are as funny as the original. The novelty is gone. Unoriginal = not clever. The guilt and discomfort that comes with ethnic humor the subjects may not be aware of is gone. Not cruel enough. The absence of novelty detracts from the bizarre scene. It's recognizable, yes, but consciously, painfully deliberately so, in a way that detracts from other categories. And these young kids become less innocent/cute when you see this and begin to suspect they are in on the joke, and wiser/older than they seem.