<p>Someone once said life would have been better if we had dinosaurs.</p><p><br/></p><p>And it made me think.</p><p><br/></p><p>There was once a time when earth had creatures we couldn't have imagined, even in our wildest imaginations.</p><p><br/></p><p>Where dinosaurs roamed free.</p><p><br/></p><p>Where giant insects existed.</p><p><br/></p><p>Where weird looking prehistoric creatures swam in the ocean.</p><p><br/></p><p>Where the earth would look completely unfamiliar depending on which period you were born into.</p><p><br/></p><p>Where there weren't any singing birds because they didn't even exist yet.</p><p><br/></p><p>A time when the planet belonged to creatures we'd never meet.</p><p><br/></p><p> (Sighs in b4 b4)</p><p><br/></p><p>Now that I look at it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Earth's a really boring planet.</p><p><br/></p><p>There are no dinosaurs.</p><p><br/></p><p>No fairies.</p><p><br/></p><p>No dragons.</p><p><br/></p><p>No mermaids.</p><p><br/></p><p>No unicorns.</p><p><br/></p><p>No talking animals.</p><p><br/></p><p>No magical forest where mysterious things live.</p><p><br/></p><p>No tiny people living in trees.</p><p><br/></p><p>No portals to other dimensions.</p><p><br/></p><p>Nothing.</p><p><br/></p><p>And the most disappointing part is Earth used to be so much fun.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe they do exist.</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe they all ran away because humans ruin everything.</p><p><br/></p><p>Or maybe they live behind the ice wall.</p><p><br/></p><p> (Sighs in conspiracy theories)</p><p><br/></p><p>Now we just have weird, annoying people 😭😭.</p><p><br/></p><p>Insecurity.</p><p><br/></p><p>Instability.</p><p><br/></p><p>Inflation.</p><p><br/></p><p>Poverty.</p><p><br/></p><p>Capitalism.</p><p><br/></p><p>Imagine being born in a world with dinosaurs, dying then reincarnating into one with mosquitoes and bugs.</p><p><br/></p><p> (Sigh in life don tire-me-ness😮💨)</p><p><br/></p><p>I've come to realize life is painfully ordinary.</p><p><br/></p><p>The world used to be so much fun.</p><p><br/></p><p>But look at it now.</p><p><br/></p><p>I sometimes wonder if one day we'd die out.</p><p><br/></p><p>Wiped clean off the surface of the earth.</p><p><br/></p><p>Like we never even existed.</p><p><br/></p><p>Only to be found millions of years later when a new species emerges.</p><p><br/></p><p>What will they look like?</p><p><br/></p><p>What will they sound like?</p><p><br/></p><p>Will they have technology?</p><p><br/></p><p>Will they teach about us in schools like we taught about the species before us?</p><p><br/></p><p>Will they wonder what it was like to be human?</p><p><br/></p><p>Will they know about previous species?</p><p><br/></p><p>Will they start the world off from the beginning?</p><p><br/></p><p>Or will they pick off where we left off?</p><p><br/></p><p>Maybe I'm moving mad.</p><p><br/></p><p>Or maybe because I never chop sha.</p><p><br/></p><p>All is well.</p><p><br/></p><p> (Sighs in all is well)</p><p><br/></p><p>Lemme go and rewatch The Croods.</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 between 7 and 20 community members with the best insights in the past month.
The 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.
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.
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.
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.
Below is a list of badges on TwoCents and their designations.
Content Contributor
Eligible to Earn
Most Viewed in a Space
Monthly Prize Winner
Mini-Competition/Flash Contest Winner
Essay Competition Winner
Spoken Word Competition Winner
Hundred Insight Club (HIC) (100+ Insights)
Contributor (500+ Score)
Top Contributor (2000+ Score)
Elite Contributor (5000+ Score)
Trusted Contributor
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