Oh yeah, and a supposed source at Cube Entertainment "revealed" that the snakes in the "Volume Up" video represent the sort of online Netizens who direct criticism and hateful comments at girl groups — though given Gayoon's gentle handling of the snake, Mat and I were skeptical that that particular metaphor is actually dominant here. As Sigmund Freud once said, "Sometimes a young woman continuously caressing a snake in a K-pop video is just a young woman continuously caressing a snake in a K-pop video."