This article has been updated to reflect that the festival styles its name as XOXO, not XOXO Fest.
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Xoxo, JoJo The Bachelorette's finale airs Monday at 8 p.m.
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Some favorites from the XOXO bot meetup: Today is Friday.
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Come for the histrionics, stay for the bedazzled headbands. XOXO.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine
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"XOXO, Gossip Girl," Corinne says aloud, to no one in particular.
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I love you more than you will every know… mommy xoxo.
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More from XOXO 2016: our guide to this year's best discoveries.
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Sugarfina XOXO 2-Piece Candy Bento Box, available at Nordstrom, $18
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And mom, please get me Drinkworks Home Bar for Hanukkah, xoxo.
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Is there ever a time and a place for an "xoxo"?
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P.S. I walk dogs too, just a little differently than Cardi. Xoxo.
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Xoxo Allie A post shared by ALLIE 🌸 Just Do You, Babe!
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Embellishing a post with #xoxo is a commonplace way to show support.
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Xoxo Hugh Hefner was a strong supporter of the civil rights movement.
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In August, we covered the release of Netflix's EDM-themed movie, XOXO.
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Entertainer of the Year and the love of my life xoxo #CMAawards pic.twitter.
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Formed in 2012, EXO earned global success with their first studio album "XOXO".
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Xoxo." Neil Patrick Harris said, "Such a brave and honest thing to write.
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Isn't he at XOXO to perform to the very "massive crowd" he's describing?
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If you've never attended XOXO yourself, that might seem like no big deal.
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I am sincerely sorry for this boring as all hell quarantine diary. XOXO!
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The campaign introduces a new product, XOXO, that is basically a typical condom.
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"You look great 👍xoxo," the dad-of-four added in another comment.
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The brand is seeking to bridge that divide with its latest release: XOXO condoms.
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Well, I gotta go back to selling some houses… 'til next time, XOXO Lilly
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"XOXO Joanne @ladygaga coming through for fans with autographs and pizza," the person tweeted.
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"I love you more than words can ever say … always & forever xoxo🦄💜"
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You will be missed when I describe my butt to potential suitors xoxo pic.twitter.
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Siegal always signs her cards and emails "XOXO Peggy," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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XOXO celebrated the possibilities of the web while constantly pushing it to be better.
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A dozen of them introduced their work this weekend at the XOXO Festival in Portland.
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Check out these red headed stars getting smooched in honor of their ginger roots. XOXO
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Xoxo, JoJo The Bachelorette airing a special extra episode this week Tuesday at 8 p.m.
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It's XOXO, baby — anything goes 1:27: People are falling through magical, reddish EDM clouds.
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XOXO clothing company says it's getting screwed by Trojan condoms ... and not in the good way.
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" A similar image of her was captioned , "just ran over a homo xoxo beep beep b----.
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Love you all so much; let's not stop our conversation, and let's never stop dancing. XOXO.
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Some of the tweets were only an "xoxo" away from fitting right in with the script.
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We will meet again my friend and the trouble we will cause will be exponential!' xoxo.
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" Don't worry though, it's clearly all a joke, since she did sign off with an "xoxo.
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Conceived as a part-time project, running XOXO eventually grew to consume most of their year.
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If XOXO were software, you'd call it polished — the event is manicured down to the pixel.
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XOXO served as a powerful annual reminder that there is success beyond money, scale, and fame.
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Today, it refers to the much cuddlier HUG, as in the symbol for hugs and kisses (xoxo).
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Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify which artists mentioned were present at the XOXO festival.
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Hollywood has struggled to produce a good EDM movie, and XOXO is Netflix's gamble to rectify that deficiency.
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Longtime music video director and first time feature director Christopher Louie's EDM film XOXO finally hits Netflix tomorrow.
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Christopher Louie—the director of XOXO, Netflix's new film set at an EDM festival—is one such crusader.
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For the past five years, XOXO has ended with a warning that there might never be another one.
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This reads as "hug and kisses," whereas the phrase is "hugs and kisses," and I would normally write XOXO.
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Andy Baio On one hand, XOXO was a tiny gathering accessible only to a vanishingly small number of people.
