cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41525855
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.
It doesn’t matter, if it’s a bribe, then they do not care if people watch it. They are happy with whatever the bribe bought them.
If Amazon wants their shitty movie to appear at the top of seaches for “Melania” then it will, regardless of what is actually trending. They control the algorithm, it’ll do what they tell it to.
Key questions:
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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.
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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?
Protest Amazon by giving them money, that’ll show em
That’s a fair point, and in a comment above I asked if there’s any way to make this trend without purchasing it. Like, maybe there’s a way to do it by search volume, or adding it to our carts? I genuinely don’t know enough about the Amazon platform to know, but maybe someone here does!
I think the whole point of a boycott is to… not use the service.
If you want it to do poorly, don’t engage with it or even talk about it online. Let it rot in obscurity. Heck, I didn’t even know about it before your post.
The other poster is probably right anyway. They already got their kickback off it. It doesn’t matter how it performs.
The problem is, Amazon controls what trends.
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