<p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>He was loud. He was raw. He was angry. But behind the noise, behind the countless rants that shook Nigerian social media daily, was a man named Tariq Blaze, a warrior birthed from chaos, molded by injustice, and driven by a truth too bitter for most to swallow.</p><p><br></p><p>Nobody really saw him coming.</p><p><br></p><p>At first, he was just another voice on Instagram, screaming into the void, calling out celebrities, influencers, and politicians without fear. Many dismissed him. Some blocked him. But over time, people started to listen, not because he was polished, but because he was real. His anger wasn’t performative. It was personal. His pain wasn’t exaggerated. It was familiar.</p><p><br></p><p>Tariq grew up in Oyo State, in the rugged corners of Ibadan, where the streets teach you more than school ever could. In a Nigeria where survival was a daily fight and silence was the language of the oppressed, Tariq became fluent in resistance. He saw his father lose a civil service job because he refused to pay a bribe. He watched his elder brother die on a hospital floor because the generator had no fuel. He saw politicians drive past dying children without even winding down their windows.</p><p><br></p><p>So when he finally found a phone, an internet connection, and a voice, he didn’t whisper.</p><p>He roared.</p><p><br></p><p>Tariq Blaze didn’t chase virality. He chased justice. He exposed fraudsters, fake prophets, sugar-coated influencers, and government officials who turned poverty into business. He didn’t care who you were; if you were part of the rot, he’d call you out, name and all.</p><p><br></p><p>His followers called him brave. His enemies called him reckless.</p><p>The truth? He was both.</p><p><br></p><p>He got arrested. He got banned. He got suspended from platforms. Each time, he came back louder, like thunder refusing to die out. Because to Tariq, freedom is never earned in silence.</p><p><br></p><p>He didn’t wear agbada. He didn’t code his words in Queen’s English. He wore tight polos, joggers, and frustration. He cursed when he had to. He shouted when words weren’t enough. People said he was too harsh, but he was only as harsh as the reality Nigeria gave him.</p><p><br></p><p>He dragged the rich. He called out “woke” influencers who only cared about trending hashtags. He fought for market women, rape victims, unpaid workers, and the boys on the streets. He wasn’t perfect, and he never claimed to be.</p><p><br></p><p>Many said he’d fade away. They said Nigerians don’t like the truth for too long. They said his kind of fire would burn out. But Tariq stayed burning. He knew fire was the only thing that made the snakes run.</p><p><br></p><p>Today, some still hate him. Some call him a troublemaker, a noisemaker, a destroyer of reputations. But deep down, even his critics know: he says what most of us are too cowardly to admit.</p><p><br></p><p>He may not have political power.</p><p>He may never wear a title.</p><p>But Tariq Blaze became a symbol of courage, of resistance, of unfiltered truth.</p><p><br></p><p>And in a country drowning in lies and pretense, sometimes one loud, angry man with a phone is more powerful than a thousand silent leaders in office.</p><p><br></p><p>That’s Tariq Blaze.</p><p>Unapologetic. Unfiltered. Unstoppable.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Tips received
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Comments (excluding replies)
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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
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A user's monthly comments (excluding replies & said user's comments on their own content)
2
A user's monthly upvotes
Most Active Colleges
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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)
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All comments posted by contributors that attended a particular school (at both undergraduate or postgraduate levels) —
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Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.
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