Even LinkedIn has hopped on the Spotify Wrapped train

First there was Spotify Wrapped. Then came Snapchat Wrapped, YouTube Wrapped, and even Uber Eats Wrapped—shortly after, SNL parodied the idea.

If you thought you were officially wrapped up for the year, LinkedIn had other plans. The platform just dropped its inaugural Year in Review—essentially, LinkedIn Wrapped.

LinkedIn’s Year in Review recaps your activity on the platform, from how often you logged on and when you were most active to how many posts you shared. It tallies your comments, new connections, and total profile impressions, then assigns you a personality type based on how you used LinkedIn.

The feature also taps into the platform nostalgia trend, which has defined 2025: It tells you the exact date you joined LinkedIn and who your very first connection was. If you’re looking for either an ego boost (or a reality check) it also summarizes engagement metrics, like new followers, reactions, comments, and for Premium users, profile views.

All of it is packaged into a sleek highlight reel designed for social sharing. And people have been sharing… though with mixed feelings.

“Ah. LinkedIn reminding me that I was a top applicant for 28,388,338 jobs… and landed 0 of them this year,” the user wrote, with a screenshot on X showing that 865 of their connections started new jobs this year. 

“Woohoo. Thanks, LinkedIn Wrapped.” 

Another joked: “linkedin wrapped didn’t include ___ jobs applied because they knew it would be too much of a humiliation ritual.”

A third put it bluntly: “My 2025 LinkedIn wrapped is actually the last thing in the world I need right now”

LinkedIn’s timing isn’t the best: The U.S. unemployment rate recently hit a four-year high and earlier this year, the number of job seekers exceeded the number of jobs available for the first time in four years. Most jobseekers won’t be looking back with fond memories on the hours/days/weeks they spent on the hiring platform this past year. 

“You applied for 1,000 jobs and none of them were actually hiring!” one X user quipped. 

The Linkedinfluencers, however, were slightly more enthusiastic. 

“Where my 5% crew at??!!,” one wrote. “Didn’t think I would get sentimental about a LinkedIn ‘Year in Review’ but here we are!

Another wrote: “344 days out of the 365 days in 2025 was spent on Linkedin! People often think I joke around when I say that Linkedin is actually the most used app on my phone. But Linkedin wrapped don’t lie!”

Others are simply over the “wrapped” of it all. 

“Stop reviewing my life, stop wrapping it up,” TikTok user @litty_city said in a video on Wednesday, pointing to the onslaught of year-end summaries. Everyone from Amazon and Apple Music to PlayStation, Discord, Duolingo, Asana, and even Partiful joined the wrapped party this year. 

“I’m tired,” she concluded. 

Time to wrap it up. 

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