Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 04/23/2025
Celebrating creativity, engagement, and community building on Vocal.
Welcome to our weekly Leaderboard update! We're delighted to highlight Vocal's most popular stories and emerging talents. Join us as we recognize this week's standout contributors and their remarkable achievements.
A reminder of some ground rules we use to formulate the Leaderboard:
The time period of data analyzed for each weekly Leaderboard is collected from 12:00am Wednesday - 11:59pm Tuesday ET each week. Creators can only win one place in one category on the leaderboard. Creators cannot win the same category two consecutive weeks. Creators will win the category that they placed the highest in. However, if the category they placed the highest in is the category they won the previous week, and they placed in another category in a lower place, they will win the category that they did not place in the previous week, in the lower place.
✨ Most Discussed Stories this Week ✨
Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Annie Kapur - Weighing in on the AI Slop Problem
🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Mother Combs - Thieves!! At it Again
🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - CFS Humor... 💤🤸🏾💤🤸🏾💤
🌟 Honorable Mentions
Rick Henry Christopher - The Best Gift is YOU
✨ Popular Stories with the Most Likes this Week ✨
These are the stories that captured hearts (literally) and commanded admiration.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Kelli Sheckler-Amsden - Dancing With Your Innuendos
🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Colleen Millsteed - Give It Up For Ginger
🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Brenton F - Class 103:
✨ Most Subscribed to Creators this Week ✨
These creators have shown they have what it takes to build a following, attracting the most new subscribers this week.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Dharrsheena Raja Segarran
🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Marie381Uk
🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Amanda Starks
✨ Most Supportive Commenters this Week ✨
The pillars of our community, these creators excel in uplifting others by leaving the most comments.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Mark Graham
🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Sandy Gillman
🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): C. Rommial Butler
Each winner will receive a well-deserved bonus in their Vocal Wallets within the next 72 hours.
Congratulations to all the winners! We love what you bring to the table at Vocal. Here's to another week of excellent writing and reads.
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"Well said 👏"
it is a good system, but curious when my stories will get the bonuses :)
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