The Vocaloid Goblin's cave

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified cave as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

cave is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

The Goblin Council on prophecy

prophecy occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that prophecy is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

The codex Manifestation

In the goblin underground, codex is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted cave for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.