{"id":41045,"date":"2025-12-18T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/i-learned-too-much-about-myself-from-all-the-year-end-wrapped-recaps\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:02:29","slug":"i-learned-too-much-about-myself-from-all-the-year-end-wrapped-recaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/i-learned-too-much-about-myself-from-all-the-year-end-wrapped-recaps\/","title":{"rendered":"I learned too much about myself from all the year-end &#8216;wrapped&#8217; recaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69432c1964858d02d2170312?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Partiful Afterparty, LinkedIn Year in Review, and YouTube Recap are pictured.\"\/><figcaption>My Partiful, LinkedIn, and YouTube recaps.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshots via Partiful, LinkedIn, YouTube<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>LinkedIn, YouTube, Dunkin&#039;, Uber, and more joined Spotify in releasing year-end user recaps.<\/li>\n<li>My recaps felt more like a psychological evaluation than a moment of fun nostalgia.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#039;t need to know that I was in the top 5% of LinkedIn users, or that my top YouTube genre was &quot;reality TV recaps.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spotify Wrapped could already feel humiliating. This year, there are more opportunities than ever to flip over the stone that is your phone habits and see what crawls out.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, my top artist was Florence + The Machine. I stand by it; &quot;What Kind of Man&quot; is one of the best songs ever written. But why was I craving Florence Welch&#039;s scream about heartbreak and lust so desperately? What did that say about me?<\/p>\n<p>The shame began.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I can get rundowns from Dunkin&#039; and Snapchat and YouTube. My colleague Sydney Bradley asked for a LinkedIn Wrapped \u2014 and then it appeared in my home feed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; made a sketch about the embarrassing potential of Uber Eats Wrapped. Then the company released it for real, just called YOUBER.<\/p>\n<p>Scrolling these rundowns is starting to feel less like fun and more like a psychological evaluation. Here&#039;s what I learned from my roster of recaps.<\/p>\n<h2>LinkedIn made me feel like a try-hard<\/h2>\n<p>Thanks, LinkedIn, for letting me know that I have &quot;true daytime energy&quot; (as in: I use the app between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p>2025 has been my year of becoming a LinkedInfluencer. Some of it is to develop connections and find new stories; some of it is to promote my work. Speaking of which: Follow me on LinkedIn!<\/p>\n<p>Knowing how much I used the platform, though, was overwhelming. I didn&#039;t need to know that I was in the top 5% of LinkedIn users.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/694324de04eda4732f2dbb95?format=jpeg\" alt=\"My LinkedIn Year in Review is featured, showing I was in the top 5% of members\"\/><figcaption>2025 was my year of LinkedInfluencing. It landed me in the top 5% of members.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via LinkedIn<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#039;s always a bit concerning to know that I&#039;m being perceived. Knowing my profile was viewed 4,248 times? Woof.<\/p>\n<p>Like most of these recaps, LinkedIn tried to give me a title. I got the &quot;Catalyst,&quot; known for putting myself out there.<\/p>\n<p>Many of my colleagues also got this title. I think it&#039;s just because we post, unlike the majority of my friends, who use LinkedIn to stalk their Hinge dates.<\/p>\n<h2>YouTube reminded me how rotted my brain was<\/h2>\n<p>I used to be a big YouTube watcher. Now, I mostly use the platform to watch NPR&#039;s Tiny Desk Concerts and compilations of my favorite Bravo shows.<\/p>\n<p>I had never thought much about it, though, until my YouTube Recap showed my top interest was &quot;Reality TV recaps.&quot; Oh no.<\/p>\n<p>It kept getting worse. I was in the top 0.3% of viewers for a small &quot;Real Housewives&quot; compilation maker I like. It&#039;s not my fault that &quot;Real Housewives moments that haunt me at 3 a.m.&quot; is perfect 3 a.m. viewing!<\/p>\n<p>And then, the bombshell: My award was &quot;most likely to quote iconic TV moments at the most random times.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>You don&#039;t need to rub it in my face, YouTube.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69432586832e0ef1ead66dc7?format=jpeg\" alt=\"My YouTube award is pictured in my YouTube Recap.\"\/><figcaption>YouTube&#039;s award felt more like a shaming than a badge of honor.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via YouTube<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>YouTube&#039;s descriptors for me were &quot;cultured,&quot; &quot;observant,&quot; and &quot;entertained.&quot; Entertained? On YouTube? I would hope so.<\/p>\n<p>I was named &quot;The Connector&quot; because I was &quot;drawn to content that sparks conversations and builds community.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>YouTube&#039;s first example of that: reality TV recaps. Well, fine.<\/p>\n<h2>Spotify made me feel like a normie<\/h2>\n<p>You&#039;re looking at a guy who listened to 27,999 minutes of podcasts this year. That&#039;s 19 days&#039; worth. Dear God.<\/p>\n<p>I listen to podcasts everywhere. I listen to them going to and from work. I listen to them in the shower. I listen to them when I fall asleep at night. Did I need to know how many minutes that was? No.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69440d8264858d02d2170ad2?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Spotify Wrapped is pictured showing 27,999 minutes of podcasts.\"\/><figcaption>I somehow listened to 19 days&#039; worth of podcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via Spotify<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then came my top artists. I live in Brooklyn, where everyone keeps telling me about the tiny artist they&#039;ve been streaming forever that everyone&#039;s just coming around to. (Please, do not talk to me about Geese.) Compared to that, my taste felt basic.<\/p>\n<p>My top artist was Lady Gaga, and it was for the whole year. That game Spotify played where it raced your artists against each other? Gaga won the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>My other top artists were Beyonc\u00e9, Lorde, Laufey, and Lucy Dacus. All great artists, no regrets there. But certifiably un-indie.<\/p>\n<h2>Partiful called me &quot;codependent&quot;<\/h2>\n<p>A couple of the rundowns didn&#039;t work for me. I spent a long time hunting for my &quot;YOUBER&quot; banner. I deleted and redownloaded the Uber app; I powered my phone off and on. Nothing worked \u2014 and it seems like I wasn&#039;t alone.<\/p>\n<p>I can guess what would be on there, though. Uber would tell me that my primary trip was coming back from Bushwick at 3 a.m.. Uber Eats would tell me that I ordered far too much late-night Chinese food.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely use Snapchat, so my Snap Recap had almost nothing in it.<\/p>\n<p>The Dunkin&#039; rewards recap also felt a bit empty. My &quot;go-tos&quot; were iced coffee and donuts. At Dunkin&#039;? Shocking. At least it didn&#039;t tell me how much I could&#039;ve saved by making coffee at home. That would be devastating.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m not a big Partiful user, though I did make my first invite this year to plan a housewarming. I co-created the invite with my roommate. For that honor, the app called me &quot;codependent.&quot; Rude!<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69440e5f04eda4732f2dc43a?format=jpeg\" alt=\"My Partiful AfterParty is pictured showing that I am &quot;codependent.&quot;\"\/><figcaption>I need an &quot;emotional support co-host,&quot; apparently.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via Paritful<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And the worst of them, of course, was Strava. I hate distance running. I will not be one of the gaggles of Gen Zers signing up for a marathon.<\/p>\n<p>I logged one \u2014 count them, one \u2014 run on Strava this year. There weren&#039;t even enough to get a &quot;Year in Sport.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Partiful, LinkedIn, and YouTube recaps. Screenshots via Partiful, LinkedIn, YouTube LinkedIn, YouTube, Dunkin&#039;, Uber, and more joined Spotify in releasing year-end user recaps. 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