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Ms Aike recalls that her first introduction to social media was in 2013. Her online writing journey and advocacy, however, did not truly start until 2014.

She began sharing her perspectives on a range of issues via Snapchat in 2014. She states that she logged into Snapchat one day, and the rest was history. Her advocacy on Snapchat started in 2014 and ended in 2018. Ms Aike’s advocacy on Instagram began in 2015. She then created a WordPress account in 2015 and continued her advocacy via Blogging. This ended in 2020.

In 2015 she tried her hands at Twitter/X, before eventually permanently deleting it. She then tried her hands again at Twitter/X in 2019, opting to use Twitter/X as a canvas for her thoughts, which she would then post on her Instagram page. She has opted to not be active on Twitter/X and her Twitter/X account has remained private. Ms Aike briefly branched out to YouTube in 2018. Her YouTube channel has since been deleted.

In 2019 she began sending out her nonfiction and fiction work to literary magazines for publication. In 2020 she bid farewell to her WordPress account and upgraded to a professional writer’s website. In 2023 Ms Aike created a new Instagram account as she wanted to advance the seriousness of her writing career, and embrace a refreshing tabula rasa. In February 2024 her short story ‘Multiple Faces of Keke’ was shortlisted and published in the Literary Issue ‘Where Icarus Went. In 2025 she released her debut book This Thing in My Head.

Throughout the 10 years Ms Aike has been online, she has observed that when it comes to her work, (her Snaps from Snapchat, her perspectives she would share on her Instagram account, her Blog posts, her Tweets from Twitter/X, and her published non-fiction and fiction work) she has had the most successful interactions with people on Snapchat and Instagram, as they have usually been more willing to listen to another person’s perspective, digest it, and engage in discourse. Sometimes they disagree, sometimes they agree, and other times, they are in the middle. Her experience with Twitter/X however, differs. When it comes to Twitter/X, she has noticed that oftentimes, people seem to purposely make flagrant remarks in order to get a reaction. They do not actually want to engage in meaningful discourse, and as someone whose main mission has been to spark meaningful discussions, Twitter/X  has not been the platform for that.

Some of the work she has done over the years has now been archived. She believes that with time comes growth and refinement, so when the time comes to compile and showcase all of the work she has done over the years, she would like that to be reflected. Outside of her first Blog post in 2015 which has since been deleted, her Blog posts as well as her published non-fiction and fiction work are still accessible.