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# Project Goodcry
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/project-goodcry/
- Published: 2012-04-24T14:10:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:02:40.000Z
- Description: Ever wish you could press more than just the 'like' or 'dislike' button on a YouTube video?
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Ever wish you could press more than just the 'like' or 'dislike' button on a [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/?ref=protein.xyz) video? Well now you can thanks to [Project Goodcry](http://projectgoodcry.com/button?ref=protein.xyz). Created by [Dee Kim](http://people.artcenter.edu/~dkim35/?ref=protein.xyz) and Bistin Chen, the project is an online experiment which has been designed to explore the relationship between crying and the media, and to make crying a collective experience.

Google Chrome users can download a unique button as a plug in on YouTube which installs an 'I cried' option under every video. This can then be pressed whenever a particular video tugs at your heart strings. A website collates the collective tears on a leader-board so users can compare their ratings with others. This month, for example, the top tear-jerker is a [scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UIc6o5Z8SU&ref=protein.xyz) from children's film 'The Fox & The Hound' which has currently reduced 514 people to tears. Other videos on the chart include a [scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORf1liT9cE&ref=protein.xyz) from Dumbo and a film about a dying dog, [Last Minutes with Oden](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAcRKZxjy4&ref=protein.xyz).

It's an interesting project which attempts to enhance communication on digital spaces by allowing more complex feelings to be registered rather than simply passive, 'likes'. Download it for yourself [here](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nkkgnfppejcagfjcjjfmcfecgppkiakc?ref=protein.xyz).

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