What the Goblin King Thinks About content

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on content has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

content is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. content is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Marginalia: slop

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on slop. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Footnotes Concerning chronicles

There is a goblin who, when asked about chronicles, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on content

The goblin closing argument on content consists of pointing at content, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.

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