How Vocal Communities Confuse Me So

Is it just me, or are some of the names for Vocal Communities confusing?

For instance, Cleats I would have expected to be all sports. Instead it is specifically for Soccer. But then there is Unbalanced which is for all the other sports with an explanation of "The Unbalanced explores the world of sports and the culture surrounding it; from basketball to baseball, football, hockey, wrestling, and more." But why is it called Unbalanced? What is the connection of sports to that word?

And then Journal is "We spend one-third of our lives stressing about it, thinking it, talking about it and doing it. Journal is for everything work related." --- Really? "Journal" is the word they chose for "everything work related?" That was so not intuitive to me. Here I'm equating Journal with Diary. LOL

And Viva for women didn't make sense to me either since it means life, bravo, or a college examination. But no where do I find it to mean woman, women, feminine, or female. What am I missing? LOL

Then there is Humans for relationships but also Marriage -- which isn't really about the relationship of Marriage but rather about Weddings - the event and all things related to that. So, why not call it Weddings...hello, that would be kind of clear and concise, eh? LOL And then marriage related stories - as in the actual relationship and not the event could be under.... Relationships... or did it have to be called Humans so that it was clear that we didn't care about animal relationships?.... I guess I'm just a bit grumpy today. LOL

Anyway, as you can see, I had to familiarize with all the communities on Vocal so that I have an idea of story range and where to put them. And so, being the data geek that I am, I mapped out all the Communities with their subcategories.

So What Is Under Where Anyway?

Well, that's the $5 question of the day isn't it? So, let's dig in and get ourselves an answer!

01

Your source for all things tech. Bringing us into the future, one technological advancement at a time. For updates, opinions, reviews, and more.

Subcategories are:

• apps
• book reviews
• cryptocurrency
• cybersecurity
• fact or fiction
• gadgets
• hackers
• history
• how to
• interview
• list
• mobile
• photography
• pop culture
• product review
• social media
• start up
• tech news
• thought leaders
• vintage
• vr

Beat

Beat is the guiding track to all things music, from instruments, to playlists, celebrities and beyond.

Subcategories are:

• 60s music
• 70s music
• 80s music
• 90s music
• album reviews
• alternative
• art
• bands
• bass
• book reviews
• celebrities
• classical
• concert
• dance
• diy
• electronica
• fact or fiction
• feature
• festivals
• history
• how to
• humanity
• indie
• industry
• instruments
• interview
• list
• literature
• metal
• movie review
• photography
• playlist
• pop culture
• product review
• quotes
• rap
• satire
• science
• social media
• song reviews
• synth
• techno
• travel
• tv review
• vintage
• vinyl

Blush

Inner beauty is great, but a little mascara never hurt. Skincare, hair, makeup, body, and tutorials. Blush is for all things beauty.

Subcategories are:

• art
• body
• celebrities
• cruelty free
• diy
• face
• hair
• how to
• interview
• makeup
• nails
• organic
• pop culture
• product review
• skincare
• social media
• tutorial
• vintage

Cleats

Welcome to the world of soccer and association football. From FIFA, to the Premier League, women's soccer and more. Cleats is all about soccer.

Subcategories are:

• celebrities
• fifa
• football
• how to
• interview
• mls
• movie review
• nwsl
• premier league

Confessions

Romantic fails, workplace drama, childish pranks, revelations and all shades of cringe live on Confessions. What secrets will you share?

Subcategories are:

• Bad habits
• Childhood
• Dating
• Embarrassment
• Family
• Friendship
• Humanity
• School
• Secrets
• Taboo
• Teenage years
• Workplace

Criminal

True crime, exposed - the innocent, the guilty, and the downright gruesome. Criminal explores the intricacies and complexities of law, order and crime.

Subcategories are:

• book reviews
• capital punishment
• cartel
• celebrities
• fact or fiction
• guilty
• how to
• incarceration
• innocence
• interview
• investigation
• jury
• mafia
• movie review
• photography
• product review
• racial profiling
• travel
• tv review

Earth

From sustainability hacks to the latest on climate change to Mother Nature appreciation, Earth is a place to share anything and everything about the planet we call home.

