Mine are:
Nature (443x), which makes sense
Talk (442x), I haven’t used that word much 
iNaturalist (310x), also makes sense
Observed (276x), this one also makes sense
Ones (170x), I don’t remember using so many “Ones”!
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Observe 233x
time to observe ppl 
idk why it is my top word while most others here have observe-d
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naturalized - 579x
inaturalist - 527x
general - 467x
forum - 463x
talked - 449x
Interesting.. Not sure that I have a takeaway.
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I loved this Discourse Rewind. What fun to look through all of that data. First, thanks, iNaturalist for sharing that.
My words are:
ids - 82
inat - 78
identifiers - 61
observers - 56
thanks - 56
And now add 1 to each of those (and 2 to “thanks”). LOL!
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Disclaimer: I know nothing about this subject
Martyn and Caleb make a good point. Under “word usage”, the left-most image (I think it’s a 3.5" floppy disk from the 80s and 90s?) shows (for me) “naturalized” being used 579x. But searching the forum, I find almost no hits for me using that word.
You can read the Discourse discussion about the Rewind function here:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/degauss-your-screens-discourse-rewind-2025-is-here/
including the guys who built it, like Martin Brennan. It looks like they show the code.
It’s above my pay grade, but I think a couple of things might be going on:
Discourse is using stemming, which means, software that looks for the roots of words, and groups similar words together, based on their roots (rather than based on the actual word). Stemming can inflate the count by grouping words together that are actually different words.
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/stemming
Discourse is using tokenization, which means, software that breaks words into component pieces, which can also inflate the count
https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/05/what-is-tokenization-nlp/
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Mine are:
Nature (310x)
Topic (217x)
Bird (166x)
Gets (60x)
Ve (56x)
But what is “ve”? That’s not a word!
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Nature 115, Talking 111, Observed 68, Photo 59, Bird 58.
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Thanks. I figured something might be amiss.
See the post above by @AdamWargon . Discourse is using stemming, looking for the roots of the words. I don’t know what where Ve might have come from though!
Could they’ve perhaps not processed contractions appropriately?
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my top 5 are-
1- nature 87x
2- mantis 65x (I get that its one of my fav taxa but I don’t remember talking about it so often)
3- photography 63x
4- posting 51x
5- observer 49x
I don’t even know where I used these words these many times XD
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Could they be taking so much “talk” and “talking” because the category is called “Nature Talk”. That would also explain how I use “Nature” so much, which I don’t. And how some people have “Generalize” and other words formed by “General”. Just a bizarre idea.
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bizarre you say 
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I think you’re right. This is a badly put-together ‘Wrapped’. Essentially nonsense.
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I think you guys are right! It’s a screwy way of showing which forum category you post in.
I think the system picked it up from you typing things like I’ve and We’ve
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Sorry–how do I get back to rewind 2025 iNat? I clicked on the color blobs yesterday, and do not know how to open the magical portal again.
See this: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/year-summary-page-here-once-you-close-it-its-gone/73768/5.
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Oh wow–thanks for the info. That’s what I get for unfettered curiosity and no forward planning. 
I shall not pass.
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After bashing this “Rewind” thing quite a bit, one GOOD thing I can say is that it’s updating in real time.
For example, the Duolingo yearly summary was frozen after they created it on 2025 Nov 30.
Whereas this Discourse Rewind keeps updating hours read, etc., even as we try to understand its output.
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Another good thing is the audio playback of the “Daily Activity Rhythm”! 
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