I couldn’t find this posted anywhere, so I thought I would ask here:

I bought my aespa lightstick through SM when they announced the sgs photocards and when mine came in I got Winter, but still wanted Karina. I was finally able to purchase her pc a week ago for a good price and it looks and feels exactly the same, except on the back the copyright year is different (2023 vs Winter’s 2022). I went to see other listings across Mercari, eBay, Mercari Japan all from different sellers with high ratings and they are all selling PCs with the same year of 2023. I don’t think the pcs are fake, but I didn’t realize SM cared enough to print again with year 2023 on the back. Maybe SM has done this for other pcs too and I haven’t noticed…

tldr: why are the copyright years on aespa lightstick sgs pcs have copyright 2022 or 2023 on the back?