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XOXO, A fat woman with zero problems getting the sex she wants / no issue turning away sex she doesn't want.
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"Xoxo @kathielgifford ❤️❤️ love you kath xx" Want all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs?
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That culminated in the opening of the XOXO Outpost, a co-working and event space that remains open year-round.
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Each year XOXO offered a giddy, three-day tumble through parts of the internet that most people had never seen.
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The marketing for XOXO is also intended to convey a sense of shared responsibility when it comes to safe sex.
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In docs, obtained by TMZ, XOXO says the rubber kings even matched the girth ... of their letter "x" in the logo.
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So, all of you still reading this know that in the finale we find out Dan Humphrey is Gossip Girl, xoxo.
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XOXO co-founder Andy McMillan will join Baio on the project, with an undisclosed round of seed funding provided by Kickstarter.
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"So excited miss watching you on tv...all these years...can&apost wait for the change...xoxo good luck," one user added.
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The 24-year-old actor also played the love interest of Modern Family's Sarah Hyland in the 2016 Netflix original movie, XOXO.
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When a fan tweeted a graphic of Sherwood's face on a pink background with Hyland, the XOXO star had a cute response.
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XOXO also paid heroic attention to gender diversity, offering all attendees buttons so they could advertise their preferred pronouns on their badges.
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"I can't believe I'm going to XOXO, it's like I'm making up for something I did in a past life," he says.
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"That kind of twitchy humor and DIY ethic that children have is like the lifeblood of internet humor," Cicierega said at XOXO.
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Pet stores have a line of products -- from heart-shaped cat scratchers to XOXO knit sweaters to pink bow tie dog collars.
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Her friends are her support system; "we have our own Wechat group, GG xoxo" in honor of the "Gossip Girl" TV series.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine The outing made headlines, but the clip shows the plan's humble beginnings.
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"There is opportunity for innovation, for example this year's launch of Trojan XOXO, a condom to appeal to a female audience," Levy said.
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The clothing company won't sit, or stand, for the ribbing -- XOXO is suing to block Trojan and for any profits made off its name.
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XOXO, the Kardashians have their very own gossip girl; and, unlike the series, Kim Kardashian West doesn't feel the need to conceal her identity.
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In the XOXO presentation, Corcoran said that he didn't want to take a cut of money that someone might need for rent or food.
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XOXO remembers a time before all that, when web surfing yielded nonstop delight and absolutely no one had any idea what they were doing.
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Now, it's taking all the effort in the world not to sign this post off with a "xoxo," but Dan Humphrey, we are not.
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WeddingWire — a Chevy Chase, Maryland-based portfolio company of Permira and Spectrum Equity Investors — has agreed to buy XO Group (NYSE: XOXO), owner of TheKnot.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Most recently, a source told PEOPLE last month that the two are house hunting.
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"I have the best girlfriend in the world okay thats all I gotta say, you can get back to your night xoxo cool," he wrote.
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Some of Drip's existing creators are XOXO Fest regulars and the event itself grew out of a successful Kickstarter that raised $175,511 back in 2012.
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Let's get the facts out of the way: Netflix is releasing a new original movie called XOXO on August 227th, and this is the trailer.
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I always felt a little guilty coming to write about XOXO, knowing how many people tried and failed to win the annual lottery for tickets.
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But as the Andys turn their attention to other things, it feels worthwhile to highlight what made XOXO so remarkable during its five-year run.
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Poopsie Slime Surprise Pack Series 258.85-260227 — $248 (list price $259.99) Tic Tac Toy XOXO Friends Multi Pack Surprise — $241352 (list price $59.993) L.O.L. Surprise!
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The statement piece, first put on our radar by XOXO Festival co-founder Andy Baio, sells for $40 on the duo's merch shop, Beef's World.
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I contour, but only because my real face is too sculpted — so I, as they say in Italian sculptural history, "de-sculpt xoxo" (translation slightly off).
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Food Network's version (below), LaBau says, is a "shot-for-shot" remake of her own.
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I know it's going to be tough, but you'll have to wait a little longer to see what happens — XOXO doesn't premiere for another 22 days.
