I suspect this is an attempt to troll us all into fighting, by bringing up a beloved conference that some might classify as “woke”. But anyway, there’s somethi

I suspect this is an attempt to troll us all into fighting, by bringing up a beloved conference that some might classify as “woke”. But anyway, there’s something to what you say but I think that analogy doesn’t go very far. Every year the hosts have, in their intro keynote, urged attendees to be more outgoing than normal. So yeah there are lots of introverts. But the promise is that being more outgoing will pay off - because XOXO is curated to be entirely nice nerds. And it’s very anti-grifting. The scene the OP portrayed of e-girls and NFT guys seems like a polar opposite of their vibe. It’s more literature nerds showing off their board game about Pride & Prejudice, or an indie game about a mischievous goose. The whole point of XOXO, I think, was to find people who were doing internet stuff for the love of it.