Subcategories are:

• Advocacy
• Climate
• Humanity
• Nature
• Science
• short story
• Sustainability

Education

Education explores all things student, teacher and school related, minus the tests, tuition, deadlines or detention. It's learning, reimagined.

Subcategories are:

• book reviews
• bullying
• college
• courses
• degree
• high school
• how to
• interview
• list
• movie review
• pop culture
• product review
• stem
• student
• teacher
• trade school
• travel
• vintage

Families

Family relationships, in all their complicated glory. Family explores the intricacies of being parents, siblings, mentors, and friends.

Subcategories are:

• adoption
• advice
• art
• book reviews
• celebrities
• children
• divorced
• diy
• extended family
• fact or fiction
• feature
• foster
• grandparents
• grief
• how to
• humanity
• immediate family
• interview
• lgbtq
• list
• literature
• married
• movie review
• parents
• pop culture
• pregnancy
• product review
• satire
• siblings
• single
• social media
• travel
• tv review
• values
• vintage

Feast

Feast is a celebration of food. Whether it's your favorite part of the day or fuel for your body.

Subcategories are:

• art
• book reviews
• celebrities
• cuisine
• diy
• fact or fiction
• feature
• gmo
• healthy
• history
• how to
• humanity
• interview
• list
• literature
• movie review
• organic
• photography
• pop culture
• product review
• quotes
• recipe
• restaurants
• satire
• science
• social media
• travel
• tv review
• vegan
• vegetarian
• vintage

Fiction

Calling all Ernest Hemingways, Toni Morrisons, Stephen Kings, Octavia Butlers, and James Baldwins of the world - Fiction is the place for your stories to run wild.

Subcategories are:

• Adventure
• Classical
• Excerpt
• Fable
• family
• Fan Fiction
• Fantasy
• Historical
• Horror
• Humor
• Love
• Mystery
• Satire
• Sci Fi
• Script
• Series
• Short Story
• Young Adult

Filthy

Filthy is a platform exploring beauty, culture, entertainment, humor and science for the sexually curious.

Subcategories are:

• advice
• advocacy
• art
• athletics
• beauty
• bob guccione
• body modifications
• buyers guide
• celebrities
• comedy
• conventions
• diy
• erotic
• fact or fiction
• fashion
• feature
• feminism
• fetishes
• fiction
• food
• geek
• how to
• humanity
• industry
• interview
• lgbtq
• lingerie
• list
• literature
• movie review
• nsfw
• penthouse
• photography
• politics
• pop culture
• porn star
• product review
• quizzes
• quotes
• relationships
• religion
• roleplay
• satire
• science
• sex toys
• sexual wellness
• social media
• taboo
• tech
• travel
• tv review
• vintage
• virtuosos

Futurism

Futurism is the intersection of science and science fiction.

Subcategories are:

• anime
• apparel
• art
• artificial intelligence
• astronomy
• body modifications
• book review
• buyers guide
• celebrities
• comedy
• conventions
• diy
• dune
• evolution
• extraterrestrial
• fact or fiction
• fantasy
• feature
• food
• future
• games
• habitat
• how to
• humanity
• intellect
• interview
• list
• literature
• mature
• movie review
• opinion
• photography
• poetry
• pop culture
• product review
• psychology
• quotes
• religion
• satire
• science
• science fiction
• scifi movie
• scifi tv
• social media
• space
• star trek
• star wars
• tech
• transhumanism
• travel
• tv review
• vintage
• virtuosos

FYI

FYI is home to obscure knowledge and interesting facts. Fans of pub trivia, historical mysteries, and niche docuseries share their unusual expertise here.

Subcategories are:

• Historical
• Humanity
• Mystery
• Pop Culture
• Science

Gamers

For people who love gaming. Uniting the virtual world of gaming one player at a time.

