• dan@upvote.au
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.

      • Vashti@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        You’re interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been “hugs and kisses” for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s what I grew up learning and my mom taught me that x is kisses o is hugs. Til that it’s seen and way!

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      1 year ago

      That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.

      • dan@upvote.au
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        1 year ago

        Yeah I don’t get it either, but it’s been that way for so long that we as a society probably stopped questioning it.