In Brandon Stanton’s words, the move is a “natural evolution”.

Since 2010, Humans of New York (HONY) has been sharing some of the most significant – and at time, arb – thoughts on life.

Followers have cried, laughed and everything in between, offering up help, money, advice and whatever else to those brave enough to share a part of their story with the world.

Using Facebook as its main platform, HONY was started by Stanton, a photographer, who kept to the same format: photo, caption.

Until now, that is.

At the end of August the first episode of the Human of New York Series was published on Facebook and, of course, featured a collection of stories from humans in New York.

Watch the first episode in full below – and try not to cry:

How weird is it to hear the people tell their stories rather than read them?

The complete series, containing 12 30-minute episodes, was filmed over four years, and content was taken from 1 200 interviews – you can follow the page to keep up to date.

Go, Brandon.

[source:humansofnewyorkseries]