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.
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.