Amazon is releasing a documentary about Melania at the end of this month. They paid $40 million for it, which is WAY above normal. The whole thing is pretty transparently a way to funnel a bribe to the Trump family.
Typically, there’s nothing we could do about this. However, since this is all going to happen on Amazon Prime, we have a rare opportunity to disrupt this release. How? By making some other Melania content trend on that weekend.
After looking around Amazon, I think the best pick is this:
It’s an erotic novel about Melania Trump as some kind of bat monster. It’s absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it would SO good if we could get this trending on Amazon on January 30, when the Melania doc comes out.
But I don’t know a ton about how to do this. Does anyone have experience here? We’d probably have to branch out and get some anti-Trump Lemmy (and reddit?) communities involved.
Key questions:
Is there any way to get the book trending without buying it? It’s only $1, so if we all have to buy it that’s not so bad, but would love to find another way if possible.
If we want it to trend on the 30th, do we take action that day? Or do we need to start earlier? Like the day before?
Anyone here know how Amazon works?
I’s getting better by the minute.
Imagine a woodworker with 14 dogs becomes a billionaire over a trump boycot. That alone is worth $1. The two combined … i’m willing to make a once in my time exception and buy from Amazon.
You’d… just be paying Amazon to spite Amazon. That’s not how a boycott works!
Assuming there’d be thousands or even millions of buyers, wouldn’t you still generate thousands to millions of revenue for Amazon and thus implicitly make their Melania documentation a success? If you just watched the main video via Prime they’d at best make a few cents from commercials per viewer. If you want to follow that idea, maybe quickly create a book yourself, offer it for free and try to make that trending.