Amazon higher-ups held a special little meeting to cry about Matt Walsh’s new book “Johnny the Walrus”. Walsh’s book is a somewhat satirical book that addresses the transgender movement as it related to small children—It is meant to bring the issue up in discussion of the potential irreversible damages that await young children pushed into having gender surgery.
Coincidently, Walsh’s book hit Amazon’s #1 bestsellers list almost as quickly as it went online.
According to DailySignal, amazon employees reportedly characterized the book as harmful during an internal meeting while accusing Walsh of exploiting the company’s algorithms to harm the community, according to the videos.
“It’s been a very traumatic experience for transgender Amazonians and our transgender customers,” a man identified as Chuck said in one video.
At one point Chuck removed his glasses to wipe tears from his eyes. He then showed a 30-second clip of Walsh reading his book after telling viewers multiple times to “brace” themselves.
“’Johnny the Walrus’ is a bit of a problematic book—not a bit. It is not a bit of a problem. It’s one hell of a problem. And I would preface this about what the book’s about, but the customer we’re going to listen to does a great job,” Chuck says before playing audio of a customer’s complaint about the book.
“It is teaching kids to kill, well, to bully transgenders. Yeah, to bully them into committing suicide,” the customer complained.
Amazon leadership held a session for employees dealing with the “trauma” of Matt Walsh’s book becoming a best seller and dealing with his trolling. They strategize on how to demote it on their site and claim he will get people killed. @MattWalshBlog broke them. pic.twitter.com/AKH8ihO0iV
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 26, 2022
An unnamed speaker explained the book’s success on Amazon’s website was due to an abuse of the company’s algorithms, according to another video shared by Libs of TikTok.
“The book made it to No. 1 bestseller in LBGTQ books and, actually, I think it was No. 4 of all books for a day. It’s bad faith, it’s basically abuse of Amazon systems,” the speaker said. “People like him are taking advantage of Amazon and how the Amazon algorithms work to promote their particular brand of hate and harm on the community.”
More from the Amazon therapy session for trauma from Matt Walsh’s books: They accuse Matt of hate speech and the host literally breaks down in tears. Attendees are warned “brace yourself” before a clip of Matt reading his book is played. We are living in different realities. pic.twitter.com/naxlcG7RvD
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 26, 2022
After looking it up my rough explanation of the book is that the boy in the story was influenced by his peers and people on the internet to become a Walrus. There is a doctor who can remove the child’s legs so he can become a Walrus but the overall theme seems to be that Johnny (the boy) was just playing make-believe and wasn’t trying to do anything but be a kid. (You can watch a video of Walsh reading his book on YouTube, here.)
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.