Parkland survivor trolls Trump's new sneaker venture by buying domain and directing visitors to gun safety site

[Ohio Joe]

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has bought a website address referencing former president Donald Trump’s new sneaker brand and turned it into an anti-gun violence website with the ability to call lawmakers to advocate for legislation.

Mr Hogg, who is now the president of Leaders We Deserve, an organisation dedicated to electing young candidates to Congress, made the announcement on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.

“I just bought shoptrumpsneakers.com” the activist wrote. “I have redirected you to a page to call your member of Congress. The twist is the person who makes the call is a victim of gun violence whose voice has been re-created with AI to call for gun safety.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/parkland-survivor-trolls-trump-s-new-sneaker-venture-by-buying-domain-and-directing-visitors-to-gun-safety-site/ar-BB1ix9Le?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=fbc67a71304c4261b6bfcb1980f754ff&ei=42

Hilarious

[niyad]

1. Ohhhhhj myyyyyy. yayyyyy for David!

So, once again, these geeeeenuses neglected to secure a basic domain name?

[jimfields33]

3. Google is playing games.

You literally have to type in the link. If you type shop trump shoes, his site doesn’t come up. If you just type in shop trump sneakers, it doesn’t come up. You literally have to put in shoptrumpsneakers.com. Not sure why Google plays those games because people typically put in subjects not website links.

[Ohio Joe]

5. It can take days or weeks for a new site to show - nt

[jimfields33]

11. Thank you!

[canetoad]

16. You have to have the site verified by Google

Then the crawler bots need to work their way around to it. It's not showing in a Duck Duck Go search either.

[CloudWatcher]

6. Google may be evil now ...

Google isn't playing games, that's just not how search engines work. Even if the site had something to do with actually buying the shoes, it wouldn't show up in search results until there were a fair number of links to that site. It's work to get a new site to show up in search results! Trying searching for "SEO" and see how many sites are offering to help admins with search-engine-optimization .. which is what's needed to get your site to appear.

[jimfields33]

12. Thanks.

I definitely added hits to his site trying to get it through Google. I’ll definitely look into how the system works.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. I Wouldn't Have Known Either

I had no idea on how the algorithm adjusts itself over time.
We both learned something new just now.

[Ninga]

2. This!!!!

[malaise]

4. Love him

Rec

[ificandream]

7. It's people like David Hogg that give me great faith in the younger generation.

Congrats, David!!

[Bev54]

8. Thank you to the young people fighting the good fight!!

[Emrys]

9. Love it. n/t

[Cha]

10. Good on David Hogg!

[mcar]

13. Bravo!

[Hassler]

15. Great kid.