Just three months ago the ladies who make up the Cheer­ful Com­pa­ny - Avril Car­ring­ton, Keisha Punter (KP), Shanelle Fe­lix (Shinzy Poo) and Jew­el Si­fontes- record­ed and up­loaded their first video to­geth­er on Tik­Tok.

“So about 12 years back where I would have met Keisha, I was as­signed to su­per­vise Keisha...I met Jew­el in church as my neigh­bour and then I met Shanelle through Keisha on Tik­Tok,” Car­ring­ton ex­plained.

While the mem­bers al­ready had a fol­low­ing on so­cial me­dia and were no strangers to the lime­light, Punter said their de­ci­sion to try the trend­ing al­pha­bet chal­lenge they saw on the App took their pop­u­lar­i­ty to an­oth­er lev­el.

“It was Eid-ul-Fitr, the hol­i­day and Shinzy Poo, Avril and my­self we were get­ting ready to do an al­pha­bet chal­lenge at the time, not the flour chal­lenge, and Jew­el came across, be­cause she does come for food, so she just ran­dom­ly came across and I was like, ‘Jew­el go for a jer­sey and let we do a video’ and the first video we post it, it blew up and we re­alise peo­ple like it,” Punter ex­plained.

In­deed they did, and with the in­cor­po­ra­tion of dip­ping their heads in flour if they an­swered in­cor­rect­ly, al­most all the videos the group up­loaded went vi­ral in no time.

Each mem­ber has over 50 thou­sand fol­low­ers on Tik­Tok, and Punter whose ac­count the chal­lenges were post­ed on has over 200, 000 fol­low­ers. The first three videos on her page were post­ed in April and by May had over nine mil­lion views and count­ing.

“A lot of peo­ple are reach­ing out to us for col­lab­o­ra­tions and we are try­ing to un­der­stand the busi­ness as­pect of Cheer­ful Com­pa­ny, so we are be­ing guid­ed ac­cord­ing­ly,” Fe­lix said dur­ing an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia on Wednes­day where some re­porters and oth­er staff mem­bers had a laugh as they took part in the al­pha­bet chal­lenge with the ladies.

In June, the three mem­bers of the group vis­it­ed a preschool in New York and in­ter­act­ed with the chil­dren there. Less than three weeks lat­er, a bill­board about the Cheer­ful Com­pa­ny ap­peared in Times Square, New York City.

Car­ring­ton, Fe­lix and Punter shared the ex­pe­ri­ence with Si­fontes on the phone. They ex­plained a fan placed the ad in Times Square say­ing that the ladies made them hap­py so they want­ed to re­turn the favour.

All four mem­bers - KP, Avril, Jew­el and Shinzy Poo - ex­plained their aim is to spread some cheer around the coun­try and now the world.

“I am ac­cus­tomed to mak­ing peo­ple laugh. But know­ing that the world out­side get­ting the same, that peo­ple clos­er to me get­ting it does feel good. Ac­tu­al­ly to know that it’s not on­ly my friends who know about my joy,” Si­fontes ex­pressed.

“I think it is the com­ments that pro­pel us to con­tin­ue be­cause I think af­ter the fifth video we were like we were done but in read­ing the com­ments peo­ple wait­ing for part two, part three, it keeps us go­ing, so as much as they ap­pre­ci­ate us, we ap­pre­ci­ate them as well,” Fe­lix added.

The women said they were pleased to know en­ter­tain­ers like Lyrikal and Vy­bz Kar­tel have al­so recog­nised their con­tent.

As they con­tin­ue to bring “good vibes and good en­er­gy,” the women said they have oth­er ideas to spread joy, such as vis­it­ing an el­der­ly home and in­cor­po­rat­ing God in their chal­lenges. They said God is the glue that keeps them to­geth­er.