Internet Famous

Panda sat on the couch, propping his head with his paw, halfheartedly browsing through his notifications. Not that there were new ones. Most of the likes on his posts were a week or two old at this point. He needed something to reinvigorate his profile. But he couldn’t think of anything, so he switched to browsing his feed. That was mostly normal too; full of anime, pictures, and selfies. But as he scrolled further one thing popped out at him. He sat up to focus on it better, curving over into his phone.

It had an unbelievable amount of notes. And it was just a picture of some person having swallowed another person whole. Panda tilted his head, seeing if a different angle would clear up his understanding of it. He quietly said to himself, “Is that comfortable?” Both parties in the image seemed pretty comfortable. He also wondered if humans could actually do that. He never thought to ask. He had seen snakes and fish do it, so he supposed it wasn't a big logical leap…

“Hey Pan-Pan, whatcha lookin’ at?” His brother's voice broke his train of thought and he looked up to see both Grizz and Ice.

He turned his phone towards them and said, “Look at this picture! Look at how many likes it has!”

They studied the picture with similar confusion. “Ice Bear did not know humans could do that.” “Whoa. How’d they fit in there…?”

Panda shook his head. “That's not the point! Look at the notes!” Grizz looked closer and whistled with wide eyes. Panda took back his phone and whined, “It's so many and all they did was swallow someone else.” He sighed and started scrolling through his feed again. Ice Bear and Grizz stared at each other for a moment, then Grizz said, “Hey, little bro. We can help you get those notes!”

Panda looked back up at his brothers. He considered it for a moment, but said, “C’mon guys. I couldn't fit one of you in me.”

Grizz grinned. “No, but we could! I can eat a lot,” he said, patting his belly. “Remember hibernation?”

Panda frowned and looked at his younger brother for something to dissuade his older brother. Instead, Ice Bear just said, “Ice Bear stomach acids too strong. Ice Bear can record.” He went off to get a camera, leaving Panda alone to try and discourage their plan. He was at a loss for words, so he returned to his phone, staring at the post. It did have an awful lot of likes. Even though it was a drawing, the contentment on both of their faces was rather convincing.

Grizz saw Panda become torn between decisions and started to prod him towards internet fame. He finally gave in with a loud sigh and reluctant agreement. Grizz cheered, “Woo! I promise little brother, we won’t let you down.” Grizz went to work stretching in the open space, but more for running than eating. Shortly afterward, Ice Bear reappeared with a small camera and its tripod. After a short setup, they were ready. Panda walked into the empty space with his brother, Panda focusing uncomfortably on the camera. Grizz picked up his brother’s phone and studied the image once again. Then he instructed, “Okay little bro. So we just gotta both act like it’s great, right? I’ve never been inside a tum before, but I think it’s probably pretty soft. Just… act… natural.” Panda nodded nervously.

Before starting the recording, Ice quickly informed them that the camera’s battery wasn’t fully charged, so they’d have to work fast. They both nodded, one more eagerly than the other. Then the recording was on. Panda became like a deer in headlights. Then he stiffly said, “Oh boy, I cannot wait to… become food for my brother.”

Grizz continued the dialogue with more enthusiasm, “Mmm, Panda, you just look soooo good. How about you crawl in my mouth?” Grizz then opened his mouth widely, appearing like it could indeed fit his brother. Panda’s eyes were now locked on his brother’s maw. He watched the slight pulsations of his mouth. Grizz was using his tongue to point at Panda then into himself. The room’s lighting helped illuminate the glossy saliva much better than the camera ever would. Though all it currently saw was Panda staring anxiously into his brother’s mouth.

