Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 05/28/2025
Celebrating creativity, engagement, and community building on Vocal.
Welcome to our weekly Leaderboard update! We're delighted to highlight Vocal's most popular stories. 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. Only top level comments and replies by Vocal+ creators will count, comments or replies by the story author will be excluded. You don’t need to be Vocal+ to appear on the leaderboard. You can appear on the Leaderboard once per week. You can appear on the Leaderboard multiple weeks in a row. No AI generated content.
✨ 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): Dharrsheena Raja Segarran - The Junko Furuta Case: Japan’s Most Disturbing Tragedy of Torture and Injustice
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Dana Crandell - The Importance of Community
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Mother Combs - It's The End
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): L.C. Schäfer - A Funny Story About Typos
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - A Praise Report (In Haiku Form)...
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Paul Stewart - To: The One Who Always Knew How To Twist the Knife
D.K. Shepard - Standing Accused
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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Compelling and original writing
Creative use of language & vocab
Easy to read and follow
Well-structured & engaging content
Expert insights and opinions
Arguments were carefully researched and presented
Heartfelt and relatable
The story invoked strong personal emotions
Masterful proofreading
Zero grammar & spelling mistakes
On-point and relevant
Writing reflected the title & theme
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Comments (33)
Help me my story is not published.🥺🥺🥺why
Congratulations
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Congratulation everyone
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Congratulation Everyone🎉🎉
Congratulations to all on such fantastic works.
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Well done everybody 😄🤘
Obligatory honourable mention, spelled correctly, thanks and congrats to everyone else. Nice to see a nice clean list of actual writers and not AIspambotassholebadactors. :)
Congratulations everyone!! ♥️♥️
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Hey everyone - CONGRATULATIONS!! 🎊🎈🎉🎉👏👏👏👏👏👏 Excellent work from talented people🫶🏻
Thank you so much to all those who read and commented on Junko’s case! 🥰🥰🥰 Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations everyone!
Hey thanks everyone!
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Well done everyone
Thanks to everyone who checked out my VOCAL acrostic! Adding my HM $ here to the prize pool for HMs in my challenge! Congratulations to everyone else too! And thank you again to Vocal for the new leaderboard!
Ouch. The board shrunk. Kudos to all.
Excellent choices, congratulations
Well done, folks!
Congratulations to all!!
Whoa! Thank you, everyone! Congrats to everyone else who placed!!