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Hmmm... Nothing made me cry. I will diminish and go into the west.

Well, I was reassured I'm just a cynical old bastard, so that's worth something, I guess. To me all the videos I saw, around a dozen, were all (by accident?) emotional cheap-shots, the low-hanging fruit of manipulation. For example: When I see a clip of Brooks Hatlen, the elderly librarian from The Shawshank Redemption, make his final voyage after being released, I get shown an old man take his own life (spoiler! but the movie is 30 years old now, so c'mon). That itself is somewhat sad, yes, but the feelings come from the context of the movie and what the viewer is shown before. So the clip falls flat, even with knowledge of the movie/book. Simply getting shown sad things does not make me cry, especially in short clips out of context.

I was like this website isn't going to make me cry.

Then it shoves a knife through my heart with a montage of that dog movie. Well done.

Is it just the first ten minutes of Up?

Can I "upvote" / "downvote" the videos? I got "unlucky" and the two I saw didn't made me cry.

I don't get it, is the design made to make you cry?

pfff Already do this. Monday in the shower before work .

Seems that website is hosted on cloudflare and doesn't open in Russia, which blocks all cloudflare traffic. This makes me cry, thanks! App works 100%

Is that what they mean by cryotherapy? ;)

Anyway, this seems to be a covert ad for https://www.feelapp.io/.

This is bad. If you want some emotional art therapy, go actually watch something, whether it's something you already appreciate or something new that you are willing to try. Content poaching wrapped up as pseudoscientific wellness product is just exploitative.

But I already have Jira for that

Hi everyone! Thank you so much for your appreciation for the site (except that one guy who hated it). Pretty awesome to see this little side project make it to the front page on here.

I'm working on a new project called Feel (https://www.feelapp.io) which is an app that helps you feel all emotions on demand. It goes beyond just crying and helps you navigate and shift your mood in real time. It can make you cry too though. Or feel joy, awe, confidence, serenity, or even process difficult emotions like anger or fear when you need to.

This isn't an ad or shameless plug I promise - I'm actually looking for a creative developer to join the team and help us take it to the next level. Please reach out if this resonates with you or share with your creative coder friends: johnny@feelapp.io

Well the site definitely works.

Currently going through a extremely difficult time at the moment with my amazing cat that is dying of CKD/CHF.

First video this site showed me is "A scene from the movie A Dog's Purpose (2017). A family's dog reaches the end of his life."

Now I cant stop crying.

I've been collecting videos for years that make me shed tears. I don't easily shed tears if it feels a little too manufactured. Usually what works best for me is just seeing actual genuine unprompted emotion, though sad scenarios without any emotion can do it if the sentimentality is balanced well.

Tried maybe 5-6 videos on the site and none of them worked. :/ Just watched one of my old videos, boom, instant tears.

Don't know about the health implications of crying once a week or anything, but sometimes if I'm feeling a little out of touch with life, watching something sad does help.

Thanks for sharing, I have my wedding in two days and have been a nervous wreck, the cry was a good release.

I hope Thai Life Insurance videos are in the mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-B7SIVseO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6CSQvdfTKY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBobmn_u98w

I probably do need a good cry since my breath does that repeated-hesitation thing when I breathe in sometimes (not sure if there’s a name for it yet, but you also do it for a while after you’re done crying, I call it “aftershocks” then… but this is like, all the time for me now…)

A piece of music that always makes me cry is Gavin Bryars' Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_njWv6ssGZFL5TYEDOf...

I thought I wouldn't cry but then I cried

I am (un)fortunate in that I'm a massive softy so don't need to bring out the big guns like this. I cried four times during Superman last week.

If this doesn’t have lil brudder it’s a crime.

He can make it on his own!

I haven't investigated the site because I don't want to cry right now, but I think it's a great idea! A good cry can be cathartic, and once a week sounds about perfect. I have a 'songs to cry to' Spotify playlist for precisely this reason.

