When I was younger I called this, it is just prerecorded calls where people describe sad stories, when I called a girl was talking about how her husband died in a motorcycle accident, me and my friends were like this is stupid lol
So the number was made JUST for the sake of hearing sad stories from strangers? I couldn't really understand what the lady was saying in the ad. Also, I want you to find out for me and the rest of this comment section: does this number still work? What happens now?
I wasn't sure if this was like a reverse suicide prevention number where people pay to cry telling their stories about their planned suicide or if the caller listened to other people cry. This seems very unhealthy either way
I’ve been searching for this commercial for years, I even recall telling my friend about it years later in middle school, so i must have seen it in the early 90s. I always wondered if it was real or some bizarre fever dream. Such a strange concept
I shared this with my wife via SMS. She complained that the text notification was interrupting the show she was watching on her phone. I LITERALLY CRIED laughing while trying to say, "There's a number you can call for that!" I had so much trouble getting the words out I was laughing so damn hard.
all of those late 1980s 1990s 1-900 numbers that were outrageously expensive...and were all over late night TV ad's... constantly... and I remember thinking... People will really call this... they really will.. I never once called any of them
They probably had chopped onions on the desk for the actors in the ad. I can see the executives in a meeting Exec A: How can we make lots of money? Exec B: Let's put something out that's so depressing, and charge a small amount for it, people will call it multiple times a day, we can make millions off it. Exec A: Great idea! I also wonder how many pre-recordings they had. I bet if you called it 3 times you'd hear a repeat story.
The saddest thing about this commercial is that Tim and Eric has not parodied this commercial yet was something that creates sadness from Cinco. 4 years later... And if this were remade now, I'm sure the people behind the commercial would shell out a lot of money to feature Florence Pugh and Norman Reedus crying for the attempt to con people into calling the hotline.
... yep. And it was all created to run up your phone bill. The late 80s/early 90s were a strange time for these 900 numbers. It's hard to really pinpoint why so many of them existed at the prices that they did.
i cant recall if i called this one or the freddy krueger one. the story that was told on the call was about a couple that wandered onto a farm and as they were driving, a guy with a chainsaw followed them. they drove into the nearby woods and got lost and of course the car breaks down. the girl gets snatched out the window and the guy gets out of the car and he starts screaming and you hear the sound of a chainsaw.
I remember this one and I hated this commercial because it was depressing like hell and now I'm like what makes them cry when they call that number,what about 1 900 be happy or 1 900 laugh back in the day
I worked this hotline. We would answer and just listen while the person on the other end would cry. One day this guy called and started crying. I was like yes let it out. It will be ok and then all of a sudden I heard a gunshot. Things went silent. I asked my supervisor what to do and he said just leave him on the line so I did. .
they're crying cause they wasted $2 a minute on the call for no reason
LOL 😂
lmao
They should have called 1-900-490-FREAK
SKDJSDKSS
This is just what 900 numbers were always!
The only reason you cry is because they tell you how much your phone bill will be.
Yeah,they're crying after they saw their phone bill.
When I was younger I called this, it is just prerecorded calls where people describe sad stories, when I called a girl was talking about how her husband died in a motorcycle accident, me and my friends were like this is stupid lol
So the number was made JUST for the sake of hearing sad stories from strangers? I couldn't really understand what the lady was saying in the ad. Also, I want you to find out for me and the rest of this comment section: does this number still work? What happens now?
I thought the number was for depressed or sad people who needed care from strangers.
So it was an early version of reddit?
I wasn't sure if this was like a reverse suicide prevention number where people pay to cry telling their stories about their planned suicide or if the caller listened to other people cry.
This seems very unhealthy either way
@@gusmacroy lol
I’ve been searching for this commercial for years, I even recall telling my friend about it years later in middle school, so i must have seen it in the early 90s. I always wondered if it was real or some bizarre fever dream. Such a strange concept
They need to bring this back. Lots of people today need this lol
It's called Betterhelp!!!
I thought it was a line where you could listen to people crying, which may be even more fucked up.
I might call that.
That would be a sex line.
I think it is
definitely creepypasta material...
Underrated comment~
Agree
EHHHHHHH!! Mr. Creepypasta!!!
1990s clickbait. dialbait?
holy shit that’s a good name for it
You actually called the number? 🤦🏿♀️
Oh, it was definitely bait, but I was the one doing the bating.
I get the impression these pay per minute hotlines were big business back in the day
"If you're under 18, ask your parents for permission" Ya, if I was a 90s kids, I'd ask my parents to call a number to listen to CRYING. XD
+hank jennings You misunderstand, you will cry once you hear what is on the line.
