The lighting was just god-awful. Scarlet threw her phone on her bed in frustration. Posting a morning selfie was so difficult without the proper equipment that so many influencers had. She needed to put out the money and upgrade if she wanted to compete in an influencer market that was becoming saturated with competition.
Scarlet knew she was hot enough with natural curly blond hair, and a curvy body most girls had to use Photoshop to generate. The problem was that she had no idea how to generate interest and build her brand like so many less attractive girls seemed to do with ease. She had Instagram and Tik Tok covered by posting sexy photos of her body at all angles and by keeping up on the various dances and trends, but her followers only grew modestly. She couldn't understand how other similar profiles exploded with popularity.
The familiar chime from her phone signaled another notification. Specifically, a message from Tik Tok. The messages were always a mixed bag from compliments to men hitting on her to the rare offer for sponsorship of a product. Those were the messages she got her dopamine rush from. Her dainty fingers grabbed the phone and saw it was from a random account suggesting that she try the new hypnosis challenge sweeping Tik Tok. The message contained a link to a compilation of other high profile influencers taking part in the challenge. If there was one way to build her brand, it was by doing challenges that could possibly go viral.
The link opened and the video played. Every video trend followed the same formula of whatever was established in the initial video. However, based on the video description, this challenge had a little extra work involved. All the college influencers that participated had to watch a hypnosis video first and the challenge was listening to the trigger test after. Video after video, each girl started with 'This is the hypnosis challenge and here are my triggers.' Once the girls finished speaking, the sultry male hypnotist's voice took over.
"Peace." He said.
The girls made a peace sign and puckered their lips into a duck face.
"Freeze."
The girls froze in place, unblinking. Whether or not the girls were actually hypnotized, they were really selling the effects. All of them went blank and remained still as soon as they heard the hypnotist's direction. A few seconds went by.
"Nose."
Their eyes stayed blank, and their lips stayed puckered as their middle fingers went down and their index fingers went up their nose. Another few seconds passed by.
"Aheago."
With their finger up their nose, their eyes crossed, and their mouth opened wide with their tongue stuck out.
"Loop."
The loop command started the pose back at peace and carried on through to the finger up the nose and aheago for two loops with a few seconds between each pose.
"Sleep."
The girls' heads dropped.
"Awake and remember."
The girls' heads popped up and they all covered their mouth in embarrassment at having done all the commands.
"Flash."
The final post hypnotic trigger made each girl lift her shirt and bra to flash her bare tits to the camera before the video stopped. Every video had carried out the same way, and all ended with each girl embarrassingly showing off her tits. Scarlet didn't believe that the videos were real, but nonetheless, even if the girls were hamming it up for the camera, hypnotized or not, the hypnotist still technically accomplished his goal of obedience. Scarlet assumed it was just the power of social media and peer pressure at work. And she couldn't wait to join in on the phenomenon.
With a whole hour before her first class and having already dolled herself up for her morning selfie photo, it was the perfect time to film the quick challenge. Besides, that gave her video the chance to accumulate views throughout the day. She had to strike while the challenge was hot before a new trend took the internet by storm.
Scarlet sat in her desk chair and set up her phone to watch the hypnosis video. It started and she stared at the black and white spiral on the screen.
"Welcome to Kollar Hypnotic shorts. Just stare at the spiral and make yourself comfortable." The sultry voice said. "Breathe in... and out...relaxing with each breath."
Scarlet kept an open mind and followed the instructions.
"And wide awake. Good girl. Thanks for listening."
Scarlet felt refreshed but confused that the video was so short. She checked the time and realized twenty minutes had passed. Did it really work? From everything she had heard about hypnosis, it was all fake to a degree, but no one ever forgets everything. Since the triggers were only supposed to last an hour, she had to shoot the follow up video before leaving for class.
With no time to dwell on the missing twenty minutes from her memory, Scarlet set her phone camera up and once she was satisfied with the angle, she pressed record.
"This is the hypnosis challenge and here are my triggers." Scarlet said in the sexy voice that she only used for her videos.
She hit play on the trigger video which was set up off camera on her laptop.
"Peace."
Before Scarlet realized she was reacting, her hands were already making the peace symbol and her mouth was puckered like she was ready to give a big kiss. After a moment, she thought she could move, so she tried to break the pose, but the hypnotist's voice chimed in again.
"Freeze."