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Some other artists working in this vein (but not part of the XOXO event): Simone Giertz's "Shitty Robots" are deliberately klutzy projects that do useless things badly.
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The roasting, rolling, pouring, and packaging is as much a treat for the eyes as a XOXO Chocolate Bar is a treat for the tastebuds — well, almost.
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"Loved spending my bday with my bestie for life @jenniegarth My rock, my sister, my bff xoxo," Spelling, 45, captioned a photo of herself and Garth, 46.
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Are we supposed to believe the people running XOXO — clearly a huge endeavor — would just slot in some nobody off the strength of one or two hits?
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With those in positions of power, she knows how to stroke and coddle (she famously signs off on emails "XOXO Peggy" — even, seemingly, when mass-emailed by assistants).
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" FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Kym previously dished all about the stunning Croatia trip to PEOPLE, gushing that it was absolutely "beautiful.
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Sarah Hyland's busy schedule doesn't leave much time for attending music festivals, but her new movie XOXO took her to so many concerts she can't remember them all.
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"One time, like three years into our relationship, the ex sent him a record with a note inside the sleeve that said both 'love' and 'xoxo'," Blair said.
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Mike Bloomberg: NOT A GOOD IDEA GUYS THIS IS SUCH A BAD IDEA Bloomberg campaign can use any of those for a reasonable copywriting fee — CAPITALISM FOREVER, XOXO!
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In a presentation at the 2016 XOXO festival, Corcoran said that he wants games on the platform to succeed to the degree that he gets "emotionally attached" to them.
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The heart candies known for classic sayings such as "Be Mine" and "XOXO" are the most popular confection for the holiday, ahead of heart-shaped boxed chocolates (USA Today).
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Then, at the conclusion of this year's festival on Sunday, the end arrived: amid tears and hugs, the organizers said XOXO would not return in 2017, or possibly ever.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Loved One Wozniacki also shared a photo wearing Lee's jersey and another picture of them walking away from the camera.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine It's been just under a year since Gaga and her former fiancé, Taylor Kinney, amicably called off their engagement.
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It's this feeling that drives XOXO, a story of six strangers from different walks of life all colliding at a fictional EDC-like megafestival that gives the film its name.
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When you heard Kristen Bell's breezy sign off, "XOXO, Gossip Girl," it was easy to forget you had been listening to teenage character's sex lives plastered all over the web.
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Last October, Kickstarter announced that it was ending its subscriber-based crowdfunding platform, Drip, but that it was planning a successor project with XOXO festival creators Andy Baio and Andy McMillan.
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News. FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Without mentioning his ex by name, the actor subtly referenced the rumors and revealed how difficult the split was.
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We've closed the invites and it's going to ... Andy Baio and Andy McMillan from XOXO, really incredible community, are in the process now of working on the next gen of it.
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And it would be blind, and horribly unfair, would it not, to ignore the "xoxo," a clear, unambiguous indication that she was ready to drift with me in the ocean currents again?
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But as he explained to the crowd at 2016's XOXO Festival, Cicierega is anything but a one-hit wonder: He's spent his entire life immersed in creative technology and the web.
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In Refinery29's most recent episode of How Stuff Is Made, we take a look inside the luxury candy boutique's process for creating it's beloved XOXO Dark Chocolate Bar with Baby Champagne Bears.
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While I've spent plenty of time worrying about whether to close with a "most defiantly yours" or an "xoxo," that was where my thoughts about signing emails stopped (and I usually chose "best").
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XOXO had a singular unfair advantage over most other conferences: the preternaturally good taste of Andy Baio, whose curatorial instincts lead him to some of the strangest and most beautiful parts of the internet.
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XOXO -- the women's apparel line Chrissy Teigen and Miranda Kerr rep -- says Trojan copied its distinctive black-and-white logo in February and started slapping it on a new line of "softouch low-odor" condoms.
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Instead, the company is providing seed funding to XOXO festival creators Andy Baio and Andy McMillan to create an entirely new one with an explicit focus on providing financial stability and transparency to independent artists.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Romeo also shared photos of himself "floating" in a pool of sprinkles and making his way through a maze of bananas tied to strings.
