• bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Is it true they paid people to see it? It might be a joke, but I heard they were giving out free tickets plus $50. And people were required to stay for the entire film in order to get the money.

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      2 months ago

      Sounds like they might have had bots buying tickets, as no human would select the seats that have been chosen.

      I doubt anyone sat in the seats.

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        2 months ago

        They have bought 1000s of copies of their own books to put them on the NYT bestseller list. This is a legitimate question that I would like to know the answer to as well.

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            2 months ago

            It’s both money laundering AND a way to guarantee that the crappy books of their ideological allies all appear wildly successful no matter how few people ACTUALLY read them.

            That’s how Ben Shapiro is technically a bestselling author in spite of having been incapable of speaking for a minute without spouting a logical fallacy since he was a teenager.