After what seemed like hours to Panda, but amounted to just half a minute, he broke away. He cried out, “I can’t do it! It just looks so gross, and my fur would be all wet, and it’d be so tight, and…” before he could finish, the brown bear grabbed him pulled his head into his mouth. Then they toppled to the ground as Panda began to struggle. Grizz tried to maintain a smile towards the camera while stuffing his brother down his throat. It was muffled, but he tried to say, “Mmm. You actually taste pretty good!” All Panda received from the compliment was hot and humid bear breath into his face. Not that his face wasn’t already soaking wet.

A harsh gulp around him brought Panda into a much tighter tube, which did not give him much room to continue the struggle. With some effort, Grizz managed to hold back Panda’s arms and cram them inside. Grizz tried his best to remain calm and casual while his throat bulged and the bulge’s legs flopped around outside. He kept things moving smoothly with hard gulps, trying not to choke. Panda could feel his fur matting with the thick slime of his brother, not to mention the crushing warmth all around him. He could hear his brother’s heartbeat not too far off in some direction, but it wasn’t very comforting right now.

After about a few minutes of difficulty, Panda finally vanished behind Grizz’s skin. The camera recorded one last throat bulge before all of the bear was collected in his brother’s stomach. Grizz let out a satisfied sigh and an unexpected belch. “Ooh, excuse me bro.” He grinned and rubbed his belly. Even all the food he had eaten for hibernation didn’t make his belly this big. He licked his lips. “Ohh Panda, you were soooo good!” He turned to Ice and said, “He did actually taste really good.” Ice Bear grunted in disapproval.

Panda, having finally reached his destination, was most certainly not comfortable. He was at first upside down, lying on his back as far as he could tell. He flipped himself over, but other than that it was impossible to tell a proper direction. All around him was hot, slimy, rippled flesh. The stomach was jam-packed and it forced his face into its walls. He shouted, “Get me out of here!” Grizz just responded happily, “Relax bro! This is all for show!” Ice Bear grunted at the breaking of character and said, “Ice Bear will edit video later.”

Grizz massaged his brother through the stomach walls saying, “Oh cute, sweet Pan-Pan, you feel so good!” He shook his belly slightly and continued, “You can’t tell me you’re not enjoying this.” Panda once again shouted out, “I’m not! It’s too hot and yucky and claustrophobic!” The surface of Grizz’s gut shook and jutted out from Panda’s attempts to stretch it out more. A growl came from it in response. He bent into his abdomen and whispered, “Hey, bro, calm down. If you want out you can just tell me. I thought you wanted to do this?” He received a soft kick in the nose and Panda’s loud response of, “Let me out!”

Grizz rubbed his nose and just muttered, “Yeesh, okay.” Ice Bear stopped recording and began to review the footage to edit into something acceptable for social media. Grizz was about to start trying to spit up Panda when he noticed Panda’s phone. He looked at the picture, still open, and realized they were skipping a crucial step. Grizz opened up Panda’s camera and then started trying out a few poses. Panda felt his brother shaking him around and asked him what he was doing. Grizz responded enthusiastically, “Posing! I gotta show off my belly full of little bro for the internet.” He found a few poses which highlighted his belly, especially Panda’s outline in it and took several pictures.

When he was done, he told Panda to take pictures of the inside. He asked, “What? How am I going to do that? I don’t have a… Oh Grizz, please don’t swallow my…” Before he could finish the complaint, he heard a gulp from above and felt his phone land on his lower back. Panda groaned and flipped again, knocking his phone into a shallow liquid that was starting to pool. “Aw man, Grizz, you’re gonna ruin my phone.” He managed to dig it out from under himself with some effort and fortunately it was still functional. He used the phone’s screen to cast some light onto his surroundings, which were mostly pink as ever. A slight greenish tint was notable.

Regardless, Panda started taking pictures. For the internet, he reassured himself. He gave his best smile as he took pictures against the fleshy walls of the stomach. Hopefully these pictures and the experience as a whole would get him the internet fame he desired. He had to spend some extra time retaking photos with the flash on, to his displeasure. He was very much ready to escape the supposedly comfortable prison he was in. Somehow at this point, the constant feeling of slime was starting to give way to an itchiness.