Subcategories are:

• action adventure
• adventure games
• arcade
• art
• celebrities
• cheats
• combat
• console
• esports
• fact or fiction
• feature
• first person shooter
• gear
• handheld
• horror
• how to
• interview
• list
• mmo
• mobile
• movie review
• new releases
• nintendo
• pc
• playstation
• product review
• puzzle
• racing
• real time strategy
• rpg
• satire
• table top
• vintage
• vr
• walkthrough
• women
• xbox

Geeks

Geeks explores comic cons, comic books and TV. From fanboys to movie franchises, your source for all things pop culture.

Subcategories are:

• apparel
• art
• beauty
• celebrities
• collectibles
• comedy
• comics
• conventions
• cosplay
• entertainment
• fact or fiction
• fan fiction
• feature
• gaming
• how to
• humanity
• industry
• interview
• list
• literature
• mature
• movie
• photography
• pop culture
• product review
• quotes
• review
• satire
• social media
• steampunk
• superheroes
• travel
• tv
• vintage
• zombies

Horror

For things that go bump in the night. Horror explores the stuff of nightmares and all things fright, from ghost stories to slasher films, attacks of the undead and more. Campfire tales gone digital.

Subcategories are:

• art
• book reviews
• celebrities
• fiction
• footage
• halloween
• how to
• interview
• monster
• movie review
• pop culture
• psychological
• slasher
• supernatural
• travel
• tv review
• urban legend
• vintage

Humans

Single. Married. Other. Humans is all about relationships.

Subcategories are:

• advice
• art
• book reviews
• breakups
• celebrities
• dating
• divorce
• diy
• fact or fiction
• family
• feature
• friendship
• how to
• humanity
• humor
• interview
• lgbtq
• list
• literature
• love
• marriage
• movie review
• photography
• pop culture
• product review
• quotes
• review
• satire
• science
• single
• social media
• travel
• tv review
• vintage

Interview

The home for Vocal creators to pick the brains of thought leaders, celebrities, musicians, friends, idols, other Vocal creators, and more.

Subcategories are:

• Actors
• Authors
• Celebrities
• Creators
• Documentary
• Filmmakers
• Heroes
• Humanity
• Musicians
• Photographers
• Podcast
• Thought Leaders

Journal

We spend one-third of our lives stressing about it, thinking it, talking about it and doing it. Journal is for everything work related.

Subcategories are:

• advice
• apparel
• art
• blingo
• book review
• business
• business wars
• career
• celebrities
• criminals
• decor
• economy
• fact or fiction
• heroes and villains
• history
• how to
• humanity
• humor
• industry
• interview
• list
• literature
• movie review
• nsfw
• photography
• politics
• pop culture
• product review
• quotes
• religion
• satire
• social media
• travel
• tv review
• vintage
• wall street
• workflow

Lifehack

Make your life easier. Hack into your daily routine with Lifehacks, your source for all things DIY.

Subcategories are:

• book reviews
• clothing
• crafts
• food
• garden
• health
• house
• how to
• list
• photography
• pop culture
• product review
• school
• social media
• tech
• travel
• vintage

Longetivity

Longevity is a platform exploring health, wellness and medicine in order to create a long and healthy life. The new frontier of life extension.

Subcategories are:

• advice
• aging
• art
• athletics
• beauty
• body
• celebrities
• decor
• diet
• diy
• fact or fiction
• fashion
• feature
• fitness
• grief
• health
• how to
• humanity
• humor
• industry
• interview
• lifestyle
• list
• literature
• longevity magazine
• meditation
• mental health
• movie review
• organic
• photography
• pop culture
• product review
• psychology
• quotes
• satire
• science
• self care
• sexual wellness
• social media
• spiritually
• travel
• vintage
• weight loss
• wellness
• yoga

Marriage

Marriage is all about weddings, from venues to hairstyles, cakes, and the reception.

Subcategories are:

• bridal party
• ceremony and reception
• fashion and beauty
• food and drinks
• gifts and registry
• grooms
• lgbtq
• proposal
• rings
• travel
• wedding invitations

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Visit Part 2 for the rest of the Communities and their Subcategories as well as helpful instructions on how to pull up stories by tags so you can review the type of stories that have been submitted under the tags.