Netizens Criticize Psick Unversity’s Thumbnail Choice For IVE’s Jang Wonyoung

Previously, IVE’s Jang Wonyoung made a guest appearance on the YouTube series PSICK SHOW, which garnered worldwide attention.

She showed great chemistry with the hosts and garnered over 5,000,000 views in just over a week.

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Most recently, an online community board became a hot topic over the thumbnail photo for her episode.

Although at first glance it may look like any other thumbnail they have posted, netizens noticed that the “PSICK SHOW” title was behind Wonyoung’s head, making the text look like the word, “F*CK” instead.

Taking a look at the other thumbnails in the series, the text is seen in front of the guest’s photo, showing the show title clearly.

International fans were disappointed in the choice of thumbnail and felt uncomfortable with the text.

K-Netizens also agreed that they felt this was done with intent.

• “Wow, didn’t even think about this. I thought they were showing off her face. These motherf*ckers.”
• “What’s so hard about being cautious? The fact that they haven’t taken down the video yet shows there’s something there.”
• “There is something wrong if there are reactions to this overseas.”
• “Huh? Why only Wonyoung’s?”
• “This bothered me when I first saw it too…”
• “So f*cking sly.”
• “If you look at the location of the past thumbnails, it doesn’t look like it was intended, but if it’s getting a negative response, they should fix it.”
• “I saw a comment saying it looked like the word ‘F*CK’ when the video first released.”

• “If you’ve done video editing before, you would know this was 100% done with intent. Even if you were trying to put Wonyoung in the center, you could have moved it down a little bit to show the ‘P.’ If anything, they could have just moved it over to the side a litle bit. To say they didn’t really care? Doesn’t make sense. Editors know that thumbnails are really important. If they don’t, then they need to quit.”
• “Didn’t watch it, but just seeing this shows how low they are. Why did they only edit hers like that?”
• “Honestly there were a lot of things uncomfortable with her episode, but isn’t this really roasting…”
• “This is intentional…The text is always in that spot, but they just moved Wonyoung’s head to the front.”
• “The thumbnail is so obvious it was made with intent. I’m annoyed with that so I didn’t watch it.”

Meanwhile, check out the full episode below and see for yourself!