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Each year XOXO strived to be more inclusive than it had been the year before, and the result was a series of spiraling improvements that made the festival accessible to ever-greater numbers of people.
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XOXO doesn't glamorize the life of its (sometimes literally) starving artists — anxiety over money is a recurring theme — but it does suggest forging ahead anyway, confident that the most interesting projects begin in tiny niches.
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As part of its push to help women embrace their sexual confidence, Trojan invited outspoken actress Amanda Seales to lend her opinion and expertise to a panel, Wednesday in NYC, to help mark the launch of XOXO.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Loved One One month later, she caught a showing of his film Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk in L.A. with the Haim sisters and her mom Andrea.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine And while Quaid makes regular appearances on Auzina's Instagram, the actor has only posted three photos on his own account — two of which feature his girlfriend.
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" The two, both 24, fueled romance rumors in October when Lauv wrote on Twitter, "I have the best girlfriend in the world okay thats all I gotta say, you can get back to your night xoxo cool.
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However, if you've ever written to a loved one, you might have signed off "xoxo," with the Xs representing kisses and the Os representing hugs (visualize a pair of arms hugging someone ... they make an O shape.).
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Here's how easy it was to send: And this was the result: Andy Baio, former Kickstarter CTO and founder of XOXO Festival, was one of a number of users who mistakenly hit the button on an important email.
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Even in the wake of the financial and critical disaster that was the molly water-logged Zac Efron vehicle We Are You Friends, Netflix has been teasing a new EDM-themed movie called XOXO for a while now.
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That said, EDM's greatest asset isn't really its capacity for intense emotional weight or unmitigated sincerity—which is what this trailer seems to suggest we should be expecting from XOXO, so keep your fingers crossed on this one.
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I am just so thrilled to turn on my phone after a weekend to find tons of emails, DMs and fake accounts hell bent on "taking me down" and "ruining my life" you boys are the best xoxo!!!
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Thanks to social media and word of mouth, business "snowballed so quickly" that she quit her day job and set her sights on a brick-and-mortar location.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine The pair, who first met through their church, began courting in March and Joseph later popped the question to Kendra at his sister Joy-Anna's wedding in May.
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Additionally, Oreo revealed limited edition Valentine's Day treats that have cute sayings printed on top, including "Dunk In Love", "Let's Twist", "XOXO Oreo" and "Dear Cupid Send Oreo"; while Reese's debuted their peanut butter cups packaged in emoji wrappers.
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But before you become enraptured with the all-too-relatable tale of six strangers who fortuitously collide at an EDC-esque mega-festival called XOXO, the folks behind the movie have shared some new music to set the mood.
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Tomorrow, Big Beat Records will release the film's high-gloss soundtrack, but it's streaming here today, and it features the sorts of heavy-hitters that could headline a fest like XOXO, including Skrillex and Diplo, Galantis, Disclosure, and more.
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The idea grew out of conversations between Kickstarter principal founder Perry Chen and Andy Baio, Kickstarter's former (and first) chief technology officer and one half of XOXO Fest, a sometimes annual, very beloved celebration of independent artists and creators.
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"If someone writes 'Regards' or 'Sincerely yours,' and you write 'Best,' and they stick with 'Sincerely yours,' and you write 'xoxo,' and they're still at 'Sincerely yours,' you're like, 'They don't like me, this is cold,'" Mr. Schwalbe said.
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XOXO Festival co-founder and blogger Andy Baio has pointed out on Twitter that by using a hyper-specific filter, you can see what your Twitter feed would have looked like 10 years ago with the same people you now follow.
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For five years, XOXO co-creator (and pioneering link-blogger) Andy Baio recruited some of the web's most fascinating creators to the Portland festival he runs with Andy McMillan, and the result is new attention for some criminally under-viewed projects.
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Some of the artists at XOXO: Janelle Shane collects examples of "AI ineptitude" -- like efforts to train an algorithm to name ice cream flavors with results like "peanut butter slime" and "strawberry cream disease," or image generators that produce barely recognizable results.
