discovering my accent isn't "neutral"

so this happened yesterday. I'm scrolling through TikTok after 2am (first mistake) and keep seeing videos about this accent guesser that supposedly can guess your accent with scary accuracy. People were freaking out so I figured, fine- I'll take the bait.

I've always prided myself on having what I consider a "neutral" American accent. Context: I lived in Germany until I was 5, grew up in Michigan and then moved around a lot for college and work. Lived in Germany for a year or two after college. I would be lyinf if I said I didn't have some level of an accent- I know I do. But I'm back in the states and work in hospitality. The core of my job is basically client presentations, so sounding professional is important to me even though I haven't thought about it in years.

But anyway, it's 2am- I do the quiz.

result: GERMANY

So. My question is. How. And then I see the little blurb: something like "sound like an American speaker in x months or something with BoldVoice".

At that point it's obvious this is tied to a language learning app. But I was starting to fixate about whether if I downloaded this thing, would I just get 100% on everything? And then would I realize okay, the quiz was just a lucky gimmick? (now almost 3am) I download the thing.

Spent a few minutes doing the initial intake quiz and honestly- they did catch some errors in the way I say sounds that yeah, do match with being a native German speaker. It's pretty easy to use and there's a lot of tools on there that actually target specific things to work on rather than- idk, abstract language rules. So I'll keep trying it and see how this goes.

TL;DR: Got sucked into a language app because I'm insecure about my accent, ended up actually liking it, so we'll see.