diff --git a/kittens/icat/main.py b/kittens/icat/main.py
index 8cc022c11..bc4926a57 100644
--- a/kittens/icat/main.py
+++ b/kittens/icat/main.py
@@ -127,7 +127,9 @@ type=bool-set
 Use the Unicode placeholder method to display the images. Useful to display
 images from within full screen terminal programs that do not understand the
 kitty graphics protocol such as multiplexers or editors. See
-:ref:`graphics_unicode_placeholders` for details.
+:ref:`graphics_unicode_placeholders` for details. Note that when using this
+method, large images will get wrapped at the screen edge instead of getting truncated.
+This wrapping is per line and therefore the image will look like it is interleaved with blank lines.
 
 
 --passthrough