DISQUS

www.myegytube.com · 1 month ago

Oh stop your whining. This is brilliant satire and would have been lauded if Leno, Conan or SNL had come up with the idea.

Sophie Guellard · 1 month ago

Edgy PR/Marketing stunts [generally speaking] are roaring successes or go wrong horribly wrong in equal quantities - regardless of the source of the campaign. This key issue here is the basis of the marketing, not the source – i.e. in this case immigration as a hot topic, not “lawyers” as the instigators.

Without wanting to state the obvious, the very fact that something is “edgy” means it is “on the edge” of what is acceptable so there is always a considerable risk that the campaign will, at best, belly flop or, at worst, cause wide-spread offence.

As a *former* lawyer, but current marketer I don’t believe that lawyers are any better or any worse at marketing than any profession or sector. What counts are the brief and the agency, not the origins of the campaign.

Michael · 1 month ago

They actually have an explanation for that:
iDisclaimers

**This is not an actual product. If you want to immigrate to the U.S, Find a Lawyer and discuss your legal options for doing so.

Any potential political views conveyed on this page do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of LawFirms.com or Experthub, Inc, but rather, the tasteless sense of humor of two employees that are likely to be fired. If you are offended by anything on this page, you are encouraged not to visit again. If you would like to sue us, we can help connect you with a qualified local attorney.

Illegal Immigration is a serious issue, and we make no attempt to diminish the gravity of the impact of illegal immigration on the US economy and the lives of it's citizens. However, you have to admit, this is pretty funny.

NAXMIX · 1 month ago

Have you lived in the third world country? Because the way you talk it sounds like you just put your LAW 101 Tutorial on the coffee table and sipped you Savinog Blanc to digest it all, and I'm sorry to come off a bit rude, but hey I've traveled a bit and all I saw is clueless poverty with no financial or even intellectual means to get out. So, just to sum it up I spend 10 years waiting for my US visa and went to 3 US emabassy interviews before I was granted a chance to enter the Great country of ours (which I'm a citizen of and bloody proud). But Latin America with all it's backwardness is just not the case to judge but to help whenever we can....

Doug Remer · 1 month ago

Liberalism + Mashable = Perfect match!!! <3

Adam Ostrow · 1 month ago

As I say in the conclusion, I think the ad is offensive to both sides of the debate

dez · 1 month ago

I don't think this is a PR nightmare purely for the reason that they are equally offending both sides. It sounds to me more like the campaign was a success. And the explanation for it was even better.

Ahuitzotl · 1 month ago

May LawFirms.com get lost in the desert without their iCoyote ! 8P

Nat Coalson · 1 month ago

Doesn't offend me at all.

Eric Wilbanks · 1 month ago

Oh stop your whining. This is brilliant satire and would have been lauded if Leno, Conan or SNL had come up with the idea.

Rich Becker · 1 month ago

Art and entertainment are generally given much more latitude with satire and biting commentary than companies selling products and services. The real question is does it achieve any outcomes beyond clicks with a high bounce rate?

Probably not. Besides, it seems most people crossing the border are headed in the other direction nowadays.

Adam Ostrow · 1 month ago

well said

Richard · 1 month ago

Amazing. No backlash, but severe whiplash when folks are done with them on this "bright idea"

Suezanne · 1 month ago

It's the laws denying the right to travel, to live where you choose, to conduct your business, such as choosing a place to live and work, without regard to national origin, that are offensive.

Brad F. · 1 month ago

So you're saying that a country shouldn't have the right to monitor its borders and ensure that only legal citizens are living in the country, holding jobs and receiving benefits? If the US let in anyone that wanted to come in, the country would be flooded with people and it would topple over like a pickup truck with too many Mexicans in the back.

dalthu · 1 month ago

I would love to know what the hell is going through these PR people heads. These people in PR are trying out social media and other ways they are tryign to make a company hip and cool. In fact, they are just setting the company up for very big embarrassment. Just look at what Pepsi's PR did with their very offensive iPhone App. And to go back a little ways to the people doing the Skittle's things with Twitter.

So honestly, these PR people should go out a research some of the social networks and how and iPhone App works. We don't need more usless Apps in the App Store. So why fill it up with offensive Apps. These people have no feelings for anyone but themeselves.

Brad F. · 1 month ago

I laughed a lot when I read this. I thought it was hilarious. People need to lighten up and learn to appreciate comedy. Plus, all those people dying in the desert trying to sneak illegally into the US wouldn't be dying if they weren't doing something... illegal. We don't get all teary eyed and emotional when a crackhead ODs and dies, so why do we get emotional when other people try to break the law by crossing the border illegally? What? Out of some misplaced sense of guilt over their hard life? An idea that we should be helping our poor neighbors? We can't take in all the poor in the world and still survive as a nation. There's a reason we have legal immigration policies and there's a reason why trying to bypass them is against the law. I don't pity them. If they don't want to die in the desert they should stay out of it.

Harold A. · 1 month ago

You know, "pitying" and "approving of the actions of" are not the same thing. If you don't pity them you're either a heartless bastard or haven't taken a few minutes to think about what the experience of dying of exposure in the desert must be like. Something tells me it's the former. As an ardent opponent of illegal immigration, I must say: you, sir, are a dick.

Brad F. · 1 month ago

Sorry Harold. I have a hard time pitying people who voluntarily place themselves in situations where there's a good chance they could die, all in the hopes of doing something illegal. Pitying them would be like pitying a drug dealer that gets gunned down while making a deal. Either way it's illegal, and either way they shouldn't have been doing it to start with, and if they hadn't, they'd still be alive.

NAXMIX · 1 month ago

Illegal immigration is what keeps LA look somewhat civilized, right ? Or wrong? Well what you need to really think about is to who benefits from all that and the simple answer is...well everyone. And by everyone I literally mean everyone...! My grass around the house looks perfect and that is one of the trivial examples of what "illegals" are capable of, well trimmed trees...hmmm they just look good all over LA. So, the real question is it really makes sense to legalize legal aliens? I mean I'm all up for it, but hold on a second, who is endorsing political campaigns here? Large construction companies, service providers, landscaping businesses, manufacturing...? Or you? Am I repeating what everyone says...? or it's just a bloody common sense? In any case lawyers are the whole different story, got to treat them with careful curiosity, cause they bite like mad dogs, so F em for now. But illegals, they are in the catch 22, they just too scared to rock the boat that is already all rotten...There is no real answer to this mess...

nano · 1 month ago

they're not thinking or feeling; they have racist contempt toward the victims of illegal migration. It's not usually immigration

Gus · 1 month ago

Holy overreaction Batman! Come on, it's pretty clear the ad is supposed to point out that illegal immigration is more dangerous and more expensive than hiring an immigration lawyer and doing things legally. And it does this in a humorous way. Is your sense of humor broken, or are you just not smart enough to figure this out?

Name · 1 month ago

There is no such thing as illegal immigration, as "immigration" is not illegal. The correct term is "illegal alien" or "illegal". Please fix.

andy_c · 1 month ago

No way did this turn into an immigration debate!

Are people waiting around to be offended these days or what?

It's a mildly funny ad. I really don't see where the offence lies.

Don_P · 1 month ago

Oh come on people, lighten up a bit! What is funnier than the ad is the fact that none of the comments (that I saw) appeared to have even considered how rediculous the thought was that someone who might end up "lost and disoriented in the desert" while trying to escape their "clueless poverty with no financial or even intellectual means to get out" would even have an iPhone to download the App to.