thumbs down if you see this in your prime video.

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    This is what I expected to do. Can easily fake the numbers.

    What I did not expect was its cinema release. You can’t fake ticket sales

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      Sure you can. Musk bought a bunch of cyber trucks and abandoned them. It would be WAY easier to buy a shit ton of movie tickets, never use them, and there’s no evidence to get rid of after.

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        Not when one person goes and says it was empty.

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          People did go and say it was empty. The tickets were bought en masse and not used. It’s the same thing they do with religious and political books to get them on the best seller list.

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            Well they chose not to it seems, oddly. Plenty of articles and memes showing completely empty showings in the booking sites.

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              Which makes me wonder if this was part of the strategy. Like a kind of reverse-Streisand? Once it hits streaming more people might watch it out of spite or see if it’s “really that bad.”

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    It’s not just elites and corporate overlords. This trash was the top spot on “staff picks” at my local private swashbuckling club with several hundred mateys sharing. Sad.

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    Imagine paying for prime to have the privilege for jeff bezos to personally fuck you but not in the good way

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    I saw that come up last night and immediately gave it a thumbs down.

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    saw the ad before turning on a hockey game. didnt know I could thumbs down but I will after the game!