Can we make this paranormal erotic novel about Melania Trump rank higher than her Amazon movie? (lemmy.world)

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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:

Melania: Devourer of Men

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.

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[-] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] mulcahey@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Protest Amazon by giving them money, that'll show em

[-] mulcahey@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

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!

[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

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