'I've been listening to box fan podcasts for years': White Noise Sleep Playlists Are Ruining Everyone's 2022 Spotify Wrapped

Silence is kind of freaky sometimes, which is why a lot of people these days try to fill the air with sounds that break the silence, but don't disrupt their thought process. In fact, a lot of people can't get to sleep without some sort of white noise playing in the background to ease their chaotic minds. That's why, in the last decade, 10 hour playlists of white noise, like whale noises, fan sounds, and distant rain songs, have been on the rise in popularity and it's a HUGE section of Spotify. Unfortunately for people who rely on those insanely long playlists in order to get to sleep, that means that 8+ hours every day, your Spotify algorithm is collecting data about your fan noises, which is ruining everyone's wrapped at the end of the year.

To be honest, what do you expect. We all have so much anxiety nowadays, it's impossible to sleep in absolute silence. Spotify should know that by now and not be shaming people who need to have their “someone's vacuuming in the other room and it's raining outside/distant thunder 8hrs chill/sleep brown noise" playlists.

It's not like you can stop listening to white noise playlists either after you've started — no no no — you're dependent now. Once you start, there's no turning back. Socially, the Spotify Wrapped is a silly annual tradition where people can brag about how much they listened to Harry Styles and Taylor Swift, but who's going to think you're cool if you listen to box fans and rain storms in the woods? The endless social media one-upping party continues but people who crush sleep podcasts are left in the dust.

Now we even have some white noise variety and don't have to rely on TV static that went dead. Back in the day, there was only one kind of air filling sound and it was called “white noise”, but nowadays there are noises of every color (not kidding) and the most popular are brown noise, pink noise, and white noise. We've got rainforests, aquariums, thunderstorms, appliances, Looney Toons in the other room, you name it! However, all of this variety and choice is throwing everyone's Wrapped out of wack, especially after a year like 2022. 

So if your Spotify Wrapped is looking more like a compilation of sleep sounds than an actual playlist, then we know one thing's for sure… you've spent the last year getting the most mediocre sleep of your life. That's a wrap!