YouTube Recap time has arrived, where the algorithm kicks down the door and announces, 'Hey, here’s who you really are'. 

Do we really want a high-energy montage taking us through our weird rabbit holes and private watching habits? No. Are we going to go over and over it anyway? Yes. 

If your Recap proudly revealed your top interests as 'animal rescue stories' and 'true crime videos', you're the same kind of weirdo as me. The kind who cries happy tears over a blind senior cat being found in a wall behind a washing machine and then watches 'REAL: CHILLING 911 CALLS TO KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT' for three hours. 

Emotional balance? None. Emotional range? Off the charts.

This year, YouTube has kindly rebranded my unhinged online behaviour by assigning me a personality type - 'The Creative Spirit', which just 5% of other YouTube users were also given. Apparently, I am compatible with 'The Trailblazer' and 'The Dreamer', so if that's you - call me. 

I also "focused on home projects" (read: watched people literally scrape paint off old Victorian furnishings) and "explored culinary trends" (read: saved 567 recipe videos I never attempted to make). 

It also breaks down your year with what kind of content you were watching in early, mid and late 2025 (let's just say June was a weird time for me) and shows you your top 5 most-watched channels. I watched a whopping 652 different creators this year, but was in the top 0.1% of viewers of 'The Sleepless Historian', host of 'Boring History For Sleep' so… there's that. 

Of course, YouTube gives you the option to share it - but I somehow get the sense our social media feeds aren't going to be full of this kind of recap the same way the Spotify Wraps take over every year. 

Your YouTube algorithm has absolutely seen too much, but that makes it truthful, chaotic, and kind of wholesome, in a deeply unsettling way.