From what I've heard, it's nothing but sob stories. One was about a woman who lost her husband in a car accident, and how she missed him every day.
No you’re crying the other person is just listening awkwardly. Right? 🤷♂️
@@sboloshis1188 It's amazing to imagine it's a hotline for people to cry into, and even more amazing if it's a weird fetish
@@hankjenningsbigbuzzard The fetish thing HAS to be the only explanation for this---it's easily the most BIZARRE 1-900 number ever!
"hello this is 9099-CRY, how may i help you?"
"*sobbing sounds intensifies*"
USA
This commercial made me uncomfortable.
Claudia Duran me too
*sounds like moaning O_O*
Go cry to someone else.
🙃
Snowflakes
Uh, yeah. 😒 I mean who would want to waste 2 dollars every minute just to listen to prerecorded calls of people telling sob stories.
I’m laughing so hard I’m crying, it really works
What a great gig for the actors
They’re gonna cry even more when they get the phone bill! 😅
"your waifu isn't real"
Jack Long throws phone at the wall
@@asafisher5202 is...is that an american dad reference
Brony fandom sobs
@@AngelWingsYT is there even still a brony fandom? I haven't heard that word since like 2012, boi
@@cupocoffee9369 that's exactly what a brony would say
'We don't air cartoons anymore, but we'll always have Jerry Springer'.
What is that quote from?
@@kuahmelallah I made that up, myself.
Very, very wise.
about that
@@magnumsmth Good riddance, and nothing of value was lost.
Probably what makes you cry is the realization that you just wasted $2 on a service that nobody asked for.
I'm here because of the Devin Morrison "Cry" song . This is wild!
I shared this with my wife via SMS. She complained that the text notification was interrupting the show she was watching on her phone.
I LITERALLY CRIED laughing while trying to say, "There's a number you can call for that!"
I had so much trouble getting the words out I was laughing so damn hard.
Imagine it was just a recording saying “this call is $1000” hahaha
*sobs uncontrollably*
So, are you crying, or listening to crying? Either way its weird i guess...
all of those late 1980s 1990s 1-900 numbers that were outrageously expensive...and were all over late night TV ad's... constantly... and I remember thinking... People will really call this... they really will.. I never once called any of them
I really wanna hear what’s making them cry like that.
Damn it! Who left these onions sitting next to the phone?
an endless loop of farts that cost 2 dollars a minute
Fart jokes are timeless
You can do that for free nowadays on RUclips.
Hey look, it's Tumblr before the internet existed!
har har har, let us toast our bacon soda
Alex Trejo truth
Some people still dial up.
boo
Oddly, I found this video through tumblr
needs a freddy kruger or disappointed hillary clinton voice emitting from the phone
(Dan Bell.. 2017)
This hotline is making a comeback after the presidential election this past Tuesday
You would have voted for Hitler in Germany in 1933.
Who here because of AOC’s 1 800 Cry Now
They probably had chopped onions on the desk for the actors in the ad. I can see the executives in a meeting Exec A: How can we make lots of money? Exec B: Let's put something out that's so depressing, and charge a small amount for it, people will call it multiple times a day, we can make millions off it. Exec A: Great idea! I also wonder how many pre-recordings they had. I bet if you called it 3 times you'd hear a repeat story.
Are they telling you sad stories, or saying things like "You are loved." "You deserve love." etc?
The Sham-Wow guy loves you and he died for your sins
@@thegreathawk2244 lmao so wrong but so funny lol
Bing Bong loved Riley and he died to make Joy bring back Riley's happiness
@@figment1988
Ok. Stop. You're about to make *me* cry!
@@keldonmcfarland2969 lucky thing I haven't watched Coco, because that is a Pixar tearjerker for the ages.
Twitter in the 90s.
They officially have a 900 number for everything.
*had. This was from the 80s
“You have to do your homework”
Lol @ ‘Ask your parents before you call’
The operator is reading the paper and filing her nails.
When you finished watching the Smash world of light trailer
They're all fanfic writers who get too emotional writing their own sad parts. 😂
Atheists when Japan is attacked by Godzilla instead of Sciencezilla.
My understanding they where pre recorded sad stories... I cry about the phone bill
Dammit Puddles Pity Party brought me here LOL
Me too!lol
same here 😅
The saddest thing about this commercial is that Tim and Eric has not parodied this commercial yet was something that creates sadness from Cinco.
4 years later...
And if this were remade now, I'm sure the people behind the commercial would shell out a lot of money to feature Florence Pugh and Norman Reedus crying for the attempt to con people into calling the hotline.
I'm crying because you edited a 4 year old post one year ago and I need a Wambulance to come and drive me to the Cryspital.
