I like this one because it's especially weird, and it's made by someone from Chen Village. Or someone named Chen who at least visited the village to film videos. I kind of wondered if there was some mastermind at work, pulling the strings and deciding who was going to get promoted, and which of the current generation was going to be the "fighter" vs. who was going to be the qigong person, etc. Kind of like a record company building a boy band. But now I kind of think it's just like this high pressure competitive environment where everyone is trying to figure out how to build their own brand and get famous so they can do seminars to get rich and give money back to the village and buy some status.
It's gotta be tough for the younger generation right now. The 4 old tigers are still able to do seminars and cover the mystical master angle, and Ziqiang and Bing have still probably got at least another decade of their versions of application practice for the more "martial" crowd. The new guys are going to have to do it with MMA or movies or social media, or something, and those are all super-competitive environments. Desperate times. I imagine some of those poor guys are going to end up just having to practice taiji because they like it, and actually get jobs to earn a living or something. Sounds terrible...