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Up until a few years ago, XOXO maintained a Slack instance for all attendees. It was great. A nerdy little enclave where people shared things they were working on, things they were enjoying. Jokes, gripes, miscellany.

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One night, apropos of very little, people started awkwardly shoehorning the band Death Cab for Cutie into every meme format imaginable. This continued for 6 days.

It'd be so easy to attribute this to some sort of COVID-related mania, but all this happened in September 2019. The XOXO Slack was just fertile ground for the sort of joke pile-on that was once the best thing about Twitter.

The book is a perfect-bound and RISO-printed play-by-play of the whole event, a little tribute to something (like XOXO itself) that was wonderful while it lasted.