“Alright Pan-Pan, lemme get you out of there.” Grizz first tried gagging while still sitting down, but it didn’t seem to produce any sort of motion. He figured he needed gravity to help him with this, so he decided to try and heft himself up. Instead of standing up, he simply rolled over to one side and groaned. “Oof, baby bro... you’re pretty heavy.” He tried to at least stand up on all fours, though his belly still dragged against the ground. He tried to regurgitate his brother once more, with only slightly more success. He managed to burp out a few of Panda’s hairs, though the rest of him was still trapped in the tight gut.

“Uh… Panda, I can’t get you out!” Panda shouted, “WHAT?!” and renewed his struggling, causing Grizz to topple over again. He called out, “Ice, buddy! We need some help!” From somewhere behind him, Ice Bear appeared with the camera in hand. Grizz explained, “I can’t get Pan-Pan out. He’s too big.” At this point, a bellyful of bear was starting to feel less satisfying and more queasy.

Ice Bear placed down the camera and said, “Ice Bear has technique to save Panda.” He sat Grizz up, then forcefully shoved his arm down Grizz’s throat. This caused tears to well up in his eyes from the arm forcing its way past his muscles. But shortly afterward, he felt a much bigger object coming back up. With one arm, Ice Bear managed to pull Panda up Grizz’s throat until his legs were dangling out of his mouth again. Then he pulled both legs and the panda bear landed out of his brother onto the ground.

Panda was clearly shaken from the experience, shivering as the relatively cold outside air hit his soggy fur. Both Ice and Grizz’s eyes widened as they realized that it wasn’t just his wet fur causing it, but also spots completely lacking black and white fur. Panda noticed the look and asked, “What?” As a response, Grizz belched one last time, spraying Panda some more along with giving some of his fur back. Panda looked down across his body, finding the bald spots. He screamed and ran to the bathroom, shutting himself inside.

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After almost an hour of cosmetic repair, Panda exited the bathroom. His fur was dry once more and his bald spots mildly covered by strategic combovers. The first thing he tried to do was find his phone. He searched around the couch and inside it, then in his room and the bathroom. He asked Grizz, “Did you borrow my phone again?”

Grizz shook his head and said, “I haven’t seen it man. Oh and sorry about your fur.”

Panda rubbed a spot and said, “Eh, it’s okay. I was trying too hard. Speaking of, let me ask our brother…”

Panda walked over to the kitchen, where Ice was working diligently on editing their video. Panda said, “Oh hey, almost done?”

Ice Bear nodded.

“Thanks for getting me out, by the way.”

Ice smiled and said, “Anything for brothers.”

Panda smiled back, but then said, “Oh, can I try and find my phone for a sec? I lost it somewhere.” Ice slid aside so Panda could try and locate his phone by forcing it to vibrate. He was only searching for its sound for a moment, when he heard Grizz giggle from his room. By the time Panda got there he was full-blown laughing and said with tears, “Oh bro, I think I found your,” laughing again, “your phone.” Panda just watched as Grizz’s belly shook slightly from his phone’s vibrations.

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A few days later Panda woke up with his phone next to him, perfectly clean. As if it had never experienced his brother’s digestive system in its entirety. The thought made him shiver. The first thing he noticed when he charged the phone was a long video filling up its space. Skimming through the video, all he saw were bright pink walls and loud audio of Grizz’s innards or quiet audio of the outside. He considered deleting the video, but ended up transferring it to his PC. Maybe Ice could edit it.

Either way, he finally managed to post his experiences onto his page. And it most certainly did gain a number of likes, though also strange comments. As he expected, since it was the internet. Mostly he was happy with the likes and notes though. It made him reconsider swearing off retrying the experience. The video’s editing even made it seem pretty nice. However, he then remembered the actual experience and shook the idea out of his mind. This post alone was enough of that.