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Conservatives have been buying tickets to the Qanon film Sound of Freedom but the theaters are empty. They are just buying tickets to make it appear people are seeing it. They are not.
That's amusingly pathetic.
They were doing some thing of pay it forward garbage where they would get donations "so we can open the public eyes" and then buyout a theater showing, which no one was there.
They sure do love to fling money at the most random dumb shit, and then immediately complain that democrats are the reason they're broke
I am amazed they haven't run out of money already.
Were they all millionaires before this whole Trump thing started?
Did they have a plan to get those tickets to people? Or did this whole thing exhibit the kind of forethought we've come to expect from these people?
You have to be pretty dang motivated these days to go to a movie theater. You have to really want to see that movie. I don’t think these people care enough to get off their ass, drive to a theater, pay money, and then watch crap. Why not see Barbie instead? It’s guaranteed to be more fun and you can still go home afterwards and project how much you hate it on your right wing piece of shit social network.
Saw Oppenheimer tonight, the number of people wearing bright pink in the theater lobby was a sight to behold.
It was really cool actually.
I noticed that too, if you look at the amc app, all the seats in the first three rows are completely booked for my local theatre but not so much where people normally sit...doesnt make sense...
I think this article explains it well, wouldnt be surprised if it was some type of money laundering scheme...
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/sound-of-freedom-amc-ticket-sales/
I don't know much about theaters, but couldn't the theater be "blocking" those if they know the show isn't going to be close to booked so they don't have to clean that section?
Where i am they will run the movie even if theres on person in there...there is usually at least one, but if nobody then they can not show it...
Same thing they do with "best selling" books
What makes this all the more hilarious is that just buying the tickets doesn't do this.
Have you ever been to a film and seen someone come in, stand in the back and then leave a few minutes in?
That's probably an auditor counting filled seats. Ticket sales isn't the only metric folks look at. Actual attendance is tracked too.
I can't say I'm surprised
The business ecosystem of people taking advantage of right-wing outrage has to be pretty interesting. People with the right social media skills can turn anything into the conservative "own the libs" hallmark of the week. Make your product cheap enough and it should be comparatively easy money...
What makes it a QAnon film? It's my first time hearing about it, but I enjoy a lot of those actors, and the synopsis doesn't seem overly right wing or anything. Seems like a paint by numbers vigilante cop movie.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/surprise-blockbuster-sound-of-freedom-echoes-antisemitic-qanon-conspiracies/
You've surely got some sources to back up what you're saying?
Someone else linked to this, so it's at least a documented thing.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/sound-of-freedom-amc-ticket-sales/
It’s a documented conspiracy theory, sure.
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all theaters? like, there's been no attendance at every showing? really?