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XOXO was an experimental festival for independent artists and creators from the internet.

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Heads up! Today is your last chance to order our limited edition merch, including tees, embroidered sweatshirts, caps, felt and enamel pins, XOXO Lego sets, and our Lower Your Expectations light sign. Don’t miss out! xoxofest.com/merch

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We also have a few unique and extremely limited edition items, including hand-sewn felt badges in the eight festival year colors from long-time friend of the festival Booky Margoof. xoxofest.com/merch

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To mark the occasion, we worked with our friends Jen and Richard at Skinny Ships to design a logo representing all eight years of the festival that blends the primary colors from each year into a new variant of the XOXO logo.

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We’re also releasing a limited run of merch, including new XOXO letters tees, a beautiful embroidered Explore logo sweatshirt, hats, enamel pins, and stickers, all featuring our primary year colors and the new Explore logo. xoxofest.com/merch

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"Community is made out of the ephemeral." Closing out the final XOXO, @charliejane.bsky.social talked about how inclusive communities are key to our survival: building a consensus reality, defeating learned helplessness, and connecting to others with joy and kindness. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comCharlie Jane Anders · Videos · XOXOFounding io9 editor and co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct, Nebula-winning author Charlie Jane Anders blends speculative fiction with deep emotional storytelling in her...
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"I have achieved every professional accolade that I could have ever dreamed of and more, and it completely broke me." @edyong209.bsky.social earned global acclaim and a Pulitzer for his critical reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic, but it came at a personal cost. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comEd Yong · Videos · XOXOAvid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, ...
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"Appreciate everything endlessly." A pit stop on a Seattle road trip at McDonald's in Centralia, WA sent @cabel.panic.com down a deep and magical rabbit hole into the undiscovered life's work of a nearly-forgotten artist, bringing everyone at XOXO along for the ride. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comCabel Sasser · Videos · XOXO“Don’t waste this. Keep everyone guessing. Make me proud.” When Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser spoke at our second festival in 2013, the Mac software company had just started venturing into games by fu...
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"Envy. Impatience. They’re the monster I struggle with, but they are ultimately a part of me." Folding Ideas' @foldablehuman.bsky.social on measuring himself against the work of others, a sometimes-debilitating pressure that also drives him to make new things. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comDan Olson · Videos · XOXOAlberta-based documentarian Dan Olson is the creator of Folding Ideas, a series of filmic long-form video essays with incisive critical looks at media, technology, and culture. His feature-length s...
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"You can monetize a hate video, but there is no hazard pay for harassment." Sweet Baby Inc. founder/CEO Kim Belair shares what happened when a conspiracy theory about "woke-ifying" video games spawned a year-long coordinated hate campaign against her 16-person studio. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comKim Belair · Videos · XOXOWriter and narrative designer Kim Belair is the CEO and co-founder of Sweet Baby, a Montreal-based narrative development company that works with game companies to strengthen their storytelling, incl...
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"We have to fix the fucking networks." Writer/researcher @kissane.bsky.social on how her work on the COVID Tracking Project was made possible by social platforms now hostile to real human connection, and why we need better, safer networks for our collective survival. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comErin Kissane · Videos · XOXOWriter/researcher Erin Kissane is working to build better and safer networks for collective survival, with efforts including the COVID Tracking Project, a powerful 40,000 word analysis of Meta’s ro...
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"This did not define me." Two years after her XOXO 2016 talk, @sarahjeong.bsky.social became the target of a massive right-wing harassment campaign. Six years later, she revisits the ridiculous, traumatic, uniquely terrible experience—with a message of hope for others. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comSarah Jeong · Videos · XOXOAfter years of writing about “the internet of garbage,” The Verge’s Sarah Jeong found herself at the center of it: the target of a right-wing harassment campaign when she joined the New York Times’...
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Returning to the XOXO stage ten years after his satirical “How I Won the Lottery” talk, @tinysubversions.bsky.social reflects on the compromises that come with being “indie” and the toxic systems that coerce us into betraying our values. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comDarius Kazemi · Videos · XOXOWhen he last spoke at XOXO in 2014, internet artist Darius Kazemi was making Twitter more fun with bots and toys. These days, Darius helps people leave centralized social media instead: showing you...
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"I used to dream of labor… but now I dream of different things." @aftermath.site cofounder and journalist/critic @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social on surviving the collapsing media landscape and the rise of worker-owned, subscriber-funded online journalism. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comGita Jackson · Videos · XOXOAfter witnessing the upheaval in digital media firsthand at Vice’s Motherboard and Kotaku, internet culture journalist and critic Gita Jackson teamed with former Kotaku staffers last year to launch...
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“We can build the web we want to see.” @molly.wiki kicked off XOXO 2024's conference with a hopeful talk about building @web3isgoinggreat.com and how we can “push the web back towards the wonderful, joyful, beautiful place it used to be.” xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

xoxofest.comMolly White · Videos · XOXOBest known for puncturing blockchain/crypto hype with her Web3 Is Going Just Great project, writer/researcher Molly White believes a better web is possible. Launched two years ago, her Citation Ne...
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If you didn’t get a pass, we’re so sorry—there’s always far more demand than available space, and this final year was no exception. As always, we’ll post videos of our conference talks after the festival. We wish all of you could come!

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We’ve teamed up with our friends at Panic, BackerKit, and @glitch.com to bring back our Arcade, Art+Code, and Tabletop events with some of our favorite indie videogame, creative code, and tabletop projects. As always, we’ll keep adding things right up until the day of the event.

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