🎶 You don't know how to ease my pain, you don't know... 🎶
They're crying because they're thinking of their upcoming phone bill
Wait was the blond woman Nancy Grace?
They 1-900 everything back then
... yep. And it was all created to run up your phone bill. The late 80s/early 90s were a strange time for these 900 numbers. It's hard to really pinpoint why so many of them existed at the prices that they did.
@@reedrothchild4013 Reagan era deregulation
@@THEmuteKi Say that six times fast.............................
wow this was made when i was 2
This is pretty damn funny.🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 Now we have social media for this.
If only these phone call scammers knew about ASMR.
I cried when m.c.hammers can't touch this song played over and over on the radio....
Wow! This is.....hilarious! LOL!
Is this the original Susie side hotline
They’re probably crying over a breakup
There is something deeply unsettling about this but I can’t figure out what.
This is weird! I grew up in the 80s and dont remember a 900 number for crying. I thought 900 and 976 numbers were for sexy only.
They too.
you forgot fortune teller 900 numbers 1995-1999 was all too common to not see atleast once a day! esp. over AOL :(
@@tsm4201979 i dont remember fortune teller...well psychic yea
I saw a lot of 976 ads in the 80s...but I missed this one.
"You have 10 total unturned-in assignments you need to do for 4 different classes"
If you close your eyes it sounds hot
What
The one lady acts like she’s having a tough bowel movement.
That's enough to make anyone cry!
When you realize you wasted $2
The Terminator calling this number to find out why it happens
Those must be some strong onions.
i cant recall if i called this one or the freddy krueger one. the story that was told on the call was about a couple that wandered onto a farm and as they were driving, a guy with a chainsaw followed them. they drove into the nearby woods and got lost and of course the car breaks down. the girl gets snatched out the window and the guy gets out of the car and he starts screaming and you hear the sound of a chainsaw.
Who would have even called something like this 😂😂😂
a cry baby😂
@@Pro-Deo ....................or people who have a cry fetish (if there's even such a thing).
What exactly happened when you called this number?
This getting recommended to me after the "EKT hotline" is crazy
0:08 wow
Omg i remember seeing this when I was a kid. Those $2 a minute would cost more then a licensed professional therapist.
S A D . W A V
That’s me now missing I was living in the 20th century again lol
Ahhh..The hype of the 900 number.All you needed was a stupid idea to make money off people. Kind of comparable to mobile apps nowadays.
+djspair And Joe Rogan Podcasts...
I think Chris Hardwick stole your joke on @Midnight when they showed one of these sob line commercials the other night.
Wow! I'm gonna have to see that. Haha. Where are my residuals Chirs!?
Seems healthy.
I remember this one and I hated this commercial because it was depressing like hell and now I'm like what makes them cry when they call that number,what about 1 900 be happy or 1 900 laugh back in the day
This number is longer connected, that's too bad.
It's been disconnected? *starts to cry*
Phone sex I get, but why would anyone go out of their way and pay good money to get depressed?
This has to be the best scam ever pulled 🤣 call this number to be depressed genius
The first one is Courtney Love admitting to… oh you already know…
Applicable for the AEW marks complaining again about WWE
"Freddie Freaker isn't real"
😭😭😭
I wonder if this number is still available to call cuz I’m highly curious
They're crying because of the amazing deal of only 45 cents for every additional minute
Dan Bell
Are they speaking to Joe Biden?
i almost forgot about the shit part of the 90's
1-900 numbers!\
What year was this ad from anyway?
Literally half the daytime ads in the 80s were these numbers.
The man at 0:18 looks as if he "jizzed in his pants"
I had phone sex at work and I…
Jizzed….
In…
*my pants*
What is this? Like why would you call to cry? I'm at a complete loss
Weird fetish..............................?
This is straight up creepy and disturbing!!!
I'm 40 with 2 kids from 3 different fathers and I'm getting only 492 matches on tinder with plumbers and electricians :(
Now I'm crying😢
I bet it was a recording of Optimus Prime dying in the animated Transformers movie.
This makes me feel really uncomfortable, it feels like a scene from a horror movie or creepy web ARG
1-800-Karen
That wasn't creepy that was just weird
I'd say it was both.
All people who were asked to talk about the trauma of being married.
Finally! A hotline for me!
Yeah I thought you were paying to cry on the phone while a stranger listens... Which is pretty damn strange...
I worked this hotline. We would answer and just listen while the person on the other end would cry. One day this guy called and started crying. I was like yes let it out. It will be ok and then all of a sudden I heard a gunshot. Things went silent. I asked my supervisor what to do and he said just leave him on the line so I did. .
What was that?
"I cant believe people would pay 2 dollars a min just to cry on the phone"
*goes to therapy twice a week*