Scamazon
Organization#16 trending in Business & Startups this week · most on Office Hours with Prop G
A humorous or critical nickname for Amazon, typically used when discussing questionable marketplace listings, counterfeit goods, or scams.
Rank this week
Share of the conversation
1.2‰ of what listeners heard
Reach this week
Tone this week
- Neutral 10
- Positive 1
Share of the conversation
Mentions of Scamazon per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, business & startups.
Show the data
| Day | Share (7-day) | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 20 | 1.90‰ | 1 |
| Aug 21 | 1.61‰ | 2 |
| Aug 25 | 1.47‰ | 2 |
| Aug 26 | 1.77‰ | 1 |
| Aug 27 | 1.94‰ | 2 |
| Aug 28 | 1.63‰ | 1 |
| Aug 29 | 1.78‰ | 1 |
| Aug 31 | 1.95‰ | 1 |
| Sep 1 | 1.94‰ | 2 |
| Sep 2 | 2.39‰ | 3 |
| Sep 8 | 1.06‰ | 1 |
| Sep 10 | 0.53‰ | 1 |
| Sep 11 | 0.69‰ | 1 |
| Sep 12 | 0.94‰ | 1 |
| Sep 14 | 1.04‰ | 1 |
| Sep 15 | 1.66‰ | 4 |
| Sep 16 | 1.78‰ | 1 |
| Sep 17 | 1.71‰ | 1 |
| Sep 18 | 2.26‰ | 4 |
| Sep 22 | 1.53‰ | 3 |
| Sep 23 | 1.52‰ | 1 |
| Sep 24 | 1.74‰ | 2 |
| Sep 25 | 1.38‰ | 2 |
| Sep 28 | 1.68‰ | 2 |
| Sep 29 | 1.49‰ | 2 |
| Sep 30 | 1.84‰ | 3 |
| Oct 2 | 1.79‰ | 3 |
| Oct 5 | 2.55‰ | 6 |
| Oct 6 | 2.49‰ | 1 |
| Oct 7 | 2.60‰ | 4 |
Why is it trending?· Last 7 days
Amazon’s ads, shopping tools, retail economics and AI agents drive discussion
Office Hours with Prop G discussed Amazon’s high-margin advertising business, citing about $69 billion in 2025 ad revenue and $34 billion in operating income excluding AWS.[1]
Morning Brew Daily focused on Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days and its About You AI tool, which makes specific inferences from shopping habits.[2][3]
Office Hours with Prop G also examined Amazon’s response to shopping agents, while George Hotz argued other businesses risk being bypassed by such agents.[4]
Other shows used Amazon as an example of retail scale, a source of imports, a delivery-cost factor in inflation, or a funding source for Colorado EV rebates.[5][6][7]
Several remaining mentions were incidental references to buying books, obtaining a book, small-business pricing, or Amazon’s investment in Anthropic rather than a shared argument about Scamazon.[8][9][10]
Sources · 10 moments
- 1.Office Hours with Prop G · Who Profits When Everyone Is Recording? (ft. Kyla Scanlon)Jack Raines · Oct 7 · Listen at 5:04 ↗
“zero or close to zero marginal costs. And most of that ad revenue is pure profit. In 2025, Amazon's ad revenue was about $69 billion, up 22 % from the year before. Meanwhile, Amazon's operating income, excluding Amazon web services, was $34”
- 2.Morning Brew Daily · Stock Market Hits Fresh Records as AI Goes Nuts & Protests Over Poor School Conditions Erupts in FranceNeal Freiman · Oct 7 · Listen at 0:47 ↗
“You might be firing up Amazon during its Big Deal Days event today and tomorrow, but before you start browsing, check out a new feature Amazon released that reveals what it thinks it knows about you. Called About You, the AI tool lists oddl”
- 3.Morning Brew Daily · September Hiring Slows & Tom Cruise's 'Digger' Could Lose $150MNeal Freyman · Oct 5 · Listen at 25:05 ↗
“The holiday shopping season has kicked off. Well, if Amazon has any say, the company is rolling out its Prime Big Deal Days Tuesday and Wednesday, hoping you'll get a jump start on snagging gifts with sales for Prime members.”
- 4.Office Hours with Prop G · The Week: An IPO False Start, an Agent That Goes Shopping, and a War We Keep Paying ForGeorge Hotz · Oct 2 · Listen at 8:23 ↗
“Right. And like, I think it was, it was last week when Muse was just like banging out like announcements about new integrations, right? They had, they had Shopify, they had PayPal, they had Expedia and they had Instacart all, all in the spa”
Written by AI from the cited moments; every quote is checked against the transcript.
The conversation on X
X focuses mainly on Amazon MGM’s Project Hail Mary and scattered Amazon business topics
The posts largely discuss Project Hail Mary’s reported performance, audience reaction, merchandise, and awards prospects, alongside separate Amazon automation, investment, retail, and regulatory topics.
Some posts express strong enthusiasm for Amazon MGM’s film activity or the movie itself; others present business developments or criticism without taking a clear position.
X is mostly discussing Amazon-related film and commercial activity rather than the podcast story’s separate discussions of hydration products, warehouse-worker replacement, and film awards.
The sample does not show a shared argument about Scamazon as an organization.
Points of view
Share of the 2 posts that take a position
- Amazon MGM is succeeding in film100%
Holders say Amazon MGM is having an unusually strong film year, pointing to Project Hail Mary’s reported opening and the presence of Amazon MGM titles in awards predictions. Some describe the company’s films as excellent or commercially significant.
“Oscars Predictions Tracking (Oct. 1, 2026) Best Picture “The Debut” (A24) “Dune: Part Three” (Warner Bros.) “I Play Rocky” (Amazon MGM Studios) “The Invite” (A24) “La Bola Negra” (Netflix) “The Odyssey” (Universal Pictures) “Project Hail Mary” (Amazon MGM Studios) “Wild Horse”
@ByClaytonDavis · Oct 1
“thinking about how Amazon MGM killed it this year with two amazing movies such as Project Hail Mary and The Love Hypothesis”
@matildaax18 · Sep 29
97% of the 73 posts report news or ask questions without taking a position.
Tone toward Scamazon on X
Neutral
- Very negative 1
- Negative 6
- Neutral 47
- Positive 16
- Very positive 3
Also discussed
- Amazon MGM awards prospects
- Amazon warehouse automation
- Amazon investment and business outlook
- Amazon retail and seller ecosystem
- Note: The entity is Scamazon, but the posts overwhelmingly refer to Amazon or Amazon MGM rather than Scamazon directly.
- Note: Many posts are advertisements, affiliate promotions, job listings, or unrelated uses of the word Amazon; the sample is therefore fragmented and not a focused discussion of the entity.
Written by AI from 73 posts on X in the week to Oct 6. Shares count the posts read, not a poll of opinion; quoted posts are shown as written.
Discussed alongside
Names that come up in the same conversations as Scamazon.
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