Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 05/14/2025

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): Lightning Bolt ⚡ - A Story about Attackers Infiltrating Vocal

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): L.C. Schäfer - My Own Vocal Manifesto: Thoughts on AI (AKA Tar & Feather These Remorseless Brass Studs)

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Paul Stewart - To Suffer Does Not Art

🌟 Honorable Mentions

Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred - More Vocal Observations

D.K. Shepard - Conclusion to a Vocalite Manifesto

Matthew Fromm - The Editor

C. Rommial Butler - A Review of ShadowMyths' The Gallery of Nightmares

Euan Brennan - The Stream of Lost Hues

✨ Popular Stories with the Most Likes this Week ✨

These are the stories that captured hearts (literally) and commanded admiration.

🏆 Winners

🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Gina C. - .:R.I.S.E:.

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Jay Kantor - Life's~Circles

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Judey Kalchik - Carefully Taught

✨ 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): Mark Wesley Pritchard

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Sandor Szabo

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Kathy Tsoukalas

✨ 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): Dharrsheena Raja Segarran

🥈 Second Place ($10 Bonus): Mother Combs

🥉 Third Place ($5 Bonus): Randy Wayne Jellison-Knock

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.