Woozi Hitting Mingyu with A Guitar

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Woozi Hitting Mingyu with A Guitar is an image macro featuring two members of the k-pop group Seventeen (SVT) pretending to fight with a guitar. In the photograph, group member Woozi holds a guitar as if about to hit fellow member Mingyu, who cowers against a wall.

Origin

The image appears to come from behind-the-scenes footage of the group relaxing, practicing and playing. A clip of the video was published on YouTube on September 2nd, 2015. The clip mentions that the video appeared online between May 26th, 2015 and September 2nd, 2015 (clip below).

On June 7th, 2015, Tumblr ^[1] bangtan-your-boys shared the image with the caption, "Seventeen fans: omg woozi is so small and vulnerable he needs protecting he’s too pure for this world the purest cinnamon bun soMEBODY GUARD THIS CHILD." The post received more than 7,500 notes in less than five years (shown below). The date of the post also reveals that the video appeared online first between May 26th, 2015 and June 7th, 2015.

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On November 21st, 2015, Twitter user @rememberwhensvt shared a clip of the video with teh caption "remember when woozi tried to kill mingyu with a guitar." The post received more than 2,000 retweets and 1,300 likes in four years (shown below).

remember when woozi tried to kill mingyu with a guitar // #WOOZI요정님내려오신지20주년 pic.twitter.com/uxmXgvPzia

— ㅤㅤ 💎 (@rememberwhensvt) November 21, 2015

On September 25th, 2016, Amino Apps^[2] user Carat shared a GIF of the mmoent with the caption "*about to commit murder*" (shown below, left).

The following year, on June 18th, 2017, Tumblr^[3] user cursed-kpop-images shared the image. The post received more than 2,500 notes in less than three years (shown below, center).

On October 28th, 2019, Redditor ^[4] Randomguy1527 published an object-labeled variation of the image. The post received more than 5,300 points (99% upvoted) and 35 comments in 24 hours (shown below, right).

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