diff --git a/web/sections/CarouselItems.tsx b/web/sections/CarouselItems.tsx
index c818c9d..b600dbf 100644
--- a/web/sections/CarouselItems.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/CarouselItems.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input';
 import { useClient } from 'hooks/useClient';
 import { MediaPicker } from '../MediaPicker';
 import { readableError } from '../errors';
-import { thumbUrl } from '../thumbnail';
+import { mediaThumbUrl } from '../thumbnail';
 
 /**
  * One carousel's contents: what is in it, in what order, and what each picture is called.
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ export const CarouselItems = ({ carouselId, onChanged }: { carouselId: number; o
               and a browser cannot show the original at all.
             */}
             <img
-              src={thumbUrl(item.url)}
+              src={mediaThumbUrl(item.url)}
               alt=""
               loading="lazy"
               className="size-24 shrink-0 rounded bg-muted object-cover"
diff --git a/web/sections/SubjectPanel.tsx b/web/sections/SubjectPanel.tsx
index f3d764e..db36beb 100644
--- a/web/sections/SubjectPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/sections/SubjectPanel.tsx
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input';
 import { CarouselPicker } from '../CarouselPicker';
 import { readableError } from '../errors';
 import { useEditorSlot } from '../useEditorSlot';
-import { thumbUrl } from '../thumbnail';
+import { mediaThumbUrl } from '../thumbnail';
 import { SubjectFields } from './SubjectFields';
 import type { SubjectPhoto, SubjectRecord, SubjectSection } from './subjects';
 
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ export const SubjectPanel = <T extends SubjectRecord>({ section }: { section: Su
               {photos.map((photo) => (
                 <li key={photo.path}>
                   <div className="overflow-hidden rounded-md border border-border">
-                    <img src={thumbUrl(photo.path, 320)} alt="" className="aspect-square w-full object-cover" />
+                    <img src={mediaThumbUrl(photo.path, 320)} alt="" className="aspect-square w-full object-cover" />
                   </div>
                   <p className="mt-1 truncate font-mono text-[10px] text-muted-foreground/70">{photo.name}</p>
                 </li>
diff --git a/web/thumbnail.ts b/web/thumbnail.ts
index f2112b1..c2529b9 100644
--- a/web/thumbnail.ts
+++ b/web/thumbnail.ts
@@ -48,3 +48,20 @@ export const originalUrl = (path: string, width: number): string => {
   const encoded = path.split('/').map(encodeURIComponent).join('/');
   return `/api/fofos-admin/original/${encoded}?width=${Math.round(width)}&token=${encodeURIComponent(token)}`;
 };
+
+/** Extensions av-club treats as video. The same list the site's own `kindFor` uses. */
+const VIDEO = /\.(mp4|mov|webm|m4v|avi|mkv)$/i;
+
+/**
+ * A thumbnail for anything in the media store, picture or video.
+ *
+ * A video has no width rungs — `poster-448.webp` and friends are cut from a still, and asking for
+ * `320.webp` gets a 404 and a broken image. Every grid in this panel was doing exactly that, so a
+ * carousel holding a video showed a broken tile with no clue why.
+ *
+ * `posterUrl` already existed for this and nothing called it. One helper that decides from the
+ * extension, so a screen showing mixed media does not have to know the difference — which is the
+ * whole point, since a carousel is explicitly allowed to hold both.
+ */
+export const mediaThumbUrl = (path: string, width: 256 | 320 | 480 | 640 | 960 | 1280 = 320): string =>
+  VIDEO.test(path) ? posterUrl(path) : thumbUrl(path, width);