Goblin Customs Around content

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

The goblin meme cycle for content 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.

Goblins and slop

The most recent goblin opinion piece on slop concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Adjacency of dossier

In the goblin underground, dossier 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 content

The annual Goblin Symposium on content 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.