<p><strong>Were you really the victim in that friendship… or just the one who narrated first?</strong></p><p>Sometimes you weren’t the villain…</p><p>But you definitely weren’t the saint you painted yourself to be.</p><p>You just spoke first, and the first narrator always sounds innocent.</p><p>Your version was tidy, theirs was complicated.</p><p>But life isn’t tidy, and neither are you.</p><p>Sometimes you were hurt…</p><p>and sometimes you were just loud.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>That friendship that ended, was it truly betrayal?</strong></p><p><strong>Or just miscommunication both of you were too proud to fix?</strong></p><p>Half of what we call “betrayal” is just two people refusing to say, “This thing you did hurt me.”</p><p>You didn’t communicate.</p><p>They didn’t communicate.</p><p>You both carried offence like inherited debt.</p><p>You expected them to read your mind; they expected you to already know.</p><p>So pride spoke louder than love…</p><p>and silence did the rest.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Before you attack me, breathe first.</p><p><br/></p><p>We've all heard warnings about fake friends, I'm sure.</p><p>Friends who lead you into pits</p><p>Friends who plot your downfall </p><p>Friends who watch you drown</p><p>Friends who strain your mind</p><p><br/></p><p>Some of you may have encountered such friends.</p><p>But for some of you, what if that’s not the whole story?</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>What if you didn't lose a friend... what if you just lost someone who finally set boundaries?</strong></p><p>Let’s be honest, some “losses” are just consequences.</p><p>You ignored their feelings one too many times.</p><p>You dismissed their discomfort because it didn’t inconvenience you.</p><p>They held their patience like a shield. You broke it anyway </p><p>You expected access without accountability.</p><p>They chose distance. </p><p>You called it abandonment.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>What if they weren’t a bad friend… what if they just stopped tolerating your nonsense?</strong></p><p>Everybody has a breaking point.</p><p>You pushed.</p><p>They swallowed.</p><p>You pushed again.</p><p>They swallowed again.</p><p>Then one day they stopped swallowing.</p><p>And suddenly, they "abandoned you"</p><p>But did you ever consider how exhausting it was to love you in that season?</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>What if the friendship wasn’t toxic, what if you two were just emotionally incompatible?</strong></p><p>Not every heartbreak has a villain.</p><p>Even garlic and oranges look alike until they meet.</p><p>Some friends love deeply but communicate poorly.</p><p>Some friends care sincerely but understand differently.</p><p>Mismatch is not malice.</p><p>Not every misalignment is betrayal.</p><p>Sometimes the friendship died because it simply wasn’t meant to live.</p>
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At the end of the month, we give out prizes in 3 categories: Best Content, Top Engagers and
Most Engaged Content.
Best Content
Top Engagers
Most Engaged Content
Best Content
We give out cash prizes to 7 people with the best insights in the past month. The 7 winners are picked
by an in-house selection process.
The winners are NOT picked from the leaderboards/rankings, we choose winners based on the quality, originality
and insightfulness of their content.
Top Engagers
For the Top Engagers Track, we award the top 3 people who engage the most with other user's content via
comments.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Engagers" tab on the rankings page.
Most Engaged Content
The Most Engaged Content recognizes users whose content received the most engagement during the month.
We pick the top 3.
The winners are picked using the "Top Monthly Contributors" tab on the rankings page.
Here are a few other things to know for the Best Content track
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Quality over Quantity — You stand a higher chance of winning by publishing a few really good insights across the entire month,
rather than a lot of low-quality, spammy posts.
2
Share original, authentic, and engaging content that clearly reflects your voice, thoughts, and opinions.
3
Avoid using AI to generate content—use it instead to correct grammar, improve flow, enhance structure, and boost clarity.
4
Explore audio content—high-quality audio insights can significantly boost your chances of standing out.
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Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
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Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Contributor Rankings
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— as well as the most active colleges (users attending/that attended those colleges)
The all-time contributors ranking is based on the Contributor Score, which is a measure of all the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
The monthly contributors ranking tracks performance of a user's insights for the current month. The monthly and all-time scores are calcuated DIFFERENTLY.
This page also shows the top engagers on an all-time & monthly basis.
All-time Contributors
All-time Engagers
Top Monthly Contributors
Top Monthly Engagers
Most Active Colleges
Contributor Score
The all-time ranking is based on users' Contributor Score, which is a measure of all
the engagement and exposure a contributor's content receives.
Here is a list of metrics that are used to calcuate your contributor score, arranged from
the metric with the highest weighting, to the one with the lowest weighting.
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Subscriptions received
2
Tips received
3
Comments (excluding replies)
4
Upvotes
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Views
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Number of insights published
Engagement Score
The All-time Engagers ranking is based on a user's Engagement Score — a measure of how much a
user engages with other users' content via comments and upvotes.
Here is a list of metrics that are used to calcuate the Engagement Score, arranged from
the metric with the highest weighting, to the one with the lowest weighting.
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A user's comments (excluding replies & said user's comments on their own content)
2
A user's upvotes
Monthly Score
The Top Monthly Contributors ranking is a monthly metric indicating how users respond to your posts, not just how many you publish.
We look at three main things:
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How strong your best post is —
Your highest-scoring post this month carries the most weight. One great post can take you far.
2
How consistent the engagement you receive is —
We also look at the average score of all your posts. If your work keeps getting good reactions, you get a boost.
3
How consistent the engagement you receive is —
Posting more helps — but only a little.
Extra posts give a small bonus that grows slowly, so quality always matters more than quantity.
In simple terms:
A great post beats many ignored posts
Consistently engaging posts beat one lucky hit
Spamming low-engagement posts won't help
Tips, comments, and upvotes from others matter most
This ranking is designed to reward
Thoughtful, high-quality posts
Real engagement from the community
Consistency over time — without punishing you for posting again
The Top Monthly Contributors leaderboard reflects what truly resonates, not just who posts the most.
Top Monthly Engagers
The Top Monthly Engagers ranking tracks the most active engagers on a monthly basis
Here is what we look at
1
A user's monthly comments (excluding replies & said user's comments on their own content)
2
A user's monthly upvotes
Most Active Colleges
The Most Active Colleges ranking is a list of the most active contributors on TwoCents, grouped by the
colleges/universities they attend(ed)
Here is what we look at
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All insights posted by contributors that attended a particular school (at both undergraduate or postgraduate levels)
2
All comments posted by contributors that attended a particular school (at both undergraduate or postgraduate levels) —
excluding replies
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.
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