As an employee of a large enterprise SaaS company I was expecting something different

You made me cry, you jerk! I just had eye surgery, and you make me watch a dog dying. You'll be hearing from my lawyers!

Made me laugh, thank you! Laughing is healthy, though should be taken more often than once a week. For the record, it gave me https://player.vimeo.com/video/994963176

This site brings me to tears every time I visit. Sometimes joyful, sometimes sad. Usually melancholy.

https://thesoundof.love

Is there a website that makes people laugh, I want to laugh once a week？

I already cry once or twice a week, usually when going to sleep.

How can I grab a link for a video to share that specific video?

I've made plenty of websites that made my boss cry.

Works for me. Most reliable SaaS (Sadness as a Service) I've seen in the past years.

I have a collection of clips that worked on me specifically which I used to gauge my state - not crying is a cause for concern, but over the years I got desensitised to them.

I'm almost afraid to ask: are Japanese Toyota ads in there?

It'll not be long before the UK gov add crying to the online safety bill, so enjoy this while you can, people of the UK.

When did you launch this? 300 tiktok followers in a day seems like great engagement

Would be nice if I could hold and download the videon on the phone to share it

Marley and me, just did it for me.. I don't think I've ever cried like this since I was a kid.

The amount of javascript I had to allow made me cry. Unfortunately browsing with No-Script seems to block much of the functionality. But otherwise a cool project!

Driving to work is sufficient for my daily cry.

Looking at eyeball stuff like [these surgery videos][1] gets me every time.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK7qSjp3kvZqH6muR6Oa3...

I clicked. I didn't cry.

Damn, I had no idea Richard Gere was Japanese

If you ask AI to recommend or gen a video to make you cry, it may just show you a video of someone cutting onions.

Thanks, but for that i have plenty of at work.

Great idea. To reduce the likelihood of repeat draws, maybe you could check out decay weighting.

I want this in literally every other emotion, except for anger, because there's already a site for that called reddit.com

We doomscroll all week, maybe it is time we schedule a cathartic cry like it's a dental appointment

Hitachi story made me cry. Having my best friend here right now (Yorkshire), working with me, is especially hard to watch.

I watched this with my girlfriend. I can confirm that your domain name is completely accurate.

What you made a portfolio tracker for my stocks?

Bandai Namco made a (Japanese-only) DS / Mobile game that did the same thing, 99 No Namida. Got a tiny bit of western media coverage due to the absurdity.

I actually prefer to laugh

First video was about Hachiko and it made me cry. Bookmarked, will revisit in a week. Thank you for making this.

although I didnt cry the video I watched opened my eyes and just made me feel happy which is cool

Does what it says on the label.

what website? BTW who the heck is chopping onions next to me?

Alternatively, you can watch one episode of Violet Evergarden once a week.

woof. Two deeply moving clips back to back.

I like it. Thank you for showing.

> Studies show crying can relieve stress for a week.

Correlation, causation, etc?

I.e. I can easily imagine that, if something is seriously weighting on your mind, opening up about it and even crying would reduce stress.

It might even be the other way: That once people get a moment to de-stress and get a chance to mentally process some devastating event, they will cry.

I find it much harder to believe that just crying about some random, unrelated thing will magically make you more relaxed.

how is this legal due to copyright issues?

As if the news and state of the planet weren't enough.

I haven't felt anything in years. I am dead inside.

"Furiko (Pendulum), a Japanese short film about the passing of time."

Well that was fun.. :)

Didn't make me cry, but came close. I don't know if i feel stress relieved. It made me feel even more aware of my own mortality and mistakes i made/make in life. Don't feel particulary happy or relieved.

So i clicked again

"A scene from the movie Steel Magnolias (1989). A woman mourns the loss of her daughter. (6:44 min)"

Oh hell no..

Third and last attempt

"A scene from the movie Bambi (1942). Bambi mourns the loss of his mother. (02:47 min)"

You sure this is about stress relieving? :)