XOXO Festival Ends After Four Years

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festival organizers Andy Baio

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This year’s XOXO festival felt like an Irish wake to me. It was like we had all gathered over the body of a specific period on the internet to pay our respects

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XOXO is a gathering of the terminally online, many of whom met each other on Twitter .

The festival, held at Revolution Hall in Portland , Oregon , appeared to have been stripped to the minimum viable product.

It was shorter than previous iterations, and the murals, rental drones, rock concerts, and other goodies from a decade ago were nowhere to be seen.

XOXO originally came into being as a response to the commodification of festivals that had once been about oddballs.

The Andys told me that they’d planned to make 2020 the last festival — but their plans were interrupted by covid-19 .

“It’s so agonizing to have something that is like the connective thread between a community go away”.

It wouldn’t surprise me — or for that matter, the Andys — if this group of people were to create spinoff get-togethers from connections made at XOXO .

“I’ve been thinking a lot about Darius , like his talk asks, What’s next? What are we going to do next?’” McMillan says.

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