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Update: We're messing up Melania Trump's Amazon search results (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by mulcahey@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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This is an update to this post.

This weekend, Amazon is premiering its $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It's pretty clearly a bribe to the Trump family.

We're going to disrupt the big premiere weekend by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller novel Melania: Devourer of Men so it's high in the results. Maybe #1!

The book is perfect: It's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money. (Fun fact: It's free because of YOU, the users of A Boring Dystopia. After your comments on the last post I reached out to the author, and they agreed to make the book free this weekend.)

Currently, the book ranks #29 in Amazon search results for Melania. But all the other Melania results seem pretty weak (lol), so we can pull this off pretty easily. We just need people to:

"Buy" the book (it's free)
Share this post and get other people to "buy" the book.

That's it.

Here's a link to the book, in case your Lemmy client stripped out the links above: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HN9XC1H

Please share and we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon!

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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I were an Amazon exec I'd hope for this. The bribe has already done its work and if no one sees they film there will be fewer complaints and bad reviews written about it.

[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Kinda think "The #2 Amazon result is an erotic novel where she's a bat monster" is probably not a good look

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

The president is a rapist. It hasn't been a bad look for half of the country.

But go ahead, give amazon your emails and data like they don't already manipulate rankings.

I hope you feel you accomplished something.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

it's a better look than "$75 million movie sells 3 tickets" so like, pushing the book might be doing more harm than good

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Hol up, erotic novel? Bat monster? I'm in for 10!