Press Release

It was announced today that the owner and founder of SNS PaintByPictures.com, Tori Hwang, is stepping down from her role at the prime young age of 12 and giving all of her CEO duties to first-cousin Jason Hwang who graduated this year with a MBA from Yale, where he also recieved his Bachelors in Computer Science.

Her story is well known not only in America but across the world as the Girl Genius of this generation (but many can claim that she beats anyone her age from any other generation). The most famous alumni from Stanford's 2009 graduating class, the current 12 year-old had just turned 8 when she graduated from the prestigous university with a Bachelors and honorary masters in Software Engineering. Immediately after she was flooded with requests from companies to come as.a full time correspondant, with big names such as Google, Yahoo, Samsung, Facebook, and Alibaba(before it was part of the NYSE) to name a few). There were talks that some companies were even willing to move a portion overseas in case there were conflicts with child-labor laws in America, her talents only needed be proven once by her ability to hack and pinpoint every single weakness in North Korea's (previously) impenetreble firewall. Sadly for these companies, the young girl decided she didn't want to join any of them and retreated home for a year in order to "listen to my kpop until I'm so sick of it that I turn to American music" (was that a diss to Lady Gaga and Beyonce that I heard from the 8 year-old?). Well a year later, after countless offers from both big and small tech companies, Tori Hwang came back to the codeing world with the site that changed social media forever.

PaintByPIctures.com is a multi-trillion dollar company that has reported over 150% growth every year since it's founding in early 2010. It was the first company to only allow communication between individuals by a collection of photos(original and unedited). Due to innovative idea and quick admassing of advertisements on the site, Hwang became the youngest self-made millionaire and billionaire at the age of 8 and 9 respectively. With so much success from a single site, it was a wonder that Hwang had any ambition to start another project, one that gad litle hope to run with the same success and PBP, but she did it. With the consecutive launches of SomethingNew.com(an exchange site for vintage items ranging from records to Nintendo64's) and the app PicturesByPaint (an app aimed towards drawing out creativity from individuals young and old with interpretations of classical art pieces, also acts as a picture editor with direct upload to PaintByPictures) Hwang was launched into the upper 10% of Forbes 500 and her company hit the trillion-dollar value within 2 years of PicturesByPaint's release.

However it seems that America's most famous and recognizable 12 year-old is grinding everything to a halt, critics are questioning the young enterpenur's reasons. Some popular beliefs are health, depression, family hostilies at her success, and incompetence as CEO (rumor has it Hwang is sometimes "trying too hard to sound older than she is during business interactions and conferences"). PBP's spokesperson Alicia Perry has claimed that "none of these ricidulous rumors of Tori Hwang are true. What is wrong with the media these days? Trying to drag down a 12 year-old". When asked directly to state the reaso of Hwang's departure, she gave "no comment."

"This article is pretty good Mom, how did you squeeze them out of printing the scoop that I'm going to Korea?" I asked my Head of Human Relations and Press while reading the day's Wall Street Journal, "They seemed pretty keen on printing it."

"You should believe in your mother more, she's the best at her job." My dad walked in to kiss my mom good-morning while grabbing his morning bagel.

"But still, I was worried. I want to be able to live in peace for at least a little bit of my life." All this buzz about PBP becoming a trillion-dollar company was making me annoyed, trillion is just a number. "Dad, let's go, I don't want to be late for my dance class."

"Why you insist on going to that run down studio is way beyond me, why don't you try going to that nice one in Beverly Hills with the open windows and three-story building?" He asked, grabbing his keys with the bagel now completely gone. "Don't forget your chocolate chip waffle." He handed me another waffel the size of my face, but I was still hungry so I took my 3rd waffle of the morning.

"Dad, you don't understand, tha's a ballet studio, I don't like that slow music. It's boring." We got into my white Bentley Premier4509 (I asked for it for my 12th birthday after seeing that JaeJoong got a new car) and headed down to Studio Hallyu listening to Balloons by TVXQ.

<><><><>

"Mommy, can we please go to this building? It's the business that I was telling you about." I pointed at the address in my Galaxy s5, Jellyfish Entertainment. We were currenly in our car from Incheon International Airport to our new condo (or penthouse was the technical name for it) in Gangnam. "It's literally less than 10 minutes from our condo and there's a really good bakery next to it, please please please please please?" I gave her puppy eyes,

"Fine, if it's for business, but if they seem like they're trying to pull one over on you, I will pull you out of there immediately. The entertainment business is the worst in my opinion in what it does to girls." She put away her phone in her Chanel bag and turned to me. "Young-Hee," She only called me by my Korean name when she really wanted to treat me like my age, "You know that no matter what that company says, you are worth much more than a talent agency's acceptance, right? These places have a lower acceptance rate than every single Ivy League school and West Coast school combined, you undertandthat, right? I know you've been going to piano lessons and dance, but if they don't like you, it's their mistake. You are much better than they will ever appreciate." The idea of rejection did scare me, more than my first day at Stanford when I was 5, I can remember every single face from my first lecture, all 264 people, only 34 of which were able to graduate in the same 3 years that it took me to get my bachelors and masters, everyone at least 8 years older than me.

"It's okay mom, I know the chances."

"Then yes we can go." She gave the chauffeur the address and I went over every single dance I had learned from my studio instructor.

"Congratulations Hwang Young-Hee, starting Monday, please come to the company at 8 AM for your first set of assessments and welcome to Jellyfish Entertainment."