<p>Sometimes I think we live in layered worlds not just one reality, but many, all happening at once. Worlds stacked on top of each other like mirrors, each reflecting something the other can’t see.</p><p>Humans like to believe we’re the smartest beings to ever exist. We call ourselves intelligent, advanced, logical as if that title belongs to us alone. We study the stars, build machines, and look down on everything smaller than us. We look at the ant and see nothing but a tiny creature crawling on dirt, carrying pieces of food back to its colony. But what if the ant looks at us the same way as the clueless ones, moving without purpose, destroying more than we create?</p><p>Every creature sees the world from its own dimension.</p><p>An ant’s world is built of soil, vibration, and scent a kind of communication we’ll never understand. To it, we are shadows passing above the earth, strange and slow, clumsy giants who know nothing about the true order beneath the ground.</p><p>And maybe that’s the point. Maybe the illusion of superiority lives inside every form of life. A bird believes the sky belongs to it. A fish believes the sea was made for it. And we, the humans, believe the universe was designed for our discovery that every star is waiting to be named by us.</p><p>But step back for a moment and think about this: what if there’s something looking at us right now the same way we look at ants? A being that doesn’t need words, doesn’t measure time, doesn’t even see in the way we do. A consciousness so vast that it watches our whole civilization like a tiny glowing speck moving through space wondering if we even know what we’re doing.</p><p>Science tries to explain it. Philosophy tries to feel it. But there are things that can’t be understood by thought alone. Some truths are too wide for logic. Some realities exist in silence, in frequencies we can’t hear.</p><p>Maybe intelligence isn’t a competition. Maybe it’s just the universe thinking in different ways through ants, through humans, through stars, through galaxies. Every living thing is a verse in the same eternal poem, and the cosmos is just reading itself through us.</p><p>When you stare at the night sky, you’re not just looking at space you’re looking at layers of time. Some of those stars you see are already gone, but their light is still traveling. It means that even when something dies, its echo keeps moving through the universe. Maybe consciousness is the same way. Maybe when we die, something of us keeps traveling — not the body, not the mind, but that spark that once asked, why am I here?</p><p>And maybe that question itself is the most intelligent thing in existence the question that connects us all. The ant asking why it works, the human asking why he lives, the star burning without knowing why it shines.</p><p>Different worlds. Different illusions. Same mystery.</p><p>Because maybe there is no highest being only countless layers of awareness, each one believing it’s the center of everything, while the real truth sleeps quietly beyond them all…</p><p>watching.</p><p>thinking.</p><p>and dreaming through us.</p><p><br/></p>
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
1
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.
5
Use eye-catching cover images—if your content doesn't attract attention, it's less likely to be read or engaged with.
6
Share your content in your social circles to build engagement around it.
Contributor Rankings
The Rankings/Leaderboard shows the Top 20 contributors and engagers on TwoCents a monthly and all-time basis
— 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.
1
Subscriptions received
2
Tips received
3
Comments (excluding replies)
4
Upvotes
5
Views
6
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.
1
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:
1
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
1
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.
Comments