Scarlet found herself frozen in place and tried desperately to move. But she was stuck. And from what she could see on the screen in front of her, she looked blanker and emptier than the other girls she had just watched. So much so that drool dropped down from her bunched up lips.
"Nose."
With robotic movement, her middle finger lowered, and her index finger went straight up her nose. It felt like a stranger was controlling her body because her mind could not comprehend that she was moving. Then her mind momentarily became foggy as it became harder and harder to think. She tried to maintain focus, but like a trap door, anytime her thoughts appeared, her mind opened and released everything, leaving her blank and mindless.
"Aheago."
Her eyes crossed and her mouth opened wide. Her tongue shot out, releasing the built-up saliva which spilled down her chin and onto her shirt below. As her tongue extended fully, her mind simultaneously had an orgasm and she experienced how it felt to have the IQ and mindset of a bimbo. All body, no brains. Just a sex toy for men. The feeling was euphoric and she didn't want it to end.
"Loop."
Scarlet moved back into the peace symbol pose and her mind returned. Like a flipped switch, the pleasure disappeared, and she was back to staring at herself. In the same manner the influencers in the compilation video carried out the routine, Scarlet found her body automatically switching between the poses. The accompanying feelings also remained the same for each pose ending with the brain dump that sent her into another internal orgasm.
After the second time, Scarlet wished it would never end but sadly, after the third internal orgasm, the sultry voice returned.
"Sleep."
Scarlet dropped and then popped back up in what seemed like a second. She was so shocked by the feeling that she couldn't help but cover her mouth at all the things she had done. There was nothing she could have done to stop it. Her body had felt like an animatronic going through the motions.
"Flash."
Scarlet grabbed her top and bra, lifting them to show off her large tits. She then instinctively pulled her shirt down when she regained control. The video ended and Scarlet stopped recording. She couldn't believe how effective the challenge video was. No wonder everyone was trying it. With her senses firing on all cylinders once again, she finally noticed the wet stain that had that filtered through her panties and booty shorts and all over her chair. The internal orgasm wasn't just in her mind, her body had reacted as well, at one point squirting helplessly as her mind was drained over and over.
There was no time to edit or review the video and clean herself up in time. She uploaded the video to her account with the standard title that all the influencers used. "Hypnotic Challenge!" After a few moments, it occurred to her that maybe making it a bit more unique would draw more attention. She backspaced the exclamation mark and added a caption. "Hypnotic Challenge: I drool my mind away!"
It was different but enticing. Besides, the drooling and her blank stupid look were more than enough to justify the title. At least she hoped. The time was ticking, and Scarlet needed to tidy up for class. The video not only showed her going through embarrassing posses, but her tits would be on full display for the internet to see. Was she ready to put herself out there like that for the world to see?
Her hand hovered over the 'Publish' button. It was time to start building her brand. And whether she liked it or not, hot girls and sex sold. Now it was time to find out if she had the mysterious 'X' factor so many famous influencers seemed to have. She hit 'Publish' and rushed to the bathroom to clean up for class.
**
"Hot vid, Scar." Nate said as he joined Scarlet on her walk to class.
Nate was best friends with both Scarlet and her roommate Mandy, which forced an awkward love triangle that no one addressed. Both Scarlet and Mandy had a crush on him, but he never showed his cards to either of them, equally flirting and hanging out with both. But Scarlet finally figured out a way to win his attention. With the pop star and rapper Roland Hills in town, Scarlet had bought two awfully expensive tickets, with the help of her father, and asked Nate to come. He gladly accepted and when she had told Mandy, she could see the disappointment all over her roommate's face. The only way to win Nate over was to isolate and impress. Otherwise, neither girl was going to get him.
"You think so?" Scarlet blushed.
"Totally. It's really blowing up."
As they approached class, Nate saw his friends that he usually sat with and began to part ways.
"Pick you up at seven tonight?" Nate asked.
Scarlet nodded. Nate winked back and then calmly walked over to his friends.
Cool as a cucumber, and soon he would be all hers.
***
The door slammed shut and Scarlet threw her bag onto the couch beside Mandy who was watching television.
"I finally got a semi-viral video. I finally freaking did it." Scarlet said.
"That hypnosis challenge?"
"Yes. Everyone loves it. Even some of the popular influencers are commenting and sending me PMs. It's awesome." Scarlet took out her phone and sat across from Mandy. "I almost left class early because I was so excited."
"You know, it's crazy how much girls can make online with a decent face." Mandy said.