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Paige Denim/Naj Jamai And in that same vein of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Chrissy Teigen are also reprising their stylish roles as the faces of Paige Denim and XOXO, respectively, with brand-new campaign ads!
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And on a day when we are all celebrating the bare form, we must congratulate the woman who said "Nude selfies 'til I die" for your unendingly unique ways to celebrate the bare human form, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination. XOXO,
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It's an ensemble comedy about six strangers who all attend the "biggest EDM festival in America," the titular XOXO; I'd bet my life that these strangers are going to run into each other and change each other's lives in meaningful, unexpected ways.
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The latest is XOXO, which basically takes the vibe of a high-school drama and applies it to 20-somethings on a road trip to an EDM festival, which is something I will readily admit I am not the target audience for.
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We'll find out if this D'Elia character is won over by the community of love and drugs at XOXO on August 26, but in the meantime, watch the trailer up above and reflect on what it means to be a "jaded has-been."
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" A post shared by xoxo, Gaga (@ladygaga) on May 18, 2017 at 3:56pm PDT "I love you so much it brings tears to my eyes just to think of all the years we've spent together backstage running the show, taking care of each other.
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WATCH THIS: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Whether you're buying the candy for yourself (no judgement) or for some other lucky human, keep in mind it's a Target exclusive—as confirmed by a spokesperson for the brand to The Daily Meal.
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WATCH THIS: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Dunkin' Donuts: For a chance to win a sweet trip for two to any city in the U.S. that has the coffee chain, share via Instagram how your friendship or relationship runs on Dunkin' from Feb.
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For five years, XOXO co-creator (and pioneering link-blogger) Andy Baio recruited some of the web's most fascinating creators to the Portland... Pretty Little Liars, the teen version of Desperate Housewives but with fewer Emmys for some reason, is coming to an end after seven seasons.
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Whenever a weirdo puts something bizarre and compelling on the web, or a broke freelancer finds a way to make ends meet until their next check arrives, or a marginalized person finds an unexpectedly huge audience for her project on Kickstarter — there we'll see the spirit of XOXO enduring.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Loved One Lopez — who is mother to 9-year-old twins Max and Emme — and Rodriguez have gone on tropical vacations together, dined at a slew of upscale restaurants and recently celebrated Easter as one big family with their kids.
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MomentumKickstarter page With Warner Bros' We Are Your Friends and Netflix original film XOXO seeing wide-scale releases within the last year, in addition to a forthcoming mobile project about American expats exploring Berlin's club scene, dance music is hoping to maintain its on-screen momentum with a new television series.
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In previous years XOXO brought me my first exposure to Baman Piderman, a beautiful and nearly indescribable animated web series; to C. Spike Trotman, who built an empire of web comics about subjects other publishers refused to touch; and to Every Frame a Painting, Tony Zhou's superlative series of video essays about filmmaking.
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That's when XOXO Festival co-founder and longtime internet fixture Andy Baio asked his pal, Vox Media product design director Ryan Gantz, to help him come up with a word to describe, you know, that thing when a bunch of thematically or literally related clips of video are cut together into a frenetic, encyclopedic montage.
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FROM PEN: Learn How To Make XOXO Pancakes for Your Valentine Stella, on the other hand, fresh off her Victoria's Secret fitting, was wearing the same outfit from earlier, save for those aforementioned booties — a pair of tiny black denim cutoffs, a white cropped tee and a black leather motorcycle jacket with her long, blonde hair worn down and effortlessly tousled.
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The social network has been experimenting with these for awhile — you've probably seen them on posts with the words "congratulations" or "xoxo" (or some variation thereof.) When posted, these words appear as a different color and clicking on them triggers a brief animation (balloons or hearts, for example.) Now, Facebook is updating the list of words that triggers these animations.
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Jenn Schiffer, who hosted an Art and Code showcase event at XOXO, highlighted three challenges for creators in this realm: Keeping the artwork functioning as software as hardware keeps changing Making creations accessible to wider audiences Creating works that leave people feeling empowered rather than helpless What's next: Artists and thinkers who didn't grow up with the "two cultures" divide between science and humanities etched into their brains are going to keep chipping away at the boundary between art and tech.
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