diff --git a/frontend/src/components/posts/PostCard.vue b/frontend/src/components/posts/PostCard.vue
index 2d7be9f..d8a7981 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/posts/PostCard.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/posts/PostCard.vue
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
         class="fc-post-card__synthetic" :title="synthesisTitle"
       >
         <v-icon icon="mdi-auto-fix" size="x-small" start />
-        grouped by FabledCurator
+        {{ synthesisChip }}
       </v-chip>
       <RouterLink
         :to="{ name: 'artist', params: { slug: post.artist.slug } }"
@@ -270,11 +270,18 @@ const plainTitle = computed(() => toPlainText(props.post.post_title))
 // post dict by hand, must degrade to "not synthetic" rather than throw.
 const synthesized = computed(() => Boolean(props.post.synthesized_by))
 const messageCount = computed(() => props.post.synthesis?.message_count ?? 0)
+// A drop of one message stays a synthetic post (teaser matching only looks at
+// drops), but there is nothing grouped in it — #4390: "Grouped from 1 Discord
+// message" described a wrapper, not a grouping. Say what it is instead.
 const synthesisTitle = computed(() => {
   const n = messageCount.value
   if (!n) return 'Grouped from Discord'
-  return `Grouped from ${n} Discord message${n === 1 ? '' : 's'}`
+  if (n === 1) return 'Discord message'
+  return `Grouped from ${n} Discord messages`
 })
+const synthesisChip = computed(() =>
+  messageCount.value === 1 ? 'from Discord' : 'grouped by FabledCurator'
+)
 
 const hero = computed(() => images.value[0])
 
diff --git a/frontend/test/components/postCard.spec.js b/frontend/test/components/postCard.spec.js
index b96f779..5bb2224 100644
--- a/frontend/test/components/postCard.spec.js
+++ b/frontend/test/components/postCard.spec.js
@@ -149,13 +149,16 @@ describe('PostCard', () => {
       expect(w.find('.fc-post-card__assoc').exists()).toBe(false)
     })
 
-    it('singularises a one-message drop', () => {
+    it('does not call a one-message drop a grouping (#4390)', () => {
       const w = mountComponent(PostCard, {
         props: { post: { ...SYNTH, synthesis: { message_count: 1 } } },
         pinia: freshPinia(),
       })
-      expect(w.text()).toContain('Grouped from 1 Discord message')
-      expect(w.text()).not.toContain('1 Discord messages')
+      expect(w.text()).toContain('Discord message')
+      expect(w.text()).not.toContain('Grouped from')
+      // The marker stays — FC still wrote this post — but names the source.
+      expect(w.find('.fc-post-card__synthetic').text()).toContain('from Discord')
+      expect(w.text()).not.toContain('grouped by FabledCurator')
     })
   })