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."
