stackyFACTSTrue white noise is highly aggressive. It carelessly dumps the exact same amount of raw intensity into every single frequency it can generate simultaneously. Because there are vast amounts of high frequencies, the resulting sound is an intense, incredibly hissy static that brutally masks all other sounds.
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