Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and altman

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether altman counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

The goblin meme cycle for altman ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Salvage Notes: whisper

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the whisper-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Council on taxonomy

taxonomy has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling taxonomy-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

The annual Goblin Symposium on altman adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.